Sentences with phrase «than voters at»

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In saying that the government stands with «consumers» — rather than citizens or voters or, God forbid, shareholders — Clement diminishes the federal government's importance, making it nothing more than the complaints desk at the Better Business Bureau.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

With more than 80 percent of eligible voters turning out to vote, two - thirds of them were implacably opposed to the project, which would have lasted at least a decade.

Fiorina, who announced her bid for president last April and ended her campaign in February after failing to get more than single - digit support from voters, has often been at loggerheads with Cruz.

The ReformaTories ™ reminded voters they were more Reform than Tory when Steve took a run at Canadian culture claiming it was a «niche» issue.

I think the issues with the movie extended beyond Twitter; the new voters I've talked to are less enthusiastic about it than the ones you've talked to (New Yorkers, you know), and it sounds like we've both heard from at least some voters who are drawing a bright line between the performances (thumbs up) and the movie (thumbs sideways).

Our new report uses more than 250,000 interviews with registered voters to provide insights at the national, state, and aggregated district level on President Trump's approval, key senator approval & re-elect ratings, generic ballot, and top issues for voters.

After more than two years of financial crisis, international bailouts, a huge debt writedown and Europe's harshest austerity program, Greek voters have been given a chance to hit back at the parties that got them into this mess.

But voters need to hear more than some impromptu remarks at a campaign - style rally when it comes to such a controversial issue.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Trump has an almost preternatural ability to sense and to respond to the anxieties of the average citizen — or at least the average primary voter — rather than pandering to them reluctantly.

Some political observers say Republican overtures to Israel and to Jewish leaders are aimed more at American evangelical voters, a key part of the GOP base, than they are at Jews.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 1,655 registered voters released today, more than half of white evangelicals said they weren't satisfied with their ballot options (55 %), reflecting the feeling of Americans at large (58 %).

In 1998, at the height of the Clinton impeachment battle, evangelical voters were constantly confronting accusations from their secular, leftist friends that «it was all politics,» that evangelicals were less concerned with Bill Clinton's indiscretions than they were about his party identification.

The awareness of the predicament (on the part of both the politicians at the microphones and the voters in the streets) conceivably could lead to a reconstitution of the American idea, but the finding of the phoenix in the ashes presupposes a debate rising from an intellectual structure a good deal sturdier than the one lost in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

They use the so - called «stealth» techniques less than they once did, but they still like to come in at the last minute and distribute voter guides, often putting them on cards at churches, or to conduct saturation telephone campaigns on the weekend before the election.

«A voter is more likely to be struck by lightening than they are to impersonate another voter at the polls.»

(Onlyin California have country clubs gotten a break on real estate taxes: a yearago voters approved an amendment to assess club land at the rate specified forrecreational purposes rather than at building value.)

And there are more pure artists than pure scientists out there, at least among the actual voters.

Anything less than a big win would be a disappointment, and they'll need the style points with voters if they hope to stay at No. 2 in the BCS.

December 4: What if more voters had listened to Gundy's claim that OSU could at least give LSU a more entertaining game than Bama could?

Obama's claim to voters that «We are the change that we have been waiting for», has echoes in Cameron's «Be the change», although his is a message directed more at traditionalists in his own party, (start being nice to the planet and the immigrants) rather than the electorate at large.

This is particularly in evidence at the moment and we typically find that 10 % fewer Labour than Conservative voters are certain to vote.

I'm not too familiar with specific MPs in other countries, but if you look at US, the only Muslim congressperson (Ellison) is far less religious and far more socially liberal than an average observant Muslim voter would be.

Ergo, since voters don't always know what's good for them, this gives rise to the category of moral wrongdoing called populism, in which politicians give voters what they want, rather than giving voters what they would want if they were better informed and / or better at processing the relevant kind (s) of information.

A site that's designed to wave a red flag in front of a bull, for a fire - up - the - activists campaign for instance, should have a different tone than one that's aimed at journalists, Hill staff and or uncommitted voters.

But there are historical examples that used weighted voting at points in time - that is, countries where some voters» votes were more equal than others».

Even before the final weekend push, for instance, Democrats had used the Voter Activation Network to target over 50 % more voter outreach than at the same point in the previous midterm campaign (though I was surprised it wasn't higher).

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

I see Tom Harris has responded to Denis on his blog: If the government sees a fresh case for adoption of the euro (and I'm not convinced the case is any more compelling now than at any point in the past), then voters will decide whether or not that case is persuasive enough.

JFK was more of a hawk than Nixon, LBJ was deeply and fully committed to Vietnam War even if he didn't start it (he subscribed to Domino theory); Clinton bombed the crap out of Serbia and got US into Kosovo, and didn't exactly refrain from shooting cruise missiles at Sudan / Afghanistan; Obama's presidency didn't exactly shape like the peace - on - earth triumph some of his voters deeply hoped for either.

The Tories may have polled two million more votes than Labour, but at least half of that difference can be attributed to differential turnouts, and most of the rest to missing voters.

For political campaigns, this change means making room in television budgets for additional creative, so that media consultants could run a different ad aimed at persuadable swing voters than they send to likely base voters.

(The news coverage suggests Barrett with his labor allies had an edge on the ground, but Walker certainly also had his own field operation running and some numbers suggest they've contacted more than 60 % of all registered voters in the state at least once in person.)

This just in: NGP VAN reports that Democrats have made 54 % more individual voter contacts in 2014 than at this point in 2010, the last comparable mid-term election.

This isn't the first time Turner has suggested he's more electable than his challengers — attorney Wendy Long, who has never before held elected office; and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has been stumping around the state for almost a year, but has failed to generate much excitement, either among the GOP rank - and - file (although they did put him on the ballot at the convention in Rochester earlier this month) or voters.

In 2008, when voter turnout rates were at or around record highs, fewer than half (44.9 percent) of adults in households making less than $ 30,000 per year voted, according to Census Bureau data.

The German democracy is much less black - and - white than, say, the US one and the large majority of voters value adherence to democratic principles much higher than having their party win at all costs.

And though it's been viewed many fewer times than Yes We Can, in this case it was particularly well targeted, since the voter in question is my sister - in - law, a Linux expert at IBM in Austin.

Recall that in the last election cycle, Cuomo created the Women's Equality Party — or WEP — a move widely seen in part as an effort to confuse voters — after all, E comes right before F in the alphabet — and get back at the WFP for daring to even consider backing a candidate other than Cuomo... more on this in a moment.

The union, which represents more than 70,000 workers in New York, is endorsing Schneiderman at City Hall in Manhattan this morning and has pledged to do a voter outreach campaign — including mailings, door - to - door canvassing and member mobilization — in support of Schneiderman's election.

DVRs also illustrate a larger theme of this series: technology gives voters power at other times than just election day.

Pasok is in turmoil as its 43 % at the 2009 elections has now dropped to around 11 % in the opinion polls, with voters blaming the Papandreou - led government for its handling of the deep crisis even more than they blame New Democracy which was in power and increased the deficit substantially from 2004 - 2009.

Looking at medians rather than averages produces similar results to midterm years: Likely voter polls have been unbiased, whereas registered voter polls have had a median Democratic bias of 2 percentage points.

New British Election Study data gathered at approximately the same time that the Green membership surge started in the autumn of 2014 includes a decent sample of more than 1,000 voters claiming that they intend to support the Greens in the forthcoming general election.

At the 2010 election Liberal Democrat MPs, members and voters were all more social liberal than economic liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of centre.

But we didn't anticipate that the Tories would be much better at tempting back Tory - > UKIP voters than Labour - > UKIP voters.

Rodriguez, a 32 - year old Marine veteran, quit his job as coordinator of Veterans and Military Affairs at Medaille College to launch what some consider a quixotic run for mayor in November because Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the city by more than seven to one.