Sentences with phrase «than voters holding»

Rather than voters holding their noses and staying loyal to the Tories they voted in large numbers for Corbyn.

Not exact matches

No doubt the president's advisers are cautioning him to hold his tongue — if for no other reason than to avoid further alienating Hispanic voters on the U.S. mainland.

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

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.

Voters in these 2012 battleground districts are no more favorable toward their incumbents than voters in Democratic - held districts were toward theirs inVoters in these 2012 battleground districts are no more favorable toward their incumbents than voters in Democratic - held districts were toward theirs invoters in Democratic - held districts were toward theirs in 2010.

Sanders now leads Clinton among younger voters by 54 % -37 %, an even bigger advantage than the 11 - point edge he held in January's survey.

Still, even if Curran does put more politically connected people on her staff than her campaign suggested she would, Schaffer said he thought voters wouldn't hold it against her.

Republicans hold an enrollment advantage in the district, but Batman has won races for Scipio town supervisor and Cayuga County Legislature in districts with more GOP voters than Democrats.

The focus on Israel is interesting, as the district is more heavily Asian - American than anything else, but foreign policy - minded Jewish voters are considered an electorally significant swing constituency and the race is likely to see more plenty more events held in front of Jewish congregations like today.

I personally am more frightened by the prospect of a continued Repub majority in Congress as they lurch further and further to the extreme right than I am by the excesses of the Dems, who can always be held in check by the combination of a robust Repub minority, independent swing voters and people who are simply fed up with the size and inefficiency of our government on all levels.»

While Ukip ultimately failed to win more than one seat, almost nobody foresaw that the party would actually hold on to nearly four million voters.

Mrs Osei added that no polling station would hold more than 850 voters in this year's polls.

Most voters in Labour - held constituencies want the SNP to help Labour rather than the Conservatives in the event of a hung parliament.

At this election we are offering voters a chance to back a party which has consistently held those at the top of society to account, rather than pointing the finger of blame, and aiming to divide, those at the bottom.

Siena's Steve Greenberg says that may not sound very like good news, but it's up from a year ago, when less than one third of voters held positive views about the legislature.

In previous polls of registered voters, rather than today's poll of likely voters, Cuomo has held a better than 2 - to - 1 edge.

In that election Republicans held a slight enrollment edge over Democrats, about 8,000 active voters, and the margin is now less than 3,000 active voters.

Because there are more voters per MP in England than in Scotland or Wales, English votes count less (the same holds for variations between constituencies within each country).

Most analysts agree that if McMahon holds Oldham as expected (albeit with a majority much reduced from Meacher's 14,738), it will be largely thanks to the 20 % of the constituents who are British Pakistani or British Bangladeshi, traditional Labour voters who are far more likely than their white counterparts to turn out and vote.

Significantly, even in the Liberal Democrat - held seats, less than a quarter of voters thought the Lib Dems were having a significant impact on the coalition government's agenda.

in the more than a year since he began his White House bid, Trump has not held a single event aimed at black voters in their communities, and has also turned down repeated invitations to address gatherings of black leaders, ignored African - American conservatives in states he needs to win and made numerous inflammatory comments about minorities.

Siena's Steve Greenberg says that may not sound very like good news, but it's up from a year ago, when less than one - third of voters held positive views about the legislature.

Democrats hold an enrollment advantage of more than 9000 in the county over Republicans, but small parties and voters not enrolled in any party are likely to hold the keys to the race.

The Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar, Prof Epoke had while justifying the declaration of the election as inconclusive, stated that the number of registered voters in the areas where elections did not hold was bigger than the gap between the leading candidate and the runner - up.

And then there's a degree of Cuomo fatigue, evident from recent polling that shows the governor's favorability at one of the lowest points in the seven years he has held his seat and voters more interested in «someone else» than reelecting Cuomo.

It is noticeable that in recent elections in Spain, Germany and the UK, the decline in mainstream party vote shares has been asymmetric: the centre - right bloc has held up better than the centre - left, despite voters peeling off from both.

More than one in four Conservative voters hold this view

Ratigan held a rally on Wednesday to officially announce his candidacy, saying that his campaign will be different than others and that he will focus on direct voter engagement.

The new Government has said it will hold a referendum on whether to replace our current voting system, first past the post, with the Alternative Vote, which allows voters to express more than one preference.

If he is strong in both movies it could lead to a split amongst voters over which one they prefer, or if they like one movie more they could be more inclined to reward him for that one than the other despite which one holds the better performance.

Certainly, the interests of teachers in ensuring adequate educational investment are far stronger than they are for most voters, who don't have children in the school system and may be more concerned about holding down taxes than investing in the education of other people's kids.

If anything, President Obama's education platform may hold more appeal to Republican voters than it does to Democrats.

Nearly 80 % of polled voters said they trust their local school leaders to make decisions and to hold schools accountable, more than they do elected officials in Lansing who have little stake in classrooms outside their own districts.

The landmark ballot initiative now law thanks to Missouri voters, requires dog breeders to meet certain humane standards, including by reducing the number of dogs held for breeding to no more than 50.

The first primaries of the 2018 elections are less than a month away, and the Department of Homeland Security held a classified briefing last week to further explain voter system threats to election directors and secretaries of state.

Look at assylum seeker policies, the ideological position that borders should be open to low information leftist voters even though the means has killed some 1200 people, it's the same thing, ideology is held to be more important than individual people.