Sentences with phrase «than voters in»

A statistical analysis of possible primary results by FiveThirtyEight previewed what the national write - ups will say in the case of such a result: «Winning only 70 percent of the vote would mean that voters in his party don't like Cuomo much more than voters in general do.

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

Not exact matches

That's not so easy when you are in the minority, and in a party where progressives are pushing hard left - perhaps appealing more to coastal and city voters than those in rural areas in red states.

The trial made embarrassing national headlines for the once - rising Democratic star, who was accused of seeking more than $ 900,000 from two wealthy supporters to conceal his pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter, from voters during his unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

That was during a follow up to a question of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush about why he's more qualified to lead than the real estate billionaire, who garners as much as 41 percent of Republican voter support in some national polls, which is nearly triple the support for Cruz and four times that for Rubio.

That means there is an incentive to keep expectations low, and to look for scapegoats, just in case voters are feeling no better in 2019 than they were in 2015.

So in each state, there were more than enough Stein voters to swing the result, just like Ralph Nader did in Florida and New Hampshire in 2000.»

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

This time around, voters in those four counties cast nearly 64,000 more votes for Trump than Clinton.

Young voters turned out in much higher numbers than anticipated.

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

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.

Despite nearly equal voter turnout — black turnout was slightly less than white turnout in 2008 but exceeded white turnout in 2012, 66 % to 64 % — the gap between party loyalty and policy output is wide for black voters.

While their contributions as pivotal voters have gone largely unacknowledged, Ohio black voters, in particular, have pulled more than their weight for Democratic victories in one of the most highly contested states in the Electoral College.

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.»

The claim made by black voters in both states is that Republicans packed districts with more reliably Democratic black voters than necessary to elect their preferred candidates, making neighboring districts whiter and more Republican.

But numerous courts have found that in - person voter fraud is exceedingly rare and isolated, and that some such measures are more likely to disproportionately suppress legitimate minority turnout than to prevent voter fraud.

«But I can't imagine more than two - thirds of voters in San Francisco thinking that our city government should be introducing measures that will cost local jobs and spitefully target one industry.»

Likewise, in 2014 higher than expected turnout among millennial voters helped the GOP win its Senate majority.

The Democratic presidential nominee's support among millennial voters dwarfs Trump's but is far lower than President Barack Obama's support in the 2008 and 2012 elections.

This was among the largest voter turnout efforts in history, and larger than those of both major parties combined.

The study that Trump was mentioning, which he repeatedly referred to late during the campaign, said 24 million voter registrations were no longer valid or were significantly inaccurate, more than 1.8 million dead people were listed as voters, and about 2.8 million people were registered in more than one state.

Among all Democratic voters in Iowa, she said, more than 40 % said they didn't believe in capitalism.

In less than week, voters across the country will hit the polls.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

More than four out of 10 GOP voters (42 percent) listed security as their top issue in Morning Consult's most recent poll, compared with 20 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of independents.

Being a Washington outsider may, in fact, ultimately be more appealing to voters than a CEO's actual business experience.

That order followed a similar, non-binding independence vote that took place that year, in which more than 80 % of voters chose independence — although only 2.3 million out of the region's 6.3 million eligible voters took part, AFP noted.

Although Chinese rulers do not have to face voters to stay in office, as Trump will likely do in four years, they have a far more intuitive sense that it is their ability to deliver economic prosperity rather than their ideological purity that will keep them in power.

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.

«For instance, even if you are Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, you are limited to investing no more than $ 100,000 during any 12 - month period in all crowdfunding investments,» said Commissioner Piwowar, the dissenting voter.

It was Zuckerberg's job in the hearing to provide reassurance in the wake of the news that political data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested information from more than 87 million Facebook users to create voter profiles that were used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Scotland votes «no» on independence: On Sept. 18, 2014, Scottish voters will answer a referendum question more than 300 years in the making: «Should Scotland become an independent country?»

Some news accounts indicate that his campaign stopped using the firm's data after the South Carolina primary in late February 2016, though federal campaign records show more than $ 670,000 in payments to the firm for «media / voter modeling» or «voter ID targeting / web service» in March and June, plus $ 218,000 for «media» and «digital service / web service.»

The Times reported that «in one early test, more than half the Oklahoma voters whom Cambridge had identified as Cruz supporters actually favored other candidates.»

«For a politician who doesn't want to admit that the electorate sent a message that they don't like politicians, it's far easier to scapegoat it on economic issues than it is to address the fundamental question: that there are voters in this country who no longer think their representatives represent them,» said a Democratic strategist involved in 2016.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

Rather than assuming that all women or African Americans or working - class whites will respond to the same message, they target individual voters with emotionally charged content — in other words, ads designed to tug on emotional biases.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

Over 6 million Floridians have already cast their ballots in early voting, more than the total 5.9 million cast by registered voters in 2000.

New research shows that among older voters, women are more right wing than men, but in younger cohorts, women are more to the left.

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

The Academy's membership demographics have changed more in the last four years than in the previous 20, and as a result, we know less about what voters will or won't do than we ever have.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

They think voters are fed up with the chaos in the White House and Trump's behavior, and that will matter more when voters enter the polls than the level of the stock market or how many jobs there are.

TORONTO — For the first time in more than two decades, voter turnout increased in Ontario compared to the previous provincial election.

Mr. Byfield has been campaigning for more than a year and could make gains if he is able to tap into the base of social conservative voters in this constituency.

As more than a few columnists have been writing, voters in Calgary will be the most important constituency in 2019 election.

Here is a map showing voter turnout in ridings across the province (only 4 out of 83 ridings had a turnout larger than 50 %).

This will require candidates to build broad support in 87 constituencies across the province, rather than relying on the ability to sign up large groups of voters in concentrated regions.