Sentences with phrase «thing as voter»

And in a one - party system, isn't candidate suppression ultimately the same thing as voter suppression?

Not exact matches

This is especially true today, as voters are increasingly dependent on the internet for things like locating polling stations in their area.

The conservative health care message most of these voters have heard can be summarized as «socialized medicine is bad + tort reform is good + so anyway, back to more important things like capital gains tax cuts.»

To conclude, here are some specific things Christians can do as individuals in their roles as citizens and voters.

(The same thing happens when a voter makes an unconventional vote, of course — he or she gets mocked and ridiculed for not thinking like the rest of the pack, and his or her legitimacy as a voter is questioned.

As for the square root thing, the reason is that, if voters are considered as independent random Bernoulli variables, the probability of an exact tie (which can be broken by a single voter) is O (1 / √ n), where n is populatioAs for the square root thing, the reason is that, if voters are considered as independent random Bernoulli variables, the probability of an exact tie (which can be broken by a single voter) is O (1 / √ n), where n is populatioas independent random Bernoulli variables, the probability of an exact tie (which can be broken by a single voter) is O (1 / √ n), where n is population.

If the voters demanded two incompatible things (like much lower taxes and much higher spending) then no government can deliver both any more than they can define Pi as 3 or abolish the law of gravity.

As well as a direct effect on support for Scottish independence, personality also has important indirect effects, which operate through the influence of personality on things such as a voter's sense of national identity and appetite for risAs well as a direct effect on support for Scottish independence, personality also has important indirect effects, which operate through the influence of personality on things such as a voter's sense of national identity and appetite for risas a direct effect on support for Scottish independence, personality also has important indirect effects, which operate through the influence of personality on things such as a voter's sense of national identity and appetite for risas a voter's sense of national identity and appetite for risk.

Beyond a few places where obviously the card reader was by - passed as evidenced in the kind of figures shown as indicated in our reports of the 2015 elections, if we examine critically the credible margin of election results, figures from recent elections and the more recent ones in Kogi and Bayelsa, from those declared, showing a reasonable and realistic reflection of voter turn - out, which are credible, dignified figures, we can say hopefully today that the era of invidious moon - slide and landslide bogus election results are fast becoming a thing of the past in this country.

All kinds of things change - the importance of being seen as the better leader with the greater economic credibility is heavily downgraded, the importance of the right - wing press is blown to pieces, the vice-like grip of older voters disappears.

When BritainThinks asked swing voters in Watford their expectations for 2018 in focus groups earlier this year, they painted an almost universally gloomy picture of uncertainty, anxiety and division — in fact, it feels like the only thing we have to be proud of as a nation is the Royal Family.

And as voters get hit with more and more advertising / media messages every day and through every conceivable medium, personal contact is one of the few things that can begin to break through the information clutter.

UKIP voters were the most pessimistic about the economy, both for the country as a whole and for themselves and their families — indeed they were the only group among whom less than half thought things would go well for them personally over the next year.

«As things stand right now, you could (by showing residency) vote in CA without changing citizenship (the state asks few questions of its voters).»

It is reassuring to know that some MPs at least will have thought about the issue for themselves and have come to share the same view as the majority of voters: that the # 100 billion earmarked for Trident replacement would be better spent on many other things.

And while Europe is not the most important issue for most potential UKIP voters, it is for some — and as things stand only a Conservative government will give them the in - out referendum they want.

15:30 - Things take a further trip downhill as Miliband says we need to talk about immigration and then offers a set of proposals which would not satisfy ukip voters - clamping down on gangmasters etc..

«Most voters continue to view Cuomo as an ideological moderate, and by a four - to - one margin, they continue to trust the governor more than the Legislature to do the right thing for New York.»

He believes he is on the edge of a generation who viewed voting as the «done thing», and considers himself politically neutral — a swing voter — unaffiliated to any party.

She argued despite his principles, the party under Mr Corbyn was not «communicating with our voters» and stressed her northern working class roots as well as her experience with «metropolitan things».

Sixty percent of Democratic voters say they have a high degree of interest in the upcoming elections as opposed to 54 percent of Republicans who say the same thing.

«The most important thing we can do as elected officials is win back the voters» trust,» Klein said at the time.

As the voters get to know a man who is virtually unknown even in his home county, things can only get better, they suggest.

«I think having candidates out meeting voters, presenting their point of view — as long as it stays positive — is a good thing for the party,» Gershon said.

Everyone did the right thing... Both sides touched as many voters as possible.

As I recall, they violated committee rules and did all kinds of other things to force their ssm law through against the wishes of the voters.

As some observers questioned such an attack would resonate with the wealthy voters of Richmond Park, the ex-Tory MP decided to keep things civilised.

«Everyone agrees that there's no such thing as a perfect voting system, but voters have a choice between just two options on May 5th.

In many countries here in Europe raising defense expenditure is one of the few things that governments would love to do, to make good friends with the USA as well as projecting a more powerful image, but they're really afraid of potential voters backlash.

Typically though the main factors in voting intention are things like party identification, perceptions of the leaders and the parties's perceived competence on whatever voters see as the important issues of the day.

The voters» verdict was not as clear as it might have been, but one thing was for sure: they showed their desire for Labour to be ejected from office by sacking the best part of 100 of their MPs (sending fewer Liberal Democrats back to Westminster too).

We're fighting hard for a majority, who knows how things will turn out, I think, look, very many Labour Party members, voters, supporters, would find that very difficult and some Liberal Democrat voters would find that very difficult as well, but we'll deal with the situation as we find it.

By the end, when it became clear there was no such thing as a «soft» SNP voter, our campaign in Scotland narrowed its focus to an appeal to Conservative and Labour supporters to vote tactically in Liberal Democrat seats to keep the SNP out.

The reform was, as Clegg is suddenly keen to point out, never the most pressing thing on the mind of the swing voter in Wolverhampton.

WASHINGTON, DC — In remarks made at a post-election event for members, Republican Liberty Caucus National Chairman Dave Nalle observed that «If you nominate a candidate who has a position to please every constituency you run the risk that voters will decide that this is the same thing as having a position to alienate every constituency and respond by not turning out to vote,» referring to the drop in Republican voter turnout since 2008.

[Cameron] thinks that people who talk about Europe or «bang on» about Europe as he once put it himself, he thinks that people who talk about immigration and who are worried about the numbers of people coming to Britain, he thinks that people who are concerned about the blot of wind farms all over our landscapes and seascapes, he thinks that people who discuss those things are beyond the pale and I think when he insults us actually what he's doing, he's insulting a very large number of his own voters.

All of those things for me as the mayor of Syracuse and as a voter, are much more important,» she said.

«I think the most important thing we can do as elected officials is win back the voter's trust,» Klein said at the time.

He said the shift involved a Tory tendency to win in marginal seats and a greater distribution of Labour voters in seats where it was pipped by third parties, adding: «It is these last two things which has turned a system that once looked as if it was to the advantage of Labour to the Tories» advantage, and there is a boundary review to come.

«I think the most important thing we can do as elected officials is win back the voters» trust,» Klein said at the time.

Shadow Europe minister, Pat Glass, did the same thing last week when she described a voter (courtesy of another live mic), as a «horrible racist» for complaining about the impacts of immigration.

He went on to say that if «you think some of these things Republicans are doing in Congress are wrong» voters should select him because as a Republican member he'll be better able to communicate that to the majority.

If anything, it's probably a good thing to either shorten the legislative session, or to force these clowns to face voters as they are casting votes in Albany.

While a Con Con, as it is often called, would provide a chance for enacting reforms on things like government ethics, term limits for elected officials, modernized voting and voter registration rules, and more, it would open up the entire state constitution to change.

«One of the things we found as we were canvassing is when we got voters that had switched from another party to us, about half of them would spontaneously say «yeah I met him when he gave me a tour of the House of Commons.»

As Hofstra University political science professor Larry Levy put it, «One thing these newbies are going to have to prove, not just to their party base, but to moderate independents and those in the opposite party is that they're worth keeping around when they'll be far more voters in the booth.»

There is no such thing as a rational voter.

For one thing, the successful use of conjoint analysis in politics, he thinks, depends on the randomization of the characteristics presented to survey respondents, as a way of decoupling the connections voters tend to make between certain characteristics.

As a cautious representative of the people, I long ago learnt not to pretend to know things when I don't just because the questioner is a voter.

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.