The answer that came back, following several months
of listening to voters, electoral administrators, parties, candidates and academics, was a clear «no».
«I've been traveling all across our state
listening to voters talk about their expectations when it comes to their elected officials and their priorities,» Dinallo wrote in an e-mail to supporters that bore the subject line «Literally Running for Office.»
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg faced more questions over his leadership, whilst Labour leader Ed Miliband pledged to
listen to voters on the issue of immigration, as Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship reports:
«I've asked myself that question every day for five years and, believe me, every day I have burnt with the shame of it, nowhere more than when standing on doorsteps with good comrades,
listening to voters demanding to know what I thought I was playing at.
People want to keep things as they are, they like the familiar places and systems with which they have grown up, so elected
officials listen to their voters and work to keep the status quo.
«Over 800 volunteers collected nearly 8,000 signatures to put me on the ballot, and I've been traveling the 24th District for
months listening to voters talk about the issues and how we'll stand up to Donald Trump.»
«President Obama's pledge to give unelected bureaucrats at the U.N. $ 3 billion for climate change initiatives is an unfortunate decision to not
listen to voters in this most recent election cycle,» Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe said in a statement.
For a decade after New Labour's 1997 election triumph, the Conservative Party refused to
listen to voters and, as a consequence, suffered its worst sequence of election defeats since 1832.
So we will
listen to voters» concerns on the immigration system and seek to rebuild it and the labour market so that they work in the interests of everyone.
For a decade, the Conservative Party refused to
listen to voters.
«I'm
listening to the voters in the 46th Senate district,» she said.
They talk about the perils of incumbency and «giving them a bloody nose» and then they promise to
listen to the voters.
«The campaigns have a responsibility to
listen to voters and engage with them, as well as broadcast their views.
Others in the party acknowledge that Labour has to
listen to voters.
I think [Brown] should announce that he has
listened to the voters.
I will be diligent in
listening to the voters and their wishes.
Labour's Ed Miliband said he would
listen to voters» concerns but that there would be no lurch to the right.
It is common for politicians to talk about «
listening to the voters», but I'm not sure we always hear what they are trying to tell us.
And this government can hold on to power too, if it listen to voters
«Since entering this race, I have been focused on
listening to the voters and presenting our agenda for creating jobs and ensuring long - term growth for our economy.
The GOP nominee, who had repeatedly said his call to take a «baseball bat to Albany» was «a metaphor,» produced an orange - red bat and took pretend swings, warning Cuomo to
listen to the voters and said, «Make no mistake, you have not heard the last of Carl Paladino.»
«We hope Farina will
listen to these voters and families and continue to support public charter schools,» Phillips said.