Sentences with phrase «today as voters»

The 2016 presidential election season gets underway in earnest today as voters cast their first ballots at the Iowa caucuses.

The Tories and Labour suffered today as voters turned to Ukip in the local elections, with the two largest parties in Westminster losing control of councils as a result of gains for Nigel Farage's «people's army».

The attention of Nigerians and indeed, the world shift to Bayelsa and Kogi states of Nigeria today as voters proceed to the polling units to decide who govern them for the next four years.

Ukip candidates are hoping to put in a strong polling performance today as voters go to the polls in local elections across England.

Not exact matches

Whether «voters» should have direct control over something as technical (and sometimes emotional) as executive compensation is far from clear, which is why most say - on - pay requirements today call only for advisory votes.

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

Today, Pew offered an interactive flowchart of how GOP voters arrived at Trump, as well as further analysis of its data.

Today's Republican establishment understands persuadable voters as occupying the ideological space between the Washington Republican lobbying class and the Obama White House.

For good or ill, the nomination process today is structured as a marathon; for the race to end almost before it begins would leave voters uneasy and journalists with too much free time, which can only lead to mischief.

As has been stated quite a bit — most recently today by AN ACTUAL ROY VOTER (Ben Golliver of SI.com)-- Simmons» statistical and advanced analytical advantage is quite meaty... but even more important to this discussion is the «value to team» component of the analysis.

Anyway, there were few enough Category 5 voters that we might, purely for the purposes of today's discussion, dismiss them as lunatics, too.

As he faces a tough primary challenge from former NYC Comptroller John Liu, Sen. Tony Avella has picked up the support of the New York League of Conservation Voters, which today will name the Queens senator its top priority candidate in advance of the Sept. 9 election.

David Cameron threw tax sweeteners to lower and middle - income earners today, as he closed the Conservative conference with a decidedly more upbeat message to voters.

Sen. Neil Breslin, who, as I mentioned earlier today, is facing an active primary challenger in Luke Martland, has been striving to put some distance between himself and the dysfunction of his Democratic conference at a time when voter disgust with Albany — and incumbents in general — is running very high.

«The bottom line is the MTA as we know it today, needs to be abolished so the voters can demand that someone can be held accountable for the rampant waste in the system and the taxes and riders fees that feed this bureaucratic beast.»

Cuomo's behind - the - curtain approach to the media, as detailed in today's Times, isn't hurting his standing with New York voters.

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.

Singled out for criticism are a handful of «outsiders»: 32BJ's Mike Fishman («sued for racketeering»), WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor («under investigation by the FBI for voter fraud» — not anymore, as of today), Sen. Liz Krueger and Bill Samuels («millionaire puppet masters who don't care about our community»).

Tim Farron heaped praise on Tony Blair today as he called on disaffected Labour voters to ditch their party and join the Lib Dems.

Assemblywoman Yuh - Line Niou, who was mentioned as a potential candidate to fill former Sen. Daniel Squadron's seat, today announced she is throwing her support to her Assembly colleague, Brian Kavanagh, though she pledged to work to reform the special election process to give voters more of a choice in candidate selection.

The report comes as a Siena College poll released today shows New York voters are split on the issue.

A USA TODAY / Suffolk University poll found that in a hypothetical race with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee and Bernie Sanders leading the Democratic ticket — presumably the scenario most conducive to a Bloomberg victory — Trump was chosen by 37 % of likely voters, Sanders by 30 %, and Bloomberg by 16 %.

As for the rest of the Democratic field in this survey, seven percent (7 %) of voters would choose Biden or New York Governor Andrew Cuomo if the 2016 Democratic presidential primary were held in their state today.

Nearly half of the 669 school districts seeking voter approval for budgets on Tuesday, May 15 are presenting spending plans that would increase property taxes as high as the 2011 property tax cap law allows, according to an analysis released today by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

At the core of his narrative of spiritual redemption are his acts of violence as an angry young man — stabbing, rock throwing, brick hurling and baseball bat beating — that preceded Carson's sudden transformation into the composed figure who stands before voters today.

Focus today is on optimizing political and advocacy campaign media budgets, using online ads as well as mobile to reach voters, and innovations in targeting constituents across all media.

During an wide - ranging interview with NY1's Michael Scotto earlier today, Rep. Charlie Rangel admitted the fact that AG Andrew Cuomo appears poised to sail into the governor's office with minimal opposition is probably bad for the voters... but, as a self - professed «staunch partisan Democrat,» it makes him awfully happy.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spent today urging voters to head to the polls on Tuesday, as Sal Albanese, his leading rival in the Democratic primary, pushed back against a widely held belief that the incumbent was a shoo - in to win.

Today, Salit is President of Independent Voting, which holds itself out as the leader of independent voters in the United States, and which teaches that political parties are harmful to society.

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.

According to a press release sent out earlier today by Davis, the state Board decided on Sept. 15 to advise county boards of elections that both sides of the ballot should contain text and a graphic, such as an arrow, that highlight to voters the need to turn the ballot over to locate the constitutional convention question.

It's time to move on to the issues that confront the state and its voters, like jobs; restructuring government to be what it needs to be to meet the needs of citizens that need help from government; addressing structural problems with the state's finances; ensuring that roads and bridges are safe for passage, not just today, but for tomorrow as well; making the state a place that people want to move to, not out of; and the list goes on.

Today's Q poll finds AG Andrew Cuomo's Rose Garden strategy isn't working so well when it comes to the budget mess, as 64 percent of voters say they'd like to hear more from the Democratic gubernatorial hopeful about what he would do to pull the state out of its fiscal morass.

Mr Gove told the Today programme that his party is continuing to address the concerns of UKIP voters in areas such as immigration, education and the UK's relationship with the EU.

The election campaign trail heated up today as members from their respective parties hit the streets to sway voters.

The Supreme Court's directive asking the Electoral Commission (EC) to produce the list of persons whose names were captured onto the voters» register using the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card as proof of Ghanaian citizenship, expires today, June 29.

The Supreme Court will today [Thursday], June 30 2016, hear the suit in which former People's National Convention (PNC) Youth Organizer, Abu Ramadan, is asking it to compel the Electoral Commission, to delete names of voters on the register, who got onto the electoral roll through the use of the National Health Insurance Scheme card as a proof of Ghanaian...

But progressive voters seem to care less today about the strength of their party, or even about a particular checklist of issues, than about their confidence in a candidate's sincerity — as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a career independent, proved with his electrifying and magnetic charge at the Democratic nomination last year.

The Electoral Commission today [Wednesday], officially submitted what is supposed to be the full list of persons who found their way onto the voters» register using the National Health Insurance Scheme card as a proof of Ghanaian citizenship, prior to the 2012 elections.

«So I think that regardless of today's announcement, I think that Bill de Blasio was always going to have to face the voters and answer for his lackluster performance as mayor.»

As voters head to the polls today, Nojay's name is still on the ballot, due to the fact that his death occurred too close to election day to remove it.

Given that the current register does not show who registered with what document, it is utterly impossible to just clean it up, because no technology exists today that can tell that voter A registered with a passport as against voter B who registered with an NHIS card.

As voting begins today (1 September 2010) for Labour leader, Tony Woodley, Unite's joint general secretary urges voters to move on from New Labour to reconnect with working people and take on the ConDems.

Voters in England, Wales and Scotland go to the polls today as a host of vital elections are held across the country.

Cuomo met earlier today with several key GOP senators, including two potential «yes» voters, Sens. Steve Saland and Andrew Lanza, and Sen. Kemp Hannon, who is still a «no», but has been operating as the chief legal mind for the majority conference on the negotiations over religious exemptions.

As his three GOP primary opponents duke it out in advance of the Sept. 14 primary, Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop today collected the endorsements of the New York League of Conservation Voters and the national League of Conservation Voters Action Fund.

George Osborne is trying to paint a big picture of Labour as the party voters simply can't trust on the economy (which explains why Mr Hancock, his former Chief of Staff, is active today).

Nebraska's gubernatorial primary is the marquee race on the ballot today, but the state's voters will also select a GOP nominee to challenge Sen. Ben Nelson (D) in the fall as well as a replacement for Osborne in the state's 3rd District.

Voters head to the polls in New York's 20th district today to choose a replacement for appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D), a close race in a swing seat that has seen considerable spending by both national parties and will almost certainly be cast as an early referendum on President Obama's agenda.

He said a poll today showing millions of Labour voters would rather have Theresa May as Prime Minister than Mr Corbyn should be a «wake up call» for the party.