Sentences with phrase «undecided voters»

Candidates would need to care about voters across the nation, not just undecided voters in a handful of swing states.

That said, with the polls as close as they currently are it's worth remembering that undecided voters who finally make up their minds could have a major impact on the outcome.

We watched undecided voters as they watched the debate hoping it might help them make up their minds.

He also rejects any suggestion that there are too many unanswered questions to convince undecided voters to back a change from the status quo.

My latest research, involving a poll of over 8,000 people and discussions with undecided voters around the country, helps to show how he can do it.

Which candidate is best positioned to use education to bring undecided voters into the fold?

But whatever is actually going on, any bias — manually added or otherwise — could have a dramatic effect on undecided voters.

If this is not enough to win over undecided voters, the Conservative campaign will also focus on highlighting the personality differences between the two leaders.

However, the economy is still a massive issue and is likely to be a decisive factor in swinging undecided voters.

It is clear from the research that policies play a much smaller role in influencing undecided voters than they state explicitly.

Supporters of one candidate can try to convince voters from other groups, including undecided voters and participants currently supporting a different candidate to join their candidate's area.

The number of undecided voters decreased sharply but not in the way that many expected.

But was there enough substance in either speech to sway the average undecided voter in a swing state?

By the end undecided voters constituted eight per cent, with both «Yes» and «No» rising one per cent.

He said he'd work to get the remaining 18 percent of undecided voters with his message to take politics out of the district attorney's office.

Both sides in the Scottish referendum campaign have held rallies as they make their final efforts to win over undecided voters.

«One poll has nearly twice as many undecided voters as the other, and there may be a number of methodological differences that also account for the variation in the horse race numbers.»

According to Epstein's unpublished research, negatively worded posts attracted more than 15 times as many clicks from undecided voters as neutrally worded ones in matched control questions.

That's OK if you're looking for the best place to buy a set of kitchen utensils or back - to - school supplies, but the study's lead author, research psychologist Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California, showed that by simply putting links for one candidate above another in a rigged search, he and his co-author could influence how undecided voters choose a candidate.

The YouGov survey for the Sun put the pro-union lead at just six points when undecided voters had been excluded, down from the huge 22 - point lead it enjoyed less than a month ago and the 14 points reported in mid-August.

The May Day weekend will see continued campaigning as parties desperately try to convince the remaining undecided voters ahead of Thursday's poll.

«As soon as a deal is done, momentum for each side becomes very important and names that sway undecided voters don't come much bigger than theirs.»

Similarly, the power of Google's search algorithm to surreptitiously shift voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 - 80 percent is highly troubling — and not only because it could potentially threaten the basic principles of democracy.

But what surprised researchers was the difference those rankings made: Biased search results increased the number of undecided voters choosing the favored candidate by 48 % compared with a control group that saw an equal mix of both candidates throughout the list.

This allowed MAN1 to focus efforts and funding on the truly undecided voters in key regions of the electoral map that would ultimately decide the race.

The results of this campaign are staggering, with CA reaching 50 million Facebook users, creating 1.5 million impressions on Twitter, 3.3 million on Snapchat, accruing over 28 million views on their digital videos and millions more on ads expertly placed on the televisions of undecided voters across the country.

The limited number of uncertain respondents will concern the SNP, with the party increasingly relying on hopes of converting undecided voters to the cause in order to reverse their slump in the polls.

This window of time in which undecided voters can be persuaded is small — just a few months every two years — which heightens the challenge.

The exit poll suggested Gordon Brown's hopes that a last - minute surge, based on a fear of the first Tory government since 1997persuading many undecided voters back to Labour, proved unfounded.

If undecided voters break the same way as those who have already made up their minds, Schumer is on pace to received 75 percent of the vote in November, passing the modern record of 72.2 percent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand received when she defeated Long in 2012.

Our team has expanded the electorate, persuaded undecided voters and have identified enough sporadic voting supporters to win every single battleground state.

«Over the last few weeks, Lhota has picked up a few undecided voters, however, he has failed in cutting into the more than two - thirds of likely voters who continue to support de Blasio.»

While Katko's name recognition — 36 percent — is low, the firm said Katko will see undecided voters back his candidacy as he becomes more well known throughout the district.

Juicy Excerpt: Silver's take was rooted in two realities: (1) three - point polling errors are common; (2) there was an unusually high number of undecided voters going into the election and that increases the chances for seeing a polling mis - prediction.

Conventional wisdom suggests that Johnson is low - hanging fruit, and with the election expected to be a tight race, both candidates would be smart to highlight his gaffes in order to sway undecided voters away from the third party candidate.

Very rarely will undecided voters hit your site: unless you're running a paid campaign to bring them in, or if it's a contested primary and active Democrats are educating themselves on all the candidates.

«Osborne's speech was directly pitched at undecided voters.

Some analysts have provided interesting evidence to suggest that online polls could be significantly overstating support for Leave through the way they handle undecided voters and by failing to represent more socially liberal voters who are harder to reach.

Dems believe that there are fewer than three million true undecided voters in the battlegrounds who will decide the outcome; Dems think they are disproportionately made up of independent women and college educated men under 40 who are also independents — two groups that simply won't break towards Romney in overwhelming numbers, given the Dem campaign's emphasis on women's issues, and core differences between the two candidates over issues that matter to college educated voters.

Display ads could play a similar role — another place undecided voters will be turning to is the websites of the major political news outlets, in their own states but also the Times, the Post, CNN, etc. — though I suspect that they're likely to cost much more per actual voter contact than search ads.

That's what several participants in a focus group of thirty undecided voters moderated by Republican strategist Frank Luntz on Friday in Alexandria, Virginia, seemed to believe.

As the WSJ reports this morning, the focus in these final days leading up to the primary has turned to the so - called ground game — the effort to move undecided voters into a candidate's column and motivate those who are already there to get out to the polls and actually pull the lever.

On the other hand, a recent ComRes poll of undecided voters suggests that the split is fairly even between the Conservatives and Labour, so maybe not.

More specifically, undecided voters fear that Labour would spend and borrow more than the country can afford.

To make matters worse for the president's party, undecided voters appear to be tacking toward Northam as the president's approval drops even further in the state — it's at 35 percent, according to a late September poll.

In 1997, for instance, John Major got Michael Heseltine to deputise for him in «ITV 500: The People's Choice», the channel's then key forum where undecided voters got to cross-examine each leader.