Sentences with phrase «undecided voters by»

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.

Forget kissing babies: Success on the trail is more about big data, online advertising, and ferreting out undecided voters by following a digital trail.

Not exact matches

In doing this we used a suite of models produced by the data science team, which outlined profiles such as undecided voters or inactive supporters, and matched these audiences to online cookies, mobile devices, and social IDs.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from 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.

By far, the largest group are those that remain undecided: One in three voters has not made up their minds about which candidate to support next month.

The poll, which was conducted by the National AFL - CIO, has Reed at 49.7 % and Shinagawa at 44.7 % with 5.6 % of voters undecided.

In a general election contest against Republican real estate executive Paul Massey, Mayor de Blasio, 64 %, leads Massey, 22 %, by nearly three to one among registered voters in New York City including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate.

The poll, which was conducted by Public Policy Polling, has each candidate garnering support of 43 % of the voters with 14 % of voters undecided.

For a variety of reasons (including the impact of high levels of undecided voters in a specific poll), the actual result of an election contest may vary from the figures suggested by an opinion poll, even if the poll is carried out relatively close to election day, or on election day itself as in the case of exit polls, but the likelihood of such variation is not something that can be factored into this model.

Nationalists will be reassured by how many voters still remain undecided, with 30 % of all voters fitting into the category.

The poll also shows that among voters who say they always go to the polls, Cahill, Pataki's former chief of staffi, leads by a slim 36.1 % to 33.6 % margin, with 30.3 % undecided, the memo says.

In the race for New York State governor, Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo leads his Republican challenger, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, by 25 percentage points among likely voters statewide including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate.

A polling of more than 600 voters shows each candidate to be favored by 47 percent, making the 6 percent of undecided voters the key to the coming election.

Republican Ron Johnson leads incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold in the race for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin by 7 percentage points among likely voters including early voters and those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate, according to this McClatchy - Marist Poll.

He's currently leading Republican opponent Harry Wilson by a 45 - 22 percent margin, though 33 percent of voters are undecided.

When undecided voters are excluded, the «No» camp is on 53 % and the «Yes» camp is on 47 %, the same result reported by a recent Survation survey.

Pollsters believed the remaining undecided voters are most affected by economic arguments.

Here's a tip to any undecided voters, pick the candidate NOT supported by the Teachers Union.

How many undecided voters in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pa. were influenced by that point when they went into the voting booth?

Registered voters overall support a convention referendum by a narrow 45 percent to 33 percent split, with 22 undecided.

The clock is counting down to Election Day, and in this final NBC 4 New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist Poll, Democrat Bill de Blasio has a very wide lead over Republican Joe Lhota among New York City likely voters including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate and those who voted by absentee ballot.

Over the next nine weeks Lord Ashcroft Polls will visit every region of the country to find out what undecided voters are thinking about the referendum, what they have noticed and what has passed them by, what they make of the latest claims and interventions, what they take seriously and what they dismiss, whether they are any closer to making up their minds and what is pushing them one way or the other.

With just days until the first presidential debate, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine lead Republicans Donald Trump and Mike Pence by 7 points among likely voters nationally including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate, a new Marist poll found.

All these claims are fundamentally wrong, but by not challenging (because they agreed with it) the relentless repetition of these Tory lies Labour left millions of undecided voters to believe either that there was no difference between the two parties or that Labour could not be trusted with the economy.

A Quinnipiac University poll released last week indicates that Meek trails Greene by ten points, with 35 percent of likely Democratic primary voters undecided.

Among likely Republican primary voters in Kentucky including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate and those who voted early or by absentee ballot, here is how the Republican primary for U.S. Senate stands:

Polls conducted by the Quinnipiac Polling Institute in recent months have shown John Liu has a narrow lead heading into the Sept. 15 primary, but as much as 50 percent of voters remain undecided.

Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo, 56 %, leads his Republican challenger, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, 30 %, by almost two - to - one in the race for governor in New York among likely voters including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate or have voted early.

NYC voters disapprove of Bloomberg's selection of Black by a 47 - 29 percent margin, with 25 percent undecided.

Following up from his 2015 analysis on the economic and cultural positions of party supporters in England, Jonathan Wheatley uses 2017 data and finds that party supporters have become far more polarised — leaving a gap in the middle, occupied possibly by large numbers of undecided voters.

A paper by Matt Singh, one of the few to predict the 2015 Conservative victory, and James Kanagasooriam of polling firm Populus, suggests that the lack of an explicit «don't know» option in phone polls could be boosting support for Remain, as undecided voters tend to fall towards the status quo.

But merely changing which candidate appeared higher in the results still increased the number of undecided Indian voters who would vote for that candidate by 12 % or more compared with controls.

In one phase of the experiment, they tested a group of actual voters before the 2014 general election in India and found that biased search results could increase the number of undecided voters who chose one candidate by 12 % or more.

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.

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.

Udall has led Schaffer in most polls since the race began last summer and recent results put him ahead by high single digits, though roughly a quarter of Colorado's voters remain undecided.

Like a group of undecided voters, certain materials can be swayed by their neighbors to become magnetic, according to a new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

That conflict will make him Black Panther (played by Chadwick Boseman) the «undecided voter» in the battle between Cap (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) according to producer Nate Moore.

But in the end, it was about who could capture the biggest portion of undecided voters: By election day that was still 40 percent of voters, according to polls.