Sentences with phrase «usually vote for a party»

Or put another way, people don't usually vote for a party that will have no influence in policy.

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And Thommas the Bible doesn't tell you to vote for anyone or any particular party — that's usually done by preachers on the pulpit.

The latter is usually hard to interpret as voting for the position of a specific party.

You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.

Democrats have been casting a wide net looking for early votes, from party activists to college students to voters who usually favor the party but do not always turn out.

The Conservative Party moves, if carried out, could cripple the already fragile Republican Senate majority, because the minor - party ballot line is often critical for Republicans because usually draws 10 percent of the vote, often the margin of vicParty moves, if carried out, could cripple the already fragile Republican Senate majority, because the minor - party ballot line is often critical for Republicans because usually draws 10 percent of the vote, often the margin of vicparty ballot line is often critical for Republicans because usually draws 10 percent of the vote, often the margin of victory.

Usually, ICM would add 50 % of those who refuse to answer the vote intention question or say they don't know to the party they voted for in 2010.

Have things reached the perverse situation where in order to get elected Labour have to cut public spending for their first term although they want to increase it and the Conservatives have to increase public spending in order to get elected, usually when people vote for a different party it is because they expect something to be different from the way it was, such plans leave it wide open for the Liberal Democrats to come out and propose a series of economy measures and be the one of the 3 parties proposing the lowest levels of public spending and tax cuts targeted at the poor.

Usually voters can still vote for individual candidates, but even then vote transfers within the party list will follow the list ranking (i.e. votes for candidates not elected directly will be redistributed from the top down).

States like New York that have a propensity to solidly vote for one party usually don't get much attention during the election season: New York has voted Democrat in the last seven presidential elections.

President John Mahama has described supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the silent majority who usually amplify their voice by voting massively for the party during elections.

Noble is confident he can attract members of both parties in November when he faces off against Republican Ron Polacco — which may be a moot point since the city usually votes Democrat two - to - one for local elections, making Noble the frontrunner.