Sentences with phrase «vast majority of voters»

But of course the vast majority of voters fall somewhere in the middle.

«When matched up against Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos — who is virtually unknown to the vast majority of voters — she has a commanding 68 - 19 percent lead.»

In the 1950s, the vast majority of voters plumped for either Labour or the Conservatives.

The vast majority of voters think the government should cancel the reduction in the top rate of tax from 50 % to 45 %.

Emily Thornberry has suggested Labour could yet back a second Brexit referendum if public opinion suggests the vast majority of voters want to stay in the EU.

Despite his experience and personal wealth (he has invested about $ 3 million of is own cash in his campaign to date), he hasn't yet managed to overcome the fact that the vast majority of voters don't know who he is, according to public opinion polls.

«Women are actually the vast majority of voters in New York State, and I don't think we should be pigeonholed in a separate party,» said Scharff, who is also executive director of Citizen Action of New York.

The poll found that the vast majorities of voters don't know any of the Democrats running in CD 27, including Rodriguez.

However, instead of simply taking the populist stance that polticial parties are part of the problem, we need to recognise the important role they play in connecting the vast majority of voters to our political system.

«Women are actually the vast majority of voters in New York state, and I don't think we should be pigeonholed in a separate party,» Scharff said on «Capitol Tonight,» an upstate cable - TV news show.

The winner can be elected on the votes of a determined minority of committed supporters even though he or she might be intensely disliked by the vast majority of voters.

The vast majority of voters are politically in the middle.

One Tory insider said: «The vast majority of voters will think this idea is plain common sense.

«The vast majority of voters who oppose the Common Core, they know that Astorino is the candidate for them if they are a one - issue voter,» Greenberg said.

«The vast majority of voters understand there are different candidates running for different offices, and there probably will be a lot of ticket splitting this year,» he said, referring to those who vote for a presidential candidate from one party and down - ballot candidates from another.

The vast majority of these voters have now returned to Labour.

Judging from numbers inside the Siena primary poll, both candidates must move toward middle ground, where the vast majority of voters will cast their ballots.

«Women are actually the vast majority of voters in New York State, and I don't think we should be pigeonholed in a separate party,» Scharff said.

They are the very local and personal issues that have the vast majority of voters angry at their Congress, and angry at their Republican incumbents.»

But the vast majority of voters say they are undecided.

The vast majority of voters do not support the deep cuts to climate science funding now being proposed in Washington, a new poll has found.

The results were pretty much as I expected, as you can see below, with the vast majority of voters going for the «no» option.

The vast majority of voters, (81 percent) believe Los Angeles Department of Water and Power should increase production of solar energy to 1,200 megawatts, which is a tenth of the target set by Governor Jerry Brown for renewable energy in LA.

But if voters are largely ignorant about what it is that the legislatures are up to anyway — and prof. Somin observers that «[f] or most legislation, the vast majority of voters will not have heard of its existence, much less have an informed opinion on its merits» (184)-- then legislation's claim to democratic legitimacy is weak if not non-existent, except in unusual circumstances.

This time around, the vast majority of voters disapproved of that idea, with 88 percent voting to keep the old documents.

Like the vast majority of voters, the Latino community sees access to affordable and quality education as key to upward mobility and recognizes that early education builds the foundation for success in the classroom and beyond.