Sentences with phrase «vote difference in»

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However, the distribution of the UKIP vote may lead to the Tories» piling up votes in areas where they are too far behind Labour for it to make a difference.

In 2016, those counties cast 158,945 more votes for Trump — a difference of 120,260.

Jacobs: I was talking to Fordham professor John Pfaff recently, and he said that difference in this race is that the traditional base that votes for a DA is white, middle - class, affluent, and not that knowledgeable on the issues.

As it turned out, only nine Courtenay - Comox votes — quite possibly from the very people we spoke with on those door steps, and almost certainly from some of those first - time voters we signed - up — currently make up the difference between another Christy Clark Big Money majority and the chance for a fresh start in B.C. politics.

One example of a material difference in corporate law between states is the stockholder vote necessary to sell a company.

Until Tuesday, shareholders haven't voted in large enough numbers against Wall Street pay packages to make a difference.

So, in reality here... is there truly any big difference from overtly telling you to vote yes on prop. 8 because gay marriage is wrong, vs. saying... It is a «correct principle» that marriage should (only) be between a man and a woman...?

He or she did not say that there was a hatred for Mormons, merely such a huge philosophical difference (which as described as brmt04 is actually bigotry on the part of Mormons, and this Mormon in particular) that it would not be possible for brmt04 to vote for a Mormon.

So I suppose we could expect evangelicals to also be voting for Democrats in numbers that would make their R / D difference statistically insignificant?

There is little difference between religious discrimination in a public advertising medium and racial, creedal or sexual discrimination in the voting booth, the sale of housing, or as the basis for employment.»

Russell Brand created a stir in 2013 when, in a Newsnight interview, he told Jeremy Paxman he would not bother to vote as party politics made no difference...

I had predicted to them that the Catholic vote would make no difference in this election, that Catholics would vote in almost identical fashion to the rest of America.

Time to vote in someone that can make a difference — an not bring religion into it.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

There are many Christian liberal Democrats; the difference is that we do not boast to be «holier than thou» Christians in order to influence others to vote Democrat.

If religion is a factor in your voting decision, you need to study the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price to see the difference in Mormon beliefs and mainstream Christian beliefs.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

This categorization is very helpful: we can identify religious groups with distinctive voting behavior while also showing substantial political differences between «traditionalists» and «modernists» in each major tradition.

About 47 percent of white evangelicals were less likely to vote for someone who had served as an elected official in Washington for many years, while 34 percent said it made no difference and 18 percent said such political experience would make their support more likely.

democrats in America = Socialists you need to, look at France, Germany and UK political votes and systems, then you might understabd the difference between an American Democrat and a real Socialist.

I am talking about the formative differences in what religions believe in, and why an evangelical would rather vote for the guy who praises a guy in a big hat but uses the same book, than the guy who — while in every other aspect is unobjectionable — uses the same book but with a new afterward.

It's been a long, rocky road, but do get out and make sure your voice is heard, because no matter our differences, we are united in our right to vote.

I have my differences of opinion with Ben Golliver but his COY vote buys him a lot of good karma in my book.

You would need to figure out things like scholarship differences in order to even make it worth voting on.

I used to say Alexis is easily our most important player, but after seeing Arsenal without Cazorla last season and the difference it made, I decided not to take part in the vote.

For the vote - counting exercise a statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05) difference in favour of the intervention was considered a positive outcome, a statistically significant difference in favour of control was considered a negative outcome and no statistically significant difference was considered a neutral outcome.

This has happened recently in different referendums: Brexit in UK and Peace agreement in Colombia, where polls where pretty sure about one direction of the vote and all this hidden vote ended up making the difference.

The difference in votes between the NPP and the NDC in the 2012 elections was about 6,000, with Nana Abekah, a CPP man who went independent polling 6,000 votes.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

This difference in efficiency was anticipated in advance and largely the product of the distribution of votes in 2010.

The difference between the US and other countries is that the US legislators voted for this law, but their equivalents in other countries have not.

The group has around 2,000 supporters on Facebook and says it is planning to begin door - knocking in seats where it thinks tactical voting could make a difference.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

But if 2014 IS relatively low - turnout, a small extra bump in numbers for one side or another can also make a big difference in the final vote percentages.

Tactical voting can and will make a difference in many seats.

@Stuart White: Of course there's a difference between (a) a minority government which a smaller party permits to remain in office by not using its votes to defeat its programme and legislation, either ad hoc or in accordance with some semi-formal pact, and (b) a coalition in which both parties hold seats in the Cabinet.

A surprising feature of the 2015 election was the lack of variability across the polls in estimates of the difference in the Labour and Conservative vote shares.

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Brian: if you can't see the difference between a minority Labour government that - in your words (from your original posts on this issue)- dares the Lib Dems to vote it down, and a coalition government based on a mutually agreed set of objectives, then you need to take a second look.

Hitherto, the coincidence of local and general election results provided an opportunity to estimate a PNS for the parallel local elections by comparing the local and parliamentary election results in those constituencies where all the component wards were contested, and then applying the resulting difference for each party to its share of the Britain - wide parliamentary vote.

I think it would be obvious that there is a difference between a person who wants to vote in favour of Labour being urged to vote tactically, and a Labour member pro-actively campaigning in favour of a specific opposition candidate.

For politicians and campaign operatives across the state, that race was a close - to - home indicator of what could happen in a special election, where turnout is abysmally low and a gap in enthusiasm among voters could make all the difference when the votes are tallied.

The differences in the House and Senate bills, if they both pass their respective chambers, would have to be reconciled in a conference committee and approved in a new vote.

Not surprisingly, considering the more than five - to - one enrollment edge Democrats enjoy in the five boroughs, the Democratic Party saw the greatest difference, jumping by 180,239 votes now that the official numbers are in.

We recommend that the President also extent a hand to the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, undoubtedly the country's leader of the opposition, to a similar meeting to discuss their differences, and set the tone for peaceful presidential and parliamentary campaigns, leading to the vote in December 2012.

European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.

«You don't have to win the office to make a difference, and we've made a difference,» said Hawkins, who came in third in 2014 with 184,419 votes.

On average there is a small difference in the 2016 Leave vote between the places that do (51 %) and do not (53 %) have elections.

Both campaigns say they believe the gap will narrow as Republicans increase their early voting efforts, but it also reflects differences in the parties» get - out - the - vote operations.