Sentences with phrase «vote winning potential»

As for the popularity / vote winning potential, without specific polling I guess there's no way of knowing, but I'd be pretty sure that if you and I stood on the High Street of any marginal constituency this weekend and asked people to pick between the LD proposal and the Labour / Tory headline proposals (whatever they are), the LD one would win comfortably.

Not exact matches

While fundamentally the consolidation of power could cut Turkey's structural growth potential, cyclically the destructive focus on short - term votes to win the referendum should give way to a more pragmatic focus on returning to growth,» the bank said.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

UKIP's capacity to change constituency - level outcomes by grabbing 15 - 25 % of the votes in key seats will matter just as much as its potential to win further seats outright.

Those identified as supporters or potential converts represent only a little more than one - fifth of the electorate, so the upper limit of the potential Lib Dem vote next May is less than the share of the vote the party won in 2010.

«As I explained when I announced that I was turning down a potential opportunity to serve as Secretary of Education, I voted for Hillary Clinton and was sorely disappointed she didn't win,» Moskowitz wrote.

The main reason smaller parties don't win more seats is because potential voters don't expect them to get enough votes and would rather choose a second preference over a third or lower preference.

The Marist poll also included questions about a potential runoff election, in the event none of the candidates garner the necessary 40 percent of the vote to win the primary.

When Perot won close to 20 % of the vote in the 1992 election, and the independent movement gained momentum, Democrats and Republicans were concerned about losing to a potential third party.

But the USA Today / Gallup survey released Wednesday morning also suggests that none of those potential Republican hopefuls could win the votes of a majority of all Americans if they won the GOP nomination in 2012.

Two of whom — Yvette Cooper and Chuka Umunna — had reportedly been potential planning leadership campaigns until the party ended up winning 30 seats and finishing with 40 per cent of the vote share.

There is one potential MP there - Rodney Conor - who, if he wins the recount in Fermanagh / South Tyrone has pledged to vote with the Conservatives, except on Northern Ireland issues.

Though Michael Fassbender contributes a potential Oscar - winning performance (one critic opines that the Academy should not even bother voting: just mail him the Oscar), the fragmentation is disturbing and would grate on segments of the audience who like their bio-pics complete without being broken up into simply melodramatic moments.

«It's no wonder, then, that GOP pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson identified education as an issue on which Republicans have the potential to win over young voters in her book, The Selfie Vote,» Jarosz Brady wrote.

It takes a team of people rallying around a leader, or potential leader, to win the popular vote and become the head of a country.