Sentences with phrase «voter attention as»

Though if you force me to pick who could benefit most, it's probably de Blasio: He and Stringer had the most philosophical overlap, and with Quinn and Thompson known commodities, de Blasio is now likely to get more media and voter attention as a fresh alternative.

Not exact matches

If it was Dick Morris I would just dismiss it as an attention getting stunt from a guy who makes his living reassuring and fundraising from right - leaning voters and knowing he will still get bookings regardless of whether he is right in the end.

Now he is just toting it as a tool for getting voters attention.

Why is a guy with a record as impressive as Huntsman's getting so little attention from Republican voters?

Jay Jaffe now describes Morris as «a virtual lock»; he's real close now, and there's definitely a bandwagon effect as candidates who get close c) gain more attention, and d) elicit sympathy from voters who don't want to be the one to keep a guy out.

«They banked on voters not paying attention as they blocked reforms in almost every area of policy: voting rights, reproductive rights, government reform and more.

In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).

However the EU is not always at the forefront of voters» minds: although eurosceptics are frequently vocal in their opposition to the EU, the empirical evidence suggests that, overall, European voters don't consider the EU as an important issue unless events bring it to their attention (such as the signing of a new treaty).

As for getting voters» attention, only 36 % of hard - core MySpace and Facebook enthusiasts listed social networking sites as a top way to reach them, comparable with direct mail and only a hair above newspaper and radio advertisinAs for getting voters» attention, only 36 % of hard - core MySpace and Facebook enthusiasts listed social networking sites as a top way to reach them, comparable with direct mail and only a hair above newspaper and radio advertisinas a top way to reach them, comparable with direct mail and only a hair above newspaper and radio advertising!

Confronted with challenging questions, he sought to deflect attention to Labour as often as possible and present voters with a binary choice on May 7.

And in what can be viewed as perhaps good news for Cuomo, the poll finds most voters, while they are concerned about the high level of corruption in New York politics, are not paying close attention to the machinations of a panel appointed by the governor.

Earlier this week, GOP Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli wrote a letter to Democratic Manhattan Councilman Ben Kallos, chairman of the Council's Government Operations Committee, requesting that the potential of voter fraud stemming from abuse of the IDNYC program receive attention during a committee hearing as well as an evaluation of the program's merits and effectiveness.

Steven Greenberg, a pollster with the Siena Research Institute, credits the recent Republican bump in the polls to the fact that voters have only recently begun to pay attention to the races, just as allegations, including a damning Inspector General's report, have emerged putting the focus on Democratic corruption in Albany.

«For us, the biggest distinguishing factor is that every major newspaper in the state endorsed Gelber, so that's a message we could get to voters in a few words in an ad, catching their attention on their phones as they're going into the polls,» Christian Ulvert, Gelber's campaign aide, told us.

As Tim Wu's fascinating book The Attention Merchants suggests, this all makes it more complex for anyone selling anything — from commercial goods to political candidates — to get their stories and messages in front of potential customers and voters.

With Mitt deserves the attention of the voter as it's doing something new, even if the platform wasn't 100 % ready for prime - time.

With the party already at a financial disadvantage compared to Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are likely to face real difficulties in getting their message across to voters — especially when attention is paid to the two main parties and emerging forces such as UKIP and the Greens.

I'm certainly hoping that the voters will pay attention to what I'm saying as opposed to what somebody else is saying.»

The attention of Nigerians and indeed, the world shift to Bayelsa and Kogi states of Nigeria today as voters proceed to the polling units to decide who govern them for the next four years.

Since he refused to confess to any wrongdoing, this mess will reach its height just as voters start shaking off their summer haze and paying attention in advance of the primaries.

The media and any voters paying attention will take this as further evidence that Mr Miliband is not a leader.

But, she said, NARAL's endorsement was timed to hopefully make an impact as voters started paying more attention.

It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.

As a moderate independent the GOP could grab my attention by making the neutralizing of special interests a top priority with publicly financed elections, non-partisan redistricting, universal voter registration, open primaries, etc..

As more and more voters start to pay attention, it's not a bad time for the cybernats to have finally got their game together.

But as several observers have pointed out to me since this story first broke in Newsday over the weekend, this issue is unlikely to resonate with voters — if they're even paying attention at this point.

Cuomo formed the ballot line last year as a way of gaining support from women voters and drawing attention to a 10 - point package of measures aimed at pay equity, human trafficking and strengthening abortion rights.

At the same time, the League of Conservation Voters, a national environmental group, singled out Katko as part of a $ 550,000 TV campaign drawing attention to a provision that is expected to be added to the Senate GOP tax bill that opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

It is what has caused the media to pay attention to her, so she has kept talking about it, but voters don't vote as much from a place of outrage over this or that duplicity or brazen exchange as they do from a sense that prevailing economic paradigms have abused them.

He has dispensed with a traditional campaign launch at a press conference as the group seeks to focus attention on its website, which aims to win over young wavering voters in the higher income groups who might be put off a campaign to leave.

«What we are seeing here is that as voters begin to pay more attention to this race, the momentum is swinging our way and the race is breaking towards the candidate most capable of cleaning up Albany, holding Wall Street accountable, and protecting New York families,» Rice campaign manager Jeffrey Stein said in a statement.

He said: «It has come to the attention of INEC that Governor Bello of Kogi State registered as a voter for the second time on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 in Government House, Lokoja, the state capital.

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

The congressman's formal trial in the ethics investigation is not expected to start until after the September primary, meaning that the controversy might not be receiving as much attention when voters head to the polls.

«What we are seeing here is that as voters begin to pay more attention to this race, the momentum is swinging our way and the race is breaking towards the candidate most capable of cleaning up Albany, holding Wall Street accountable, and protecting New York families.»

«He either knows this, and is purposely misleading voters in a desperate attempt to garner attention, or he's actually as substance - free as his campaign,» Alcivar said.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER On Saturday, July 20, as most of New York crumpled under the seventh day of the worst heat wave in memory, Carlos Menchaca and Antonio Reynoso, first - time City Council candidates from different Brooklyn districts, pedaled 15 miles on bicycle from East Williamsburg to Sunset Park, greeting voters and drawing attention to where -LSB-...]

And whether voters are still paying attention is as uncertain.

Erin Brockovich is about as funny, smart, interesting and inspiring movie as any this year and one can only hope Academy voters don't suffer from the short attention span that they are known for come nomination time.

Adds Eamonn Bowles, the president of Magnolia Pictures, which acquired «Tangerine» out of Sundance in January: «The trans aspect will undoubtedly garner the film attention, but frankly the best strategy is to get as many voters to see it as possible,» he says.

His work in «Call Me By Your Name» put him front and center in the attention of Academy voters, as well as the public.

For the art house crowd and for Oscar voters, racism is a subject that should be paid attention to every so often but not so much as to overtake the regular order of business.

American voters have historically not paid much attention to education policy — perhaps this is because they continue to be mostly satisfied by the schools their children attend even as they grow dissatisfied by American education more generally.

And yet, just as Trump conned voters by swaying attention towards his antics, Pierce's vulgar performance disclosed a fact that can be applied to the contemporary media landscape: in a 24 - hour news cycle that needs constant fodder, influence is peddled through an affinity for the obscene, not by maintaining the status - quo.

This being demonstrably the most heavily frequented and therefore influential site on the Web with regard to the anthropogenic global warming / climate change / «climate fragility» fraud to which you've committed yourself, there is no better venue to which you can devote your attentions as regards the preservation of this preposterous bogosity's persistence among the confused wool and low - information voters who've been suckered by your progtard Algorean «We're All Gon na Die!»