Sentences with phrase «voter interest in»

There's been an unprecedented surge in voter interest in next month's presidential primary in New York State.

The number of legislative races where an incumbent is returned to office without a challenger also dulls voter interest in state and local elections.

The deadline to switch was in October of last year, long before the primary season began and serious voter interest in this state was sparked.

I, as a voter interested in this subject, don't want to sit there watching you two going at each other like... you don't see that in the school playground any more.

Mobile publishing was a hot item with 32 percent of voters interested in it.

Not exact matches

It's here where things get interesting: Like businesses, campaigns will often change in reference to technology and tactics, and innovation will carve out new ways for the candidates to connect with their «customers» — the voters.

These voters elected candidates who were running on the Party ticket, but not interested in following the party line.

There are some interests, said the court, that are held by everyone resident in a place, «regardless of whether they qualify as voters.»

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

They put together an interactive map showing the percentage change in voter registration search interest since 2012:

Hoffman also stressed that transparency is important in a presidential candidate so that voters can be made aware of his conflicts of interest, his state of public affairs, and his charitable giving.

Levine, a former member of President Obama's economic policy team, notes that almost all political candidates are on her service these days and using it in interesting ways to campaign and connect with potential voters.

The political process is becoming increasingly polarised, with many voters in the middle losing interest.

Lukoil was interested in the ways data was used to target American voters, according to two former company insiders.

And voters who share an interest in defeating Stephen Harper can now find and communicate with one another.

Voters have come to believe that their interest lies in lowering property taxes, not raising them.

South Dakota voters approved a ballot initiative in 2016 by a 75 percent vote to cap rates for payday, car title and installment loans at 36 percent annual interest.

But the most interesting divide is over how Democrats should relate to white working - class voters who supported President Trump in 2016.

Activists working with immigrant voters say a «climate of fear» — stoked by rising deportation arrests and the failure of Congress and Trump to strike a deal on DACA — is stirring greater interest in their voter outreach efforts for the upcoming midterms.

Voxovreeson The art, then, is to either find enough voters that share your narrow self - interests, or fake enough interest in the narrow self - interests of a large enough group to ensure being elected.

But in today's political climate, when establishment politicians fix on trying to find the right policies to appeal to interests, disempowered voters (or perhaps more accurately, voters who feel disempowered) latch on to this promise.

In order to get a large number of people whom they regard as undereducated, easily led sheep to vote against their own best interests, they push emotional buttons, invoking images of Jesus and helpless babies, to make voters think this is what they stand for and want to protect.

Under a democracy of desire, the elected officers represent the interests of their constituents, and the voters expect their representatives — whether in the legislative or executive branches — to help them secure what they want.

Would you say undecided voters are just ones that aren't trying to have any interest in politics?

Elites now have a strong interest in weakening the nation - state, and thus diminishing the power of the voters to whom they are accountable.

He did, however, appeal to many less - educated voters in the white working class who hadn't previously taken much interest in politics.

Long before the northern press was interested in covering the beatings of the black Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee workers, Charles McClaron had come to Ruleville to begin voter registration work.

Candidates, officeholders, and voters stand where they stand, on the issues and in their partisan alignment, because of interests, convictions, and opinions on which the Holy Father is quite incapable of achieving some measurable effect.

Noted by MGoBlog, Josh Kendall, a writer for «The State» in Columbia, South Carolina and AP voter, has an interesting...

Noted by MGoBlog, Josh Kendall, a writer for «The State» in Columbia, South Carolina and AP voter, has an interesting take on where the Wolverines should be ranked.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

«We have an opportunity, if voters in town agree with the referendum, to have new debt in place with a minimal impact to residents,» said Wilson, adding that with currently low interest rates, residents likely would see no tax increase during the first five years of the 15 - year bond sale and a minimal increase for the following 10 years.

Interested in the idea of boosting voter involvement?

In his campaign against former Rep. Kathy Hochul, Wu believes some Asian voters may also be interested in making historIn his campaign against former Rep. Kathy Hochul, Wu believes some Asian voters may also be interested in making historin making history.

How The World Works noticed an interesting little eddy in the endless flow of globalization today: popular Chinese search engine Baidu is featuring a cartoon Barack Obama and donkey combo fishing for voters -LRB-?)

This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.

By contrast, campaigns that let the various pieces exist in isolation will likely waste resources and miss opportunities to turn voters» passing interest into support — and money.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

So Labour need to get to the disaffected voters who maybe voted Labour in the past and not anymore; they also need to get to those who are not even interested in politics.

More broadly, it means the possibility always exists that it's in a voter's interest to vote in a way that doesn't reflect their true preferences; in other words, tactical voting is always a factor in elections.

When you have 2 main candidates from 2 main parties, in a high profile campaign, their main viewpoints on topics deemed of interest to the voters are already well known, so there's no big problem of «oh!

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

UB40 said in a statement: «Jeremy has re-ignited an interest in politics for people who no longer felt included, and engaged and inspired a new generation of young voters who, for the first time, believe that they have an incorruptible politician who truly represents them.

These systems of knowledge about the function of parliament seem to be better informed than attending to the minutae of either side of the house, neither of which represents the economic interests in work of the majority of voters.

UKIP's rise really began at the tail end of Tony Blair's second term, when his Government's aggressive pro-Europeanism, liberal immigration policies and lack of interest in the domestic political priorities of working class voters became too much for some.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Voters weren't asked to conceive of the Labour Party as a direct representation of working - class interests in aggregate — politics became about choosing which group of elites offered the best deal to you as an individual.

«President Clinton will highlight the choice voters face in the upcoming midterm elections, and emphasize the need to continue moving the country forward by electing strong Representatives like Hinchey who are fighting for middle class families — not the wealthy special interests.»

Alas, Britain's parliamentarians are myopically obsessed with whether one party or another stands to gain or lose from boundary changes, forgetting the far more important question: which system gives voters a sense of connection with their representatives and makes those representatives more likely to work hard in their constituents» interests.