Sentences with phrase «voters got to the polls»

The press needs to ask the Speker Shelly Silver the «WHY» DiNapoli question before the voters got to the polls.

Simply put: If your» e going to Direct Mail Hispanic voters over and over, then an effective IE also needs to make sure those same voters get to the polls.

Not exact matches

Buffett on Monday vowed to do «whatever it takes» to get out the vote in his congressional district in Nebraska, including driving voters himself to the polls to cast ballots.

States permit poll watchers so long as they are registered, trained, and abide by state rules designed to make sure voters aren't impeded or intimidated while getting to and from the polls.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

Bocskor's analysis makes perfect sense on a cocktail napkin, but a closer look at historical precedent shows that it is difficult to get young voters to rock the polls.

Cambridge Analytica worked with a Washington, D.C. - based consulting company, The Herald Group, to promote the NRA's «Trigger the Vote,» aimed at registering voters and getting them to the polls.

A foul - mouthed Silverman pushes people to do whatever it takes to make it to the polls in spite of voter ID laws, while an uncensored Jackson orders disenchanted Obama supporters to «wake the f *** up» and get to work.

Seriously, that's what is needed (Edited to add: I learned today that you need to SIGN UP to be able to do this — don't just show up at the polling place expecting to get to distribute food to voters.

I can only hope that democratic volunteers would help both republican and democratic voters to register and get to the polls.

Chris Cillizza and Jim VandeHei have a great article in today's Post, «In Ohio, a Battle of Databases,» that looks in detail at how campaigns work with data behind the scenes to find voters, hit them with targeted messages and ultimately get them to the polls.

For instance, use check - ins to count and reward volunteers at phone banks, leave tips at local venues encouraging voters to register or get out to the polls.

Many of us followed Sasha's 2012 articles on Slate.com, which detailed how the Obama campaign team was using data, analytics and the scientific method to optimize voter outreach and get the people they needed to the polls.

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.

The main goal of the Democratic party's field organizing is to get their supporters off their butts and to the polls, either on Election Day or (even better) beforehand — absentee ballots are field - organizing gold, since every early ballot in the bank represents a voter who WO N'T need to be hassled in person or over the phone before November 4th.

With that in mind, Democrats aren't skimping on the Get Out The Vote operation: the Jones campaign and liberal groups are working desperately to encourage Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic black voters to go to the polls, regardless of past disappointment and present voter suppression.

We can give you access to voter data for free, and you can use all the money you'll save to rent vans and get your voters to the polls.

Dems are counting on these phone calls and door - knocks to get their voters to the polls...

Over on Team Turner, campaign spokeswoman Jessica Proud took the opportunity to highlight the congressman's big get from last week — a nod from former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani — saying the poll results continue the «momentum - building» sparked by that endorsement, showing Turner as the favorite among Republican voters.

It's a $ 60 million investment in the idea that good data can produce more efficient politics that, in turn, gets complacent Democrats to the polls and inactive voters engaged.

Even in London where there were no other elections apart from the AV referendum, over a third of voters managed to get out of bed and make it to the polling booths.

The «Mobile Pollwatcher» integrates with the VAN voter database so that ALL Democratic campaigns can share information about which voters need a little nudge to get them to the polls.

The same will be true in the struggle for control of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside groups spend tens of millions of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the polls.

It turns out that Thad Cochran didn't just make good strategic decisions, like courting Democratic voters in a Republican primary; his campaign also made the smart tactical choice to rely on a data - driven field operation to persuade voters and get his supporters to the polls last week:

Dems have their eyes instead on the main prize — getting their voters (and only their voters) to the polls.

Based on a 10,000 - sample poll and focus groups around the country, the project asks what voters hope and expect to get from the Brexit deal, how they balance immigration control and access to the single market, the status of EU nationals already in Britain, people's confidence that the Prime Minister will secure a good deal, and how the Brexit negotiations compare in importance to other priorities.

Also with a extreemly low turnout the winner will be the one who can get his / her committed voters to the polls.

A special local government Siena Research Institute poll finds a majority of voters say local governments beat the state on everything from understanding citizens» needs to «getting things done.»

On a recent evening in the small basement office of the Alexandria Democratic Committee, Bob Mack and his team of McAuliffe volunteers crafted a plan for the nine weeks remaining until Election Day: focus on known Democratic voters — and get them to the polls.

He also said people are unaware that in minority neighborhoods — including African - American, Hispanic and Chinese — organizations «bus people around to vote» to different polling sites so they can get more votes for themselves, and argued New York needs a Republican - advocated voter I.D. law.

MyRideToVote is another service that helps voters who have smartphones get rides to polls in select races through discount coupons on either Uber or Lyft.

The Carpool Vote platform was designed to get people to the polls on election day or during early voting, or to transport people to get a voter ID before election day.

«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.

«Could ridesharing mitigate voter suppression where marginalized communities have lost the full protection of the Voting Rights Act and find it hard to even get to a polling booth,» Sasjkia Otto thought.

Campaigns already maintain reams of data on voters in effort to identify and target supporters in order to get them to come to the polls.

But getting ex-Labour Brexit voters still wary of the «nasty party» to vote Conservative won't be as easy, as the tightening polls suggest.

Vote Better NY seeks the following common sense changes to New York's voting laws so that every eligible New Yorker is registered to vote, voters have more than one day to get to the polls, and every voter can cast a ballot that counts:

Beyond winning over some moderate Republicans and getting potential Democratic voters registered and to the polls, the midsummer GOP primary runoff will mark a turning point in the race to replace retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

Mr. Astorino was not challenged in a primary — and as such didn't have to run advertisements reminding voters to hit the polls and choose him when they got there.

«If we can not get relief in the process, we will go to the courts, and we will go to the final, final round, to ensure every vote... is counted, so that tomorrow, when the senior citizen or the young voter goes to the polls, they can be reassured that this democratic process works for them and not that it is rigged, or perhaps that there are backroom strategists put in place to prevent them from voting or to skew the results.»

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, four years ago, you got about 1 percent of the vote, but now some of the polls are showing you close to 10 percent of support among registered voters.

Holding swing voters will be in vain if Labour has not also got its working class support to the polls, and reconnected with disillusioned left - liberals.

Somebody, somewhere is kicking him - or herself for not making it to the polls Sept. 15 to vote in the Independence Party primary for Ballston Town Board because now George Seymour, Mary Beth Hynes and Jeremy Knight are tied at 34 votes each and the voters have no say in who gets the coveted third - party line.

«It's very confusing for voters, but a lot of people are going to see this for the first time when they get to the polls,» said Ulster County deputy elections commissioner Ashley Dittus.

Democrats, mindful of the Republicans» success in getting their voters to the polls in the past two elections, expressed nervousness at signs of tightening in some national polls.

Democrats swept to victories Tuesday in Waterbury, New Britain, Middletown and Milford as well - organized candidates pounded away on local issues and got their voters to the polls in the state's big cities.

Democrats have historically lagged behind Republicans in getting their voters to the polls in off - year elections.

Don't you have to get this passed by two consecutively elected iterations of the Legislature, and then approved by voters at the polls?

According to the Public Opinion Strategies poll conducted Oct. 23 - 25 of 400 likely voters for Hayworth's campaign, the NY - 18 race is a dead heat, with each candidate receiving 42 percent of the vote, and a third party candidate, Scott Smith, getting 3 percent.

At this point, it's all about GOTV and turning out the base, with each party making a last - minute push to get its voters to the polls.