Sentences with phrase «voters in states where»

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That's not so easy when you are in the minority, and in a party where progressives are pushing hard left - perhaps appealing more to coastal and city voters than those in rural areas in red states.

Sessions» marijuana policy will direct federal prosecutors to enforce federal laws against the drug, even in states where voters and lawmakers have legalized recreational or medical use.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

Instead, he pushed for voters to select Rubio in Florida, Gov. John Kasich in Ohio, and Cruz in any state where he is closest to Trump.

The poll also found that 87 percent U.S. voters believe that U.S. Veterans Administration doctors should be allowed to prescribe medical marijuana in pill form to veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in states where cannabis is legal.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is up for re-election in a state where 58 percent of voters approved of President Donald Trump during the first quarter, now finds himself 1 point underwater — 43 percent approve, 44 percent disapprove — after a net slide of 17 points from fourth quarter, the biggest decline of any senator during that period.

In Arizona, where voters chose to keep marijuana legal only by prescription, the state's Wine & Spirits Association gave $ 10,000 to the anti side.

I am a researcher and activist working to protect the separation of church & state and am founder of a project called The Kryptonite Project where we compiled a list of ReBiblicans (not republicans) who ran for national and gubernatorial offices in every state and put this info in an interactive map to make access as simple as possible for voters.

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.

Sometimes an image tells the story, and in this case, the story is that Voter ID laws are concentrated in formerly Confederate states, places where poll taxes and similar laws once kept black voters out of the political process.

The answer depends mostly on where the voter is registered, because American election laws and procedures are for the most part determined by the individual states, even in elections for federal office.

The Bradley effect (less commonly the Wilder effect) is a theory concerning observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some United States government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other.

And in the future too, we should expect to see ever more intense efforts to reach more and more potentially persuadable or potentially «mobilizable» voters in high - stakes, well - resourced, competitive elections, even as the majority of Americans who live in states and districts that are not competitive will hear less and less from campaigns as they, quite reasonably, use all available information to concentrate their resources where they think they matter.

In a State where voter registration is about 11.5 million, there is clearly an untapped potential — or white space — there.

Liberals often claim that while there may be other forms of voter fraud in the United States, like voter registration fraud, the only kind of voter fraud that a voter ID law can possibly prevent is in - person voter fraud (where someone shows up at a polling station and votes when they're not legally permitted), and that there have been almost no documented cases of someone committing intentional in - person voter fraud in the United States.

Regions where voters have more neurotic personality traits were more likely to vote for Donald Trump in the United States or for the Brexit campaign...

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.

Research from the good - government group Citizens Union confirms that the New York City elections, where public funding is already in place, allow for greater voter choice and more electoral competition, when compared with New York State races.

You could also include the outright rejection of Palin by the general electorate of the state of Alaska, where she was able to force a candidate down the the throat of the Republican party, who then had nearly 70 % of the voters in that state vote for someone else in the general election.

Some states (Wikipedia counts twelve) hold closed primaries, where only party members may vote in a particular party's primary, thus disenfranchising independent voters, and even voters registered to parties that do not hold their own primary.

The public doesn't want a rerun, we urge the governor and state lawmakers to take a new approach — one that discusses the people's business in the open, where voters can judge the work.»

As in many races around the country, female voters are being fought over in Washington state's 1st district, where the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this week launched a $ 250,000 ad buy targeting GOP nominee John Koster's strong opposition to abortion.

Updated: 8:18 p.m. A state judge denied Rep. Colleen Hanabusa's request to postpone voting in Hawaii's Democratic Senate primary, where voters in a couple precincts are scheduled to cast ballots Friday.

«At a time in New York where our citizens experience too many barriers to participation, I am gratified that this opinion invites a new era of truly online voter registration, an incredibly exciting step that will help make the state election process more accessible and simpler for all,» Schneiderman said in a statement announcing the opinion.

«Because everyone's eyes are on election matters right now, we wanted to take this moment to make very, very clear that New York City and all of us here are going to be very, very actively engaged in a campaign to change state law in the coming months to finally make this a state that's voter friendly, to finally make this a state where people can participate and not be disenfranchised.»

If the legislation passes the Republican - controlled Senate, where its chances are far from certain, it would then have to be approved by the Legislature again in 2019 before being put to voters as a state referendum.

«It's sort of an extension of the Rust Belt, where manufacturing jobs were sent out of the state, and jobs and the economy are a big factor for these small - town voters,» said one Republican strategist, noting that Democrats faced similar fates in nearby Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Presiding over a pro-Hillary Clinton phone bank at Queens County Democratic Headquarters in Forest Hills, where volunteers rang voters in the crucial states of Florida and Pennsylvania, Crowley called the House leadership's contorted stance on the slumping Republican presidential candidate absurd and untenable.

The day before, de Blasio will speak in Nebraska, which has been a reliably red state in recent cycles, but is also where voters last November favored a referendum to raise the state's minimum wage — a central cause for de Blasio.

West Virginia (D): Beyond the recent spats over «hicky» ads, pink marble driveways and Second - Amendment remedies to cap - and - trade legislation, this race remains close for one main reason: Gov. Joe Manchin (D), while popular among voters, is running in a state where President Obama and national Democrats remain deeply unpopular.

Jon Krosnick has spent 30 years studying how voters choose one candidate rather than another, and says that «at least two» US presidents won their elections because their names were listed first on the ballot, in states where the margin of victory was narrow.

And in state where, according to the new Granite State Poll, just 80 percent of Republicans are backing Donald Trump, Ayotte will not be the only GOP voter casting a symbolic ballot for presistate where, according to the new Granite State Poll, just 80 percent of Republicans are backing Donald Trump, Ayotte will not be the only GOP voter casting a symbolic ballot for presiState Poll, just 80 percent of Republicans are backing Donald Trump, Ayotte will not be the only GOP voter casting a symbolic ballot for president.

In order to change the state's constitution, the measure must be passed by two consecutively elected houses of the legislature, then go before voters, where polls show it would likely be approved.

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

Mike Leavitt, an Annapolis - based Republican consultant who helped guide Hogan's successful campaign, said winning again «will be a very uphill battle» in a state where voters are registered Democrat, 2 - 1.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courtsIn many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courtsin some states, state appellate courts).

Still, he said anti-establishment energy by voters could come to play further down the Republican primary ballot in his state, where Rep. Martha Roby is facing opposition by Becky Gerritson the leader of the Wetumpka, Ala., tea party group.

When he says Clinton, some voters bring up the State Department emails that Clinton kept on her server or Benghazi, Libya, where in 2012, when Clinton was Secretary of State, four Americans were killed at the diplomatic mission there.

Voters will decide in November whether they want to call a convention, where delegates would propose changes — or wholesale rewrites — to the state's 121 - year - old political blueprint.

«Syracuse is playing in the Final Four in Houston, where voters overwhelmingly rejected a nearly identical bathroom ordinance that was also rejected by the state of North Carolina,» a spokesman for Gov. Pat McCrory said after the ban was announced.

«If he did, he'd have to give the voters a direct answer on where he stands on fracking, since he has accepted campaign donations from pro-fracking companies and has not passed a ban on hydrofracking in New York State.

After voters approved an amendment to the state's constitution expanding casino gaming, lawmakers approved enabling legislation that set the first phase of casino construction to be north of New York City in regions where there is not an Indian - run casino.

So, let's have it and see where the difference are so the voters can determine who they want to lead the state out of the mess it is in.

74 % of registered voters in New York State are not optimistic about where the state is gState are not optimistic about where the state is gstate is going.

Fidler already has high name recognition and a good reputation in the district, and there's not much time for Storobin to raise his profile, which will be critically important in a special election where voters are paying even less attention to a state Senate race than in November.

Voters are voting in two western states today — Washington, where Sen. Patty Murray (D) is seeking a fourth term, and Wyoming, where Republicans face a heated four - way battle to succeed term - limited Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D).

In November, voters approved a state constitutional amendment allowing four non-Indian, Las Vegas - style casinos in three regions of upstate New York: the Hudson Valley / Catskills, where the Nevele is located; the Southern Tier, near Binghamton; and the Albany - Saratoga areIn November, voters approved a state constitutional amendment allowing four non-Indian, Las Vegas - style casinos in three regions of upstate New York: the Hudson Valley / Catskills, where the Nevele is located; the Southern Tier, near Binghamton; and the Albany - Saratoga arein three regions of upstate New York: the Hudson Valley / Catskills, where the Nevele is located; the Southern Tier, near Binghamton; and the Albany - Saratoga area.

Perhaps the state's most watched race is on Long Island, where voters will choose a successor to the Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy, a Democrat - turned - Republican who abruptly quit his bid for a third term this year in a deal to end a criminal investigation of his political fund - raising.

«A new Rasmussen poll of Minnesota, where Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty is widely seen as a potential presidential candidate, finds that a plurality of likely voters in the state would not vote for him.

So far, in every state where the issue has been put up to voter referendum, the electorate has refused to alter the sacred definition of marriage.