Sentences with phrase «voters in the areas where»

The SoP reader, who forwarded a recording of this call, questioned the intelligence of spending resources to have a Republican congressman call voters in an area where he lost big in the November 2011 election when he was ousted from the Erie County executive's office by Democrat Mark Poloncarz.

The Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar, Prof Epoke had while justifying the declaration of the election as inconclusive, stated that the number of registered voters in the areas where elections did not hold was bigger than the gap between the leading candidate and the runner - up.

Not exact matches

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.

In India, voters tend to follow along caste and religious lines, and in an area where Christians have perhaps 1 per cent of the population, the prospects for Christian candidates didn't seem particularly brighIn India, voters tend to follow along caste and religious lines, and in an area where Christians have perhaps 1 per cent of the population, the prospects for Christian candidates didn't seem particularly brighin an area where Christians have perhaps 1 per cent of the population, the prospects for Christian candidates didn't seem particularly bright.

It is an area where the voters have to be very careful in determining who / what to believe and stick to what they can know to be reality.

But we need to see UKIP in their proper context: firstly, they are a minority party and will stay there; secondly, they are growing in working class areas where the Labour Party's cultural shift left have lost longstanding voters.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

«Imagine, for example, tailored advertisements created for individual «swing voters» (selected automatically through profiling), pointing out a party's positive steps in the policy areas that are most likely to interest them (also selected automatically), omitting those areas where party policy doesn't fit, and couching it in a language appropriate to the individual's ethnic, educational, cultural and linguistic background, illustrated with a few appropriate news TV clips, and playing background music exactly to the individual's taste and voiced over by an actor that profiling reveals that individual likes?

Remember that only a few months ago Ed Balls said Labour voters were justified in tactically voting for Libdems in areas where Labour was uncompetitive to keep the Tories out.

Pollster Larry Harris says that disparity is not unusual, because it generally reflects where the most number of registered voters live in the area that was surveyed.

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.

The deviation between the proportion of BES respondents saying they voted Conservative and the actual proportion of voters who did is highest in strong Conservative areas where we would expect the least social pressure against voting Conservative.

The New Britain Area League of Women Voters will sponsor a candidates forum where candidates in nearly a half - dozen races will get to field questions about their positions on a variety of issues facing Connecticut.

Second, Farage's shift to northern areas is paying off; the most loyal Ukip voters are found in the north - east and north - west where 70 % plan to stay loyal (compared with less than 60 % in Scotland).

First, we found that locally Ukip really is gunning for Labour: targeting working - class areas where Labour is locally dominant in the hope of cementing support among blue - collar voters, and forcing Miliband to promise an EU referendum.

Speaking from the Midlands, where the Tories became the biggest party in Walsall and made gains in Dudley, Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said the party has to address issues of concern for white working - class voters in industrial areas who appear to have switched from Ukip to the Tories.

Generally, the Lib Dems have been given jobs in areas where there is a large measure of agreement anyway: so Chris Huhne goes to energy and environment, where he will need to ensure that does more than have to break the news to the voters that they will have seven different bins in which to recycle their rubbish.

As for CLPs nominating him, yes they're all in areas where labour does well already the Midlands inner London, the right of the party being burnt out after 20 years, but it's not the CLPs it's the voters in the street, how many CLPs nominating people, know what their electorate think, as for Dan Hodges, whatever you think of him, can you deny he believes what he says about labour being massacred if corbyn took us into the 2020 election.

But in some other areas where the governor and mayor have tussled, the voters back the governor.

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the Tories were performing relatively well in areas with a substantial Leave vote in the 2016 referendum, where they are picking up votes from UKIP, which did not stand candidates in many areas, while Labour were performing better in places where the Remain vote was stronger and with a higher proportion of younger voters.

Some Labour voters will vote for the BNP in areas where the BNP have a presence as a protest vote, as Tory voters voted for UKIP in 1997 (sorry, Henry, but I was there knocking on doors).

The worst - affected areas were in Birmingham, Hackney, Islington, Lewisham, Liverpool, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle - under - Lyme, Newcastle upon Tyne, Runnymede and Sheffield, where voters demonstrated outside Nick Clegg's house after being barred at the polling station door.

Campbell notes that the dominant interpretation in the political science literature of why people vote doesn't explain this voter: Hodgson was not protecting or advancing her interests, since she was new to the area and didn't know where various candidates stood on the issues that might affect her.

The bill protects some school districts in areas with high property wealth and per - pupil spending from seeing general aid deductions in the school funding formula in cases where voters approve capital projects.