Sentences with phrase «voters in the party»

Democrats for Life counts 21 million pro-life voters in the party — which is why the attack on the Hyde Amendment concerns the group.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Common Councilor Pamela Hunter won the county Democratic committee's endorsement for a vacant state Assembly seat, but the race for support among voters in her party has just begun.

«This is a tremendously popular issue for voters in both parties,» Kink said.

Candidates for citywide offices like comptroller have to have 3,750 signatures from registered voters in their party by Thursday.

My latest op - ed from Tuesday's NY Post (09/18/2012) New York voters in both parties did some housecleaning last Thursday.

SB 69 increased their primary petitions from 1 percent of the last vote for their party nominee for governor to 1 percent of the registered voters in that party.»

The presidential race shifts west today, with voters in both parties deciding in Arizona and Utah, and Idaho Democrats holding caucuses.

However, it isn't the number of registered voters in the party now that counts, but the number as of August 21, 2012.

A statistical analysis of possible primary results by FiveThirtyEight previewed what the national write - ups will say in the case of such a result: «Winning only 70 percent of the vote would mean that voters in his party don't like Cuomo much more than voters in general do.

Grisanti has a 59 - 30 favorable / unfavorable rating, and is viewed positively by a majority of voters in all parties.

And even though many core Labour voters in the party's heartlands voted overwhelmingly to leave, only ten Labour MPs publicly campaigned for Brexit.

On June 30, the Americans Elect web page was expanded, so that anyone can sign up to become a voter in the party's process for choosing a presidential nominee.

Despite this, 48 percent of voters in all parties polled said their home district state Senator deserves to be re-elected in 2010, compared with 27 percent who say they should not.

The faction also registered about 500 new voters in the party.

Officials revealed they were targeting «undecided» women voters in the party's vital marginal seats.

But voters in both parties agreed: Government in its current form is not working.

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.

One in four voters backed UKIP in the 2013 local elections but polls suggest the Paul Nuttall - party is steadily in decline and could suffer around 105 net losses today.

Instead, enough voters switched, stayed home, or went for third parties in the final days to cost me the state.»

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

Trump responded that he thinks the number of black voters in the Republican party will increase.

The idea is that when participants compete, third parties (voters in one case, and consumers in the other) reap the benefits.

The recapitalization process of BMPS is therefore set to upset Italian voters, which ultimately could punish the main parties in upcoming elections.

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

Sanders, a self - professed socialist, has captured momentum with voters on the left, much the way Trump has reeled in voters on the right with positions that go against their respective parties» centers.

A little - noticed difference between the federal Labor and Liberal parties is that the former ties itself in knots over whether or not to dispatch a leader who's on the nose with voters.

Even François Fillon, the presidential candidate in the Republican party, seduces Front National voters as he is a proud Catholic, and champions old - fashioned family values.

Despite nearly equal voter turnout — black turnout was slightly less than white turnout in 2008 but exceeded white turnout in 2012, 66 % to 64 % — the gap between party loyalty and policy output is wide for black voters.

Black voters rewarded Truman and the Democratic Party that November, providing him with the pivotal votes he needed in a razor - thin victory over Republican Thomas Dewey.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

That would mean that over a third of voters might have been in play as far as party strategists were concerned.

The Democratic and Republican parties are vying for the Latino vote nationwide following President Obama's landslide victory among Hispanic voters in the 2012 election.

In an apparent effort to court young African - American voters in South Carolina's Pee Dee region, Hillary Clinton staffers promised Jamie Harrison, the state's Democratic Party chairman, that his area would not be overlooked by ClintoIn an apparent effort to court young African - American voters in South Carolina's Pee Dee region, Hillary Clinton staffers promised Jamie Harrison, the state's Democratic Party chairman, that his area would not be overlooked by Clintoin South Carolina's Pee Dee region, Hillary Clinton staffers promised Jamie Harrison, the state's Democratic Party chairman, that his area would not be overlooked by Clinton.

In each case, black voters were urged to turn out in large numbers for the Democratic Party, a party that, in the context of governing, would take them for granteIn each case, black voters were urged to turn out in large numbers for the Democratic Party, a party that, in the context of governing, would take them for grantein large numbers for the Democratic Party, a party that, in the context of governing, would take them for graParty, a party that, in the context of governing, would take them for graparty that, in the context of governing, would take them for grantein the context of governing, would take them for granted.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

Yet the official party stance on some of Iceland's biggest political questions is unclear, in part, because its members believe in deferring to the wishes of voters.

This was among the largest voter turnout efforts in history, and larger than those of both major parties combined.

The indictments described the internet tactics of several Russian - based operatives who sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through various social media operations that encouraged voters to support Trump, independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Green Party nominee Jill Stein.

The SPD only agreed to ally with Merkel after promising a list of distinctive policies to secure the approval of party members, many of whom wanted the SPD to regroup in opposition after the last four years in coalition damaged its standing among voters.

The proposal from the president, two months after voters booted his party from control of the Senate, reflects the White House's newfound confidence in the economy.

Despite receiving the support of local Conservative members and several leading Tory MPs, Goldsmith's decision to resign from the Conservative party in protest at the decision to build a new airport runway in his constituency meant he was barred from accessing the crucial local voter data he required.

«We believe the sign of a healthy party is one in which there are competitive primaries where candidates must work to earn voters» support to become the party's nominee,» the report reads.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

Back in Britain the UK's embattled prime minister, David Cameron, is desperately trying to convince recalcitrant British voters and euroskeptics in his own party that he is on their side.

If he secures his party's nomination, the most important thing that Republican voters are looking for in Trump's running mate is government experience.

The leaders of the three main London - based parties — all of them unpopular in Scotland — wooed skeptical Scottish voters with the fervour of a rejected lover.

Then there's Slovakia, where in March's election 23 % of first - time voters backed the neo-Nazi People's Party Our Slovakia party (L'Party Our Slovakia party (L'party (L'SNS).

And, if you look at what happened yesterday as a whole, I think what you see is that cannabis reform was the one issue that was able to cut across party lines and unite voters in a bipartisan consensus.»