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Siena conducted the poll of 812 registered voters in the state from Jan. 22 - 26.

Not exact matches

«Voters in 28 states have chosen programs that shift cannabis from the criminal market to highly regulated, tax - paying businesses,» says Smith in a statement.

Voters in a dozen states will take part in «Super Tuesday» — a series of primaries and caucuses in states ranging from Alaska to Virginia, with Virginia the first to open its polling stations at 6:00 am (1100 GMT).

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

In recent days, Clinton has brought her pitch to young voters in key battleground states, touting her college - affordability plan and her support from popular progressive politicians like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie SanderIn recent days, Clinton has brought her pitch to young voters in key battleground states, touting her college - affordability plan and her support from popular progressive politicians like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanderin key battleground states, touting her college - affordability plan and her support from popular progressive politicians like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

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.

retained his spot atop the rankings after picking up 11 points from the previous quarter — 72 percent of registered voters in the Green Mountain State approve of his job performance.

The Bush administration imposed tariffs ranging from 8 % to 30 % on a variety of steel products, in part to make good on a campaign promise designed to appeal to voters in the Rust Belt states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Super Tuesday is largely thought to be when the primaries and caucuses move from local to national, as voters in 12 states and one U.S. territory go to the polls next Tuesday, March 1.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itIn a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

The only reason the popular vote was close is that voters from the intellectual states — alabama, mississippi, arkansas, kansas, nebraska, oklahome, texas — turned out in droves for their candidate (anybody but Obama).

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

Hijacking jobs and econ omic growth to win political favor from special groups and ad vance an agenda that has been rejected by voters in 32 states..

Meanwhile, in the Florida Democratic primary, Sanders won sixty - five percent of the young voters despite losing the state decisively overall, and despite being an elderly garden gnome from Vermont.

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

By statewide referendum in 1991, voters in the state of Washington had reaffirmed the provision of the criminal code that outlawed persons in its jurisdiction from «knowingly causing or aiding other persons in ending their lives.»

Hancock has stated that the voters will start from scratch for each poll, ignoring their past selections in order to avoid the heavy emphasis on preseason expectations in ranking teams after games have actually been played, so nothing about any edition of the Playoff selection committee top 25 should have an effect on later results.

That was a bunch from Grant of Sacramento that got in because the voters were impressed by a pair of wins over state champions from Utah and Idaho.

When the number of voters in a third of seats in a particular state or territory deviates significantly from the average (over 10 per cent for a period of more than two months).

In the 41st Senate District, though the final vote count from the state Board of Elections isn't available yet, the WFP says it's likely its voters also provided a critical margin of victory for Democratic Senator - elect Terry Gipson over GOP Sen. Steve Saland.

ICYMI last night, Marcia Bystryn from the New York League of Conservation Voters said there is «a very good chance» that the group will spend in the six figures to support Republican State Senator Mark Grisanti's bid for re-election.

«House Republicans» midterm prospects grow dimmer with each passing day thanks to the endless supply of chaos, scandal and broken promises to voters from Republican - controlled Washington,» spokesperson Meredith Kelly stated in a press release.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno deemed Giuliani «Judas» for turning his back on the party's nominee, little - known state Sen. George Pataki, who ended up defeating Mario Cuomo in what was widely attributed more to voters» rejection of the liberal incumbent than their desire to see a GOP legislator from Peekskill in the executive mansion.

But voters in New York, more than four years away from the next presidential election, prefer former Sen. and soon - to - be-former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton make another run in 2016 over Cuomo.

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.

This even applies to «well intentioned» initiatives and led several states from threatening to arrest international election monitors if they attempted to monitor elections from the polling place as only legal voters and poll employees are allowed in the polling place itself.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of theState's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of thestate that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

Not in California, at least judging from the battle waged over the internet to pass Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in that state: The ProtectMarriage.com coalition used the Web to fuel fundraising, volunteerism, and voter...

If either of them were to stay in power for 16 or 20 years (and Obama was popular enough that he might have done so) large numbers of the opposition would find themselves shut out from power and subject to punitive laws and regulations (consider the IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama or recent Trump's voter fraud investigations of states that opposed him).

New York voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, May 16, to vote on school budgets that are benefiting from a $ 1 billion boost in state aid and a more flexible property tax cap, with just 12 districts seeking a 60 percent vote to override the cap.

An optimist might see one - third of enrolled voters from each party showed up at the polls — roughly the same as 2008 level — as a solid showing in a state with poor turnout in some years.

Finding Edith Bunker Women who could be swayed to vote for Ms. Watson Coleman, the state's General Assembly majority leader from 2006 to 2009, were a key target, said Mr. Wilkins, suggesting that women who could be categorized as Reagan Democrats or «Archie Bunker Voters» were more persuadable than men in the district.

Clinton only received 33 percent of the vote from the sample, which targeted voters who live in specific neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Nassau County and a few other locations around the state including the Bronx, Albany and the Hudson Valley.

Hundreds of voters were prevented from casting ballots in the May primary when the state eliminated these reforms — a disturbing preview of what's to come.

Governor David Paterson can't catch a break from registered voters in New York State.

(Data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study reveal a similar disparity — a majority of Democratic voters in swing states in 2010 and 2012 recall receiving phone and mail contact, but almost no voters recall someone knocking on their door.)

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.

«By requiring nonprofits to disclose the extent and nature of their electioneering activities, we are protecting prospective donors from misleading solicitations, and giving voters more information about who is behind many of the ads they will see in this year's elections,» Schneiderman stated.

In - person voting doesn't begin until Oct. 24, so state Democrats are now strongly urging voters to vote by mail — including in a letter from President Barack Obama paid for by the partIn - person voting doesn't begin until Oct. 24, so state Democrats are now strongly urging voters to vote by mail — including in a letter from President Barack Obama paid for by the partin a letter from President Barack Obama paid for by the party.

There is nothing stopping non-citizens from registering in voter ID states too (e.g. Texas has a conviction for a non-citizen voter).

The Hotline has two very hot documents from the Republican database - driven turnout machine, one describing their (apparently very successful) absentee ballot program in Michigan and the other listing sample voter contact numbers by state and district.

«Since the early 2000s, state voters have drifted away from the feckless GOP in droves.

After all, the party won well over 40 % support at the last election, with a lot of it coming from older and white British voters, from Leavers, and from those with small - c Conservative values and a belief in a smaller, less active state.

In the final weeks before Election Day, a scary statistic emerged from the databases at Barack Obama's Chicago headquarters: half the campaign's targeted swing - state voters under age 29 had no listed phone number.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

On Wednesday, he did his own analysis of the voter purge in Brooklyn, crunching the numbers from the state voter file and looking at how Kings County routinely purges thousands of people from the rolls every year.

Nixon's campaign said in its press release that the candidate will spend the coming weeks traveling across the state to hear from voters.

Since Malloy wouldn't have won without support from voters in the Working Families Party, the state GOP said, Malloy's Republican challenger got the most party votes, and GOP candidates should get to be listed first this year.