Sentences with phrase «voters know a candidate»

Right now, a well - funded campaign is essential to raise name recognition to the point where voters know a candidate.

We will ensure that voters know any candidate who obtains our line through these means can not be trusted and is not worthy of their vote.»

Not exact matches

That information should have remained with Kogan, but he instead gave it to Cambridge Analytica, an analytics firm best known for its work on the Donald Trump campaign, which used it to build profiles on potential voters for GOP candidates.

But regardless, our findings suggest that both presidential candidates will suffer from their past bad acts no matter how much good they advertise in the present, and therefore face an uphill battle in trying to change their reputations with voters before November.

The Airdrie area has typically voted for the PCs, but voters in this region have been known to elect opposition candidates in the past (Western Canadian Concept MLA Gordon Kesler was elected in 1982 and Liberal MLA Don MacDonald was elected in 1992).

And if half of these aborting «mothers and fathers» have had two abortions, the Immoral Majority would still be a huge voting bloc i.e. ~ 50 million, enough votes to give any presidential candidate the differential votes needed considering many voters vote straight Democratic or Republican tickets no matter what the issues are.

Protest candidates like Donald Trump and Ben Carson can be conduits for the frustration of voters (or, to be more accurate, poll respondents), but they will never be president, and most of their supporters probably know it.

I do have problem with voters who do no know the qualifications of their candidates.

If you want to know why Republican poll respondents seem willing to make fools of themselves by supporting Trump, you should look at how the Republican party's establishment candidates have tried to make fools of Republican voters.

These Trump voters settled on a flawed candidate, but they knew something I didn't know back in the 1990s.

Their political uniformity is so reliable that I take an LGBT voter's guide with me into the polling booth, knowing that in voting against their endorsements I can never, for example, inadvertently harm a pro-life candidate.

But knowing how to pronounce Sikhism won't take you very far toward understanding whether this religious tradition is something that voters in South Carolina should fear and candidates in South Carolina should flee.

There were apparently a few voters in Category 5, too: We know that Ken Gurnick and Murray Chass both voted for just one candidate: Jack Morris.

Since that incident, voters have gotten to know a bit more about where both Democratic candidates stand on public breastfeeding — and it's been refreshing, to say the least.

Even the Voter Activation Network, better known for its voter - information databases for Democratic candidates (see below), is now offering website / CRM services to users.

He won't appear on our ballot line, but that just means we'll be working twice as hard to make sure that that every voter knows that Amodeo is the candidate who will stand up for hard working families in Albany, from raising the minimum wage to ending the influence of big money on politics.»

Expect furious spates of last - minute campaigning from all the candidates, who are trying desperately to let voters know about the court - ordered, earlier - than - usual elections.

What is clear is that even as a majority of all voters are still getting to know the Republican candidates, 36 percent of suburban voters would still prefer someone other than Kirsten Gillibrand.»

When you have 2 main candidates from 2 main parties, in a high profile campaign, their main viewpoints on topics deemed of interest to the voters are already well known, so there's no big problem of «oh!

Owens is up 44 - 39 when voters are informed that a third candidate, Doug Hoffman, whom Doheny defeated in the GOP primary on Sept. 14, is no longer in the race on the Conservative Party line.

The number of voters who don't know enough to form an opinion about the GOP trio ranges from 76 percent (for Turner, who has made name recognition — at least in NYC — a key argument of why he's the best candidate to face off against Gillibrand) to 84 percent (Maragos and Long).

Firstly this would mean voters no longer feel that their vote never counted, given it either strengthened or weakened the candidate ultimately elected in parliament.

Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana have campaigned for months for their world - famous running mates, but the lesser - known vice-presidential candidates will be effectively introduced to voters tonight at 9 p.m. at a debate that colleagues predicted will put substance before mudslinging.

«Most voters focus on the top of the ticket, so it is important for voters to know that the comptroller candidate has the background necessary to manage the State's assets,» Long said in a press release.

«Voters have a right to know just what's at stake given these Republican candidates» troubling records,» added HMP director Charlie Kelly.

Kinderhook, N.Y. November 1, 2016... With open enrollment for Obamacare beginning today, voters should know that its rates are skyrocketing for New York's struggling middle class: They'll go up another 16.6 percent on average in New York and upwards of 25 percent elsewhere, yet liberal New York City professor and NY - 19 congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout wants to expand the failing program even more, the campaign of fiscally responsible congressional candidate John Faso today noted.

These elections are conducted using the so - called «First Past The Post» voting system, whereby every registered voter casts one vote for a candidate in their town or area (known as constituencies).

As voters, we need to make sure that the Public Advocate's office is about helping people, and we now have the candidate that we know will do exactly that.

They claim that her supposed campaign will seek to urge voters to vote for Nana Addo, and reject the parliamentary candidate in what has become known as «skirt and blouse» voting in Ghana.

In Germany, the country where Juncker's name was most prominent, polls showed less than a fifth of voters even knew he was the lead candidate for the EPP.

We can imagine the kind of queries that these candidates might have purchased, for instance «voter guides,» «election,» «voting» and of course the candidates» own names and those of their opponents (the folks at Google could no doubt help, since they could dig up information about what search terms people tend to use when they're researching candidates).

Voting for a candidate «no matter what» is hard to quantify but a good proxy is to compare though distinguish between «swing» voters, who might potentially vote for either candidate, and «base» voters, who would only vote for one.

Recent polls have shown that most Republican voters do not know enough about any of the three candidates to form an opinion, with many saying they have not decided whom to support.

But even if candidates for Congress at least know that they will face voters on June 26, this news does nothing for those in the State Assembly or State Senate and those who hope to join that club.

With Syracuse's mayoral election approaching, voters should know more than just how candidates stand on the economy and fixing Interstate 81 — they should know how candidates would answer this question.

And of course the best way for voters to compare candidates is face to face interviews [debates] moderated by individuals that know what questions need to be asked and aren't afraid to ask them.

«Five weeks until Election Day, and this special election is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said.

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

Steingraber says her group does not endorse candidates, but she notes that voters will go the polls in November, without knowing the incumbent governor's ultimate decision on fracking.

«Both candidates are fairly well known, and both are viewed favorably by more voters than view them unfavorably,» Greenberg said.

Also known as «instant runoff,» the system allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, a measure advocates argue helps voters better select a candidate that represents the majority of voters.

The poll found two - thirds of voters don't know enough about the GOP candidate to even form an opinion of him.

«But those two numbers are going to change as these candidates try to make themselves better known and as they try make voters question the opposing candidate.»

And yet, with just two weeks before Election Day, a key bloc of voters doesn't know much about the race, its candidates, or even whom they'll vote for.

The poll also found that New York City voters know very little about the Republican candidates for mayor: Former MTA Chairman and CEO Joseph Lhota, businessman John Catsimatidis, publisher Tom Allon, former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion and Doe Fund founder George McDonald.

The proposal, known as instant runoff voting, would allow voters to rank candidates in order of preference.

They can then copy any replies they have to BASC who records them on the publicly available website so that voters will know where their candidate stands.

«I regret the fact that there will be many Green voters who know that they don't have a Green candidate this year.

He said candidates should let the undecided voters know what they are capable of doing when voted for.

«The grassroots momentum behind our campaign makes it clear voters want a real change in Congress — and they know Grechen Shirley is the candidate who will fight to pass Medicare for All and make sure every family on Long Island can afford quality healthcare.»