Sentences with phrase «voters out of an opponents»

In theory, campaigns should prefer persuasion to mobilization, since persuasion takes voters out of an opponents» column at the same time that it adds votes to their column.

Not exact matches

Teams may not like where they are ranked and want to catch the eyes of voters by blowing out opponents in the early tournaments.

Today's Siena poll finds GOP gubernatorial primary opponents Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino locked in a statistical dead heat (43 - 42), while Sen. Eric Schniederman and Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice are battling it out (25 - 23) in the five - way Democratic AG primary, with 29 percent of voters still undecided just three days before heading to the polls.

He spent considerably less than his opponents (about $ 300,000) and was a pioneer in his using the Internet as a medium of reaching out to voters in a political campaign.

Here's a clip from an interview I did with GOP US Senate designee Bruce Blakeman following the convention last week in which he appears to sideswipe his primary opponent, David Malpass, suggesting he's out of touch with regular voters (the «pizza and beer wing of the party,» as Blakeman would say).

Oakeshott warned that 39 out of the Liberal Democrats» 57 MPs had held their seats against Conservative opponents only with the help of significant numbers of Labour voters.

E. O'Brien Murray, a spokesman for State Sen. Jack Martins of Old Westbury, a potential Republican opponent, criticized Suozzi: «He was thrown out of office by the voters and soundly rejected when he tried to get back in.

A pair of new polls out this past weekend show the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and his likely Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton are both viewed unfavorably by more than half of U.S. voters.

«Most of the voters will not turn out and the polling station executives will not be active as compared to their opponents.»

As his three GOP primary opponents duke it out in advance of the Sept. 14 primary, Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop today collected the endorsements of the New York League of Conservation Voters and the national League of Conservation Voters Action Fund.

While opponents Jackson and Alcántara have criticized Lasher's Upper West Side ties and his connections to Bloomberg, suggesting they place him out of touch with low - income voters in Washington Heights and Inwood, Lasher stressed he has long fought to assist struggling city residents, pointing to his role as a board member of the Community Service Society, a 150 - year old antipoverty organization.

She can win with everything he's got,» said Joe Trippi, who faced a similar problem when he was trying to figure out the math for the 2004 campaign of Howard Dean, another Vermont liberal popular among white progressives, but one who didn't have a primary opponent with the kind of strength among African - Americans and other minority voters that Clinton's shown in 2008 and so far in this race.

(CNN)-- Illinois Republican Rep. Mark Kirk is out with a new television ad that both accuses his opponent of distracting voters and refers to embattled energy company BP.

Out west in California, Democrats looking for an upset in the 50th District special election got a boost Tuesday with the release of a poll showing that their candidate — 2004 nominee Francine Busby — is far better known than her potential Republican opponents and is thought of very favorably by voters in the San Diego - area district.

The unions, even if they don't outspend their opponents, have a great advantage because of their organizational mechanism and a large group of ready voters (teachers and other school workers) who reliably turn out to vote for the union - endorsed candidates.

I would say that the «green agenda» influence on the voter would be cancelled out by his opponent John McCains strong stance on green issues which riled a large part of his own Republican party.

One would think Wegman is running for Congress and his incumbent opponent knows the voters are about to boot his keister out, so why not accuse the new guy of everything and anything in hopes the voters will turn against the «extremist».