Sentences with phrase «voters out of the primaries»

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As Ramesh Ponnuru pointed out, increasing immigration is very unpopular with both the general public and Republican primary voters, and yet most of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates supported increasing immigration.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

But Rangel refused, and now he is again seeking re-election, facing multiple primary challengers — including Sen. Adriano Espaillat — and insisting he intends to serve out a full two - year term if the voters return him to D.C., despite persistent speculation that he will retire mid-term in hopes of controlling the selection of his successor.

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.

So with Messer out, the «primary vote» will be safe for Senator Stavisky putting S.J in a perpetual uphill climb: registering new voters and pulling them out on election day, which is not as easy as it sounds epecially when voters doubt a challenger's ability to trounce an incumbent of this magnitude.

The results of this primary show us that a majority of democratic voters knew they couldn't trust Graziano to represent the community and that his latest endorsement of conservative republican Dennis Saffran, by his own admission, was clearly made out of personal bitterness with a PAC (that despite being unconnected to Paul Vallone) sent out mailers questioning Graziano's checkered past which infuriated him is living proof that those voters were correct.

On turnout, as with a primary, special elections tend to bring out a more involved subset of voters, clouding any apples - to - apples prediction for the next general election.

In Tea Party activists and in angry voters electing or putting on the ballot, excuse me, in primaries, people like Christine O'Donnell in Delaware — does that create a situation where the Republican Party in a general election is so out of the mainstream, is so filled with candidates who are so crazy that the party actually ends up blowing an incredible opportunity that's been handed to them on a silver platter and fails to capitalize in a significant way on the intense voter dissatisfaction?

The state Republican Party has inserted itself into another party's contest on behalf of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, sending out mailers urging eligible voters to support him in the Reform Party Sept. 12 primary.

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).

Fulani noted there are «nearly one million independent voters, the majority of whom are Black, Latino and Asian, who are locked out of the decisive first round of voting» because of the closed - primary system in New York that only allows enrolled members to cast ballots in intra - party contests, adding: «That is what some like to call an inconvenient truth.»

Two more «yes» voters — Sens. Mark Grisanti and Steve Saland — both of who won their Sept. 13 GOP primaries (or, in Saland's case, eked out a victory)-- will face continued opposition from so - called «values voters» in the November general election, McGuire pledged.

The spot will surely appeal to the same Republican primary voters who handed Trump an overwhelming victory in New York State, but another Heaney ad oddly addresses the need for the pledge of allegiance to be recited in school while promising to keep dangerous Syrians out — it's hard to believe polling showed that issue cluster popping.

He needs to court Trump backers in a state that the candidate handily won during the primary season, while also reaching out to independents, Latinos and women voters — many of whom view the real estate mogul unfavorably.

That contrast is playing out in the form of millions of dollars on the airwaves, saturating Fox News, Yankees games and anywhere else Republican primary voters might be receptive to a message.

Time is running out for voters to switch parties in advance of this year's statewide primary elections.

His staff would employ a combination of both new and proven online technologies to organize volunteers, to find new supporters and put them to work, to turn out voters on election day and (of course) to raise unprecedented amounts of money — all contributing to a crucial edge in the primary and general elections.

The kind of voters who will turn out in this primary are the true believers who trend to the extreme right or left.

Their campaign consultant, Doug Forand of Red Horse Strategies, said they were sending out eight pieces of mail to all voters in the district likely to vote in the primary.

The number of Onondaga County voters who either filled out affidavit ballots or went before a judge to try to get their vote counted was higher than normal for a presidential primary, said Czarny, although he noted that there are no historical numbers from past presidential primaries to use as a comparison.

But Hochul now also faces a primary challenge from Columbia University professor and tech expert Tim Wu, and her views may not be very palatable to the small number of progressive minded voters expected to turn out for Tuesday's vote.

With a voter turnout far above the usual for a primary election, Kennedy came out of the unofficial voting machine count 271 votes ahead of County Legislature Chair Betty Jean Grant.

The challenger came six votes shy of knocking out White in last year's Democratic primary, a feat that Nunes said shows voters want a change in the status quo.

Again, anything can happen in a primary where only a fraction of voters turn out.

(Bloomberg's report notes 20 out of 25 states that require party affiliation to vote in primaries allow for changes within 30 days of Election Day; only New York requires voters to wait more than a year to vote in a party primary after changing party affiliations).

The grounds on which these reliefs were sought by Zanetor in the Supreme Court were that; The learned judge erred in law when he assumed jurisdiction to interpret article 94 (1) of the constitution holding that once the applicant had put herself out as a contestant in the parliamentary primaries of the NDC she was caught by article 94 (1)(a) which requires that she must be a registered voter at the time of her participation in the primaries.

The voters say they are unfairly being shut out of Tuesday's primary.

New York primary voters who need an absentee ballot have until Monday, April 18 to fill out an application at their local board of elections.

The New York League of Conservation Voters is out with a new radio ad slamming its No. 1 Democratic primary target that features a catchy Calypso tune with definite earworm potential and the refrain: «Anyone is better than Bill Stachowski.»

Three weeks before New Hampshire's presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has jumped out to a 27 percentage point lead over Clinton in a poll of likely Democratic voters there released by CNN / WMUR last night.

Democrats want a June primary, arguing that most voters are out of town in August.

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.

Voters in the 62nd Assembly District who are also voting in either of the presidential primaries must fill out two separate ballots and submit them to separate scanning machines, a process the Board of Elections is confident it can undertake.

Back in the day, more than half of voters turned out for the mayor's primary; now only about a quarter do.

Watch out: «His sort of unpolite populism is really working with your hard core Republican primary voters.

«I would have to be able to say to primary, Democratic voters: I'm different enough from candidate X,» Miner continued, sketching out the next steps of a run.

The dynamics of the state primaries are also a sign of how far the proposal has fallen out of favor with Democratic candidates and voters alike, after a time in which it was pro forma for some party leaders to praise the proposal, at least conceptually.

«[Sanders»] view on guns is out of the mainstream for many traditional New York voters who may vote in the April 19 primary,» said Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf.

Democrats want a June primary, arguing that too many people are out of town in August for their to be significant voter turnout.

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.

«This would prevent a hard - right or hard - left candidate from gaining office with the support of just a sliver of the voters of the vastly diminished primary electorate; to finish in the top two, candidates from either party would have to reach out to the broad middle.»

Such an effort could capture young voters attending college out of state but whose primary residences are still in New York.

Comptroller Scott Stringer, another rumored 2021 mayoral candidate, said that in the 2009 primary for comptroller, 11 percent of voters came out.

«The turn out was extraordinarily low,» said Greenberg, who say 85 % of GOP voters did not vote in the primaries.

More than half a dozen Indiana mayors will be out of job next year as voters went to the polls this primary and voted for...

Washington (CNN)-- Only one day of campaigning remains before Florida primary voters go to the polls, and with time running out a new poll reveals that massive numbers of voters remain undecided even after months of tough politicking.

In advance of the minor Reform Party Sept. 12 primary, the state Republican committee paid for mailers sent out to registered voters unaffiliated with a specific party encouraging them to write in the name of Astorino, who is also running unopposed on the Republican ticket.

Clinton, meanwhile stands to benefit from New York's closed primary system which restricts voting to enrolled party members; Sanders draws much of his support from independent voters who will be left out of Tuesday's polling.

The third ad assails the governor's efforts to keep Mr. Golisano and his allies out of the primaries, reminding voters of a similar attempt to knock Senator John McCain out of New York's 2000 presidential primary.

Siegfried said that Massey's lack of name recognition would not be an issue, and that he could do better if he actually avoided a primary battle and instead focused on reaching out to voters.