Sentences with phrase «voters preferences»

I found it a good read and certainly feel more educated with regards to the changes in voter preferences.

But it does raise the question whether the current pattern of voter preferences will necessarily lead to the projected result, or whether the election outcome may still be different.

Because of the importance of the election and the familiarity of voters with the candidates, polls tend to measure actual voter preferences throughout the campaign.

However, there may be important policy or political reasons to prefer one or the other in a particular context, such as voter preferences or limits on regulatory or legislative authority.

That's a 24 point lead for Democratic congressional candidates in the so called «generic ballot» question, which asks voters their preference for the U.S. House without naming the candidates running in each district.

Although the strategic use of voter data and preferences is an integral part of political campaigning, it was not made clear if the information on voter preferences obtained by SCL Group in the Philippines was illegally obtained from social media sites like Facebook.

It seems to me that the question of whether primaries would lead to a greater diversity or rather more homogenity of candidates (in terms of their views, and in terms of the diversity of candidates in other ways) is an unknown, as we have very little evidence as to how voter preferences in Britain would operate if a wide electorate had a choice between candidates of the same party.

But Republicans spin their advantage as a sign of real voter preference, noting how they've partnered with the persistently popular Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his first year in office.

Attempts like this at gaming elections by giving contributions to candidates at polar opposites of the political spectrum in a three - way race is only possible because our winner - take - all plurality system distorts voter preferences and can result in the election of the least preferred candidate.

The problem with predicted outcomes of AV based on, for example, successive YouGov polls looking at voters preferences is that they really only tell us about short term effects on the relative position of the big established parties.

Hawkins has been getting 7 % in the polls whereas the pollsters say they don't include Teachout in voter preferences because she is doing so poorly that she had no chance in the primary.

Instant - runoff voting derives its name from the way the ballot count simulates a series of runoffs, similar to a two - round system, except that voter preferences do not change between rounds.

Surely the honourable thing would be for the Lib Dems to leave the coalition in line with clear voter preferences?

If the evidence were that voters can not be persuaded and that one must chase them, and if we had proved competent in chasing votes (rather than found that the exercise of chasing votes had led to three electoral defeats in a row - 2001, 2005 and 2010), then perhaps one might regretfully have to concede that strategies based around the assumption of fixed voter preference were necessary, and that the business of changing the views of the electorate took generations, not months.

The ERS report on party funding looks at how to break down the stalemate by testing the latest recommendations against voter preferences.

Facebook, Twitter, and Google possess intensely scalable tools for identifying voter preferences, thanks to the scads of data their hundreds of millions of users provide, and aiming messages based on that flood of data.

Now Facebook is the hot new political consultant because it controls all the valuable data about voter preferences and behavior.

By analyzing the details that users share online, Cambridge Analytica could predict individual behavior, which included voter preferences and how to influence that preference.

These elections measure voter preference for the various candidates and help determine which delegates will be sent to the national nominating convention.

Election surveys tend to focus on voter preferences and voter turnout and not on who voters expect will win.

Proportional representation: The polls are presently showing something like a three way - split in voter preferences.

A candidate who would win under AV (whether or not he would win under FPTP) with a particular set of voter preferences, could actually become a loser if voters changed their preferences so as to make him or her more popular.

That is because geography (an arbitrary factor) decides FPTP elections, while AV uses (politically relevant) voter preferences.

Two caricatured extreme positions of political strategy, held by no - one, are these: a) that voter preferences are entirely fixed, and that the art of political campaigning is to choose where within the spectrum of fixed voter opinions to place oneself to provide the best chance of victory whilst achieving the maximum of one's desired programme; b) that voters can be persuaded of anything if one has truth on one's side and argues for it with sufficient conviction.

Although each of these claims is obviously going far, much tactical debate and strategy discussion within the Conservative Party has veered heavily towards the (a) concept - that voter preferences are fixed.

In fact Saari showed that given a set of voter preferences you can design a system that produces any result you desire.

The acoustics of a political speech delivery are known to be a powerful influencer of voter preferences, perhaps giving some credence to the saying, «It's not what you say, but how you say it.»

Pollsters and researchers may be interested in voter preferences that are not easily expressed in terms of rankings, for instance.

Competitive federalism encourages innovation, allows movement between jurisdictions that enhances liberty, and permits a better match between policies and voter preferences.