Sentences with phrase «votes than any candidate»

In 1984, Gramm ran for the Senate, winning more votes than any candidate for statewide office in the history of Texas.

«Technicality she [Vazquez] got more votes than every candidate that ran and a lot were not duplicates — they voted for one or the other,» according to a source familiar with the situation.

Not exact matches

As such, it is likely that the center - right candidate from Forza Italia, Paolo Romani, is elected due to the alliance gaining more voters than the Five Star Movement back on the March 4 vote.

The county, whose largest city is Wilkes - Barre and whose overall population is more than 320,000, voted for Trump in larger numbers than it did for any Republican presidential candidate since President Richard Nixon in 1972.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

In other words, over his two campaigns for president, more Americans will have actually physically voted for President Obama than for any other candidate in history.

When asked whether he would vote for Trump again during the 2020 elections, Niemeyer pauses — and then clarifies that while he voted for Trump, he was not 100 % behind the candidate — but thought him better than the alternatives.

This is not the first time the PCs have decided to appoint a candidate in this constituency rather than allow members to vote for a candidate through an open nomination contest.

I have no reason to believe their judgment selecting candidates for office or voting on referenda is any better than their judgment evaluating doomsday theories.

the only thing worse than a candidate using religion to get votes are the retard followers voting for them.

If I fought against the right of atheists to campaign for atheist candidates, then why should I expect anything less than a counterattack against my own voting rights as a Christian?

candidate, more than 50 million voters, including, crucially, millions of evangelicals, voted for the dimwit.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

For instance, a 2014 Pew Research study found that Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist presidential candidate than any other survey category — even if they share that candidate's political views.

Additionally, 19 % of voters identified they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who had strong religious beliefs other than their own.

Two out of five voters don't think Trump or Clinton would be a good president; half say they're voting against a candidate rather than in support of one.

Some Christians say that rather than try to change the world by voting in a flawed candidate, what Jesus really wants is for us to get out into the world and be the change we want to see.

Much of the most heated debate is less about the conduct of the candidates than about the meaning of a vote.

More than 4 out of 10 evangelicals told Barna that they refuse to vote for either of the candidates.

More than 8 - in - 10 (82 percent) say they are voting for or leaning toward Republican candidates in their districts.

More than a quarter more said they'd vote for a viable third - party candidate (29 %).

Not all did so with enthusiasm, and for that matter, Trump received a higher percentage of black and Hispanic votes than did his predecessors, Republican candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain.

By 1992, Evangelicals were George Bush's best supporters, giving him 56 percent of their votes in the three - way race (and 67 percent of the two - party vote); and to a greater extent than ever before they backed Republican candidates all the way down the ticket.

Altogether, GOP House candidates captured one - half of the vote, some nine percentage points better than Dole.

A vote for Trump or Clinton by bizarro - you «would mean something totally different» than your vote for the same candidate.

More than half of black Protestants said they would be less likely to vote for a gay or lesbian candidate in 2007; that number declined to 29 percent in 2014 but increased to 34 percent in 2016.

This is not a radical suggestion; no matter how great the candidate, no vote can ever represent more than a sign of preference, for in a sinful world, there has never been and never will be a perfect candidate.

To make this clearer to our presidential candidates, we need to do more than vote and pray for them.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

They're praying for a candidate who lies every day; evidences no core beliefs; has given no reason for us to vote for him other than it's allegedly «his time.»

II'm an Independent who has generally voted more for Democratic candidates than Republican.

My religion does not persuade me to vote one way or another in an election just because one candidate says god and freedom more than the other.

While other, worse journalists than me, are out there vetting there voting records and campaign financers, I'm going to take the wheel and let you know which candidates were too nerdy or just total spaz cases to ever deserve to smell the oval office.

But there is some sentiment for allowing the voters to vote for more than 10 candidates.

From the dinner table to carpool lines to the voting booth, children engaged with their parents about the candidates and the campaign more than they might have during previous presidential elections.

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

How is a system where every vote counts less democratic than one where if you don't vote for the top two candidates your vote is wasted - having the same effect as having not voted at all?

The instant runoff system is considered a very good voting system when choosing between multiple options because it avoids the spoiler effect (e.g. two similar options stealing each other votes so a 3rd candidate who is actually less popular than them wins), doesn't discourage votes for options perceived as underdogs and leads to a compromise most people can agree to.

The EDBC must also ensure, as far as practicable, that the redistribution is fair to prospective candidates and groups of candidates, so that if candidates of a particular group attract more than 50 per cent of the popular vote, including preferences, they will be elected in sufficient numbers to enable a government to be formed (Constitution Act 1934 (SA) section 83 (1)-RRB-.

«If Hawkins does that well on Election Day — something third party candidates often don't do — then it will almost certainly make this year's race closer than four years ago and keep Cuomo well below his total vote from 2010,» said Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg.

The prize for the most cash spent per vote goes to losing state Senate challenger Isaac Sasson — one of two candidates who unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Queens Democratic Sen. Toby Stavisky, each dropping more than $ 100,000 of his own money on the race.

How is ensuring the winning candidate is the one with a majority of votes less democratic than a system where the winner is the candidate with the largest minority of votes?

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

This especially struck me as a great example of how broken our current political system is - in SO elections some candidates were younger than 15 years and yet I voted for them because of quality presentation and ability to see their history of votes / answers.

In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state's Electoral votes.

In the last congressional election in Brazil (where all candidates run state - wide rather than in electoral districts) the candidate who received the most votes in the state of Sao Paulo was a television clown.

Just she herself had more than 150 % votes than the sum of all candidates of the adversary coalition.

In Witney, David Cameron's local area, Ukip split the right - wing vote, allowing Labour councillor Laura Price in with just ten more votes than the Ukip candidate.