Sentences with phrase «voting population did»

A majority of the general voting population did not.)

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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.

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

But if the Greek population decides to vote yes for the bailout deal, does this mean that they will be handing creditor banks a bailout?

All religion does is polarize a population, breaks society down to «us and them» — and gets the republicans votes...

Devotion to «diversity» doesn't mean having a faculty or student body with the ideological diversity of our country, a place where more or less half the population unjustly votes Republican.

Evidently, for 67 % of the American voting population, it does.

Much of that population still voted for Romney since Obama is so bad and has proven over the past 4 years that he and his administration have no understanding of what is wrong with the economy, but the insane religious rhetoric turned off enough of the center that it did Romney in.

Well don't be too surprised, Indonesian Rio Haryanto is his country's first ever Formula One driver and with a population of 250 million, that's a lot of people who can vote for the guy.

In fact, Bill James was (I believe) the first significant writer to make a similar suggestion about the voting population, in The Politics of Glory (disclosure: I did a spot of work on that book).

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

It is known that people tend to overestimate the share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per cent of population consists of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations of levels of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration vote.

This state law could be changed, but you would need more than the bare legislative majority you propose - you'd need enough votes to override the inevitable veto (the governor isn't on your side, since you don't have half the state's population.)

But turnout was only 23 %, as most of the population boycotted the vote; essentially the only group that didn't call for a boycott were those who wanted to become a state.

If said areas have first - past - the - post voting, a minority opinion population of any given area is basically robbed of being a full participant in a democratic process - the votes of any Republican in NY, or a Democrat in Utah, don't matter at all in terms of Presidential election.

And we need to remember that 35 % of the population do not vote because they do not feel that any of the current parties speak for them.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

Do you need to reach a highly - targeted portion of the voting population in your district?

Also, you raise a good point re: Russia; I didn't make it clear enough in the question but IMHO elections of a tzar don't count - by «elections» I meant popular elections (e.g. majority of population is eligible to vote), not «10 boyars electing someone».

He also suggested the state evaluate the medical marijuana program and said that Cuomo will likely have to take the study through «baby steps,» so he does not alienate his entire voting population.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

That is both freeing (in the sense that different broadcasters can cater to different parts of the population) and more difficult (because you have to do this in addition to voting for a government).

He said he proved he could do this in Westchester, overcoming an enrollment deficit by running better than other Republicans in urban areas with concentrated minority populations (he got 25 percent of the vote in Mt. Vernon) and reaching out to Hispanics (he traveled to Puerto Rico for the annual «Somos El Futuro» conference).

The Green ticket got as many votes in the counties surrounding Onondaga as it did in all of New York City, despite the area having a tenth of the city's population.

He added «If the NDC which has large following — almost half of the voting population in this country should not criticize the Akufo - Addo government, who should do that?»

The new law is intended for purposes of reapportionment only — it doesn't give inmates a vote, it merely means that the Upstate areas won't get «extra» population for the purposes of redistricting.

By a 7 - 0 vote, the board made it clear that it would do what it could to discourage the effort by the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the country.

Each election cycle reveals remaining disenfranchised populations and raises controversy about who should, can and does vote.

The authors do recognize, however, that the UK's voting rights and its representation in the European Parliament would have to be adjusted to take account of their reduced population.

«Judge Posner basically thinks that efforts to engage the unengaged are futile or otherwise not worth it, and a view of democracy that accepts that 50 % of the population doesn't vote is preferred to one that asks how can we get more people to engage to effect decisions made by others that impact on their lives... «I think this view is so depressing I can't envision how he wrote 400 pages describing it.

Therefore, the price that could be paid by the UK population for its vote to «take back control» is that such control may be wielded by political actors who do not intend to retain the substance of EU Directives which help guarantee dignity and flourishing in social life.

This did not lead to increased seats or votes in those institutions of which the FDR was a member, because if this had been the result, it would have indicated that a new state had indeed been created; but in due course, due to the inevitable increase in population, Germany did indeed acquire more seats in the European Parliament and more votes in the Council of Ministers.