Sentences with phrase «voting preferences»

Similarly, the power of Google's search algorithm to surreptitiously shift voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 - 80 percent is highly troubling — and not only because it could potentially threaten the basic principles of democracy.

This broadly compares with voting preferences in the regional poll, with Labour on 35 per cent, the Tories on 24 per cent and Plaid Cymru on 20 per cent.

«Yet unease with Romney's religion has little impact on voting preferences.»

The research applied Multivariate Regression Analysis combined with a Logit Model to the real data to identify statistically significant factors that have influenced voting preference simultaneously as well as the odds ratio in favour of Leave.

Changing Minds examines trying to change someone's mind about important beliefs such as voting preferences, brand loyalties, or decorating tastes.

And, while there has been backlash over West's most recent incendiary remarks, it would be surprising if his completely hypothetical voting preference ended up negatively affecting his «brand.»

The headline voting preferences are the third in recent weeks to put Labour more than 10 % behind the Conservatives.

Majorities since World War II have been substantial suggesting a safe seat on historic voting preferences.

In other words there's a demonstrable difference between peoples voting preferences and beliefs, and social groups, and how they do their various jobs.

The left wing bias of the green movement is well documented in the second voting preference patterns of green voters in preferential systems and standard analysis of which side of politics they take votes from in first past the post and proportional representations systems.

So suggests Neil Malhotra at Stanford University in California, who found that sports results can influence voting preferences.

There's nothing wrong with media companies sampling their audiences to determine average income or age or voting preferences; market research has been a staple of advertising for decades.

Party affiliation is also a stronger predictor of voting preferences than faith.

The survey asks the participants to express: 1) their vote preference (e.g. Leave or Remain); 2) how much do they think their preferred choice will get (in percentages); and 3) how likely they think other people will estimate that Leave or Remain will win the day.

The people I met gave explanations about their voting preferences that would be difficult to fully convey in responses to standardised questions.

This would suggest that voting preference is less swung by the day - to - day cut and thrust of an election campaign, and more with identification with the principles that underlay the party's ethos.

Participatory budgeting democratizes the decision power of which community groups and development projects in a district will receive funding by allowing community members to brainstorm and vote their preferences.

Don't you believe that it is a citizens duty to go out and vote their preference — or are you like the NC, Wisconsin, Texas and Indiana TEApubs that are fighting like crazy to block access to the polls?

Peter Kellner: post-election analysis reveals the true composition of the Labour leadership selectorate and their voting preferences (Comments: 458)

Miliband, for example, it was reported, bequeathed South Shields a voter contact rate (the percentage of people in the constituency for whom the party has a record of voting preference) as low as 0.2 % — or roughly 100 people.

The voting preferences of four million Scottish voters - and the implications of how they will cast their votes for the rest of the UK, has been dominating the election campaign.

In Mark Ferguson's excellent expose of «community campaigning» in South Shields under David Miliband's watch, he reveals that the voter contact rate (the percentage of people in the constituency for whom the party has a record of voting preference) in the constituency was as low as 0.2 %.

The private Facebook information, collected in mid-2014, used link personality traits to voting preferences.

This makes sense in that the purpose of fake news is often not to convince people of «alternative facts,» but rather to sow doubt and to disengage people politically, which can undermine the democratic process, especially when society's future hinges on small differences in voting preferences.

Vocal disorders change the qualities of a person's speech, and voice scientists Rosario Signorello and Didier Demolin at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris have found that this alters politicians» perceived charisma and listeners» voting preferences.

«Disorders of the voice can affect a politician's success: Politicians use their voices to persuade audiences of their leadership qualities, but how vocal disorders affect their powers of persuasion and listeners» voting preferences isn't so clear.»

The analysis of five presidential voting outcomes, between 1960 and 2000, showed that southern counties with KKK activity in the 1960s had a statistically significant increase in Republican voting compared to counties with no established KKK chapter, even after controlling for a range of factors commonly understood as relating to voting preferences.

They do not have to agree on religion, life style, how to raise kids or their voting preference ---- they just need to agree on reducing the over-population of feral dogs and cats.

The purpose of those calls, he continued, was to «suppress the votes of electors who had indicated their voting preference in response to earlier voter identification calls.»

The firm is alleged to have harvested data of tens of millions of Facebook users without permission in order to design a software to predict and influence people's voting preferences.

Your attitudes and voting preferences are micromanaged.