Sentences with phrase «voting states where»

Ed Cox, chairman of the New York Republican Party, said the unusual dynamics that extended his party's primary process this year could be a good thing for late - voting states where GOP presidential candidates have rarely campaigned in the past.

Not exact matches

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed labor legislation with safe voting margins even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

The AfD — led by Frauke Petry — made significant gains in all three states, particularly in Saxony - Anhalt where it finished second with 24 % of the vote.

A comparable rush could shortly be under way in Maine, where the state is currently recounting votes after a recreational marijuana ballot measure narrowly passed.

Two other ads backed Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Senator Mark Begich, Democrat of Alaska, who is considered a critical swing vote, in a state where there are many critics of the legislation.

Anne Sheehan is the Director of Corporate Governance for the California State Teachers» Retirement System (CalSTRS), the largest teacher's public pension fund in the USA, where she is responsible for overseeing all corporate governance activities for the fund including proxy voting, company engagements and managing $ 4 billion placed with activists managers and sustainability managers.

Their votes could be critical in a key state like Florida, where Jews make up 4.6 % of the population.

As he put it: «Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories, and to overrun us here in these free states?

Santorum did not get the most votes in a general election — he got the most votes in some states from his own party, especially in formats where the fringe tends to dominate.

Read the 1st page on the IRS website, where they state that the rich are not paying their fair share and it's because we keep voting for the ones (GOP) who want to keep it the way.

«If you look at key swing states — Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa — those are all states where you had overwhelming majorities vote to protect marriage, and I think that we are going to focus on making very clear that this is a key distinction...

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

As in New York, a proposal for a local Islamic center has become a state - wide campaign issue in recent weeks in Tennessee, where certain Republican candidates in various primaries are trying to outdo each other for the fear vote by denouncing a recently approved expansion of an existing Islamic center in Murfreesboro.

But more unexpectedly, given that Hawaii was one of the first states where the issue surfaced, a Hawaii state representative has caused waves for becoming the first openly gay lawmaker to vote against a state's same - sex marriage bill.

I'm a retired senior Army officer and I live in Washington State where I voted for the gay marriage initiative here.

In the South, even gradual emancipation could no longer be openly discussed, and in the North black voting was curtailed in almost all the states where it had been permitted.

Sixty percent of Catholics in Wisconsin support the state marriage amendment, much higher than in a state like Virginia (where Catholics voted «no» 48 percent to 52 percent).

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

It is a code to which all first world countries are signatories, except the United States (where formula lobbying bought the votes of Congress).

State Sen. Joseph Robach, a Democrat - turned - Republican, will not run for the congressional seat once held by late Rep. Louise Slaughter, saying he believes he can have the «greatest impact» if he stays put in the Senate, where his party holds a tenuous one - vote majority.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

He was a distant third in the first state to vote, Iowa, where Mrs Clinton narrowly beat Mr Sanders after a prolonged count.

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.

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 sStates, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 statesstates.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

This is exemplified in Table 2 where a distribution of 57, 37 and 6 per cent in a state with 10 electoral votes translates into 6, 4 and 1 votes respectively.

There's a reasonable case here, particularly in states like Britain or Australia where wage determination and conditions of labour were highly politicised for a long period of time, and the politicisation had deep system wide effects such as the general wage level, return to labour, and a proxy of power stronger than parliamentary votes.

Also Dickson community to community meet the people tour may turn out to be the game changer for the ruling party as the tour afforded the governor the opportunity to interface with the communities in all the nooks and crannies of the council to sell his agenda to the locals The APC may have captured power at the federal level but the PDP remains a formidable party in the state where money, to a large extent, plays a major role in swaying the vote.

Surely there is some where I can go and get «I want all of the results for STATE for all of the districts broken down by party, candidate, votes»

The convention votes are weighted and the 69th Assembly District, which is where the Broadway Democrats are located, is the most Democrat - dominated in the state, and also generally has the highest turnout, which means its support matters when the weighted vote is calculated.

This is from speaking with people in southern states — Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas — that tend to vote Republican but where I also spoke to people visiting from other places in the US.

Electoral area system does lead to a «winner - take - all» scenario, where a 55 % majority often leads to a total dominance - a visible example is the USA elections; where if 51 % of a state votes for a presidental candidate, then nationally 100 % of that state votes go for him / her.

Liberals often claim that while there may be other forms of voter fraud in the United States, like voter registration fraud, the only kind of voter fraud that a voter ID law can possibly prevent is in - person voter fraud (where someone shows up at a polling station and votes when they're not legally permitted), and that there have been almost no documented cases of someone committing intentional in - person voter fraud in the United States.

And by your vote, you will have reaffirmed the ideal of a union where we are together by choice, not banned from leaving as in the kind of federal state born with the American civil war, 150 years ago.

@Bobson I think the alternative would be devolution of most powers to smaller sized cities or states where fewer people are voting, since this question only examines the size of the population.

Regions where voters have more neurotic personality traits were more likely to vote for Donald Trump in the United States or for the Brexit campaign...

Hanna shares some similarities to Pataki that could help attract crossover votes from Democrats in a state where the party has a two - to - one enrollment advantage over Republicans.

Such pleas aren't new, but they have been slow to be addressed or are the source of partisan bickering at the state Capitol, where of 84 pieces of legislation (some of them duplicates in the Assembly and state Senate) currently before state lawmakers include the word «voting» (333, again with some duplicates, include the word «election»).

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

For politicians and campaign operatives across the state, that race was a close - to - home indicator of what could happen in a special election, where turnout is abysmally low and a gap in enthusiasm among voters could make all the difference when the votes are tallied.

State lawmakers are considering whether to have a special session this month where they would vote on, among other things, a pay raise for themselves.

Now that the US House of Representatives has voted for a tax overhaul plan that some state leaders say will harm New York, the action moves to the Senate, where a vote is expected after Thanksgiving.

Latimer, whose first budget will not be voted on until November, said: «To move the State of our County forward together — we must understand where our fiscal house stands.

(c) Vacancies occurring in nominations where candidates are to be voted for by the electors from more than one county, shall be filled in the manner prescribed by the State Committee.

This bill has been stalled in our NY State Senate's Health Committee, where the members of the committee refuse to bring it to the floor for a vote, even after our Assembly has approved it.

So far I've heard Matt Walter (who departed the state GOP to run Rick Lazio's campaign after a pre-primary shake - up and never returned), Chapin Fay (campaign manager for state comptroller hopeful Harry Wilson), Free Enterprise Fund Executive Director E. O'Brien Murray and (here's a new one) John Rogers, who's currently managing the campaign of Bob Cohen in the yet - undecided 37th SD race where Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer is currently leading by 504 votes.

This morning, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, are headed to NYC, where the VP will deliver keynote remarks at Israel's Mission to the UN event at the Queens Museum celebrating the 70th anniversary of the UN's vote calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in the Land of Israel.

In Akinbade's words on that day before he sojourned to the Labour Party where he lost woefully recording only 8000 votes across 30 Local Governments and the Area Office in Modakeke, Fatai Akinbade II stated that he was no longer needed in PDP because you Omisore had captured everything in the Party and was still brandishing it to mock them.

Are there states where voting is not anonymous i.e. who voted whom is public?