Sentences with phrase «when voter turnout»
In 2008, when voter turnout rates were at or around record highs, fewer than half (44.9 percent) of adults in households making less than $ 30,000 per year voted, according to Census Bureau data.
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Padilla noted that when California moved up its primary to February in 2008, it resulted in the highest voter turnout since 1980.
Several more states could join the party next year, when the presidential election will increase turnout among younger, pot - friendly voters.
We'll see how truly decisive a voter turnout tool it can be starting in just a few weeks, when early / absentee voting begins in crucial states.
Tradition has it that rain is supposed to mean a low turnout by Labour voters, a truism that set us on edge when it became clear that all polling stations were reporting that turnout was unusually high.
When you factor in the low turnout, less than 10 per cent of voters actually gave the party their support.
The 2004 election cycle saw a dramatic rise in the number and size of nonprofit organizations that bought TV ads, organized voter turnout drives and conducted political «education» campaigns that were effectively working on behalf of (or against) one candidate or party, and because they used «soft money» in the process, their donors weren't limited in how much they could give and didn't fall under the strict disclosure rules required when trying to influence an election.
When Evangelos Venizelos was elected as Pasok's new leader last Sunday (18 March) the turnout was higher than expected but it was the older voters, the over 40 year olds, who turned out, much more than younger voters.
Preliminary figures show that turnout was about 29 percent of registered county voters, nearly identical to 2013, when Mangano easily won his second term.
Unlike his main opponents Rev. Waterman does not seem to have much support outside the district, but when turnout is only 6000 voters, it is hard to predict what could happen.
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.
But because the measure is a constitutional amendment, Florida law required that it get 60 percent of the vote — and that made it all the more challenging in a midterm election year, when turnout among younger voters is lower.
«The reason I think it's important that everyone votes is because when you have an unequal voter turnout between demographic groups like we have now — people over 65 are almost twice as likely to vote as 18 - 24 year olds - then politicians look after the people that have elected them or the people that might elect them in the future.
This would seem to undercut that argument, particularly when you consider that turnout in Western NY is expected to be very high due to the Paladino factor... although that's likely to pull mostly GOP and Conservative voters to the polls.
Indeed the lowest ever turnout was in 2001 when it fell to just 59 % of registered voters.
When political analysts added up turnout figures from the Nov. 3 elections, they could find only one word to describe a year when a mere 24.5 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls in Erie County: AbysWhen political analysts added up turnout figures from the Nov. 3 elections, they could find only one word to describe a year when a mere 24.5 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls in Erie County: Abyswhen a mere 24.5 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls in Erie County: Abysmal.
The turnout in the NYC mayoral primary hovered just above the worst in modern history, which came in 2009 when just 11 percent of voters bothered to show up in the primary that Bill Thompson won.
How's that possible when the last off - year election in NYC was estimated to cost a phenomenal $ 17 million for an ugly 150,000 voter turnout?
In the second Quinnipiac poll, on August 14, when Spitzer went out to a big lead, he increased his margin among black voters, but that advantage was magnified by the poll's black - turnout projection, which went up in the second poll, it was 35 percent.
The turnout hovered just above the worst in modern history, which came in 2009 when just 11 % of voters bothered to show up in the primary that Bill Thompson won..
Essentially, he said, Republicans are trying to motivate their base voters in a year when low turnout is expected.
It guarantees him the election, by taking the party and the voters back to the heady days of January and February when the Democratic turnout was swamping the Republicans.
Voter turnout was up — about 30 percent of Southampton Town voters came out, when usually only about 20 percent does in an off - year election, he said.
«When we did our voting rights report, «Mississippi on the Hudson,» we found that one of the most effective measures to removing barriers to voter turnout in New York is early voting.
When it all plays out, he will have returned to his original «sheepdog» or «Judas goat» role, a part that progressive Democratic presidential «challengers» always play: drive voter turnout for «history's second most enthusiastic capitalist party» (as Kevin Phillips once described the Democrats) and deliver his supporters dutifully to that party's Big Business - backed and imperialist nominee in the standard name of Lesser Evilism.
While the 1st Congressional District has traditionally been flipped in mid-term election years, the current political climate makes it difficult to predict whether it could turn Democrat again without the boost in voter turnout typically seen in a presidential election year, when the party benefits from increased participation by minority and female voters.
of the 18 - 29 year old voters voted for Obama last year - a year when turnout among the young was at record highs.
Instead, he turned a somewhat hopeful eye toward 2016, when many anticipate the Democrats will ride elevated voter turnout in the presidential election and take the majority in the State Senate.
The previous low was in 2009 when 28 % of registered voters turnout for the race between Mayor Bloomberg and Bill Thompson.
The turnout figure was being closely watched as a gauge of the legitimacy of the European parliament and elections since fewer voters have voted at every opportunity since 1979 when the EU average was 43 %.
«80 % to 90 % of the School Board's funding comes from the state, and when you consider the small voter turnout for school board elections, it makes a lot of sense».
Approximately 32 percent of Kentuckians voted in the 2010 midterm primary.As of Monday, nearly 25,000 voters had voted in person on machines in county clerks» offices and approximately 12,000 mail - in absentee ballots were sent to voters who had requested them.According to current statistics, Grimes projects turnout for May 22 will be about par with the midterm elections of 2014 and 2010, when 26.8 percent and 32.2 percent of Kentuckians voted, respectively.
BY RACHEL BLOOM When looking at the extremely low voter turnout for New York City's recent primary election, one wouldn't know that city residents were deciding who would run for mayor this year.
Look at the London local elections in 2006, the turnout was so low that many Conservatives, Lib Dems, and even Greens and BNP people were elected; a feat which wasn't repeated in 2010 when Labour voters for the General election took part in the local elections, letting Labour gain many more seats despite being less popular nationally than in 2006.
In 2009 when the current Superintendent, Tony Evers, was first elected, voter turnout was barely 18 percent and then in 2013, Evers» reelection, voter turnout was barely 20 percent.
1: will the number of votes for each game and voter turnout be revealed when you announce the» winner?»
Compulsory voting (not a bad idea when you look at declining voter turnouts in other Western democracies such as Canada.)
The Cruz campaign, which sliced and diced voter profiles thousands of different ways and developed its own sophisticated targeting and turnout operation — appealing to some Iowa voters on the issue of fireworks deregulation, for example — stopped psychologically profiling voters entirely after South Carolina, the third early - state contest, when the pace of the campaign picked up.