Sentences with phrase «where more voters»

«What stands out is that's the only issue where more voters say he's made it a problem than has improved the issue,» said Greenberg.

Britain is the only country in Europe where more voters oppose the EU constitution than back it, a new poll has found.

Not exact matches

That's not so easy when you are in the minority, and in a party where progressives are pushing hard left - perhaps appealing more to coastal and city voters than those in rural areas in red states.

So if a Republican senator mostly hears from GOP constituents, and these constituents are more likely to be really passionate about the issue since they are on the side that opposes stricter laws, that's going to give the senator a skewed perception of where voters are on this topic.

More than 70 of the events - where political candidates address voters - have been posted on the engage17 website created by the Christian organisation, CARE.

His Democratic opponent, Terry Mann, carried eight counties, but Bunning soundly defeated him in the two counties where more than two - thirds of the voters lived, and won by a 56 % -44 % margin.

Since that incident, voters have gotten to know a bit more about where both Democratic candidates stand on public breastfeeding — and it's been refreshing, to say the least.

That's one reason «addressable» advertising has become popular in the past five years, particularly at the presidential and statewide levels, where campaigns more often have the capacity to build the data models to identify demographic groups and specific voters to persuade or turn out.

But there are historical examples that used weighted voting at points in time - that is, countries where some voters» votes were more equal than others».

Beyond a few places where obviously the card reader was by - passed as evidenced in the kind of figures shown as indicated in our reports of the 2015 elections, if we examine critically the credible margin of election results, figures from recent elections and the more recent ones in Kogi and Bayelsa, from those declared, showing a reasonable and realistic reflection of voter turn - out, which are credible, dignified figures, we can say hopefully today that the era of invidious moon - slide and landslide bogus election results are fast becoming a thing of the past in this country.

And in the future too, we should expect to see ever more intense efforts to reach more and more potentially persuadable or potentially «mobilizable» voters in high - stakes, well - resourced, competitive elections, even as the majority of Americans who live in states and districts that are not competitive will hear less and less from campaigns as they, quite reasonably, use all available information to concentrate their resources where they think they matter.

The 2016 elections in Ghana, where 15.7 million were registered, cost $ 12 per voter, while Tanzania, a country with a bigger population and more voters than Kenya, spent $ 300 million less on its 2015 elections.

A secondary, and perhaps more soluble challenge is the myopic structure of political systems, particularly in democracies where only the current set of voters has a real say.

While there is likely a lot of truth to that, there is also a local backstory than enabled a serious Democratic candidate to emerge in a district where Republicans outnumber registered Democrats by more than 10,000 voters.

More telling could be results coming in from Stockport and Salford, where Leave are expected to do well among traditional Labour voters.

Now there could potentially arise a problem where voters who are contributing nothing at all to running the government are such a big voting bloc they can end up voting themselves more and more money to be spend on themselves (or whatever pet projects it is that they support).

Or would the reaction among northern, working class voters being fucked over more closely mirror The Sun's defamatory coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, where the boycott in Merseyside is still going strong after 25 years, and looks good for another 25?

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...

In The Lost Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain why the thumping victory the Tories expected never happened: what real voters made of the campaign, why Britain refused Theresa May's appeal for a clear mandate to negotiate Brexit, where the party stands after more than a decade of «modernisation» — and the Tories» mammoth task of building a winning coalition when 13 million votes is not enough for victory.

Research from the good - government group Citizens Union confirms that the New York City elections, where public funding is already in place, allow for greater voter choice and more electoral competition, when compared with New York State races.

According to Professor Sir John Curtice Labour's vote was up on average by as much as 11 points in wards where more than 35 per cent of voters are aged between 18 and 34, and up by just 4 per cent where the proportion of younger voters is less than 20 per cent.

«At a time in New York where our citizens experience too many barriers to participation, I am gratified that this opinion invites a new era of truly online voter registration, an incredibly exciting step that will help make the state election process more accessible and simpler for all,» Schneiderman said in a statement announcing the opinion.

Not only doesn't Miss Manners not approve, but neither do the voters that want to have an opportunity to match up candidates face to face while being confronted [bad word] by questions that are well informed - and where the moderator could ask a more difficult follow up than the opposing candidates.

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

Nowhere has this been more evident than in his Europe policy, where he essentially caved in to the more rabid Eurosceptic elements in his own party, in the hope of stemming the flow of voters and defecting MPs to UKIP.

Traditionally strong tactical voters because of the sheer number of seats where their candidate couldn't win, the «yellow surge» means more Lib Dems may now believe their candidate has a chance after all.

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BME voters are more likely to live in safe Labour seats where there may not be an active Conservative Party and statistically they are over-represented in lower socio - economic groups, so you would expect them to be more likely to vote Labour.

Local success boosted the party's chances in Westminster elections as voters were more likely to support the Liberal Democrats where it had a chance of winning, thereby diluting concerns that voting for the party would be a wasted effort.

The ratio is more lopsided in North Carolina, where Democrats have added 208,000 voters this year.

Turnout is always a key, especially in special elections, where no more than 15 percent of voters typically cast ballots.

Instead of a victory lap he's gone to off to Worcester, where Labour didn't win, to talk about how to convince more voters to come to him.

There have been localized issues with voter rolls in New York, including in Brooklyn, where more than 100,000 names were wrongly purged before a primary.

The amendment's passage was a more definitive story in the Catskills and the Southern Tier, where voters county - by - county mostly backed the measure.

Of the 100 seats for which final voter registration numbers have been collated, 82 have seen a rise in registered voters since the 2015 election - but more than half the increase is in just 20 seats where numbers have risen by at least three per cent.

Maffei's strongest base of support came from voters in the city of Syracuse, where minorities account for more than 40 percent of the population.

Rob is more interested in getting some media coverage than he is in debating issues and letting voters know where the candidates stand,» said Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor.

However, here we have a rather unusual situation where a minor party are obviously at least in the running to win the seat given the last general election and their strength on the local council, what's more local voters are reasonably likely to be aware of it.

In practice of course we can't actually be that confident that voters in a tight LD - Lab marginal will behave the same way as in a seat where the Lib Dems have a 20 % majority, so it's a bit of a shame Ashcroft didn't include some more challenging LD - Lab fights like Cambridge, Hornsey & Wood Green or Bermondsey.

More complicatedly cooperating parties will need to be clear where their differences lie and to agree with each other what these are so that voters have a good handle on why to vote Labour rather than Green or Plaid or vice versa.

Among the top reasons for this split included the more conservative upstate region holding more clout in the State Senate, as well as Long Island, where voters were increasingly trending towards the Democrats on the state and local levels (Long Island was once overwhelmingly Republican) but continued to re-elect their incumbent Republican state senators (some of whom served for many years, such as 30 + year veteran Caesar Trunzo, and most of whom raised considerable amounts of money to deter challengers).

The more the voters hear about where the Green Party stands, the better I continue to do,» said Hawkins.

Mechanicville is just one of the more than half - dozen local districts where voters will decide Tuesday whether to spend the money on hiring a full - time school resource officer.

She will chat with voters this week via Facebook Live — a much more controlled environment, where angry mass shouting isn't an option.

The governor's allies questioned her residency after combing through her voter history, suggesting she might not be eligible to be a candidate for governor, and darkly hinting there was more dirt where that came from.

When considering unprecedented political phenomena, Ed Miliband, and indeed Ed Balls, might want think more carefully about where the party stands with voters on economic competence.

But in more liberal Nassau County, in the Third District, where Democrats outnumber Republicans among registered voters, the story is different in the race for the seat that will be left vacant by the retiring incumbent Democrat, Representative Steve Israel.

Where the Conservatives have more grounds for optimism are some of the other questions asked in the recent polls about David Cameron — a recent ICM poll that found that David Cameron was seen as a potential PM, a person who could change the way people thought about the Conservatives and a person who over a third of Labour voters and almost half Lib Dem voters said they could vote for; another ICM poll that found that 40 % of people thought that Cameron was the natural heir of Tony Blair — these sort of findings were definitely not seen after Michael Howard became leader.

Overall, the mayor's ratings are highest in Manhattan, where more than half of voters — 56 percent — approve of the way he's handling his job.

Maffei said the ads were less effective in Onondaga County, where he and Buerkle live, because voters were more familiar with both candidates and their positions on the issues.