Sentences with phrase «with average voters»

Perez, who lost last year's state controller race to fellow Democrat Betty Yee, doesn't have major statewide name ID with average voters.

«The best argument against democracy is a five - minute conversation with the average voter.»

Not exact matches

They're actually pretty mainstream with the average Democratic voter in Philadelphia County.

An average of four major national polls calculated by Real Clear Politics shows Trump leads the GOP pack with 34.5 percent of support among likely Republican voters, while Cruz follows in second place with 19.3 percent.

Other rural constituencies that have a notable lower than average population of voters include Peace River with 20,464, Lac La Biche - St.

By contrast, Cruz averaged 41 % of «values voters», and Rubio average 28 % of these voters with neither of the two dropping below 20 % of such voters across the entire south.

I'm not too familiar with specific MPs in other countries, but if you look at US, the only Muslim congressperson (Ellison) is far less religious and far more socially liberal than an average observant Muslim voter would be.

With optimized charts and averages, PollTracker 2012 follows important swing states, provides key voter group information (independents, gender breakdown, voter subgroups) and offers specific detailed candidate data.

With the exception of Papua New Guinea ($ 63), Kenya tops all, out spending the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and Uganda per voter average in recent elections.

Kinderhook, N.Y. November 1, 2016... With open enrollment for Obamacare beginning today, voters should know that its rates are skyrocketing for New York's struggling middle class: They'll go up another 16.6 percent on average in New York and upwards of 25 percent elsewhere, yet liberal New York City professor and NY - 19 congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout wants to expand the failing program even more, the campaign of fiscally responsible congressional candidate John Faso today noted.

The only answer is comprehensive campaign finance reform, starting with a statewide public financing system to elevate the voices of average voters, who are too often forgotten amidst the search for big money.

In France, with two round system, in 2012 each voter costed almost EUR 2 average per candidate.

With no presidential candidates on the ballot, 2010 turnout is likely to be even lower than average, meaning that many legislative races will turn on the decisions of a handful of voters.

Given that the average income of UKIP voters is lower than that of supporters of the other main parties, and that households with incomes of # 30,000 a year or more are amongst those least likely to vote UKIP, the emphasis on tax cuts for middle and higher earners seems like an odd strategy.

It originally said that Thirsk and Malton was England's biggest parliamentary seat with 16,000 more voters than the average.

While they are quite well aligned with their voters, who on ICM's poll averaged at 27, they are both a long way from the political centre, and on the «wrong side» of their voters, i.e. Conservative voters consider their party to be further to the right than themselves.

The candidate who is trying to buy the seat with his own money continues to do worse and it's no shock as he really won't be able to connect to the average voter as someone who made 20 + million at the dirtiest time on Wall Street, won't support the Wall Street reform bill and continues to call for transparency when he won't be transparent.

I mean even if it can be fixed, you think average voters can come up with some strategy.

It's sort of a sick twisted strategy but with the average «pro-abortion» voter in NY, it could work.

«My goal is to bring voters on the road with the campaign and experience a process that is stacked against average citizens running for office — we can make a difference here,» said Babinec.

My guess is that this issue gets more traction with the average ordinary NY voter than that stupid mosque thing.

Furthermore, when asked to rank 10 politicians from one (terrible) to 10 (excellent), Lib Dem voters place Mr Clegg only fourth, with an average score of 5.05.

The average tax levy increase in the 37 school budgets voted on in the two counties is 1.8 percent, and that apparently sat well with voters.

Furthermore, none of the issues they clubbed Obama with really matters to the average voter, such as me.

Legislative districts have about 4,700 registered voters, with about 35 percent enrolled Democrats on average.

However, there are still some areas and some social / demographic groups that tend to be associated with notably lower than average voter turnout levels in Ireland.

That's about average for off - year local elections, way short of predictions from advocates of single - member districts, who had argued that replacing multi-member districts with one - on - one contests voters would result in better - known candidates and greater voter participation.

County legislators were getting elected with, on average, 1,110 votes in contested districts that contained four times as many eligible voters.

Dr Heblich said: «To the extent that online consumption replaces the consumption of other media (newspapers, radio, or television) with a higher information content, there may be no information gains for the average voter and, in the worst case, even a crowding - out of information.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the makeup of eligible voters is mostly white (94 percent) men (77 percent) with an average age of 62.

At a basic level, this implies two possible conclusions: either films with outstanding female lead performances actually aren't as good (on average) as films with outstanding male lead performances, or there's an unfair perception among Academy voters that this is the case.

But with a higher - than - average unemployment rate, voters are focused on economic issues when it comes to the 2012 presidential election.

We also adjusted for potential differences in how voters from precincts with higher and lower average test scores respond to changes in test scores.

While it appears that none of the lawmakers or those who contributed to their campaigns has violated any campaign finance laws, the question remains: how does the average voter discern whether or not their elected representative is championing an issue she truly cares about, or if the money associated with that issue — and her prospects for reelection — is what is driving her agenda?

With a higher than average portion of voters saying YES, our efforts had paid off.

While today's city planners and environmentalists certainly understand the value of putting pedestrians and cyclists first, the average voter appears to still side with the «convenience» of the car.

Among Republican registered voters who agree with the Tea Party, fully 70 % do not think there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth is warming.

As a matter of political mood, I suspect the «average» voter now is not too troubled by historic problems with the administration of the death penalty, largely because some recent big capital cases involve mass murderer with no concerns about a possible wrongful conviction or terrible defense lawyering.