Sentences with phrase «woman voters»

Some corporations clearly felt threatened by the prospect of women voters, and worked to influence public opinion and legislative action.

Officials revealed they were targeting «undecided» women voters in the party's vital marginal seats.

With women voters showing their support for the party, it can't afford to make the same mistake again.

Why do women voters not vote for women candidates?

So I think perhaps we had the advantage that these were issues that were very, very well known to African - American voters, especially women voters.

Bring a young woman voter (or soon to be one) to celebrate a woman's right to vote!

Do you think women voters have improved our political system?

They have members that were really impacted no matter what the spin was about polls showing how strong these issues were with women voters.

Barbara Bartoletti of the League of Women Voters says New York also needs strict campaign finance enforcement and has no investigators at the state Board of Elections.

The survey indicates that Goddard leads among women voters in Arizona 43 to 31 percent while male voters break for Brewer 44 to 28 percent.

Though exit polls found the economy and jobs were the top issues for women voters in 2012, extreme remarks about abortion and women's rights made by Republican candidates and highlighted by Democrats did help drive this demographic away from Mitt Romney and into Obama's camp.

Dougherty said at a town board work session last week that the joke he made before delivering his April 23 address — which was hosted by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters at the Ram's Head Inn — was seen as «disparaging to women.»

Other upcoming debates include one sponsored by the Hampton Bays Civic Association at the Hampton Bays Senior Center on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. and a League of Women Voters debate on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton.

Donald Trump's plan calling for six weeks of mandatory paid leave for new moms is a step toward wooing women voters and a step up from current federal law — which doesn't require companies to provide any paid leave — but it's still behind the times for the business world.

Obama's edge is thanks to big support from women voters.

Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple Limited Liability Companies.

She later moved to the Cuomo administration, working first on his campaign's effort to draw in more women voters through the Women's Equality Party and later as a special advisor on issues such as combating campus rape and sexual assault.

The two will meet at a League of Women Voters candidate night on Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. at the senior citizen center at Cantine Field.

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The proposal is supported by good - government groups such as the League of Women Voters who say corrupt public officials should not be entitled to collect state pensions for life.

The League of Women Voters also backs the proposal.

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«I think because it is in New York City and because we are in the process of the budget hearings, the budget negotiations are overshadowing this trial by a longshot,» said League of Women Voters Legislative Director Jennifer Wilson.

Laura Ladd Bierman, executive director of the state's League of Women Voters chapter, said her organization opposed the convention 20 years ago due to unhappiness with the delegate selection process.

A spokesperson for NBC said the debate would be «about the fight over women voters and how the so - called gender gap will be a factor in the 2012 election.»

In April 2014, 58 percent of women voters held a positive view of Cuomo.

The governor has made the most of that by attacking Astorino's position while creating a new Women's Equality Party to attract women voters in November.

According to a Reuters / Ipsos poll in March, 66 % of all likely women voters said they had an «unfavorable» view of Trump.

League of Women Voters Wisconsin Finalist for National Award for Election Observation Program

Get a few chuckles as well as insights about current challenges like how to reach women voters from this collection of reports.

Black women voters voted in large numbers for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, for former President Barack Obama in 2012 and for now - Alabama Sen. Doug Jones last year.

He not only had Hillary, but also Bill Clinton appear at get out the vote rallies, he met with Orthodox Jewish leaders, and sent emails to women voters touting his support for the Women's Equality Act, an issue he has campaigned for in bus tours across the state.

This year, he's ahead with women voters by 17 percentage points after trailing in the last Siena poll by 7 points.

For nearly two hours Democrat Mark Helms, Republican Herb Barnhart, and Conservative Rich Berry took questions at the League of Women Voters forum.

The New York League of Women Voters called it «distressing» that the elections board would agree to comply with the Freedom of Information Law request by the federal panel.

Astorino says he believes women voters care more about jobs and taxes, and he says Cuomo has misrepresented what the Women's Equality Act would actually do.

Ferreras said she hoped the multitude of endorsements by women politicians would encourage women voters to vote for Weprin.

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This week, Republicans face a delicate balancing act in trying to assuage the concerns of moderate women voters while also satisfying its religiously conservative base.

Survation found exactly half of women voters plan to vote no, with 16 % uncertain and 34 % intending to vote «yes».

Despite her sterling liberal credentials, Quinn — the only female candidate in the entire race — has struggled to move large numbers of women voters into her camp in recent polls.

I can say for certain that the mailer is being sent to independent women voters because I am one, and I received it at my Rensselaer home within the last five days.

A press release from Cambridge celebrating its Ogilvy Award win featured a statement from then - senior vice president Emily Cornell: «Our team was able to identify a key group of undecided women voters in the final months leading up to the Election Day,» she said, «which ultimately led to «Can't Run Her House» — one of the most successful ads of the cycle.»

Heck, I already had one person hang up on me (the husband — I presume — of an undeclared woman voter).

At 6:15, Hochul Headlines Discussion on Women in Politics at the League of Women Voters Speaker Series, New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York

After Akin made his comments about «legitimate rape» this summer, Gillibrand's McCaskill emails sought to recast that Senate race as an issue for women voters outside Missouri.

But I'm pro-choice and I hate to see Conservatives pushing this religious agenda since it only alienates women voters and independents.