Sentences with phrase «wooing voters»

Every campaign season millions of dollars are spent on TV ads in hopes of wooing voters to support one candidate over another.

As a result, candidates are actually wooing voters ahead of the April 19 contest rather than simply asking them for campaign cash.

The latter won't start wooing voters until people forget 2000 - 2008 and the $ 5 trillion they spent on nothing.

Wooing voters and potential candidates alike, both New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau travelled through Alberta this week.

In the lead up to the provincial election next May, the Liberal government has begun laying the groundwork for an election platform, announcing new policies in the hopes of wooing voters.

Politiicians will use this to defend their belief they need to have in order to woo voters.

Unfortunately, the red - blazered funny man experienced a less jovial welcome the next time he went to woo voters in the seaside town.

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino was on Staten Island today (one of two NYC boroughs he actually likes) hoping to woo voters by coming down on the right side of a long - standing local issue: The Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

Nigel Farage has managed to woo voters away from both parties.

That doesn't bode well for the crowded field of candidates who have been attempting to woo voters in the country's two earliest voting states for months now.

The two leading political parties made promises in the electioneering period in a bid to woo voters of the Zongo communities.

His comments on BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show came after the Sunday Times revealed details of the»em ergency brake» Cameron is preparing to unveil in order to woo voters in the upcoming Rochester and Strood by - election.

Members of the Shadow Cabinet told the Mail that his top team is split over whether to «go big or go small» to woo voters over the next year.

«With millions being spent by the campaigns and the parties to woo voters and nearly six weeks left, this race is far from over but Brooks will not have an easy job in trying to unseat a popular incumbent,» said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

And a court - ordered redistricting plan has forced many incumbents in New York to woo voters they have not previously represented.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, stumping for Rivera before heading off to help the campaign of District 4 candidate Keith Powers, remarked that he had been retail campaigning so long he could still remember when the Sony Walkman disrupted efforts to woo voters near subway stops.

As David Cameron desperately tries to woo voters in the north, Mrs Gove helpfully declared of Labour:

The debate comes amid a slew of primary votes, as the two remaining candidates look to woo voters and differentiate themselves ahead of more first - round voting events.

With two months left to make their best sales pitch, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are each beefing up their efforts to woo voters in early voting states, and prepare for a campaign - defining first debate at Hofstra University on Sept. 26.

It is only the second day of the new year but already the starting gun has already been fired in the campaign to woo voters ahead of the general election.

Addressing a mini political rally at Nsawam as part of his five - day tour of the Eastern Region to woo voters ahead of this year's election, Nana Akufo - Addo said the same level of assistance would be given to both cocoa and other crop growers.

David Cameron has admitted the General Election is on a «knife - edge» as he tried to woo voters with the promise of a «truly seven - day» NHS.

And how great for publicists and studios to be able to take critics out of the mix because then they can bring out their big stars and woo the voters without the critics coming along and spoiling all the fun.

Oscar season is, of course, about high - minded ideals and the finest in world cinema... but if you can woo voters with a cute kid or dog, it sure doesn't hurt.

Referring to a series of unsavoury claims made by Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix to an undercover reporter for Channel 4 News, Prasad said, «Would the Congress now depend on data manipulation and theft to woo the voters?

«Would the Congress now depend on data manipulation and theft to woo the voters?

Not exact matches

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.

Uber had been pulling out all the stops in Austin in an effort to woo local voters.

She is working to woo young voters attracted to primary rival Bernie Sanders.

The leaders of the three main London - based parties — all of them unpopular in Scotland — wooed skeptical Scottish voters with the fervour of a rejected lover.

With the government's strategy over the past few months apparently focused on undermining the Wildrose Alliance by stealing from its agenda, many had expected the Tories would further woo disaffected right - wing voters with deep spending cuts in this year's budget, which was unveiled on Feb. 9.

Here's how to spend a last minute budget online to woo likely voters to vote for your candidate, or remind your supporters to get out and vote.

The new leader will now make a concerted effort to woo disillusioned northern Labour voters by painting Jeremy Corbyn and his London - based allies as out of touch with ordinary working people.

Republicans, particularly Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, have worked hard to woo Latino voters in recent years, and some worry that a single negative ad run against Long featuring comments like these would tank her — and fellow GOP candidates — in the general election.

As the general election loomed, he resolved that we should woo the modest number of Chinese voters in our highly marginal constituency.

As Cuomo huddled with a group of advisors that included former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (the man he challenged in the 2002 Democratic gubernatorial primary, hurting his relationship with the black community), Manhattan Democratic Chairman / Assemblyman Keith Wright and former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paladino's campaign manager talked to Gerson Borrero about the GOP / Conservative nominee's efforts to woo Latino voters.

Former Labour leader has used a speech to attack claims made by the «Leave» campaign which he thinks are aimed at «wooing» Labour voters.

The Buffalo businessman was roundly condemned for his comments, sopme of which were written for him by Rabbi Yehuda Levin, who endorsed Paladino's run for governor and advised him in his effort to woo conservative Jewish voters.

These seek to attract floating voters, shore up core votes and woo potential coalition partners, all at the same time.

Privately, a number of women in political circles have looked askance at Cuomo's Women's Equality Party effort, suggesting the single - issue approach to woo women voters is dated and even demeaning.

The Conservatives are set to woo countryside voters by pledging to introduce «shire deals» for local authorities in their general election manifesto.

He is annoying, patronizing and seems to think with a bit of the Tom Jones he can woo labour voters.

The firm had secured a $ 15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed his political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

«Cheadle, currently held by Liberal Democrats with a majority of just under 4,000, is among seats no longer regarded as likely to fall despite a well - funded, two - year campaign to woo key groups of voters.

Clinton is using a technology agenda to woo millennial voters who overwhelming backed her vanquished rival Bernie Sanders and have been slow to join the fold of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee

He urged his party faithful to constructively criticise the incompetence of the President Mahama administration with facts in order to «woo undecided voters into our fold».

They surveyed 3,000 young people and found that the election is set to be won or lost on social media; with young voters calling upon parties to adopt new techniques to woo them to the ballot box.

Accordingly, the two leading contenders, since the resheduling have been making subtle overtures to woo eligible voters.

Now that the party has come down on the side of the extreme Brexiters, they risk not only destroying the livelihoods of the northern voters they want to woo, but also any remaining reputation they have for economic competence.

Clinton is in New York City, where she will deliver a speech on how the country can break down the barriers that hold back African American families as she tries to woo black voters ahead of the South Carolina primary.