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But we decided I shouldn't talk. It was Hillary's day, and the voters wanted to hear from her.

Arguably, voters have yet to wake up to just how much money.

There's been a setback for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in regional elections a month before voters choose a new federal parliament.

Voters in Zurich have overwhelmingly rejected proposals to ban assisted suicide or to limit the practice to residents of the Swiss city.

Mr Thaksin took office vowing to run his country like a company, leading voters to hope he would enrich them as well.

Some of the newer houses were built just as the credit crunch began to bite, and voters are anxious.

But it was a sign that Brazilian politicians are waking up to voters' concerns over poor public services.

How much bad news will pampered European and American voters take?

Are voters ready to embrace such a radical rejection of the kind of America we've all grown up in? I guess we'll find out next year.

Young voters are not expected to turn out in great enough numbers to make much of a difference to the results.

The second failure is one of honesty. Too many rich-world politicians have failed to tell voters the scale of the problem.

The paper argued that politicians felt it was no longer sufficient to present their case to voters every four or five years.

The Theory of Inevitable Compromise was that each party would have to give a bit because voters will punish whichever proves too stubborn.

A measure referred to voters by a state legislature proposing that specific legislation be approved or rejected is a referendum.

Ideally, politicians who want to save the planet would be honest with voters about how much this will cost.

Voters will have to choose between them: defenders of the rich in the Republican corner, reckless spendthrifts in the Democratic one.

Young voters have no memory of a serious recession, since the last one was in the early 1990s.

Both the Czech Republic and Poland are ready to ratify the treaty, leaving Ireland, whose voters rejected it in June, as the only holdout.

The lesson for American voters is that their president, for all his flaws, has no desire to own the commanding heights of industry.

All this means Mr Gingrich is not only known to Republican primary voters, but is something of a hero to many of them.

The Republicans and Democrats have been trying to ensure the other will be blamed by voters if it all goes wrong.

While logistics for the staggered, three-month process are daunting, so far, voters seemed pleased to be able to make their voices heard.

Its biggest challenge over the next year is likely to be convincing disillusioned Socialist voters to turn out at election time.

As he entered the race, he said he wanted to greet the voters, saying, "Hi, I'm Absolutely Nobody. Vote for me. "

It may gain Labour a few votes from Moslem voters of Pakistani origin, but it was not in the best interests of the UK.

think voters didn't know what to make of woman candidate, you know, they were sort of stymied, they had no reference points.

Otherwise, he would not be responsible to the voters, will lose as a representative of the qualifications.

Mr Blair had also taken charge of a demoralised party, much of it determined not to compromise with the voters.

Voters in a democracy may not know all or even any of the technicalities of running a government, but they surely can judge the results.

But many of the Dutch voters seem to have kept their political preferences quiet until the last moment.

Often he makes false charges against the other side simply to hide the fact that he has such a weak record of his own to sell the voters.

But if he were to do so, he would be the overwhelming first choice of voters, followed at a long distance by Hillary Clinton.

The debate included a lot of jawboning as each candidate tried to persuade voters to see the issues his way.

But at least from now on voters are a bit more likely to feel that they had a genuine choice, and that they deserve what they chose.

Without such a crisis, however, the stranglehold of manipulative media on the minds of the voters is too strong to be broken.

Local NCP-run authorities, known as "popular committees" , had the power to approve voters at the stations, many of whom had no form of ID.

That's not to say they don't have specific information about voters, he said. And the campaign isn't above using food to gain an edge.

The former governor of Massachusetts said he would "restore the promise of America" if voters choose him over President Obama.

The opposition are trying to stir up feelings of dissatisfaction among the voters.

"As long as you see the Americans are providing you with a credible umbrella, why spend more? There's no pressure from voters to do so. "

The Dutch researchers say the discovery does not just help voters tell if their politicians are trying to disguise their meaning.

There were not enough such voters to save Mr Hopper, who was turfed out of office in the middle of his term in a recall election this week.

Many former ISCI voters seem to have stayed at home, especially in the south, where the group used to prevail.

Yet the ordinary voters may not be so sure: according to a survey by BVA, a polling group, 53% did not find her speech convincing.

But voters have had a chance to see PP politicians in action since the party's victory in local and regional elections in May.

Mr Rove failed to appreciate the degree to which the "politics of division" can lead to a backlash from middle-of-the-road voters.

Another worry is that voters are not sure how much the Tories have really changed under Mr Cameron.

And British voters will punish him, severely, if it turns out that he's gambled away the prospects for a strong economic recovery.

None of this changes the fact that democracy is useless without a decent number of voters.

The country is in the sort of unhappy and scratchy mood that voters in mid-terms habitually take out on the president's party.

But a recent YouGov poll showed strong support for the rate, with even a narrow majority of Conservative voters opposed to its scrapping.

The debate about crime is often emotional. Voters want vengeance.

The president, in his selective amnesia, would have voters believe that everything good about Brazil dates from his election in 2002.

In looking at candidate appearances, researchers have found a variety of nuances in voters' stated preferences and Election Day actions.

So it is no surprise that opinion polls show voters ready to punish the Republican party.

The referendum will allow voters to punish him for his perceived betrayals by voting against the change.

The danger to Mr Rajapaksa does not stem from Sinhalese voters' sympathy for foreign criticism of him.

That the PP now runs many regions may not help, as some voters may start to see it as an incumbent rather than an opposition.

So that's a way of not entirely alienating the gay voters while is also trying to hold on to the religious one.

Even Republican voters are tiring of the war, as the general population did some time ago.

They're trying to move voters off the fence, one neighbor at a time.

A strong majority said the economy was the most important issue facing the U. S. -- and, by far, most of those voters backed the GOP.

Voters will fill out questionnaires and will be able to see a list of candidates who share their policy positions.

But since Mr Obama has such a short record in public life, voters have little to go on but their perception of his personality.

Japan's voters, who are guilty of having put up with this for far too long, at last seem to have had enough.

Voters do not want to bear the cost of their elected leaders' aspirations, and those leaders have not been brave enough to push them.

Senator Clay did not think Taylor had the ability to be president. But Clay knew well how the voters loved a military hero.

In certain, rare circumstances voters do not tell pollsters the truth, more out of embarrassment than mendacity.

Many political studies have been conducted in an attempt to ascertain who are likely to be non voters.

Due to this they had an opportunity to put into effect some decisions without a majority of voters "for" it.

For a long time, United States voters did not know which candidate gained the presidency.

To his left, the New Democrats are trying to woo voters with activist economic policies.

It is not difficult to see that the majority of voters hold a negative attitude toward the practice.

Yet, although Western leaders have done a poor job at explaining the war in Afghanistan to their voters, a defeat there would be a disaster.

Barack Obama's policy shift fulfilled a promise he made to Cuban-American voters in May 2008 at a campaign stop in Miami.

The turnout tends to be low in special elections, as elsewhere; but politicians can usually depend on older voters to make the effort.

Voters in countries currently implementing very tough austerity programmes have to see some light at the end of the tunnel.

If she votes in favor of the bill, she will look more like a centrist and be in good standing with the voters during the next election year.

The president has just a month and a half to make the case for keeping Democrats in charge in Washington to voters itching for change.

The problem the world leaders faced was that they were grappling with subjects that had little resonance with most recession-struck voters.

Egyptian voters came out in force Saturday for the first ballot since popular protests swept away the previous government.

Voters who meet him in person are beguiled by his big smile and southern twinkle.

As the crisis has unfolded over the past year, most regulators, politicians, investors and voters have been left in a state of utter shock.

Yesterday, however, the White House was more funereal than celebratory in keeping with the opinion of most voters.

You know, that's going to be left up to the voters tomorrow.

It would be over-cynical to see this as a Democratic ploy to lure the Republicans into alienating a vital group of voters all over again.

With an election approaching, Mr Erdogan may merely be trying to keep the nationalist opposition out of parliament by wooing its voters.

Many white voters told pollsters that they would vote for the black candidate but, in the anonymity of the voting booth, they did not.

Even the most doctrinaire primary voters ought to be able to see the sense in that argument.

The Democratic Party has never produced a candidate who excites such adulation from his sort of voters.

Even the most doctrinaire primary voters ought to be able to see the sense in that argument.

The Democratic Party has never produced a candidate who excites such adulation from his sort of voters.

Taxation would no longer be able to reflect the preferences of the voters. The new member states did not shrug off the Soviet yoke for that.

Democrats appeared to have benefited most, with a surge of enthusiasm by young and black voters.

German voters were told repeatedly that the euro would be a stable currency and that they would not have to bail out southern Europe.

Voters are likely to turn out in large numbers for a general election scheduled for January 16th.

It thought Mr Prokhorov could be useful in neutralising the vocal liberal voters that constitute up to 15% of the total electorate.

The opposition candidates face a challenge trying to persuade voters to choose their promises over the president's record.

No other state is quite like this: in the electorate as a whole, the white working class adds up to perhaps 40% of the voters.

Might the experience of Japan suggest that this is an overreaction, at least in the eyes of voters?

Might the experience of Japan suggest that this is an overreaction, at least in the eyes of voters?

Even if the alternative vote is not the official system, voters will tend to behave as if it were.

Many observers have noted that Taiwanese voters also seem to be growing increasingly apathetic.

Voters must be able to understand how to make their selections , and votes must be easy to count in mass quantities.

One theme that Bush found resonated with voters in his 2004 re-election campaign was that of the "ownership society. "

Such voters no longer see Labour as "fair" to working families, calling it a party for benefit claimants, unions and immigrants.

In return, such a leader tends to enjoy a large measure of support even from voters who disagree with many of his decisions.

It is not clear that voters will thank him for his trouble, though they may appreciate his energetic efforts to solve the euro-zone crisis.

Perry came into the race as a favorite among Christian conservative voters who also boasts a strong record of job-creation in Texas.

To shake up the race he had to go on the attack, but the tactic was a doubled-edged sword, because attacking can turn off some voters.

To shake up the race he had to go on the attack, but the tactic was a doubled-edged sword, because attacking can turn off some voters.

But the rural voters seem to like the fact that he is at least paying attention to their concerns.

Politicians will then no longer be able to choose their voters, but will have to appeal to a broad cross-section of them.

Apparently Mr. Hoyer did not trust voters to understand what a dangerous and dishonest game the Republicans are playing.

It was approved by voters in 1987, but the timetable turned out to be over-optimistic for such a huge undertaking.

Voters seem to like this consistency, though they have shown little of it themselves.

When your correspondent stumbled across him on the campaign trail, voters behaved as if they were in the presence of a pop star.

Even though voters want tax reductions, they were skeptical of a scheme that sounded so much like a free lunch.

Cutting the deficit would force her to scrap some of the social promises she had made to voters.

Though only 50% of the city's eligible voters bothered to turn out, it was refreshing to see even a glimpse of democracy in action.

Mr. Gergen said the question distilled "a sentiment that was there among voters but had not come together in a coherent way. "

It is unclear how much impact such videos will have on voters, but YouTube and the like are changing campaigns in significant ways.

Todd: Political science, Doc. What's scientific outside of the psychology behind how much shit voters will swallow before they notice?

At best, EU bureaucrats can be naive about how much integration ordinary voters will bear.

The silly thing was that voters could see me running around the constituency, full of energy.

So much of a national issue that Obama's popularity took a hit, especially among white voters, according to a poll released Thursday.

An election would not solve these problems, but it might at least encourage parties to tell voters what they stand for.

Most voters could not conceive of him as a plausible prime minister.

Mr Yeo and his slate aside, both opposition and government can claim some sort of satisfaction from the election result, as can voters.

If not, the last-place finisher is dropped and its voters' second choices are distributed among the movies still in the running.

Voters do not like to hear the word "tax" unless it is followed by the word "cut" .

If boards don't know how much state funds will be cut, they won't know how much more to ask voters for.

This might be the announcement of a new plan on an issue of interest to voters or an appearance at a symbolic location.

Mrs Merkel's personal ratings have held up better; voters prefer her to any likely rival as chancellor.

"We're just going to keep moving and reaching out and trying to attract as many voters of all ages as we possibly can, " she said.

By turns funny and caustic, with a fine sense of oratory, Ms Le Pen's skill is to defend her ideas with principles that all voters share.

The ad generated a lot of conversation and seemed at least to have opened the minds of enough voters to give me a chance.

By comparison, 71% of Obama voters said they would vote for her if their candidate did not win the nomination.

Voters have been casting ballots all day at polling places across the nation.

Third, by overthrowing the LDP, Japan's voters have turfed out not just a party, but a whole system.

Nor did the men of principle think it safe to leave the choice of his successor to Iran's voters.

It sounds suspiciously like "What if? " politics, but a kind that voters, not to mention the financial markets, may be happy to hear.

Supporters of the plan thought the new leader might at least get a hearing from voters, and could reduce the scale of Labour's defeat.

Voters were asked to decide whether to provide free school lunches to all students or to just those from lower income families.

He served for eight years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in two thousand four.

But Republicans, now holding their convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, are also trying to attract young voters.

The next best thing might be binding rules that force southern governments to take seriously those things dear to German voters.

Moderate middle-class swing voters, and wealthy Wall Street Democrats may not like the edges of these demonstrators.

Unedifying was his claim that, since voters re-elected Congress in 2009, it was somehow irrelevant to ask whether MPs were bribed earlier.

WHEN a great democracy such as the United States holds elections at a time of war, voters are torn between two instincts.

But lawmakers and the administration have spent more than a week wrangling over the proposal amid a backlash from voters.

Alas, the voters did not append any fine print, and Mr McConnell and his colleagues are already arguing over how, exactly, to proceed.

Voters may have been responding to his tenacity, in grappling with the crisis and his own illness.

All this formed a big part of Mr Obama's appeal to voters, who were sick of the conflict and dismayed by George Bush's handling of it.

Yet Mr Sarkozy faces an imminent political humiliation, as disillusioned voters snub him in regional elections.

The coalition has inherited voters willing (at least in England) to tolerate blurred lines between the private and public sectors.

The voters' consensus was that the capital penalty should not be abolished.

Or he can try to weave his way toward legislation that both pleases his troops and voters, and has a chance of surviving.

Their headache comes from trying to save the euro without enraging their voters.

Undecided voters looking for a winner to back will have noticed that he keeps popping up to make victory speeches.

But among many dalit voters, unapologetic ostentation is part of her appeal, and the statue scandal may actually play to her advantage.

In a few cantons , voters still vote on every new law or amendment passed by the cantonal government, whether or not it is controversial .

But for many voters, one reason was his hiring of Michelle Rhee and his support for her aggressive reforms.

The turnout in primaries is tiny, typically only between 10% and 20% of voters, and tends to be disproportionately composed of activists.

Voters' support for ongoing austerity depends on a disproportionate share of any new revenue coming from the wealthy.

He never makes up his mind how to vote on an issue until he's sure whether most voters are for or against it.

This trend may be inexorable with the rise of new powers in Asia, but that will not stop voters from blaming the fellow in the White House.

Even in safer times, most do not bother with it: 41% of voters turned out in the country's previous election in 2002.

Despite short-sighted industry lobbying and occasional squeals of pain from voters, governments are beginning to favour cleaner cars.

At this point, Mr Obama grew exasperated, noting that the questions had little to do with issues facing voters today.

That may be true, but all too many daft policies rely on the collective reluctance of the voters to leave marshmallows uneaten on the table.

Any amendment requires both a national majority of voters and a majority of voters in a majority of states (ie, four out of six).

Voters' immediate reactions to him in focus groups conducted by the Labour Party are said to border on the cruel.

The voters do not blame this entirely on Mr Sarkozy, but it does not help to inspire confidence in him.

In the days leading up to Election Day, large numbers of voters also turned out to cast their ballots in early voting.

Some voters worry that even though Mr Obama might be good for US soft power, he might not understand hard power.

The president is trying to convince voters that better days are ahead.

And yet his mild public manner makes his policies seem less threatening than those of other conservatives to voters in the middle.

It was assumed that voters would learn to love their new currency, when they saw that it led to a more prosperous and powerful Europe.

Mr Gandhi's efforts to get young, rural voters to turn out for Congress have been disappointing.

But Republican voters are fired up in a way that Democratic ones are not, in marked contrast to their gloomy mood in 2008.

Speaking at the Associated Press annual meeting, Senator Barack Obama said he regrets his comments about small-town voters.

If such a party attracted substantial voters on such a platform, it would shape the agendas of the Republicans and Democrats.

That did not happen, but it increased the control of party managers and broke the direct link between voters and constituents.

Women voters, people from minority communities and that sort of thing.

Ken Mehlman, the recently retired Republican Party chairman, put courting black voters near the top of his list of priorities.

In effect, McCain is trying to define Obama for voters, and not in a positive way.

He has called it a war of necessity, but voters are turning against the campaign.

Mr Thaksin has called her his "clone" , and everyone knew it, though she insists that voters plumped for her policies and management style.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich launched a Web site last week inviting voters to help him explore a possible White House bid next year.

The League of Women Voters is one of the best known groups, although there are quite a few.

"Values voters" can never produce a viable governing coalition without the help of the business elite.

In the course of her campaign, most voters got at least five pieces of mail from Levi.

This was the one I wanted, a town hall meeting where we would be questioned by a representative group of local undecided voters.

But none of these fixes will help much because they do not deal with the underlying anxieties now gripping American voters.

As government spokesmen have pointed out, however, Sri Lanka's voters will at least have the chance to turf him out in six years' time.

Student: I think if I follow voters logical it would be a bad thing. It shows they have a double standard on some that will affect them.

Yet the vitality of the US system resurfaced, and American voters have chosen in Barack Obama a man of vision and statesmanship.

Bush tried to stir images of his strong leadership of the war, but voters remained concerned about the economy.

His wife, Joan, carried on his campaign, mainly by advising voters that he was steadily recovering.

Labour accuse him of using the euro crisis as an excuse for poor growth but many voters seem to think it is a good one.

Many voters think that the system has been used for private gain, not public good.

He wants to tackle climate change, but has not yet begun to explain to voters that this will raise their energy bills.

The voters were all agog to see their new president.

Hispanic voters also make up an important bloc and an interesting "realignment" of their vote might be in the offing, Zogby said.

One ominous sign is the withdrawal of independent monitors who would be able to observe and protect voters at the polls.

He accepted that the ultimate responsibility for the disappointment of voters rested with him.

Most voters will have made up their minds by now, so both parties' priority is to enthuse their supporters to get out and vote.

The controversy became so intense that Mr. Kennedy went on television to ask Massachusetts voters whether he should resign from office.

only a few of the voters; a bit more rest; a little excited.

It was something most of the voters said they'd never seen before, people queuing in lines that ran around the block to cast their ballots.

Also, the populist edge sounded to some swing voters as if Al, too, might change the economic direction of the country.

Our base voters had been activated and would turn out as eagerly as the Republicans who wanted the White House back.

And for those of you who may not be with us yet. . . -The thinking is a backyard barbecue may win more voters than a television ad.

Despite the problems Mr. Obama remains personally popular, even if voters do not approve of his policies.

The Social Democrats, who lost the previous one, have said they do not want the issue put to voters during the next parliament.

FLAUNTING an old tooth and a few bones is an unusual way to attract tourists and distract voters.

The war is again becoming a potential deal-breaker for erstwhile Labour voters, as it was at the election of 2005.

His words are directed as much to the Treasury bond markets, of which China owns such a large share, as to American voters.

At that point voters would be desperate and disillusioned enough to turn to the extremist parties in much larger numbers.

but some voters sensed it had rendered social democracy unaffordable for the foreseeable future.

Even if a nation found a way around such obstacles, officials could face a backlash from voters who believe gold prices will keep rising.

To pry elderly voters away from the Democrats, he promised to add a prescription-drug benefit as part of any Medicare reform.

In the general election, voters make the final determination from among the party candidates listed on the ballot.

In a clear appeal to young voters, a YouTube video asks viewers to vote for Clinton's presidential campaign theme song on her Web site.

With luck, Mrs Merkel will have two years to persuade voters, also, to see the brighter side of things.

Furthermore, he had a heroic biography and had already run for President once before and bonded with many voters in the early states.

The elder Mr Lee, now 87, warned voters in Mr Low's target GRC, Aljunied, that they would have five years to "repent" if they voted him in.

Outside the Westminster village, few voters would have chosen arcane electoral reform as the subject for such a poll.

And voters and Congress might be less likely to support future trade agreements if the safeguards in existing agreements are never used.

But they will struggle just as hard to persuade their voters to cut back, to accommodate the rise of a richer Asia.

The Radicals, their traditional rivals, had the misfortune to be in office during the crash, and voters have never forgiven them.

So will the DPJ be able to excite voters enough to convince them of the need for change?

Abuse of office is far more likely to be seen by voters as a mortal failure than is abuse of a marriage.

The Republicans do appear to understand that they cannot survive as the party of white southern voters.

The one online tool that seems to have lost a lot of its appeal to voters is the candidate's Web site.

So far as public opinion goes, this was a grave tactical error, because voters distrust Congress and wanted Mr Obama to supervise.

Banking on the youngest voters is not much of a winning strategy. But ignoring them may be a losing one.

In (the southeastern state of) Florida, voters will choose a Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate in another closely watched race.

Voters will have time to see that "the sky doesn't fall and the world doesn't split open" .

and voters in debt-laden nations need to see a plausible path out of the present trap.

But after years of broken promises, voters appear to be unimpressed, according to a poll published on Monday August 3rd by Asahi Shimbun.

He was quite right to protest that the House of Commons was not doing its job, and to take the issue to the voters the best way he could.

Even the voters themselves seem to agree with that.

Fear of Irish voters is one reason why Mrs Merkel agreed to set aside the suspension of voting rights (that would hardly be a small change).

It seems there wasn't that much interaction with the voters individually. Was that your intention?

And, most of all, politicians need to keep their noses out of the trough and to leave power when their voters tell them to.

Once politicians understand that everything is public, they are much less likely to offer the unadorned truth, at least to ordinary voters.

Voters, says Mr Parris, are sufficiently grown-up to realise this would be the fault of global forces beyond the government's control.

it ' s less than two days before super tuesday , and the candidates are out in full force hoping to sway undecided voters.