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Even if one considers something as ostensibly simple as the choice of prime minister, the electorate's intention is not easy to discern.

His political philosophy, known as Jacksonian democracy, helped solidify a strong executive branch and expand the electorate.

Among the general electorate, it was the incendiary issue that failed to incense.

But a brittle government under strong pressure from its electorate and military may struggle to survive if it frees Raymond Davis.

The new President said he would try to justify the trust the electorate had placed in him.

In early 1982 the economy began to recover and, with it, the prime minister's standing among the electorate.

Take a political step forward, and if the electorate does not notice then take the ground gained as the starting point for the next advance.

Once the electorate shifts in favour of a candidate, as it seems to have done over the last few weeks, it seldom moves again, they said.

Such a trend, if true, would be an encouraging sign of a maturing electorate.

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

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.

As the euro's troubles go on, however, the signs are that the German electorate is becoming steadily less eager to go along with it.

Sacking the prime minister has long been a way for French presidents to acknowledging the displeasure of the electorate.

Republican gains among the electorate appeared to be broad, diminishing Democrats' hold over large voting groups.

Political candidates' positions on the matter are of little interest to the electorate.

It has been a generation since the British electorate delivered such an inconclusive result at a general election.

The fact that Sarah Palin made robocalls for her may hurt now that she is facing the entire Californian electorate.

But the electorate mostly does not know that communitarianism is no longer in intellectual fashion.

One segment of the electorate that has not responded well to Obama's message so far is that of Latinos .

One segment of the electorate that has not responded to Obama's message so far, is that of Latinos .

But a splintered electorate may still force her into a second unsatisfactory grand coalition.

As far as the rest of the Democratic base and the broader electorate are concerned, Mr Obama is black and they love him for it.

He brings moderation and an actual record of bipartisanship to a party and a primary electorate that seems interested in neither.

By some yardsticks, Japan's electorate has delivered the biggest shock to the political system since the end of the American occupation.

And she used her popularity with the electorate as a weapon with which to conquer the party.

But Mr Reid is in a desperate fight for re-election in November in his home state of Nevada, where Latinos make up 15% of the electorate.

Sunstein's fear was that the Internet might lead to a more ghettoized, polarized and insular electorate.

SIXTEEN years ago an American presidential election was fought against the backdrop of a weak economy and a grumpy electorate.

Yes, some tax rises may be necessary, if only out of the political necessity of persuading the electorate that the burden is being shared.

The electorate was heavily skewed to the right in 2010, whereas presidential years tend to draw out a more middle-of-the-road crowd.

Reagan won in part because Walter Mondale, whatever the merits of his case, was utterly out of sync with the electorate.

Sunday's election showed a richer, more sophisticated electorate demanding change and a greater say in its own future.

If they fail to do so effectively, the electorate can vote them out in the next election.

America's political parties rallied their core supporters as the electorate prepared to vote in the mid- term elections on November 7th.

The party appeals most to groups whose share of the electorate is growing: relatively young, middle-class urbanites with a good education.

Voting was not conducted in nine districts but officials say that affected less than two percent of the electorate.

It's just a matter of enough people letting elected officials know how important this is to the electorate, and voting accordingly.

Because Lord Strabolgi formed part of a corps of office-holders in the Lords, this time the electorate was the whole house (768 people).

As the electorate expanded, the political parties evolved to mobilize the growing mass of voters as the means of political control.

In the end, what colour of government an electorate would choose is not the point.

He went on to win four elections by appealing, in a way that no Japanese politician had ever even attempted, directly to the electorate.

Trying to interpret what an electorate "meant" is never easy.

But it has not endeared them to the general electorate.

Straw poll participants are not representative of even Republican primary voters, let alone the general electorate.

But Mr Brown, a Scot, failed to click with the British electorate, often appearing dismissive.

With an electorate wary of rapid change and a system designed to frustrate it, Japan has rejected the reform it needs.

First, what has brought about this seemingly dramatic break with the past? And, second, what precisely has Japan's electorate voted for?

The minimum number of signatures required to launch a referendum has been cut, but it is still a tenth of the electorate, on average.

they are unable, for whatever reason, to get to a polling place in their electorate on election day.

Yet Islamists seem to struggle to raise their support much above 20% of the electorate.

A change would also require approval by at least 50 per cent of the electorate in a referendum.

Yet social conservatives are only a small minority of the national electorate, so they have to pick a candidate who also appeals to others.

Less sympathetic analysts have noted that three-fifths or more of the electorate think he should step down in 2012.

Yet this is the sort of proposal that is received nowadays as a "solution" by a substantial part of the electorate.

Policymakers must sell their ideas either within the government or to the electorate and then develop a plan for their implementation.

Evangelical Christians make up about a quarter of the American electorate and are the bedrock of Mr Bush's support.

This is giving governments a sense of entitlement, backed by an outraged electorate.

So , we've reached a truly remarkable situation , a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligentsia and the American electorate .

However, some thought that the representativeness of the functional constituencies would be lowered if their electorate were too small.

But the demand for that should be assessed by politicians, preferably local ones, who are in turn judged by their electorate.

But he is capricious and he fails to see how he comes across to the electorate.

Mr Obama has so far been unwilling to support such measures, but his resolve may hinge on the mood of the electorate.

Labour wants to promise five guarantees in its manifesto aimed at winning over a sceptical electorate in the post-expenses world.

Speaking of the electorate, though, what are the political merits of the president's approach?

Indeed, voters who can be swayed by appeals to cultural and racial fear are a declining share of the electorate.

Republicans and Democrats, acutely aware of the electorate's desire to rein in massive government borrowing, should take it.

Public-opinion polls show the U. S. electorate fairly evenly split between Democratic and Republican-leaning voters.

If you're going to be outside your electorate on election day you can cast a special declaration vote at any polling place.

Participants agreed that the electorate should be enlarged. Individual voting should be increased while corporate voting should be reduced.

This is known as the quota and is based on the number of votes in each electorate and the number of MPs to be elected.

A command or an authorization given by a political electorate to its representative.

Prime Minister Ye Hao, Finance Minister and other cabinet ministers have only a three-year contract for the electorate of the wage earners.

But he recovered, the nation rallied around him and carried him across the finish line, his bond with the electorate deep and true.

The increased turnout among young voters "really changed the face of the electorate in the primary process, " Belcher said.

Such an award would be seen as a popular move to the electorate.

That has played well with an electorate whose living standards still lag far behind those of most European countries.

Once again we are regaled with colourful stories about this huge exercise in people power - an electorate of about 714 million.

To the extent that the electorate is unconvinced, any consensus at the top is likely to fracture.

With vague talk about wanting a "fairer and stronger" France, Ms Aubry's pitch to the electorate has not been clear.

The makeup of the U. S. electorate has dramatically changed over the past several decades.

This ensures that more than half the seats go to the north, north-east and centre-west, which between them have only 41% of the electorate.

And his powers are mightily constrained by Congress, which is even more immediately accountable to its electorate.

And as a simple tax-raising measure, shifting the burden on to foreigners will almost always play well with the electorate.

If it does, it's unclear how that will play out and how it will be viewed by the American electorate.

The Greens' middle-aged, university-educated constituency is growing as a proportion of the electorate.

This suggests that a section, at least, of America's electorate is open to the idea of better links with Islam.

Politicians all too often pander to the envious tendencies among the electorate .

The opposition parties, together representing half of Turkey's electorate, might well boycott a constitutional process dominated by the AKP.

The succession will be decided in the traditional manner: among the LDP's barons, without asking the electorate.

Danu stood seemingly alone in opposing the war, a position that almost had him recalled from office by the Kuati electorate twice.

Before doing this, I also constructed a non-voting electorate's profile, to serve as a base for the economic adversity model.

Mr. Truman believes the electorate in Greece and other debt-ridden countries may turn against the EU as a result of harsh austerity.

The electorate, we hear, wants Barack Obama to be more of an economic populist but less of an ambitious reformer.

For the broad mass of the European electorate, "Europe" has become a byword for unpopular and painful economic restructuring.

Whether the Republican electorate is clamoring for Mr. Huntsman is an open question.

And as a percentage of the American electorate, they continue to grow at a faster rate than the overall population.

These days, it seems that powerful interests wield more influence in Washington than the whole of the American electorate.

The Representation Commission decides the electorate boundaries using demographic, cultural and geographic criteria set in law.

Nixon recognised that the Republicans stood to gain from "positive polarisation" : dividing the electorate over values.

Some say that gives lawmakers incentive to do what a discouraged electorate expects: dawdle, even as California collapses.

Together, those two income groups make up a third of the 2010 electorate, the early data showed.

Despite his almost technocratic style, Mr Bloomberg has impressed the electorate as manager of the once "ungovernable" city.

All of that has gone. The electorate may be divided by race, but no longer mainly because of race.

Barak had to contend with a very different Israeli electorate from the one Rabin had led.

Almost three-quarters of the electorate voted on Saturday on whether divorce should be introduced in Malta.

The introverted party looked unable to pick a front-man who could also impress the wider electorate.

Everyone is part of a global news network, an instant coalition, a mob, an electorate.

In a telling sign of public dissatisfaction with politics, about half the electorate supports neither party.

Both were invented by master mixer Michael Brown, who says roughly equal sales of the two drinks mirrors splits in the electorate.

Not least, the electorate registered approval of the competence and integrity of Manmohan Singh, the prime minister.

The DPP can still get thousands of people onto the streets, but it has struggled to expand its support beyond 30-40% of the electorate.

So having a degree of free speech is a good way of keeping tabs on the mood of the non-electorate.

U. S. presidents like to identify themselves with the zeitgeist in spiriting their electorate. "This generation of Americans, " F. D.

The electorate has lost track of the central story the Government wants to tell - the economy and jobs growth.

Electoral districts must have similar numbers of people living in them, regardless of the geographic area an electorate covers.

a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate.

One factor helping the Democrats in 2008 was the high turnout of black voters, who make up 29% of the electorate in the district.

Unfortunately, many of our politicians provide little inspiration or demonstrate they are worthy custodians of the electorate's faith.

The EU is not a single country, whose most senior leaders are elected by a single electorate.

Can you be a little bit more specific? Twelve percent of the electorate strongly opposes me.

His supporters have divided on the issue, with many accusing the larger part of the electorate of bigotry.

Besides, with unemployment stuck near 10%, the president already has lost most of the electorate.

After a while, the Tories realised that their obsession with Europe was not shared by the electorate.

Ms Gillard later addressed the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in South Brisbane, which falls inside Mr Rudd's electorate.

Calderon is playing a dangerous game with his own electorate.

"The electorate has changed, it has matured, " he told a small conference last week.

Such economic populism may merely be a ploy to win over an electorate that has long been averse to the market.

The electorate was surely the most rational in the world: the membership of the American Economic Association.

So a greater increase in turn out amongst black minority ethnic communities than the increase by the wider electorate.

According to a recent opinion poll, 64% of the electorate would support a politician who promoted "modern methods" of family planning.

National-religious politicians have long been riled by the gap in attitudes between Israel's top judges and the electorate.

They constitute more than one-fifth of the American electorate.

Additionally, exit polling indicates young voters increased their share of the electorate to 18 per cent, which is no small feat.

By 1997, when Labour won power, the electorate had become more worried about decrepit public services than high taxes.

In any case, both Democrats and Republicans see new contours of a split electorate.

Politicians have to lie as the electorate will settle for nothing less.

There is no surer way of pleasing the electorate, meantime, than taxing bankers.

All provided symbolic and substantive bridges to Republicans and the center of the electorate.

He does not excite much of the wider electorate either.

The president appealed directly to the electorate.

But the electorate has grown used to unfulfilled promises.

The right and procedure by which citizens can propose a law by petition and ensure its submission to the electorate.

His friends say he is great fun in private, but he does not convey warmth or ease to the electorate at large.

to successfully inform and educate the American electorate.

Beijing should also be happy with the mood of Taiwan's electorate.

The French electorate is notoriously mercurial and pessimistic, but this moment is especially bad.

The citizens of a political unit, such as a nation or a state; the electorate. Used with the.

That means they influence both the candidates' strategies and the choices of the electorate.

This will provide a little relief for Taiwan's overburdened electorate.

Prof: if the electorate was just 10 people, okay, why would that help you evaluate the argument?

We shall not deviate by a hair's breadth from the mandate which the electorate has given us.

The Progress Party, which has the support of roughly a quarter of the electorate, has seized on these complaints.

It is hardly surprising that the electorate is turning against the governing party.

Polling organizations sampled the electorate at intervals.

Little more than a third of the electorate would back them if elections were held today.

A rebellious German electorate views the idea of bailouts with increasing antipathy.

Russian electorate consisting of one person has decided that Vladimir Putin will return as president next year.

Louisiana is a southern state where blacks make up a big chunk of the Democratic primary electorate.

In addition, their very lack of legitimacy may tempt autocracies to bribe influential sections of the electorate.

Voters ages 65 and older account for more than one-quarter of the electorate and vote at higher rates than other age groups.

But with the electorate in its present bizarre, unpredictable mood, Ms O'Donnell may yet prove them wrong.

Anything less is an insult to the electorate's intelligence.

The electorate, we are now told, has collectively opted for modernism, stability, growth and governance.

He will also have to deal with a confused electorate.

In short, what Mr. Obama faces in the middle of the electorate is high nervousness, mingled with an openness to change.

The fact that, together, they have 59% of the vote will help persuade the electorate to accept painful cuts.

The Scottish electorate must decide on the future of Scotland in a vote whose meaning and authority are beyond challenge.

"Change horses, " McClellan told the electorate, "or drown. "

They simply cannot understand the way Americans link deceiving a spouse and misleading an electorate.

The wide middle of the US electorate venerates results over theories.

The muddy political choices reflect the murky mood of the electorate.

The US electorate has delivered an unambiguous rebuke to President Barack Obama.

Such reforms could limit the ability of today's electorate to vote itself unfunded benefits.

Confronting them, rather than the entire electorate, may be the really difficult task for governments that want to make the numbers add up.

The result: a critical disconnect between the upper reaches of the government and the electorate.

His eloquent speech has won him the favor of the electorate .

A German government that abolishes this demand would lose the electorate's backing.

In practice, however, around a fifth of the electorate stays away.

An election that was supposed to re-forge trust between politicians and the electorate could end up shattering it even more.

The House is dominated by veteran liberals, who are well to the left of the electorate, and the Senate is full of prima donnas.

Some claim a credo can help to galvanise an electorate bored by consensual centrism.

In the end, Rubio even outpolled Crist among Florida's large cache of independent voters, who make up a fifth of the electorate, 48% to 37%.

Fewer than half the European electorate is expected to cast ballots.

Policy aside, the thinking is that the fast pace of government under Rudd has outstripped the ability of the electorate to keep up.

They are targeting this electorate themselves, hoping to nurture its appetite for change.

He will struggle to persuade the electorate that his sudden interest in immigration is anything other than expedient.

BJP supporter Yossarin Offstumped says that the Indian electorate has voted for stability but chosen the wrong national party.

The Italian electorate said two things loudly and clearly last Monday.

This dented Labour's hopes to present a reviving economy to the electorate.

predecessor electorate A body of qualified voters.

Only 16 percent of the electorate strongly approved of lifting the ban, while 33 percent very strongly disapproved.

For one thing, West Virginia's electorate is older and whiter than average.

Politicians will be loth to cut the value of their electorate's biggest asset, however.

Liberty versus security is a question that divides not merely the elites from the electorate, and the government from the opposition.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

A government that gets ahead of the electorate is on dangerous ground.

Even in the mid-1990s, Labour was only resigned to compromise with the electorate, he says.

The electorate may be divided by race, but no longer mainly because of race.

Mr Obama is facing re-election before an electorate that has time and again claimed an entitlement to cheap energy.

The electorate is searching for someone to blame.

Perhaps at some point the electorate will revolt.

The Representation Commission was last convened in 2007 to redraw the electorate boundaries for the 2008 and 2011 general elections.

The Yangon electorate is well aware of the origins of the USDP and NUP.

The first vote is to choose the MP the voter wants to represent the electorate they live in. This is called the electorate vote.

What share of the electorate is made up of white voters?

Feed the news cycle but concentrate on reminding the electorate what the Government stands for.

To regain the electorate's trust, Mr Obama has to renounce those positions.

But it is taken seriously by the government, led by Abhisit Vejjajiva, who shows no sign of wanting to face the electorate.

The national electorate is whiter and more conservative than the Democratic one.

How long the German electorate will continue to foot the bill for all of this is questionable.

There is widespread apathy among electorate.

Can the public have a say on the proposed electorate boundaries?

If there are still electorate seats to fill, a two-step process follows.

A majority of the electorate at any given time is concerned with the preservation of the status quo . . .

The government was responsible to the electorate.

Fritz Knaak, a lawyer for Mr Coleman in 2008, predicts that a divided electorate in Minnesota will ensure more tight, and contested, races.

What would you do if a political matter that impacted you personally arose in your electorate?

But in attempting to give the party a younger, more modern image, Mr Kan and Mr Edano may well feel they can carry the electorate with them.

In 2004 they were roughly 36% of the electorate, and they preferred George Bush to John Kerry by about 25 points.

In the first referendum, 53. 21% of the electorate voted no.

Letting taxes rise abruptly would hurt not only the recovery but also whichever party the electorate ended up blaming.

Only 1. 1m of a potential electorate of 4. 7m managed to cast votes.

"Is it the fault of his wife? Whatever it is, he no longer likes his electorate, " said another.

Few people realise that Labor took about 600 promises to the electorate in 2007 and fulfilled most of them. That is a failing in itself.

As for King Gyanendra, he can also take his cue from the electorate.

The Australian electorate falls out of love with the two main parties, while each tries to woo independents and form a government

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Mindful of the strong opinions of his electorate, the member voted against the measure

the disparate mutterings of a grumpy electorate that has lost faith in its leader

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A direct vote in which the entire electorate is invited to accept or refuse a proposal

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