Sentence examples for distinct voting from inspiring English sources

Pollsters now question the validity of soccer moms as a distinct voting bloc; the term came into vogue in the 1996 presidential election but vanished soon after, to be replaced by the equally dubious post-9/11 "security moms".

This teetering political balance is sustained by three distinct voting groups: African-Americans in Atlanta and a few smaller cities, who vote Democratic; suburbanites, many of them newcomers, in the growing rings around Atlanta, who tend to be Republican but will support centrist Democrats, and rural voters, who are less tied to party affiliations.

Not a county's total vote or a precinct total or even the total of votes cast on the shortest, dead-end street in the smallest town, but each, distinct vote resonated in Florida, and -- because this was the finish line -- the race itself.

Still, the decision represents a distinct vote of confidence in Mr. Greenblatt, who was put in place by the new Comcast management of NBC in January 2011, with the specific charge to reverse the long slide that had sunk NBC deep into last place in the networks' prime-time ratings.

Atwood notes that Approval Voting, distinct from "ranked voting," permits a "yes" vote on as many candidates or options as appear on a ballot, and has been used in local elections.

Some experts say they believe a genuinely distinct older voting bloc could emerge.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 - For all the talk about a politically polarized nation, there are defectors out there among the electorate, a relatively small but distinct subset who voted for the presidential nominee of one party four years ago and now are prepared to vote for that of the other on Tuesday.

We would feel a distinct urge to vote for such aman.

His research, based on surveys of voters throughout the referendum campaign and afterwards, identifies three distinct groups that voted to leave the EU.

"Being too busy" is the No. 1 reason nonvoters say they sit elections out; in response, about two-thirds of the states now permit some form of early voting (as distinct from absentee voting, which typically requires that voters give an acceptable reason for not going to the polls on Election Day).

That leaves a rather large number of Electoral College votes 146, by RCP's reckoning still up in the air.If Mr Romney is to win that vote, as distinct from the popular one, he needs somehow to get from 191 to 270.