Sentence examples for electorate right from inspiring English sources

"It's sorting the electorate right now.

But given the mood of the Republican electorate right now, you aren't seeing a lot of calls for someone to move into the race from Mr. Romney's left.

"I've never seen anything like the churning we're seeing in the electorate right now," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Center.

Mr Huckabee is a politician of immense charm and natural gifts, and Mrs Palin can stoke a crowd quite effectively, but if Mr Obama really is as liberal as the Republicans say he is, it makes more sense, given the baseline party-identification numbers, to claim the undefended centre rather than trying to drag the electorate right.(Photo credit: AP) .

There's plenty of buyers' remorse in the electorate right now.

"It's not quite clear that reality matters to the electorate right now," remarked David Brooks, conservative political commentator for the New York Times, of the Republican primary race during an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press in September.

Or to bring things to a finer point, if the Gallup and Rasmussen assumptions about the likely shape of the electorate are right — and they've been close to right in the recent past — then Romney has a very good chance of winning this election, no matter what the RealClearPolitics polling average in Ohio says.

According to this view, the electorate was right to vote for "in", and decisively so.

The state's electorate leans right; so in a contest between an anonymous Republican and an anonymous Democrat, the former will invariably win.

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The trouble is that there is no guarantee the "true" electorate is right or that those young voters with a landline are like those without one.