NOUN
- a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other
How To Use swing voter In A Sentence
- I recall focus groups in the last couple of weeks before election 2000, after the debates, when these swing voters were being fêted like visiting potentates by the networks.
- But there was a scattergun effect even in the more efficient Conservative campaign where millions were spent on direct mail and telephone canvassing of the swing voters.
- Literally, according to a new NBER working paper by Robinson and Torvik (ungated version here), entitled "The Real Swing Voter's Curse". Damned Voters!
- Anthony Kennedy, though conservative on most issues, is the court's swing voter.
- Among the small pool of swing voters in this fall's election, there are two groups with diametrically opposed political views.
- Germany may be the swing voter in such cases.
- From being Labour's saviour and electoral ace with the swing voter, he will become the man in the way.
- With the overwhelming majority of swing voters believing she is unqualified to hold national office her chances of carrying a national election are next to nill. Palin on 2012: 'If it's right, then we will pursue that'
- The paper slams the campaign in its leader: it is described variously as narrow, chunky, banal, bland, convergent and played too much for the benefit swing voters.
- They know the elusive swing voters scattered in a handful of key states want moderation, not aggression.
