floating vote

I don't think it has any real effect on the floating vote in between.

On a day when it seemed as if every floating vote was going to prove crucial, I detected a strong whiff of electoral blackmail.

And Miliband, his eyes on a floating vote that now appears to have gone from peripheral to central vision, chose to be out.

They said it would harm Likud because they are after the floating vote," the moderate right-wingers.

That's what happens when your politicians represent the whole country instead of pandering to the self-interested South English middle class floating vote...

Another reason for the SMP gains was the increasing role of "floating votes" not bound to any one party.

All the chasing after the "floating vote," Mr. Sharon continued, uttering the term with obvious disdain, was threatening to lose this loyal core.

His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway, but could sway the others; the floating vote, I suppose.

I suspect Labour can only lose floating votes by attacking Cameron's background - it comes across as chippy, vindictive and paranoid and is a clear demonstration that someone is not prepared to judge things on merit.

Not one for chasing after the "floating vote" with dovish posturing, Ariel Sharon has published a hard-line article in the Israeli press just as the conservative Likud Party candidate, Benjamin Netanyahu, is trying to soften his image before elections next week.

That reminder just might nudge the Israeli floating vote toward Mr. Peres and the peace process, and away from hard-line Likud Party leader Mr. Netanyahu, whose associates last week were advocating that Israel occupy "more" of Lebanon.