Sentences with phrase «because is it an election»

because it's an election year, we are getting all these bailouts to help out «the working americans» stay in their homes that they can't afford.

«I hear Nana is going to take part in a cleanup exercise in Kwahu, is he doing that because it's an election year?

The appointment of a successor is also complicated because it's an election year, and any appointee may need to quickly form a campaign committee and defend the seat this fall in both a primary and general election, according to longtime Albany legislators.

Don Gregorius, the Woodstock incumbent who survived a committee challenge from current Olive legislator Roy Hochberg last Spring, defined the current race «a constant campaign» that is «not something I change just because it's election time.»

«We are not fighting corruption because it is an election year; we have to fight corruption all - year round.

Or are you only doing this because it's an election year?»

«They must have saw a poll that showed them they're in some type of jeopardy because this is an election year,» Abrahams said.

It is, therefore, necessary that we treat them with great seriousness because they are elections we should do everything to win,» the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, stated on February 28, 2018.

Miner says she's not speaking out about these issues because it's an election year.

It is therefore necessary that we treat them with great seriousness because they are elections we should do everything to win.

Because this is an election year, the poll asked respondents about the political parties.

Because is it an election year, our feeds are filled with a number of political posts.

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If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

«It's not so bad in a general election because you have got five years to sort it out and the lies and promises will blow back in people's faces,» Sugar said.

After the election, he said, «Okay, I'm introducing you to the concept of the weekend,» because I hadn't had one in so long.»

«Wait and see what happens on election day because many people who weren't for independence will now go and vote against the police's response.

Since the Italian crisis is likely to grind on - with another round of elections a near certainty over the next year - the euro will remain under pressure because the ECB will continue to maintain easy credit conditions while signs of the Fed's less accommodative stance will become increasingly more evident.

We didn't translate that to being down double — we knew we were going to have a big Election Day, knew Republicans were going to turn out, because we had a state poll that showed 62 % of Republicans were going to vote on Election Day.

People who see the election of Trump as a good thing will, because of confirmatory thinking, be more and more likely to see things as getting better.

«While we respect the outcome of the election, we are disappointed in this result because we believe the direct relationship is superior to third - party representation,» JetBlue said in a statement.

One lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity because the proposal is still under discussion, said he believed that U.S. - sourced proposal would have to be at least 35 % to satisfy Trump, who railed against automakers for moving jobs to Mexico throughout his election campaign last year.

«I was also confused by the initial explanation that was offered publicly that I was fired because of the decisions I had made during the election year,» he said.

Because Cambridge Analytica had ties to the Trump campaign prior to the 2016 election, some suspect that data may have been harnessed to sway voters via targeted political messaging.

It offered some suggestions, saying executives and business owners have said they are afraid to expand because electricity in Canada is too expensive, big energy projects are too slow to get off the ground, the future of present and future trade agreements is iffy, and the U.S. election is too frightening.

Companies are likely to find themselves in the kind of bind Uber landed in, in part because Trump did win the election with 63 million votes, which represent customers nobody wants to alienate.

One desperate solution was for blacks to risk voting for the candidate who represented the greater of two evils, in the hope that he would be sympathetic to African Americans because they helped secure the election.

Zuckerberg said Thursday that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience,» continuing, «Part of what I think is going on here is people are trying to understand results of the election, but I do think that there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason that some of them are voting the way they did is because they saw some fake news.

«I'm dumping my @facebook stock and deleting my page because @facebook profited from Russian interference in our elections and they're still not doing enough to stop it,» Carrey wrote.

I'm dumping my @facebook stock and deleting my page because @facebook profited from Russian interference in our elections and they're still not doing enough to stop it.

Closer to home, there's a reasonable chance that our current president will implode because of his historically low popularity, a fight with his own party and a looming investigation of Russia's interference in our last election.

Because it's issues like these that must become central to elections if rational solutions are to be adopted before economic and financial crises compel hasty, inequitable and severely traumatic ones.

«Whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take the country and has to run on those ideas, because the election can not be about personalities, participants sniping.

There is no evidence to support Trump's repeated assertion that he lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton in November's election because people voted illegally, independent experts and analysts have said.

He suggested media outlets were «silent» about the result because a Republican won, even though every major political news site covered the election.

And this is why [ruling party] candidate Meade is struggling so much [in Mexican elections], because he has this burden of corruption.

«I am worried that because of the impact that gerrymandering has had on many of the districts that it may be hard to make big changes» in the 2018 elections, Powell said.

McCarthy said nobody should be surprised because Trump is displaying behavior no different from the way he acted during the 2016 presidential election.

That's because there is no official exit poll, because most exit polls are based on «swing» factors from previous elections, and there is no useable precedent.

Women entrepreneurs in particular did so, but — according to the dozen or so interviews Inc. has conducted since election day — it wasn't because they are OK with his sexist commentary.

The president suggested Saturday that the indictments proved he or his campaign couldn't have been involved in a Russian effort to meddle in an election because the effort began in 2014, which was at least six months before he would announce his bid for the presidency in June 2015.

The SHRM survey from June reports HR professionals have seen less political conversation in the workplace as compared with past elections, surmising that it's in part because the presidential race is even more polarizing than usual.

Okay, despite the fact that the contentions of this one have been widely discredited on websites like Snopes.com, more than 71,000 people wanted a recount of the 2012 election because of alleged fraud.

Something happened and we have to find out what it is, because we can't allow a thing like that to happen to our election process,» Trump said.

It's likely because a balanced budget will give the Conservatives a leg up in the general election due October 2015.

«Brooke, I got my hands on this tape because I decided... to do real investigative journalism, because I was tired of watching how the news was reporting this issue,» Pollock said, before laying into the media for its handling of Donald Trump's candidacy and eventual victory in the 2016 election.

«We're going in to an election year — it's the second term for the current president — and second - term election years are much more iffy, because we're guaranteed to get something unknown,» McClellan said.

As a result, the United States» wealthiest are increasingly resembling President George H.W. Bush, who lost a presidential election in 1992 in part because he seemed to be out of touch with the realities of everyday life, like shopping in a supermarket.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

This decision probably shouldn't have been a surprise, because it basically said that the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, upholding the right of corporations to spend money in federal elections, applies to the states as well.