Sentences with phrase «general election campaigning last»

The Christian politician also voiced frustration that his views on sexuality distracted attention away from the Lib Dem's General Election campaigning last year.

The Christian politician also voiced frustration that his views on sexuality drew attention away from the Lib Dem's General Election campaigning last year.

That changed this week when Baroness Jenkin quoted the abuse one Conservative Party candidate received in the general election campaign last year.

The energy that was built up during and after the General Election campaign last year seems to have dissipated.

It is an uncanny echo of Labour's general election campaign last year which started with a manifesto launch focusing on fiscal discipline and ended with the party forced onto health to ensure its increasingly angry and aggrieved base remained mobilised.

Not exact matches

Speculation about which of the two main parties could attract Nick Clegg into a coalition has dominated the last week of the general election campaign, since his TV debate performance sent Lib Dem support through the roof.

A YouGov poll for The Times on the weekend put the Leave campaign nine points in front (although research was carried out on line and such a methodology proved to be problematic during last year's general election).

It's time to make a change, if it is this bad the last few months what will the general election campaign strategy be for the GOP with Ed at the helm.

A last - minute addition to the arsenal: the campaign's new media and tech teams managed to turn out a very efficient online polling place finder on a short deadline just in time for the general election, which they promoted via online ads, the email list and direct voter contact.

The move will no doubt spark glee among sketchwriters who dubbed her «The Maybot» during last year's general election for her cold and clunky campaign events.

Former chairman Patrick McLoughlin took much of the heat for the disastrous general election campaign and reportedly wanted to stand down last year, before being persuaded to go out in the January reshuffle.

She also spoke about how the last general election had been the hardest campaign of her life.

The Australian prime minister has said she hopes Queen Elizabeth II will be the last British head of state of her country, putting some life into the ongoing general election campaign.

Mr Bercow's vulnerability against a Tory plot to remove him can be traced back to a controversial interview he gave to my Sky News colleague Lewis Goodall during last year's general election campaign.

May's awkward manner and reluctance to engage with real people were seen as major handicaps during last year's general election campaign.

His former immigration spokesman Phil Woolas's shameless tactics in Oldham East and Saddleworth during the last general election campaign, and subsequent ejection from Parliament, have offered a well - timed opportunity for Labour to give the coalition and, in particular, Nick Clegg, a thrashing in the by - election on 13 January - the first significant electoral test of the coalition's popularity.

The general counsels for Facebook, Twitter, and Google certainly gave strange replies when asked by Rep. Jackie Speier last November whether they had investigated «who was mimicking who» when it came to online messages promoted by both the Trump campaign and Russia during the election.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

Organizing 2.0: Last season, I heard that the DCCC was placing interns who had tech / data skills into campaigns in the summer before the general election.

When I wrote for Total Politics in the aftermath of the last General Election, my main criticism of the Conservative Party's campaign was its failure to hire an experienced, seasoned campaigner to run it.

With last week's dissolution of Parliament and local elections now behind us, it seems an auspicious time to look at what the initial skirmishes of the general election can tell us about the upcoming campaign.

Barring a substantial shift in the last few days of campaigning — which seems unlikely given that 91 per cent of Labour voters say they probably will not change their minds — we can expect a swing from the Liberal Democrats to Labour of around 8 per cent since the general election.

His Democratic opponent, Lew Simon, is running a low - funded, underdog campaign that was hampered last month by news that the candidate had an angioplasty a month before the general election.

As the general election loomed, he launched a full - on Google saturation campaign, to the despair of those on the Left who noticed how much he's outspent Deeds online (that last article via Brian DeVine).

They stuck by him during his nadir last summer, when his leadership of the party seemed doomed - indeed, the organisational, campaigning and social media nous of the pro-migrant radical left probably saved him, and certainly boosted his general election performance.

Perez Williams, 54, won an insurgent campaign for Syracuse's Democratic mayoral nomination last year, but lost the general election in November to independent Ben Walsh.

Charlotte Church has been a prominent voice in anti-Tory and anti-austerity campaigning since last year's general election.

Back in September last year, I launched the Campaign to Save General Election Night along with Labour politician and blogger, Tom Harris, and Mark Pack of Lib Dem Voice.

We've been reporting on candidate selections over the last few months, and now 40 are in place there is an opportunity to give an overview of the PPCs who will be fighting in some of the key battlegrounds of the general election campaign.

The general counsels for Facebook, Twitter, and Google certainly gave strange replies when asked by California Rep. Jackie Speier last November whether they had investigated «who was mimicking who» when it came to online messages promoted by both the Trump campaign and Russia during the election.

We can expect the dynamics of the last seven days to repeat themselves again and again for at least the 12 months and, probably, all the way up to the 2015 general election campaign.

Last week saw the start of campaigning for the general election in May, with a series of carefully choreographed events and launches rapidly descending into free - form mud - slinging.

President Nana Akufo - Addo appointed Blakofe as the Deputy CEO in February last year after she massively campaigned for him in the 2016 general elections.

In the last election cycle, the money raised in direct contributions by Cuomo's campaign committee was almost three times as much as the total Super PACs spent on every gubernatorial, attorney general, comptroller, Senate, and Assembly candidate combined.

With the last few days newspapers having been an orgy of Cameronia, it is rather unsurprisingly a good poll for the Tories — for the first time since the beginning of the general election campaign it shows the parties neck and neck: CON 36 % (+1), LAB 36 % -LRB--1), LD 18 % -LRB--2).

Nor does a focus on the failings of Labour's last general election campaign provide a sufficient analysis of the depth of electoral disillusionment with progressive politics at the moment.

Despite losing the seat by just 103 votes at last year's general election and although the Tories are allegedly holding back their campaign at David Cameron's request, Nick Clegg's party trails by 17 points in two separate surveys of voters in the key marginal.

Blakofe earned the spot of a Deputy CEO via President Nana Akufo - Addo's appointment in February last year after she massively campaigned for him in the 2016 general elections.

In last Saturday's Times the Tory Chairman Grant Shapps confirmed that Crosby would be overseeing the general election campaign.

In his interview with today's Times, Grant Shapps confirms that that central weakness of the last Tory general election campaign will be addressed: Someone will be in charge and that person will be Lynton Crosby.

For my review of the last Tory general election campaign I was fortunate to interview all of its key architects including George Osborne, Steve Hilton and Andy Coulson.

When she stood at the last general election, one of her campaign leaflets contained distinctly ugly messages about the Labour government's repeal of section 28 (the infamous Tory legislation outlawing the «promotion» of homosexuality in schools), and the lowering of the gay age of consent.

The last time there was an exception in a gubernatorial race was in 2002, when Cuomo, who had ended his campaign before the primary election but remained on the ballot, raised less of his funds from small donors than either primary victory Carl McCall or general election winner George Pataki.

In the final days of last year's general election campaign, Gordon Brown visited Skelmersdale, to a raw emotional reception.

We will also relaunch ConHome's Yellow to Blue fundraising campaign that during the last General Election raised over # 12,000 for Tory candidates fighting Liberal Democrats.

UKIP tend to fall out of the news a lot between elections, I expect that they will hold or improve their vote slightly on last time in the European Elections and in the General Election, especially in a campaign where they have a number of elected representatives and where the list system works in theielections, I expect that they will hold or improve their vote slightly on last time in the European Elections and in the General Election, especially in a campaign where they have a number of elected representatives and where the list system works in theiElections and in the General Election, especially in a campaign where they have a number of elected representatives and where the list system works in their favour.

The Democrats have ran campaigns against Malliotakis in the last three general elections, while she has ran unopposed in the Republican Primaries.

Nick Clegg remembers two questions cropping up over and over again in the weeks running up to last year's general election campaign.

He later wrote a book, The Battle For Power, about the strained relationship between the Liberals and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) during that campaign, the last general election fought as the SDP — Liberal Alliance.