Sentences with phrase «if voting for a party»

«I wanted to know if he voted for party or for country,» said Serpico, who was trailed by a reporter and photographer for the New York Times.

If voting for a party other than Labour was a hard decision for many, it was also a revelation — even a liberation.»

If you vote for your party you get the opposite.

Not exact matches

You are likely loyal to your employees who care a lot about their agency's image, and who are sensitive to accusations it's doing the bidding of a political party, especially if they vote for the other party.

Results when respondents are asked if they would vote for cooperating parties are very similar (37 % yes).

In party - line votes on Tuesday, Brady's tax committee voted down eight Democratic amendments that would have preserved or expanded tax breaks for the middle class, nullified the tax legislation if it increased the deficit in future years and maintained taxes on foreign profits of U.S. corporations.

More than half of respondents to our survey said that if they were disappointed in a leader or party's ethics, they would vote for another party — even if that party didn't otherwise reflect their own values.

Their main rights are to vote for directors — normally a one - party affair where your only option is to vote for the directors nominated by the board, or just vote for no one — and to sell their stock if they're unhappy.

And how do you expect the Greens to become a viable party if you do not vote for them?What do you see the Liberal party doing now they have power, backing down on the pipeline, backing down on medical marihuana, backing down on the promise of getting rid of «first past the post» voting, etc.No party is ready till we vote for them!

If Scheer had his way, he would be happy to transfer some of the surplus Alberta Conservative vote bounty to Quebec, where his party finished a distant second in a riding the party had held for a decade under Harper.

Popular Wood Buffalo mayor Melissa Blake, who is seeking re-election in this year's municipal vote, would be seen as a star candidate for any party and could easily fill a top cabinet position if elected into government.

If the GOP would quit trying to take away women's rights (as confirmed by the Supreme Court) and concentrate on FREEDOM for all, the party would gain more votes from women than they would lose from evangelicals who must have other concerns that are just as important as taking away a woman's right to chose.

That's true, but I also think Walker has a chance to be the Tea Party - friendly alterative to Chris Christie if Ted Cruz collapses and Rand Paul fails to get much support outside of the ten percent of the Republican nominating electorate that was open to voting for his father.

But if he is chosen to represent his party, I will carefully weigh his ideas against those of President Obama (for whom I voted the last go round).

You also have people who can register as a specfic party and run on a ticket to strengthen their careers and yet they only espouse one or two things that could count them into the party in the first place.There's also a huge issue of people really thinking that a vote for a 3rd party candidate is a waste, If the only way you feel your vote matters is by voting for one of 2 parties (even if you are unsatisfied with both) does it actually matteIf the only way you feel your vote matters is by voting for one of 2 parties (even if you are unsatisfied with both) does it actually matteif you are unsatisfied with both) does it actually matter?

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it.

Polling just ahead of Cruz's concession showed that anywhere from 16 percent to 24 percent of voters said that if faced with a Trump vs. Clinton matchup, they would choose to stay home or vote for a third - party candidate.

They want to be independent of traditional values, they are suspicious of Marxist parties (even if they vote for them) and of too much piety in church (even if they attend services) Yet they experience a crisis of moral drift.

Given this variation in party fortunes, a particularly bad argument in the recent referendum campaign was that if you wanted to avoid Conservative government you should vote for independence.

If the party rejects the true believers, they risk driving them into a new party which will, at least for the next election, leave the Democrats as the largest party with other votes split.

If there is no party out there, nor leader to do justice, we should not compromise and shut our eyes to their hypocrisy, even if it means that we have no one to vote foIf there is no party out there, nor leader to do justice, we should not compromise and shut our eyes to their hypocrisy, even if it means that we have no one to vote foif it means that we have no one to vote for!

Democrat or Republican, a Christian should never vote for SATAN regardless of if it is his party or not.

Ballot counting in Zimbabe is more honest than in the United States, because the thugs counting the votes tell the voters that if they vote for the wrong party, their vote will not be counted.

Of course, this is music to Democrats» ears, because if Trump runs as a third party candidate he will split the Republican votes, just as Ross Perot did in 1992, paving the way for another Clinton victory.

State Sen. Joseph Robach, a Democrat - turned - Republican, will not run for the congressional seat once held by late Rep. Louise Slaughter, saying he believes he can have the «greatest impact» if he stays put in the Senate, where his party holds a tenuous one - vote majority.

As a result, it is in people's interest to vote for a major party candidate even if they are more aligned with another candidate.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

If they did somehow get through this system (and it's possible that their vote share would swell under the new system), they do have some room for agreement with the main parties.

I think for the future Health of the Republican party a true conservative should take the long view and cast a protest vote for Barack Obama if Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee and standard bearer.

If you are not registered for any party, and the Democratic Party allows it, you can get a No Party Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiparty, and the Democratic Party allows it, you can get a No Party Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiParty allows it, you can get a No Party Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiParty Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiParty ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiparty nominees, but not party leadership positiparty leadership positions).

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

If a state has 30 electors and party A wins with 51 % of the popular vote, then 30 electors supporting the candidate for party A will be chosen.

If 30 % voted for party A and 30 % of the representatives are party A, the result is the same as if there were no districtIf 30 % voted for party A and 30 % of the representatives are party A, the result is the same as if there were no districtif there were no districts.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

And now brown and Mandy run back to new labour to try and get the middle class to vote for it, new labour is nothing more then a Thatcherite party, and she lost and a Pray New labour is kicked out of power even if it means it never agains takes power

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

He also alluded to running as an independent in a tweet linking to a USA Today poll which found 68 % of his supporters would vote for him if he left the Republican party.

Following the sentence, some sympathizers of the ruling National Democratic decided to rain curses on President John Mahama and other leading members of the party for not intervening in the saga and have vowed vote out the party if it didn't engineer the release of the Montie trio.

But I guess that if forced to choose between those two and only those two (and the first - past - the - post system effectively does force people as far as elections are concerned), they will likely vote for candidates from the Democratic Party.

By contrast, I assume that if the vote is nation - wide, then candidates may be trying to convince extremist voters to vote for their candidate, rather than sitting it out because the candidate is too moderate, or voting for a minor party candidate instead.

If any delegate bound by these rules, state party rule or state law to vote for a presidential candidate at the national convention demonstrates support under Rule 40 for any person other than the candidate to whom he or she is bound, such support shall not be recognized.

But Long, who received the state Conservative Party's unanimous endorsement yesterday, and so will be on the November general election ballot no matter what happens in the GOP primary (unless there's a post-primary deal, a la Paladino - Lazio 2010), was careful not to offer a full - throated endorsement of Ryan's proposal — or to say she would vote for it if she had the opportunity — saying she needs more time to review it.

According to our analysis of the 2002 election, a typical member of the labour force was only 4.7 percentage points more likely to vote for a center - right party if he was an insider than if he was an outsider (and this difference was not statistically signifi - cant).

Mandatory reselection replacing existing trigger ballots, sitting MPs currently forced to go up against challengers only if a local party votes for a contest, would threaten existing union - backed figures so Momentum's free - for - all enthusiasm isn't widely shared by the industrial brothers and sisters.

In most MMP systems, if a party loses the vote for a constituency, the votes go towards the list.

Inevitably however most analysis of the results will simply reflect how many votes were cast for each party on the day and commentators will imagine what parliament will look like if the same results were for a general election.

Thus, it may be beneficial to «Dance with the Devil» if your district didn't vote for your party in the last election, or they are showing signs of a swing.

You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.