Sentences with phrase «negative electoral campaigning»

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

i have faith that obama will find the words we need to respond not only to underhand or negative electoral campaign tactics, as he proved over the past months, but to terrorist atrocity, economic depression or natural disaster.

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J. whereas electoral campaigns continue to focus primarily on national issues, pushing debate on specifically European issues into the background, which has a negative impact on the level of participation in elections to the European Parliament;

He said last night that the strategic weakness of the Tory campaign was always to respond with an «unremittingly negative» attack on Gordon Brown, which failed to take on board how far the decisive electoral question remained voters» doubts about the Conservatives.