So some CNN reporter finds some crazed, frothing at the mouth ex-mormon who claims that this was done the DAY AFTER ROMNEY GIVES A STELLAR DEBATE PERFORMANCE AT PROBABLY THE MOST CRITICAL
TIME OF HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN???
Official Conservative environmental policy at
the time of the election campaign kickoff (and at the time of initial airing of the FoS ads) can be found in Section I of the Conservative 2005 Policy Declaration.
Not exact matches
At the
time of his termination, Comey had been leading a federal investigation into whether the president's
campaign advisors had colluded with Moscow in order to influence last year's
election.
And after many peaks and valleys during the 2016
election campaign, this relationship will reach a metaphorical peak when Kelly interviews Trump on Tuesday night as part
of a prime -
time Fox Broadcasting special.
The practice was commonplace at the
time, and was awesomely referred to as «swilling the planters with bumbo,» according to the 1989 book Robert Dinkin's «
Campaigning in America: A History
of Election Practices» (originally seen via an article in Smithsonian Magazine).
The Cambridge Analytica issue was the reason Zuckerberg was on Capitol Hill, answering questions for the second
time in two days about how the group - which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's
election campaign among its clients - got hold
of data on many millions
of Facebook users.
At the
time of his firing, Comey was handling the bureau's investigation into whether the Trump
campaign colluded with Russia to meddle in the 2016
election, creating a firestorm
of controversy for the Trump administration.
James Comey, still serving as FBI Director at the
time, told the House Intelligence Committee that the Department
of Justice had authorized the FBI to investigate Russian interference in the 2016
election, including any potential collusion between Russia and the Trump
campaign.
Cambridge Analytica is accused
of collecting the personal information
of 50 million users
of the Facebook social network without their consent and would have used it to develop software to predict and influence voter voting during the
campaign American
election according to the New York
Times and the Guardian.
Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016
election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York
Times and The Observer
of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior
of individual American voters.
Many countries have
election silence laws, which limit or prohibit political
campaigning for varying periods
of time ranging from
election day alone to as early as three days before the
election.
I hold out hope that at that
time the new parliament will be able to address these important issues with more subtlety than is possible during the heat
of an
election campaign.
This would still allow fake news to flourish for most
of the
campaign,
of course, but the candidates have enough
time to respond to fake news that spreads weeks or months before an
election.
The New York
Times late Monday published the more than 40 questions that Mueller wants to ask Trump as part
of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016
election and whether Trump
campaign associates colluded.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Latest on President Donald Trump and money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels (all
times local): 7:55 p.m. President Donald Trump insists his reimbursement
of a 2016 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his
election campaign.
You might think that 30 days is a short
time to reasonably
campaign for
election, and you would be right, but there were many candidates who came out
of the woodwork to launch their
campaign today.
Matthew Sanderson, who served as a
campaign finance lawyer for the 2008 McCain - Palin
campaign, said the
timing of the payment «strongly suggests it was related to the
election, and therefore is either a contribution, or at least a reportable expenditure by the
campaign».
It was well - known in Alberta political circles that the PC Party had the goal
of always having enough money in their bank account to run two back - to - back
election campaigns at any
time.
The Katz Group has hired long -
time PC - insider Peter Elzinga as a lobbyist and launched a political
campaign to «Revitalize Downtown» in advance
of the
election.
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested Thursday that a payment from the president's longtime personal attorney to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016
election was intended to silence allegations
of an affair at a sensitive
time for the Trump
campaign.
With a proxy contest looming, activist investor Voce Capital has released yet another broadside against target company FBR & Co., this
time in the form
of a comprehensive presentation detailing the rationale behind Voce's
campaign and advocating for the
election of the hedge fund's three board candidates.
While Pranesh Prakash, policy director at the Centre For Internet and Society, doesn't believe the government would actually summon Zuckerberg to India, he says, «One new concern that's valid across the world, where there are limitations put on freedom
of expression during
times of campaigning and
elections, how do they translate online?
The image
of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image
of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image
of a woman who was sacked from the women's program
of her church because she refused to comply to the request
of the president
of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his
election campaign; the image
of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands
of her employer; the image
of a male priest
of a church saying that every
time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out
of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse
of the many such images that are gathered during the course
of this Decade.
Its kind
of odd how now that its almost
time to start an
election campaign, they find him and kill him with no casualties in the episode.
Meanwhile the cost
of campaigns would plummet, as paying for more TV
time would no longer provide the only route to winning an
election.
Along with Dennis Johnson, Karen Jagoda and Morra Aarons - Mele, I had the pleasure
of giving a presentation this morning on congressional and local online
campaigns for the assembled journalists at the Knight Digital Media Center's symposium,
Election» 08: Unleashing the Cyber-watchdogs (i.e., after a week
of luxuriating in the California sun, it was
time to sing for my supper and justify the trip).
Tory disdain for criticism from within the government could strain coalition tensions ahead
of a difficult
time for David Cameron and Nick Clegg, as the two parties prepare to go to war in what is expected to be an unforgiving and bitterly fought European
election campaign.
That the TV prosecutor and one -
time senator is «ignoring the letter and spirit»
of campaign law by masking an active
election bid as an «exploratory» effort and thereby dodging federal reporting requirements.
This flood
of information — updated constantly as
elections approached — not only supplemented the
campaign's internal polling, but at
times (including during the run - up to the Iowa Caucuses) provided a more accurate view
of the electorate:
As he begins to re-tool for the general
election (while still dealing with Santorum et al at the same
time), his
campaign will need to expand its presence on the ground and build a network
of active supporters in all the potential battleground states.
We see politicians all the
time, but we don't often get to see the real winners
of an
election campaign.
Some reluctant Repubs might even vote for the ultimate deal just to keep it out
of oppo
campaign literature when
election time rolls around 7 months from now.
Halfway through the
campaign she accused the EU
of leaking details to the press in a manner that was «deliberately
timed to affect the result»
of the
election.
As we enter the crunch
time for 2006 primary
elections and as the 2006 generals start to heat up, there are probably a lot
of campaigns that are really only now getting started with focused email
campaigns.
With another
election year on the way, it's
time for a «Winning in 2012» follow - on to the 2010 book, for a start, along with plenty
of drive - by potshots at candidates,
campaigns and advocacy groups in the blog pages.
Television ad slots have been scarce in contested states during
election seasons before, but the combination
of big - money super-PACs and the expectation that both presidential
campaigns will spend heavily seems to be driving political actors to reserve
time much earlier than usual.
The
campaign was launched as a result
of genuine concerns that sufficient parliamentary
time would not be made available to debate and vote on the reforms prior to the 2015 General
Election.
Last week The New York
Times released a biting, front - page critique
of Liu's
campaign finance practices since his
election, forcing the city's finance -LSB-...]
Today's
Times carries the final opinion poll
of the Scottish Parliament
election campaign, conducted by YouGov between Monday and yesterday.
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.
WAMC's David Guistina speaks with Mike Spain, Associated Editor
of The
Times Union, about a complaint filed against Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan's
election campaign.
During his
time in the legislature, Brian has sponsored legislation and worked with colleagues to extend and strengthen tenant protections; increase New York's commitment to cleaner more sustainable energy sources and greater efficiency; prevent people from being exposed to toxic chemicals; increase the minimum wage; ensure equality in civil marriage laws; strengthen laws intended to keep guns out
of the wrong hands; and promote cleaner, fairer
elections by modernizing voting and closing loopholes in
campaign finance laws.
«This
time it's different,» promised the European Parliament in an awareness
campaign ahead
of the May 2014
elections.
Molinaro opened a
campaign account with the state Board
of Elections in November for a potential gubernatorial bid but said at the
time that he had not made a decision about running.
The meeting, on the tarmac at Albany International Airport, was the first
time the two men crossed paths since the news broke that Mr. Obama had told Mr. Paterson that the White House had lost confidence in the governor's ability to win
election next year and that he should abandon his
campaign for the good
of the Democratic Party.
While the data pertain to the period immediately prior to the
election campaign, longitudinal analyses and other polling data suggest that the results are still relevant at the
time of the general
election.
The 2015 general
election campaign will come at the same
time as the next round
of international UN negotiations on climate change, which campaigners say will be a critical moment in determining the planet's future.
At a
time when nationalism in Scotland is hitting a high and the Labour Party
Campaign Manager for the by -
election in Glenrothes has quit saying the effort is a lost cause and the Nationalists will win by a margin
of thousands, it seems a strange oversight.
This means it has a robust local
campaigning infrastructure, and the party should have learnt the lessons from 2010 about how to take proper advantage
of a sudden upsurge in popularity at
election time.
That'll have to wait for some later
election, however, as I'm bound in Europe working on other stuff... Till then, I'll stalk the
campaigns via coverage from the usual sources, I've grown particularly fond
of the Financial
Times «Richard McGregor, who reports a lot from the ground and pays attention to
campaign mechanics like few other journalists, and
of course continue to follow Sasha Issenberg's great work at Slate.com and various stuff from TechPresident to keep up on the technology side
of things.