Sentences with phrase «us election history»

Election history was recently made as Sierra Leone became the first country to use blockchain technology to verify voting results in their presidential election.

It's believed to be the lowest in turnout in post war by - election history.

New figures show Donald Trump way behind Hillary Clinton in the fundraising stakes — and recent election history has not been kind to those who don't bring in the money

Despite his past election history, Mr. Fischer believes political leaders» opinions of him may be turning in his favor.

From the little i know of election history in Nigeria while a man like Awolowo tried all he could to free the Ijaws and other ethnics of the old Rivers State from the stronghold of the North they refused believing they were better protected by the North.

The Tories were defending thousands of seats last fought in 2009 - when they were in opposition and when Labour had its worst night in local election history.

California school groups and their supporters are putting up $ 1.3 million to make sure that election history doesn't repeat itself.

Election history was recently made as Sierra Leone became the first country to use blockchain technology to verify voting results in their presidential...

Recording, filing, and maintaining voter registration information and election history for year - round research

Receiving and processing orders from the public, vendors and candidates for voter registration information and election history

Not exact matches

Regardless of who wins the presidential election on Tuesday, there is likely to be a lot of analysis about who is to blame for two of the most unpopular candidates in modern history.

History shows it could get a lot tougher because of the midterm elections scheduled for later in 2018.

Silver also argues that FBI Director James Comey's remarkable letter — in which he suggested that his department might have reason to re-open the investigation into Clinton's email history, 11 days before the election — may have significantly influenced the outcome.

With the most expensive presidential election in history just around the corner, the money is in politics.

One of the craziest, mud - slinging presidential elections in history has finally seen its end.

Indeed, the 2016 election may be the last one in U.S. history before the self - employed comprise a majority of the voting electorate.

But Quattrone and Comey also have a history pre-dating the 2016 elections.

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).

Just over four months to the election, and facing pressure from their Democratic opponents, most Republican Senate incumbents opted for consistency despite the political frenzy days after the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

The failure of coalition talks is unprecedented in Germany's post-war history, and was likened by newsmagazine Der Spiegel to the shock election of U.S. President Donald Trump or Britain's referendum vote to leave the EU - moments when countries cast aside reputations for stability built up over decades.

It requires states and local governments with a history of racial and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the South, to get advance approval either from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before making any changes that affect elections.

Overall impact: No, that didn't actually happen (see the Snopes link), and sure, the election is in the history books.

NPR recently reported that Time Warner - owned CNN made roughly $ 100 million more in ad revenues this year than in past election years, as CNN could reportedly approach $ 1 billion in profit this year for the first time in the network's history.

Many of these dynamics were new in this election, or at much larger scale than ever before in history, and at much larger scale than the interference we've found.

After one of the most contentious and divisive election seasons in recent history, on January 20 the United States will swear in Donald J. Trump as the country's 45th president.

According to the Democrats» memo, the DOJ provided the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with «contemporaneous evidence» of Russia's interference in the 2016 election; information about «concerning Russian links and outreach to Trump campaign officials,»; Page's history with Russia - linked individuals and entities; and Page's «suspicious activities in 2016,» including those during a trip he took to Moscow in July of that year, during which he met with high - ranking Russian officials.

«Papadopoulos» interaction with Russian agents, coupled with real - time evidence of Russian election interference, provided the Court with a broader context in which to evaluate Russia's clandestine activities and Page's history and alleged contact with Russian officials,» the document said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. presidential election in one of the most shocking election upsets in modern American history.

A little - known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team, as many top - tier lawyers shy away from representing him in a probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

The election outcome could also affect different sectors, says Stovall, though this has nothing to do with history.

Second, very few U.S. presidents in recent history have won two elections with a majority of the popular vote.

I know that the election is very close, and that we're in the midst of one of the most partisan eras in American history.

Because of the stakes, this is the most - covered Greek election in history.

Tom is the vice president of strategy marketing for Edison Research, a company that has conducted exiting polling for some of the most controversial U.S. presidential elections in recent history.

The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history.

«To be at the biggest name in news for the last month of what has been the craziest election in modern history is just a great opportunity for me and everybody on our team,» the former BuzzFeed staffer said.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

And it might not matter much two years hence — surely Mr. Trudeau would be forgiven were he to look at recent history and conclude that elections could be won despite questions about the ethics of one's actions.

If we consider how increasingly weaponized ad targeting has become, especially since this past summer when Google and Facebook consolidated our browsing histories into their user IDs, and we think about how anybody in the world could target anyone else in the United States with surgical precision by their susceptibilities and propensities, maybe this election was similar to a 9/11 moment, but non-violent and invisible, where we realize that our commercial infrastructure was used against us, and we don't realize it until after the catastrophe?

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the nation.

(Sen Durbin) Only when a political party or class sees the dominance of the 1 % as a threat to their election or incumbency, will the Phillips Curve and NAIRU be consigned to the dustbin of history.

«Although recent history shows there is reason to be skeptical of political polls, we do not believe populist parties will score victories significant enough in national elections to cause an existential threat to the European Union (EU).»

Millionaires have a history of moving to the sidelines ahead of a presidential election, but many among America's wealthy are now moving quickly back into the stock market, knowing that Donald Trump will be president.

«There's a long history of the US interfering with foreign elections and doing the exact same thing [creating bot networks and using trolls for online intimidation].»

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

Until the recent 2008 federal general election, the seat - advantage recorded by Liberals in 1921 was the largest in Canadian history.

Pre-game and post-game, Wall Street will be handicapping outcomes of what has been the most contentious presidential election in recent history, and either way, markets could remain both volatile and vulnerable in the week ahead.

Another tab had a history of election results in my district by party win.

There's a long history of the United States interfering with foreign elections and doing the exact same thing.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.