Sentences with phrase «vote campaign on»

Ultimately, said Smikle, the election is going to come down to who has the strongest get out the vote campaign on primary day.

«The New York State AFL - CIO will implement a comprehensive Get - Out - The - Vote campaign on Will's behalf and work diligently for his election», said Hughes.

That credit goes to grassroots advocates, including Black churches and branches of the NAACP, who, with the help of national outfits, conducted strong get - out - the - vote campaigns on behalf of Jones and, more - importantly, against Moore.

Not exact matches

The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

The billionaire said «there must have been a lot of people who believed» the infamous slogan on the Vote Leave campaign bus, which said Britain's weekly # 350 million EU membership bill should be spent on the NHS.

The odds of Britain voting to leave the European Union in a June referendum narrowed on Tuesday as attacks in Brussels were seen boosting the Out campaign.

Last year, the governing coalition broke its campaign promise to hold a referendum on Iceland joining the European Union, prompting thousands of Icelanders to protest and sign petitions demanding a parliamentary vote.

In September 2011, the Obama campaign launched Operation Vote, which focused on eight target groups: women, blacks, seniors, Hispanics, Asian - Americans, Jews, gays, and young voters.

Leader of the UKIP and Vote Leave campaign Nigel Farage arrives to speak to the assembled media at College Green, Westminster following the results of the EU referendum on June 24, 2016 in London.

Speaking at a campaign event in his native Pittsburgh on Saturday, Cuban announced: «I am ready to vote for a true leader, I am ready to vote for the American Dream.

The Church has published a «Prayer for the EU referendum campaign» on its website that can be used by churches and individuals ahead of the vote on June 23, the church said.

A poll for the Mail on Sunday by Survation gave the In campaign 45 % of the vote against 42 % for Out.

After a month of intense campaigning, Indonesians voted on July 9 to elect their first new president in a decade.

Malinowski said that during the campaign, he and his colleagues found Trump's comments «bizarre because there are obviously not a lot of votes to be gained by campaigning on a pro-Putin platform.

Security chiefs, after attacks by Islamist militants, have already announced extra police for patrolling key areas on voting day on Sunday when a centrist politician meets a veteran from the far - right after a turbulent and at times angry campaign.

But if the vote happens, the best case would be the referendum campaign leads to some soul searching on both sides.

Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.

Following an election campaign that featured immigration as a hot topic, the vote was seen as test of strength for far - right parties, such as Fratelli d'Italia and Lega, that have campaigned on an anti-immigration stance.

Supporters in the five states set to vote on recreational marijuana had a war chest of $ 30 million as of Oct. 20, compared to just $ 6.6 million for their rivals, according to campaign finance data collected by the nonpartisan site Ballotpedia.

The use of «new media» from friend building on Friendster to the seemingly simple text message proved to be a powerhouse for the campaign, as it extended the concept of «Team Obama» far beyond campaign headquarters literally into the hands of millions of Americans who voted and vocalized with their typing fingers.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

Tsipras is campaigning for a no vote in the referendum on Sunday, which is officially on whether to accept a tough earlier bailout offer, to impress on EU negotiators that spiralling poverty and a collapse in everyday business activity across Greece has meant further austerity should be ruled out of any new rescue package.

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The documents were presumably provided by Wylie (pictured below), who has also handed email and other documentary evidence to the DCMS committee investigating online disinformation in political campaigning, as well as to the UK's data watchdog and Electoral Commission — both of which are also probing digital political campaigning issues (including around the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote, which Wylie alleges CA also worked on).

Having previously worked across the corporate governance, equities research, private equity and strategy consulting sectors, Michael now advises ASX boards and senior managers on governance - related matters and in the execution of corporate actions and vote - related company meetings, including shareholder activism campaigns and proxy battles both in Australia and abroad.

Research shows that boomers may also have been instrumental in voting President Trump into office, which increases the probability that this generation has an anchored belief that he will yet deliver on any outstanding campaign promises.

He points out ways in which Facebook's impact on the 2016 campaign was positive — such as its get - out - the - vote effort — and says that the media has mischaracterized the company's role.

He touched on his past opposition to free - trade agreements, his support for heavier regulations of Wall Street and the nation's banking industry, and his vote against the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a preview of his campaign.

Centrify, a proponent of a relatively new approach to enterprise security called Zero Trust, on April 16 at the RSA Security Conference revealed the industry's first IT campaign to Secure the Vote for the 2018 elections.

But, in my view, it would be a serious mistake to give shareholders a vote (advisory or otherwise) on companies» campaign spending.

Just last week, the Federal Election Commission, which regulates political campaign activity, voted to begin writing rules that detail the kinds of disclaimers they will require on online and mobile political ads to identify sponsors.

An election campaign should be open to the voting public, not just to select groups of well - scrubbed partisans applauding on cue.

he is following through in a high profile and aggressive manner on his campaign platform and his personal goal to bring visibility of all levels of public government spending to the voting public.

Last week, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted to make public a GOP - drafted memo that contained allegations the FBI abused its power to spy on the Trump campaign.

It is getting tiresome hearing everyone on the radio yapping about how voters were conned by the slick campaign machinery to vote NDP; or that we voted against the PCs rather than for the NDP; or that we were angry and so made rash decisions that we will promptly regret because everyone knows what a hash the NDP have made wherever they have reigned.

With Peter MacKay and Jason Kenney on the sidelines of the Conservative leadership battle, a critical number of votes are up for grabs in the campaign to find a successor for Stephen Harper.

But the problem here is that Cambridge Analytica did not just employ sophisticated mass marketing, it went the whole hog and ran very specific targeted marketing campaigns for Trump while an allegedly linked Canadian company used the same technology on behalf of the Vote Leave campaign during the EU Referendum.

of the vote on Sunday following months of bitter campaigning that pitted him against all major opposition parties, including the anti-system 5 - Star Movement.

Chief executive of the Yes campaign, Blair Jenkins, said: «People know that a «Yes» vote is Scotland's one opportunity to achieve job - creating powers, protect our NHS from the damaging impact of Westminster cuts and privatisation, and ensure that never again do we get Tory governments imposed on Scotland that we have roundly rejected.»

As the final day of campaigning continues in Scotland ahead of Thursday's referendum on independence, a Catholic MSP says a yes vote comes with too many risks.

Boehner is manipulative and a hypocrite — actually helping the oil companies by handing out their campaign checks for them right there on the house floor (you couldn't make this up) before a related vote.

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

One progressive Catholic group made political hay out of Santorum's weak showing among Ohio Catholics, emailing reporters a statement titled «Santorum campaigns on divisive wedge issues, promptly loses Catholic vote.»

Voted YES on allowing some lobbyist gifts to Congress Voted NO on banning campaign donations from unions & corporations Voted NO on banning more types of Congressional gifts less

But while I agree with them on many economic policies, I flatly refuse to vote for anyone in bed with the fundamentalists who are campaigning to take away the rights of their fellow citizens.

With the addition of more and more services, including research of public wants, needs, fears and hopes as well as follow - up studies of advertising effects on sales, votes, or simple acceptance, the more general term marketing has grown in use to signify all the varied parts of an orchestrated campaign to «move» any entity, from soap to Senators, into a market.

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.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD recommends in that tentative way characteristic of so many Republicans this year that everyone on Tuesday vote Santorum to keep the campaign going.

After working on the Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign of 1952, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. summarized his candidate's defeat by saying, «Having been enabled by Democratic administrations to live like Republicans, the new suburbanites ended up voting like Republicans.»

The movement has three parts: individuals and networks that use violence to advance their political goals; those who reject any system based on non-Islamic law but who aren't violent; and those who interact with society by voting or campaigning for Islamic law.