Sentences with phrase «about equal votes»

I got just about equal votes for each, including one really funny comment after I referred to our gathering as «Mexi - Rican Easter» since we've got some Puerto Rican cousins in my extended family on my stepmother's side.

Not exact matches

All other things remaining equal, one would expect «voted» spending in 2011 - 12 to be about $ 11 billion.

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

It is not about getting votes: regardless of whether a candidate receives one nomination or ten, each candidate is given equal consideration.

And it is chutzpah for a pro-FPTP party to talk about votes having an «equal value» if you equalise constituency size in an electoral system where they do not.

I've been reading a lot about voting systems, and Score Voting seems like a pretty good system, but Equal Vote Coalition advocates «Score Runoff Voting» (name changed to STAR Voting = Score Then...

Her about - turn will bring to mind the actions of education secretary Nicky Morgan, who also voted against equal marriage and then indicated she had changed her mind after being given the equalities portfolio last year.

Farron has been attacked in the past about his voting record on equal marriage, but he is not the only Westminster leader to be vulnerable in this area.

On an equal amount of votes — 34.5 % a piece — the Conservatives would have almost fifty seats more than Labour, Labour would need to have a lead of about four points over the Conservatives just to get the most seats in a hung Parliament.

Teachout has also been called out for repeatedly lying about Faso's voting attendance record while serving in the state Assembly as well as asserting that he opposed equal pay for equal work.

If he is serious about devolving more powers to Scotland by January, he must say whether he supports an equal settlement for England — English votes for English laws

13 % of members said the recent insinuations about David Cameron using drugs in the past and his refusal to answer questions about it had made them less like to vote for Cameron, but an equal amount of members said it had made them more likely to vote for Cameron.

«I am appealing to all those who care about women's equality, fracking, Albany corruption, clean energy, full and equal funding of schools, the end of high stakes testing, and all the other progressive values Ms. Teachout stood for in her campaign to vote for me on election day,» Hawkins said in a statement.

We've got legal challenges, I think there may still be further legal challenges about the process, issues about who can vote who can't vote, many party members who have been active for years distressed to see people who have been campaigning against the party with an equal vote to them in these circumstances, and I think we've made a series of mistakes.

This message emphasises that not only is a «no» vote about the huge cost of AV, and the political consequences of changing our voting system, it is also about the fundamental right of every citizen to cast an equal vote.

All else being equal, endorsing voting as a mark of good citizenship boosted anticipated engagement by about one - eighth of a standard deviation - a slightly larger impact than resulted from an increase in parents» education of one standard deviation.

[Click on image to enlarge etc.] Though this cartoon, «Create or Die» is less than a week old, it seemed to really resonate with people, and by the time the end of last week rolled around, the number of people emailing me about this image almost equaled those who voted for Wolf v. Sheep.