Bill de Blasio: «Sometimes there
are elections where people feel that the candidates are all alike.
And then there
are the elections where an incumbent premier remains in office, happily waving in triumph from a Downing Street window.
It is well known that prior to 1974, class based voting was even stronger than shown in the charts here so 2017 could
be the election where Labour which founded to represent the interests of the working class find themselves supplanted in that role by the Conservatives.
Andy Williamson writes that while the 2015 General Election was not an internet election,
it was an election where both data and social tools mattered.
Many of the ideas he has championed in the past have ultimately been taken up by Democrats, and some have been turned into law — but could
this be the election where he will have a more direct say on future policy?
«This would
be an election where we could seize the opportunity,» says Anna Greenberg of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, who worked for the group.
This is the election where an LDS Candidate can win!
This was an election where Labour was too slow to realise that working class memories of what a Tory government is like were strong.
This is an election where the American people are sickened by voting for either an insolent billionaire or someone who serves billionaires.
Not exact matches
Tim Farron's party has reaped the rewards since becoming the country's leading anti-Brexit party, including a stunning victory in December's by -
election in Richmond Park,
where the Tory to Lib Dem swing
was a huge 21.73 %.
Prior to her current role, Nancy
was a General Assignment reporter in London
where she reported regularly on the EU referendum and the French
election.
Scott's candidacy
is a bright spot for Republicans in a year
where Democratic enthusiasm
is expected to
be overwhelming, as evidenced by the recent wave of recent Democratic victories in special
elections in Alabama and Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, voting
is underway in Iran's presidential
election where President Hassan Rouhani
is bidding for a second term in office.
One option, cited by Italian newspaper La Republicca,
is where the main two parties Lega and M5S agree to allow for an interim technocratic government that would modify the electoral law and pass the budget, with the view to return to
elections back in October.
When I ask Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid
where she voted in last November's
elections, which brought her to power, she responds as if my question
is dumb: «From my computer at home.»
The growing anti-establishment sentiment
is a concern for many, especially in Europe,
where a raft of key
elections is happening this year.
Four days before Christmas they will take it to the ballot boxes in regional
elections where they aim to show they
are stronger than ever.
«People making their own signs, I mean, when have you ever seen that in an
election,
where somebody
is going to make their own signs?»
«We
are back to
where we
were back in November... before the
election.»
Quite apart from the merits of the allegations, the Democrats
are anxious to
be seen as tougher on harassment to sharpen their profile in next week's special
election in Alabama,
where Republican candidate Roy Moore still leads opinion polls despite facing multiple unsavory allegations of his own.
And so this sleeper issue — largely absent during the
election itself — looks like one place
where the Conservatives will decide incremental change
is no longer good enough and a more brash approach
is required.
«For sure, the priorities
are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian
election result which pointed to a hung parliament
where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.
In addition, this
is an
election that Republican candidate Donald Trump has claimed
is «rigged,» and
where he has urged his followers to go to «certain sections» of states like Pennsylvania and monitor the polls to make sure the
elections are not stolen from him.
Assange, 45, who remains at the Ecuadoran embassy in London
where he sought refuge in 2012 to avoid possible extradition to Sweden, said the
election material
was «significant» and would come out before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential
election.
Violence has escalated in the highlands,
where gas
is produced for the LNG project, due to anger among locals over the nation's
election process earlier this year and disputes over royalties from the PNG LNG project, an observer said.
Also worrying for Goldsmith
is how things
are shaping up in outer London,
where as things stand, he and Khan
are neck and neck (42 - 41 %) despite the fact that fellow Tory Boris Johnson comfortably won this region in the 2012
election.
His quick acceptance of the results eased tensions in the volatile nation
where the latest presidential
election, in 2013, narrowly won by Maduro,
was bitterly disputed and
where anti-government protests last year led to 43 deaths.
«Whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of
where he or she wants to take the country and has to run on those ideas, because the
election can not
be about personalities, participants sniping.
So it
's complicated for them as to what they do and what we've
been doing
is dealing with them during a period
where they
're actually having what we would call an
election,» he said.
«2016
was a close
election where filter bubbles & algorithmic funneling
was weaponized for spreading misinformation,» she said.
Werner, a campaign strategist at Public Citizen,
is attending the hearing
where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
is testifying to draw attention to the social network's failure to stop the misuse of its site during the 2016 presidential
election.
A political system
where candidates often need to
be independently wealthy and well connected to win
elections favors those with higher salaries, which
are more often enjoyed by men, she says.
That message orchestration starts in Stouffville, Ont.,
where he
was reportedly set announce a small business tax cut shortly before noon, effectively returning to a 2015
election promise then failed to deliver on in the government's first two budgets.
His London mayoral
election campaign,
where he
was widely accused of running a racist «dog - whistle» campaign against Sadiq Khan, appeared to have hurt his support among left and liberal - leaning voters.
The watershed moment for Spencer and his National Policy Institute came just after the 2016
election that elevated Trump to the presidency — in a video from The Atlantic that
was viewed by millions of people, Spencer
was seen delivering a speech at an NPI conference in Washington, DC
where he used Nazi salutes, imagery, and phrases to celebrate Trump's victory as a victory for his cause.
Twitter
is betting that it can become a place for live video streams of all kinds, including sporting events like soccer and baseball, as well as news events like the Grammy Awards and the
election campaign,
where it partnered with a number of broadcasters to stream their coverage.
The list of the top 10 that lost the most sleep
was understandably stacked with East Coast states,
where the
election ended later in the night due to the time difference.
Following Switzerland
is France,
where the National Front earned around 14 percent of the country's vote in the past three presidential
elections.
It
's easy to see
where that growth will come from, following
Election Day victories — medical use for treating such things as cancer and glaucoma
was approved or expanded in Florida, Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota, and recreational use
was approved in California, Massachusetts, Maine and Nevada.
Then there
's Slovakia,
where in March
's election 23 % of first - time voters backed the neo-Nazi People
's Party Our Slovakia party (L'SNS).
By meeting them
where they
are, with messengers that they trust, and in a voice that resonates, it
's our goal to make sure they know that politics and
elections can impact their lives,» Feriozzi told Business Insider in a statement.
Merkel's Christian Democrat party lost in two of the three states
where the
elections were held.
Karnataka Assembly
Elections 2018: PM Modi will address a rally in Santhemarahalli town of Chamarajanagar district,
where the party has never
been very strong, as local leaders believe the BJP has the opportunity to make gains in the region.
Strikes on the power grid in key areas could disrupt the predicted outcome of a Presidential
election — especially in key swing states
where polling
is extremely close.
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?
shocked the country when he defeated Republican Roy Moore in the Dec. 12 special
election to replace then - GOP Sen. Luther Strange — and he
's off to a fine start among voters in Alabama,
where 47 percent approve of him and 25 percent disapprove.
Citing two sources familiar with the company's plans, the newspaper said Apple communicated privately to Republicans that it would not donate gadgets or cash to the party's convention in Cleveland from July 18 to 21,
where delegates
are expected to nominate Donald Trump as the party's candidate in the Nov 8 general
election.
It assures that we avoid «failed
elections» (scenarios
where directors fail to achieve the votes necessary to
be elected, resulting in vacancies on our board).
In Poland, parliamentary
elections will take place October 25,
where the opposition party
is currently gaining power for the first time in eight years.
During the midterm
elections, they will have to confirm who they
are and
where in the U.S. they
're located.