Sentences with phrase «around election campaigning»

The lesson to take away is the need for more stringent regulations around election campaigning.

Not exact matches

According to The Manila Times, Nix claimed that his company had seen a «100 % success rate» in election campaigns around the world, including Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Earlier this month Denham told MPs on the DCMS committee that's investigating fake news that her office would be pushing for increased transparency around data flows and disclosure rules for digital political advertising — suggesting a code of conduct is needed to regulate the use of social media in political campaigns, referendums and elections.

Cambridge Analytica worked for Donald Trump's election campaign after previously having been employed for his Republican rival Ted Cruz, and carried out political consulting work around the world.

The revelations around Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections which boasts of «handling» 100 election campaigns in more than 30 countries across five continents — principally by manipulating Facebook data — are shocking, and we're not going to tolerate such data manipulation any longer.

The B.C. Liberals told British Columbians one thing about the cost of the B.C. Place roof throughout the election campaign, only to turn around and jack up the budget by 58 per cent:

Liberal Democrat former business secretary Sir Vince Cable has said party leader Tim Farron didn't handle questions around gay rights and his Christian faith well during the election campaign.

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

The Congress, led by Sonia Gandhi, had built its election campaign around the travails of the ordinary Indian in the age of globalization.

I believe this country is Election Weary in ways I have never seen in all my life, and I've been around since Kennedy was President; which was the last time that religion played such a role in the presidential campaign.

MPs from around Australia flew into Barnaby Joyce's electorate during last year's by - election campaign — on the taxpayer dollar.

This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.

The March 20 special election is right around the corner, and Democratic Common Council Member Michael «Mickey» Kearns is kicking his campaign for the 145th Assembly District up a notch with an ad that slams his opponent as nothing but a «puppet» of Speaker Sheldon Silver.

During the campaigning days of this year's general election, Simon Roberts drove a motorhome around the UK chronicling candidates of all political persuasions.

In spite of the probe being centered around Russian meddling in the election, the FBI can pursue campaign finance / money laundering investigations.

All this will be the case in the fall too when the vastly bigger and more complicated Obama and Romney campaigns and their many allies square off for the Presidential Election, drawing on money and manpower from around the country but focusing their efforts on a dozen or so swing states.

I arranged the VIP seating at that year's party conference and drew up the campaigning schedule for Blair's election tour around the country.

Campaigning around the general election was dominated by three topics; the NHS, the economy and immigration.

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.

One Republican who works in the field, who did not want to be named discussing campaigns» hiring maneuvers, said some presidential pre-campaigns were asking around about digital strategists even before the 2014 election was over.

The number of women donating to political campaigns is climbing to new heights ahead of this year's midterm elections as women swarm to politics and run in record numbers for Congress and other elected posts around the country.

A series of local events highlighting legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions is being held around the state this week and next as part of a build - up to the formal launch of a new coalition called Fair Elections for New York on April 17.

Executives at Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that worked on digital ads for President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, were caught on camera suggesting that the firm could use sex workers, bribes, ex-spies and fake news to help candidates win votes around the world, a new investigation has revealed.

Common Cause / NY is an active member of the Fair Elections Coalition, working for the passage of a broad package of campaign finance measures, built around a core of small donor matching fund public financing of eElections Coalition, working for the passage of a broad package of campaign finance measures, built around a core of small donor matching fund public financing of electionselections.

Case in point: When Scott Brown won the Massachusetts special election last January, GOP candidates around the country leveraged the spike in online reading and sharing — despite having zero direct connection to Brown's campaign.

In recent days, Heastie's use of his campaign funds, his donations and steering of member items to contributors have come under the magnifying glass as Assembly Democrats coalesce around his election as speaker.

Rather disarmingly for an election campaign with a lot of bad blood flowing around the two seem to get on pretty well, as if this were a case of two mates having a political argument all over the street.

But chief whip Michael Gove has succeeded in getting many Conservative MPs to stick around by telling them they must attend an election briefing from campaign strategist Lynton Crosby this morning.

Barring a substantial shift in the last few days of campaigning — which seems unlikely given that 91 per cent of Labour voters say they probably will not change their minds — we can expect a swing from the Liberal Democrats to Labour of around 8 per cent since the general election.

The company has suspended its CEO, Alexander Nix, who was filmed as part of a Channel 4 investigation giving examples of how the firm could swing elections around the world with underhand tactics such as smear campaigns and honey traps.

The groups, also strong supporters of comprehensive campaign finance reform built around a core of public financing of elections, today focused on the urgent need for ethics reform as another essential way to address the problems created by a money culture in Albany.

The party contested the 2009 European elections around the slogan of «Make Greed History», campaigning for a Europe - wide tax on millionaires, [23] and also achieved a higher vote share than in the Scottish Parliament election.

He referred to a 16 - point pledge card the Conservatives distributed around the country at the height of the 2010 election campaign.

Tague said he's been interested in the seat since Lopez stepped down last year; he said he began campaigning for the seat two days after it was vacated and contacted all 316 Republican committee people in the district after the county chairs began special election process «around Dec. 6.»

The data shows for the first time that Hamilton spent around # 11,000 on transport during the European elections, while Farage spent # 350 on transport during the same campaign.

The challengers seeking seats on the Southold Town Board this Election Day centered their campaigns around the idea that there's a need for change in a town where all five board members have been elected with Republican support.

The only concrete policy from his leadership campaign - to pull the party out of the EPP - is looking increasingly misguided, while most other positioning seems to revolve around finding something the Tories backed at the last election and opposing it.

Imagine the boost to our campaigns, for elections soon after, if our candidates were selected in open primaries that require engagement with tens of thousands of Labour voters around the city even before the mayoral election gets under way.

But then what has Golden done for Bay Ridge recently other that offer free food at the family catering hall, paid for with campaign funds around election time?

Seems odd that young Christopher Myers (25) should go from driving William Hague (49) around his constituency during elections, where according to the Mirror, «although he never worked at Tory HQ in London... they became close during campaigns», to become his third Special Adviser at the Foreign Office.

It's not unusual for a campaign to use office mail to reach out to constituents right as Election Day is around the corner.

Fair Elections for New York, an umbrella group for several organizations that has the politically connected SKD Knickberbocker firm running its PR, is beginning an $ 800,000 ad campaign and plans several rallies around the state this month as lawmakers begin a two - week break from Albany.

The state Board of Elections» July 15 campaign finance report deadline is right around the corner...

Press Association's chief political photographer Stefan Rousseau has followed both David Cameron and Ed Miliband around the UK for the 2015 election campaign.

When the election was called, only around 25 % of people intended to vote Labour, by the end of the campaign 40 % had done so.

With candidates vying for votes ahead of New York City's September primary and November general elections, many in and around campaigns know that the state's antiquated election laws will, in part, ensure that a small percentage of potential voters will cast ballots among limited choices.

Such an overhaul is not entirely unprecedented particularly given that Steele ousted incumbent RNC Chairman Mike Duncan from the job in the vote last week and his entire message during that campaign was built around the idea that change was needed after the disastrous GOP showing in the 2008 election.

«With less than two weeks until Election Day, it's going to take more than a minor miracle by the Paladino campaign to turn the gubernatorial race around,» Greenberg said in a statement.

Labour would refuse to accept «no - go areas» around the country in the run - up to the general election campaign, Harman insisted.

Jack Martins, has penned a letter to Risa Sugarman, chief enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, calling for a probe of the transfer of just over $ 66,000 in three separate transactions by the Curran campaign to the state Democratic Party, which then turned around and used the money to pay BerlinRosen for direct mailers for Curran.