Sentences with phrase «as electoral issues»

But Labour has neutered immigration and Brexit as electoral issues by simply signing up to a hard Brexit that leaves the single market and ends freedom of movement.

Even Obama's plan to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, considered by White House advisor to be a sure - fire winner as an electoral issue, made little headway.

But the political power of ethics as an electoral issue will also be an undercurrent in 2016: The Republicans currently hold the slimmest of majorities in the 63 - seat Senate, with 31 seats and the help of Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans.

Not exact matches

Skillful use of wedge issues such as abortion could make an electoral difference in that context.

As with the economy, it is the political parties that gain public confidence in this issue area which stand to enjoy a better chance of electoral success.

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«Divisive issues such as Hezbollah's weapons and the controversy over its participation in regional conflicts are almost entirely absent from the electoral campaigns, indicating implicit acceptance of the party's domestic hegemony,» wrote analyst Joseph Bahout in an article for the Carnegie Middle East Center.

«Clearly immigration, trade and terrorism were key issues that swayed electoral opinion in a very significant way, just as they did in the U.K., and probably will in the European referenda and elections to come,» he continued.

Now, the Catholic Church of the 1980s was nothing like as potent a force as it had been in the age of Cardinal Spellman, when it could count on the solid electoral support of most of its faithful, and it already faced major revolts over issues of gender and sexuality.

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

I agree that I'd like to see electoral reform as one of the issues debated in the leadership contest.

But beyond electoral processes, it is just as vital to the health of a democracy that ordinary citizens are meaningfully involved in the discourse concerning issues affecting their lives and country.

Today's second change: the previously announced transparency rules will apply not just to electoral ads but to issue ads as well.

But beyond broadening the range of issues up for discussion, the presence of an older politician as a credible contender (Corbyn is 66) marks a long - overdue shift in British electoral politics.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

Where an application for registration as an elector has been received before the issue of a writ and it has not been possible for the Electoral Commission to ascertain, at the time of the issue of the writ, whether the applicant is currently registered as an elector of another electoral district, the Electoral Commission must, subject to subsection (4), include the name of the applicant on any main, supplementary, or composite roll printed as at writ day.

The UMP is bitterly divided, especially over the Schengen issue while the Socialist Party has kept a low profile a few weeks after a severe electoral defeat in city council elections and as president Hollande hit rock bottom, being identified as the most unpopular president ever.

He added: «The most charitable thing you can say is that Andrew viewed it as being a hot - button issue that ought not be engaged for fear of electoral consequence.»

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

These include proportional representation, which the left and the party generally are divided on, and for which, as indicated by the 2011 alternative vote fiasco, there is little public support, but it is linked to the proposal for an electoral pact with some of the smaller parties, and for that reason needs to be considered well before the election, as does the issue of winning back the Labour vote in Scotland, or at least starting to.

Zac Goldsmith's decision to resign as a Tory MP and contest his Richmond Park seat in a by - election as an independent, in protest at the government's decision to build a third Heathrow runway, has raised the thorny issue of electoral pacts.

Labour believes health will be a key electoral issue as voters start to worry less about the economy and more about the NHS as it begins to suffer from the coalition's structural shakeup, declining staff morale after years of frozen pay and a budget not increasing fast enough to cope with the ageing population.

Nick Clegg has signalled his determination to press ahead with reform of the House of Lords in a move likely to anger Conservative MPs who have identified the issue as an electoral millstone that contributed to the dismal performance by coalition parties in last week's local elections.

Gerrymandering is part of the issue as is the current electoral college structure.

The report stresses that its gloomy conclusions are based less on the immediate issue of Corbyn's leadership than on long - term issues such as the impact of Brexit, the collapse of support in Scotland and electoral mathematics.

«This training is intended to diversify your knowledge and capacity as well as equip you to deliver electoral security services as professionals highlighting the link between security and human rights issues as it relates to elections.

As a Commissioner in INEC, she would want to address the issue of gender mainstreaming in electoral process.

Nwankwo said that Nigerians were keen on discussing the issue of security interference in elections organised by INEC as they would not want a relapse into the pre-2007 and 2010 days which were marked by subversion of the electoral process by security operatives.

Gov. Cuomo, who has feuded with de Blasio on a host of issues, also proposed a host of electoral reforms, including public financing of elections, early voting and same day voter registration, as part of his State of the State address in January.

It smacked of a 35 percent strategy: a timid desire to play it safe politically - to score on «open goal» policy issues such as the NHS - in the knowledge that due to an electoral quirk, Labour will win a majority in the next Parliament if it breaks the 35 percent threshold.

As the shock of the Heywood and Middleton by - election has shown, an electoral strategy comprised of a single - issue focus on the NHS is not going to cut the mustard.

But he has not tackled many of the more urgent questions and issues (such as electoral reform).

The survey, which also served as a fund - raising letter for the DNC, asks about such issues as the economy, environment, raising the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, getting «weapons of war off our streets,» electoral reform, abortion rights, and gay and transgender rights.

As if Labour didn't have enough issues to excite local campaigners the plans for so - called «Eco Towns» look to be another threat to Mr Brown's electoral chances.

Like Gibson, Faso found electoral success by running as a moderate pragmatist with a firm grip on bread - and - butter issues — like the cost of home heating oil and price supports for dairy farmers — that matter to Hudson Valley residents, regardless of their ideology.

As some claimed the result placed Labour on track for electoral meltdown, the general secretary of a trade union that has backed Corbyn in two leadership elections issued a stark warning.

But the political cost of using, say, religion as an electoral wedge issue if the Muslim Bawumia were to emerge as the NPP's flagbearer would be too prohibitive for the NDC itself.

Man in a Shed, yes it seems like a no brainer to me, and its an issue he can get angry about Labour's discrimination against English people, wrong footing Labour and putting them on the back foot with the biggest electoral group, and as you rightly point out, its not a policy Brown can pinch.

«Republicans could do considerably better in electoral outcomes if they were to voice a green opinion on the issue, just as some of them did yesterday,» Krosnick said, referring to the votes.

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It is not through the invocation of a substantive electoral right contained in the Treaties that Member States are restricting that the issue falls within Union law — rather it is an implicit obligation contained in Article 14 (3) TEU as reflected in the 1976 Act that elections be universal and direct; it is a general obligation placed on Member States to ensure the democratic integrity of EP elections that catches electoral law and subjects it to review under the Charter.

The final point to be made concerning Delvigne is with the underlying issue of substance and the propriety of depriving individuals of electoral rights as a consequence of criminal activity.

The permanent register shall be updated with respect to an individual electoral district as soon as possible after a writ is issued for a by - election to be held there, unless the most recent previous updating was done within two months before the day the writ is issued.

But, for many decades, political experts and analysts have questioned the logistical issue of popular petitions, and political commentators have described the structural problem of the electoral system of Brazil as the basis for most of the country's political issues.