Sentences with phrase «campaign over his votes»

But he also faced questions during his campaign over his votes for Cuomo - supported legislation and budgets during his career in Albany.

Not exact matches

Marketing is evolving from large campaigns created over a period of time, to small snippets of creativity that are immediately available for scrutinising, voting and public consumption.

The day before the vote, London odds makers gave 80 % chance that Remain would be victorious, as polls revealed a 10 - point edge over the Leave campaign.

In other words, over his two campaigns for president, more Americans will have actually physically voted for President Obama than for any other candidate in history.

More recently, The Anger Machine has been in a similar fulminating swivet over the suggestion by some observers of the recent British «Brexit» vote that, um, a certain lack of tolerance may have played a role in the Leave side's campaign.

This time around, the proposal is expected to tilt toward approval almost entirely by virtue of Mr. Biglari's transparent campaign to undertake circular purchases of Biglari Holdings shares through a company - funded investment vehicle over which he exercises sole managerial and voting control.

While both parties have denied explicit wrongdoing, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are facing whistleblower claims this data was used to support Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign, with the latter firm also being said to have yielded influence over other democratic votes including the EU referendum.

Are campaigning and voting the be-all and end - all of Christian political action, or are we better off diverting some of those dollars and hours to less flashy projects that have the potential to leaven political culture over the long haul?

I'm voting for President Obama no matter what, but I want a campaign that will improve the level of debate over IMPORTANT issues (debt, jobs, health care, getting our troops home.)

Everyone who had a vote and a bid clearly wanted to trade that vote for something that helped them get over the line in that campaign.

Star man Milos Ninkovic became Sydney FC's first recipient of the Johnny Warren Medal - the player voted the Hyundai A-League's best - while the Sky Blues ended their campaign with a thrilling Grand Final penalty shootout win (4 - 2) over Melbourne Victory at their home ground of Allianz Stadium, to be crowned double winners for the second time.

As the Obama presidency has unfolded, it seems it has been a mixture of both; nevertheless, the fact that Obama did not run for election as a Black candidate (despite winning over 90 % of the votes of the African American community) but rather ran a strategically race - neutral campaign is a testament to the complicated relationship the United States has with race.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week launched new salvos against Republican Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney over their votes in support of the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Clearly concerned about slipping poll numbers in Iowa, Hillary Clinton's campaign went after Bernie Sanders this week, attacking him over past gun - control votes and his health care proposals.

Hi folks, Quick Hits is off this week, but our friends over at the Campaign Workshop have posted a nice alternative to our usual Friday reading list: they've pulled together links to some of the best Get Out The Vote guides online, from sources like the New Organizing Institute, Campaigns & Elections and our own Epolitics.com.

Photo courtesy Wikipedia Hi folks, Quick Hits is off this week, but our friends over at the Campaign Workshop have posted a nice alternative to our usual Friday reading list: they've pulled together links to some of the best Get Out The Vote guides online, from sources like the New...

Background: Over the recent months of observing different campaigns for presidential election in the U.S. and their one - sided views on everything, I got to the point of thinking that indirect vote by representatives of the people is not working any more.

Still, adding to the political dimension of the vote over the health care legislation, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee blasted Faso's vote for discharging the bill from committee.

Cochran's campaign dove in hard over the last three weeks — spending more than a half - million dollars on a data - driven get - out - the - vote effort.

This week, insiders began a whisper campaign that Alice Cancel had the most votes from the committee going into tomorrow's (S) election process in which new votes are taken over and over again until a candidate reaches 50 %.

Despite the recent attempt by the Cuomo campaign at a rapprochement with the Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent black leader publicly announced over the weekend that he will be voting for NYC Councilman Charles Barron for governor on the Freedom Party line.

Even though I decided not to vote, I found myself hating the Yes campaign because it came over as an awful pile of whiny «progressive» bullshit.

Although the odds remain against Smith, he will be hoping that an enthusiastic campaign over the next month will do enough to persuade Corbyn backers, including among the third tranche who can take part — the 70,000 union affiliates — to either switch their vote or not cast it at all.

Democrats should refuse to vote on President Donald Trump's pick for the next FBI director unless a special prosecutor is named to take over the investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

For every vote they lost to UKIP over the first four weeks of the campaign they gained two back from UKIP.

Given the intensity of the combined attacks from the Lowey campaign, the local media, and the county Republican chairman, I am very pleased with receiving 38 % of the total vote, with many districts reporting over 60 %.

And even then, heading into Election Day, the campaign's internal modeling predicted an electorate that voted for Mitt Romney over Obama by 2 percentage points.

The promise of an In / Out referendum under a Conservative Government late in the next Parliament will draw much of the poison that has plagued the party over the EU issue since Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech - by making it clear to those MPs and party members opposed to EU membership that in such circumstances they will have an opportunity to campaign for a No vote.

However, the vote share of both main parties was eroded over the final few weeks of the campaign.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

So far, over 63,000 votes have been counted for our campaign, with many absentee and military ballots still uncounted.

Phil / Jane / Dave / Regular Joe... You are going to hear the same drum beaten over and over until your boss Flanagan agrees to bring a meaningful campaign finance bill to the Senate for a vote (where it will pass 60 + to zero).

From the «betrayal» of the Lib Dems over the Jeremy Hunt vote, when Clegg's party abstained and won the enmity of vast swathes of the Tory party, or the vicious tactics of the «no» campaign in the electoral reform referendum which disgusted Lib Dems and led to open rowing at Cabinet, the «calm and businesslike» relationship between the two parties has become a myth anywhere below the most senior levels.

The labor groups — still steaming over the Senate's surprise vote last month to boost the cap on charter schools — are promising candidates as much as $ 200,000 in campaign cash to take on leading charter proponent Sen. Craig Johnson (D - LI), The Post has learned.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro wasn't on the ballot this year, so the week of the general election wasn't spent campaigning or stressing over vote tallies.

What the chart shows is that, while previous election polls do converge toward the result over the final three weeks of the campaign, they still tend to overestimate the Labour vote — even on the very eve of the election.

With many Democrats already unhappy over the vote by McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn) against health - care reform, Democratic county committee member John Lavelle Jr. said it was «disturbing» to see the lawmaker's campaign staffer on Ms. Malliotakis» page, especially given the fact that Ms. Hyer - Spencer represents a swing district crucial to McMahon's re-election chances this fall.

As Mr. Rangel's lead whittled down to just 802 votes over the weekend, the Espaillat campaign hired election law guru Marty Connor and promoted a hotline available for voters to register complaints about Election Day shenanigans.

She received over 100,000 votes in her previous campaign for the position, a Green Party record.

Democratic Senate candidate Regina Calcaterra's campaign has posted the audio of a robocall received by a resident of the 1st SD that reveals the Republicans were trying to gague public reaction to a possible government shutdown over the weekend even as they signaled a willingness to provide votes to avoid it.

Just over a year ago, the Brexit referendum returned a Leave vote after a campaign based on the notion of parliamentary sovereignty.

The seat of Luton South has been taken over by the Labour candidate Gavin Shuker with 14,725 votes - despite a high - profile campaign from Esther Rantzen.

Teachout, who worked on former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, but was relatively unknown in New York political circles, was empowered by the fact that she received just over 41 percent of the weighted WFP convention vote.

However, the Guardian understands three of the campaign teams are still pushing for extra checks to be run on the 367,000 new members and supporters who have signed up to vote since the general election over fears undiscovered infiltration could make a difference in a tight contest.

But there's no way Klein would vote for Sampson, who has been widely speculated to be on his last legs as leader for months now — a speculation that has continued despite the fact that he just presided over a campaign effort that might have returned his party to power.

In a Siena poll conducted during Obama's first campaign, Democrats planned to vote for him over Sen. John McCain 77 - 12.

The Niagara Falls City Council unanimously voted to name embattled Councilman Charles A. Walker as its chairman Monday night despite Walker being charged two months ago with four misdemeanors over his failure to file required campaign finance reports.

It's all over bar the shouting as the polls have closed after an intense few days of campaigning and a busy voting day.

The Democratic Party and the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will sue the state of Arizona over voter access to the polls after the state's presidential primary last month left thousands of residents waiting as long as five hours to vote.

Charlene DiCalogero, 12th Worcester: 1st time candidate, 19.7 % of the vote in a small - town - rural mixed economic area, against a 22 - year incumbent Democrat native to the area, with over $ 321,000 in his campaign fund at the start of the race and raised an additional $ 54K, while I raised circa $ 3,000.