Sentences with phrase «conservative candidates»

The Democrat on the ballot had lost to the incumbent in 2006 and had a reputation as a decidedly unpleasant person, but she still ended up winning and beating a popular Republican challenger in 2008, partly due to his having difficulty convincing voters he would be any better and partly due to two more conservative candidates hopping into the race — both very real possibilities for Republicans in 2010.

Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone got late infusions totaling $ 65,000 from two well - known donors to Republicans — former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and local hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, who usually funds conservative candidates and causes.

So I think if he's still the leader that is bound to work in favour of Conservative candidates.»

Just know that none of these Conservative candidates nor Ms. Gillibrand have significantly taken a line drawn in the sand on 1) writing their own jobs bill for national consequence 2) Fracking position definitively 3) Major student loan reform 4) Raising minimum wage 5) Single Payer Health Care, or bringing back Glass - Steagall.

Cuccinelli's side wanted a set of changes to the Republican nominating process, including more closed primaries, that would empower conservative candidates and decentralize power within the RNC.

«The youngest members of the potential next intake of Conservative MPs Main The oldest Conservative candidates bidding to enter Parliament at the next election»

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It's always been clear to me that Zac Goldsmith is one of the most independent - minded Conservative candidates fighting this general election.

DeMint has clashed with his party establishment's leaders this election cycle, as he's backed staunchly conservative candidates over the sometimes more moderate GOP - backed ones.

Grant Shapps said the party will stand in every seat and its hopefuls will «only ever be on the ballot paper as Conservative candidates».

(Neither of the Conservative candidates responded to requests for comment.

But since then Senators who cast their votes for gay marriage have been ousted from office, many some faced challenges from more conservative candidates that split the vote and enabled a Democrat to win.

With an enormously crowded Republican field filled with more conservative candidates, any conceivable available space for Pataki lies to the left of that conservative and ultra conservative pack.

The strategy in finding key conservative candidates is to speak the conservative language.

And sixfive Conservative candidates will be given the same treatment, with Lord Pearson identifying the following at his press conference (I will seek the identity of the others) along with two others:

Sen. Jeff Flake, R - Ariz., has been critical of his own party for nominating controversial conservative candidates for high office.

The first six Conservative candidates to be contesting constituency seats at next year's Scottish Parliament election have recently been selected.

But he could be forgiven, as he settles back to congratulate victorious local Conservative candidates, for whistling the theme tune from «The Great Escape» - as below.

«The performance of the towns in state and local elections tends to favor conservative candidates,» Langworthy said.

In the last election conservative candidates combined won 53 % of the vote to Owens 47 %.

Now, though, only around a third of Conservative candidates are women.

I suspect it was also therapeutic and he then thought of publishing it as a guide to other Conservative candidates in marginal seats.

to promote the objects and values of the Conservative Party; to provide an effective campaigning organisation; and to secure the return of Conservative candidates at all elections.»

Indeed many Conservative candidates and activists were convinced that Labour in particular were winning the ground war.

The firm also secured hundreds of thousands of dollars of business with John Bolton's Super Pac, formed by the hawkish former UN ambassador to support conservative candidates campaigning on national security issues.

A handful of public affairs operators have been selected as Conservative candidates in seats that the party hopes to steal off Labour.

He began to become interested in political polling in the autumn of 2004 at a time when he was already working to help Conservative candidates win — and hold on to — some of the most marginal seats up and down the country.

Lindsay won a three - way race in 1969 against two conservative candidates by cobbling together a coalition of liberal, moderate Jewish and emerging minority voters.

Five Labour constituency candidates are also on the party's regional list, as are eight of the Conservative candidates.

Gordon Lindhurst is an advocate who stood for the seat of Edinburgh South West (which includes Edinburgh Pentlands) in the Westminster election last year when he came third behind Labour's Ricky Henderson (succeeding Alistair Darling) and the SNP's Joanna Cherry who won almost as many votes as the Labour and Conservative candidates added together.

The Conservative candidates, who must be elected if the party is to have a majority, start with the advantage that they have not been in the present Parliament.

Tensions appear to be rising between Republican Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino and a fiscally conservative good government group associated with a wealthy Long Island family that has contributed millions of dollars to mostly Republican and Conservative candidates.

«Why are local Yorkshire Conservative candidates refusing to participate in traditional hustings with other candidates?»

Perhaps as importantly, it is also possible that downplaying the Conservative brand will make it more palatable for former Labour voters to vote for local Conservative candidates, when framed as a choice between the two leaders.

Three Republicans announced their retirement, two Senate Democrats arrived and Steve Bannon put some conservative candidates in a tight spot.

About 100 people participated in the rally at the oldest Republican club in the United States, funded in 1875, to meet Republican and Conservative candidates Chris Moss for lieutenant governor, John Cahill for state attorney general, Bob Antonacci for state comptroller, Grant Lally for Congress and Maureen Koetz for state Assembly.

The Madison Project PAC, a group that supports conservative candidates across the country, endorsed Republican state Sen. Barry Loudermilk in Georgia's 11th District, according to a release obtained exclusively by CQ Roll Call.

It wasn't my intention when blogging, but one could point out that David Cameron did run Conservative candidates in Northern Ireland, where Hague and Howard didn't.

In contrast, the effect of spending for Conservative candidates is much more muted: although spending more money increases their probability of winning, they have to spend much more than Labour candidates for a fraction of the result.

The near certainty of a predicted Labour victory above a certain threshold is largely driven by five Labour candidates who spent over # 28,000, all of whom were victorious (by contrast 11 Conservative candidates spent more than # 28,000 but only 5 of those won).

It comes as a handful of lobbyists have also been selected as Conservative candidates in seats that the party hopes to steal off Labour.

NARAL Pro-Choice NY's first TV ad of this election cycle targets GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino for his staunch opposition to abortion rights, even in the case of rape or incest — an unusually far - right position for even the most conservative candidates in this Democrat - dominated state.

Stung by the losses that conservative candidates suffered in the 2012 elections, donors on the right were reluctant to invest early, demanding detailed business plans from groups seeking their funds.

Rather than have 200 hardcore Tories in a constituency select a hard - right Tory MP, Conservative candidates would have to moderate their views and platform in order to appeal to non-partisan and even Labour voters if they want to pass the primary.

What a well - funded and well - executed campaign of persuasion can do is make it easier for conservative candidates to speak to those persuadable voters who do not consume right - leaning media.

Not only will I not be too weak to vote, I just donated $ 2,400 to conservative candidates this month (of which $ 2,200 went to Romney).

Since Buchanan's run, other socially conservative candidates who have been more plausible as presidents have done no better as candidates.

In 2006, they downplayed social issues and even ran some socially conservative candidates.

Americans, being the Hollywood sheep, enjoy trapping the conservative candidates too much.

George W. Bush won a third of the evangelical vote in Iowa in 2000, splitting that vote with Steve Forbes and more explicitly social conservative candidates like Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes.