Sentences with phrase «conservatives get a win»

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Women's health advocates got a partial win on Tuesday as Ohio Governor John Kasich, a devoutly religious social conservative, vetoed a controversial «fetal heartbeat» bill that would have outlawed abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

The timing of the annual conservative jamboree is auspicious because it will offer Trump access to activists on the right, who he must win over to get anything significant done.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

The Byrd Rule most immediately threatens the Cruz proposal that is designed to give conservatives a win on Obamacare's insurance regulations — a compromise that might be essential for the bill to get 51 votes.

EDMONTON — Alberta MP Jason Kenney says he will still pursue a unity agenda even if he wins the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race but fails to get support from party members to merge with the right - centre Wildrose party.

Erik March 2nd: «But, one thing I do know: the skipper of a private sectarian school, in a conservative state, the program's winningest coach (529 -358-1 -LRB-.596)-RRB-, and one of four active managers to have 500 wins, isn't about to get fired for being a jerk or for making a snarky political comment.

Combine the general nature of odds with the fact that F / + projections have been even more conservative (with 70 percent chances playing out like 80 percent chances, et al, so far), and you get the Big Ten's three superior teams (Michigan State, Ohio State, and Wisconsin) projected to win just 17.6 of 24 combined games.

Would prefer us to be a little conservative though, if we go too gung - ho and we get embarrassed, the players will be devastated and could ruin our season so winning the game would help us a lot apart from being in the final..

On any normal day, a lead of five points in mid-term would be unlikely to be enough for the opposition to win, but thanks to the Conservatives» failure to get the planned boundary changes passed, Labour could still win an overall majority on a tiny lead.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

Commons Speaker John Bercow managed to get re-elected to the job after this year's general election, but he has yet to win over the bulk of his former colleagues in the Conservative party.

If Fossella were to get into the NY - 13 ring and win the GOP primary (assuming Grimm and his opponent, Michael Allegretti, remained in the race), he would not — as it stands now — have the Conservative line, which sets up a three - way race in the general election.

The move to cut these programs is about symbolic grievances and perceived bias and a result that gets these agencies funded in a manner that causes these agencies to be more apolitical or to try to be more balanced on a liberal - conservative perspective would be considered a win by the partisans on the right.

To get an idea of how disastrous this election has been for the Conservatives, look at what has happened in the Labour held seats that the Tories were targeting yesterday but didn't win:

His unsuccessful bid in 2014 to strengthen significantly the Government's recall proposals won the support of almost half of Conservative MPs in a free vote but fell well short of getting through thanks to a strong Labour turnout against his amendment.

The field as it stands right now includes former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, a Democrat - turned - Republican who appears to have zero chances of getting the Conservative nod, without which no Republican has won statewide since the 1970s; and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who have have already formally announced their campaigns, and Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who is officially entering the race today.

Provided the Conservatives can indeed win the biggest share of seats (and they'll probably lose a few — but only a few — to UKIP, so will get a bit less than they might otherwise), then they'll get the first opportunity to put together a coalition, or at least a working minority government.

He has a chance in 2012 to take the position from whoever wins this race... but if he does back Davis, I suspect he will not get any backing from any of the REAL Conservatives or Republicans, not to mention REAL tea party people.

If they have won, this position provides the biggest relative payoff for the Republicans (getting a centrist justice instead of a liberal); if the Republicans have won, obviously, they will wait to get a conservative justice.

If you get one Labour or Liberal voter to vote Conservative at the general election but lose three or four others to Ukip, you are not going to win the general election.»

But the district was drawn four years ago specifically to be as advantageous to Republicans as possible, and they've since performed well there: Republican Mark Grisanti got over half the vote in a four - way race in 2012, and outgoing Democrat Marc Panepinto won with only 33 percent of the vote in 2014 when three registered Republicans and Conservatives split the remaining 67 percent.

If you want to get an idea of how far some of these party chairmen will go to keep a conservative Republican from winning, l've attached an article from a local paper below laying out what is going on in NY - 23.

The Queens Republican told me he thinks that's a moot point because he believes Rick Lazio will lose the GOP primary and get off the Conservative line (assuming he wins the primary for Row D against Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo).

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

It appears that Central NY conservatives have an excellent opportunity to get on board with a winning candidate, and I proudly announce my desire to help with this effort.

I have no doubt that if all conservative - thinking people were united behind the Conservative Party we can deliver and EU referendum, win in 2015 and continue the painstaking but rewarding work of getting our country baconservative - thinking people were united behind the Conservative Party we can deliver and EU referendum, win in 2015 and continue the painstaking but rewarding work of getting our country baConservative Party we can deliver and EU referendum, win in 2015 and continue the painstaking but rewarding work of getting our country back on track.

«What the Conservatives get to announce is up to them», added the Lib Dem spokesman, but the message was clear: the Lib Dems signed off on marriage tax breaks in the coalition deal, but they have now won a victory of their own.

If you couple a Boris win in London with a 40 % vote share for Labour nationwide, what you get is a situation where people in the Conservative party start thinking this man is able to do something with the Tory brand that our own leader and prime minister isn't able to do it.»

After the chairman's preferred gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Rick Lazio, lost to Carl Paladino in last September's GOP primary, the Conservatives got behind the Buffalo businessman, who went on to win enough votes on their line to boost them to Row C on the ballot.

That means at the last general election the Conservatives would have won a majority of 40, rather than the majority of 12 they actually got.

Cheltenham has been in Lib Dem hands since 1992, yet they now defend a notional majority of just 316, making it a top Conservative target which the party needs to win to get a Commons majority - and is now better placed than ever to regain.

If another candidate gets the Republican line they will not be able to generate the support necessary to win in November without the Conservative endorsement.»

Oh no - their aim is to defeat Conservative candidates and get Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates to win.

«As a former prosecutor, Iraq veteran, and conservative leader who's endorsed by President Trump, I've got the experience needed to win this race and build on Gov. [Rick] Scott's strong legacy.»

In the late 1960s and in the late 1970s the Conservatives were getting a way higher vote in Local Elections and were winning parliamentary by - elections.

As for being «spanked» in 2005 under Michael Howard (who you say swung to the Right), he actually got the best result for the Conservatives since 1992 by cutting the Labour majority down to the 60s from over 100 and winning back many seats.

If the Conservatives could n`t win this when Labour was < 30 % nationally in 2010 then little chance when they will get at least 35 % this time around nationally.

At the last election there were 21 seats where the number of votes that UKIP got was larger than the number of extra votes the Conservatives needed to win.

Doyle - Price said the Conservatives» failure to get above the 36 % vote share the Tories won in 2010 was down to the party's inability to connect with ordinary people.

Although there was some variation among the aggregators about Hillary Clinton's chances for victory (Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight consistently produced the most conservative estimates whereas the Huffington Post and the Princeton Election Consortium consistently produced the highest chances), the major polling organizations overwhelmingly predicted that she would win — and they got it terribly wrong.

In its zeal to get conservative wins, they can be a bit tone deaf.

The Sierra Club won that fight, and the «green anti-immigrant» movement has mostly been driven to the fringes, but conservative media is still getting ratings out of it.