Sentences with phrase «early election fought»

Previous polling has suggested that the Lib Dems could indeed do very well in an early election fought around the issue of Brexit, and I think that is the case (especially if they are the only explicitly pro-membership party and can win pro-European support from Labour).

Not exact matches

Looking years out at the election calendar, Trudeau's strategists pushed early for federal - provincial initiatives like Canada Pension Plan reform, a health accord and the framework for fighting climate change.

Topics covered include: - How Booker's parents used a sting operation to desegregate a neighborhood, and why they did it - Why Ezra doesn't eat breakfast - Booker's disagreements with Ta - Nehisi Coates - How a 10 - day fast led to a (temporary) peace with Booker's worst political enemy - How spirituality informs Booker's approach to politics - The lessons Booker took from his early losses in with elections and city council fights - What it's like to be the only vegan in Congress - Why Booker hates penguins - Whether it's cynical or simply realistic to doubt America's political institutions - Which books have influenced Booker mostAnd much, much more.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

We'll discover soon enough if it is Labour or the Tories that are Tangoed, especially is May gambles on calling an early general election that Corbyn's party is ill - prepared to fight.

As Sunder pointed out in his post here earlier today, the Conservatives did not fight the election on a platform of completely abolishing the CTF.

Former Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor, who is part of the team of election attorneys handling the recount fight for the Democrats in the Thompson race, said the whole mess could take weeks — or maybe even months — which means there might be empty seats in the chamber when the Legislature returns to Albany in early January.

Indeed, de Blasio's campaign Twitter account pledged a fight for election reform: «We're going to reform NYS» voting access laws, because lack of early voting & same day registration is disenfranchisement, plain and simple,» read a tweet from the account sent out Tuesday morning.

In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation.

SIlver's idea to fight for early voting is «Pure Gold» and I hope he advocates for voters not having their votes cancled out or ignored in NYS elections.

Uncharacteristically silent since the results started trickling in in the early hours of Monday morning, Grillo has not yet commented publicly on what for his movement could prove a huge blow — even if some observers pointed out that, for a political formation fighting its first European elections, a showing of more than 20 % and placing second was nothing to sniff at.

One interesting bit though is looking at the possible outcomes of an early election, fought on the issue of Brexit.

Former shadow Home Secretary David Davis has given an interview to tomorrow's New Statesman in which he reveals how desperately David Cameron tried to stop him from resigning his seat (and frontbench post) to fight that by - election in Haltemprice and Howden earlier in the summer.