Sentences with phrase «electability for»

The first was Ed's willingness so readily to trade electability for perceived ideological purity.

With the September primary nine months away, McCoy embarked on a very early media blitz of television ads over the weekend, which observers see as an indication he's not taking his electability for granted.

David is only marginally less geeky than his brother, but it's in the media's interest to beef up his electability for reasons of drama and storyline.

Not exact matches

Huckabee would also have to make a plausible argument for his electability.

At the same time, Huckabee's support for the FairTax and his identity politics cultural positioning repulses the key «somewhat conservative» voters who value policy prudence and electability.

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For someone who's electability has hinged on inevitability, this would be a humbling admission... but possibly, one that reflects the reality on the ground.

Most of the new intake are left wing and, more importantly, appear reluctant to trade off ideological principles for electability if that entails tacking to the centre.

The NAACP and many other other advocacy organizations like the Asian American Legal Defense continually push for district lines to be drawn to maximize the electability of a candidate from a select ethnic background, but this is an inherently problematic endeavor.

With seven candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for the 19th Congressional District — and little ideological daylight between them — campaigns are touting their candidate's electability in the November battle against incumbent Republican John Faso as they head towards a June 26 primary to decide who'll get the party's line.

Is the question designed to account for mimicry (someone who's a «none» but advertizes as belonging to religion for electability purposes?)

Fed up of being asked to sacrifice almost every moral principle they hold dear in a relentless, rightwards drive for electability, they're taking a stand in defence of traditional Labour values.

She also failed to outline her policy differences with Mr Corbyn — but argued she wanted to fight for the leadership on the issue of electability.

Patterson, last I heard is a bit on the vulnerable side in terms of electability whether its because of his proposed budget, the Caroline Kennedy fiasco or perhaps an unwillingness on New York's part (remember Carl McCall) to consider an African American candidate for governor.

His decision is very disappointing, but frankly is unlikely to effect our electability, there are good people knocking on the Shadow Cabinet door and this will be a chance for someone else.

For the moment Tories take great comfort from Ed Miliband's electability.

But he added that there should be a deadline for Labour to take another look at its position, including the leadership question, if it failed to make progress in electability.

But while the quest for electability is beset by uncertainties in fluid times, it must be front and centre in any major party's mind.

With a wide open Republican field, Glen Bolger told the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference his research shows that for GOP voters, electability might outweigh how close a candidate aligns to their values.

In his Fabian essay, Ed Miliband writes: «You really don't need to be a Bennite to believe that this [research] represents a crisis of working - class representation for Labour — and our electability... Because of my rejection of this New Labour nostalgia I am the modernising candidate in this election.»

«There's no doubt that some Thai political parties have commissioned international consultants to work on improving their electability, and this was certainly the case for Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai Party in 2001,» said Duncan McCargo, a Thailand expert and professor at the University of Leeds.