Sentences with word «electable»

Tony Blair's move to ditch the commitment in Labour's constitution to public ownership was seen by some as a symbolic step which made the party more electable in the post-Thatcher era.

Turner, a Republican star when he upset Democrat David Weprin in an upset special election to replace the disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner, had held himself up during his subsequent Senate candidacy as the most electable candidate in the field.

Although Republicans staged a nasty primary fight of their own, they wound up with their more electable candidate — Portland attorney Ron Saxton.

It may make him more electable in a general election, but he will be a difficult sell for GOP stalwarts.

Over a dozen years he made the Labour Party electable and the Conservative Party unelectable.

The unfashionably electable Labour Party of Tony Blair came too late for Kaufman, although the imminence of office occasioned a second edition of How to be a Minister, required reading for the by - then vast majority of Labour MPs who had no idea.

Remember 2008 when people used to say he wasn't electable because of his name, his race, his financial situation.Tea party movement is a blessing for him as they are hurting republicans they are not hurting Obama.for 99 % of African Americans who by the way are mostly unemployed Obama is still a God.

blame the lack of electable atheists.

The Deputy Minister also noted that, the Local Government Ministry is holding series of meetings with the various stakeholders to make MMDCEs position electable.

While they had yet to become electable as a government, they underlined their growing reputation as a worthwhile alternative to Labour and Conservative, offering plenty of debate in parliament and not just representing a protest vote.

We are electable again because of the long term hard work put into the party by everyone from David Cameron and his Shadow cabinet right down to every hard working activist out there.

«And I believe that we can find a very electable Republican that can do a great job.

Mr Cable, 64, said he had concluded that an older candidate would not be electable because of the «irrational prejudice» about age that had dogged Sir Menzies» leadership.

There are many very electable atheists.

A beneficial side - effect of such a realignment will be that Jeremy Corbyn's hard - left Labour will not join and can become marginalised by a much larger and more electable force.

Another way of not letting her damage labours chances is to make labour appear electable and get more swing voters, voting for us,

Of course I would vote for him, but I'm not so clear on how electable he is, for now.

On the other side, the opposition moved from being unelectable to conceivably electable with the merger that created the Liberal National Party.

And it won't make the Conservatives any less electable in five years time, who will be seen as the dominant force in the coalition.

«Something is increasingly clear in Republican politics: The most successful and electable conservatives — the Ronald Reagans, Chris Christies, and Scott Walkers — are the competent ones, not the loud angry ones,» O'Reilly wrote.

Gordon Brown has not exactly been struggling for things to keep him busy in the months since leaving parliament, with his UN education ambassador role, his other charitable work and occasional pacing interventions to try to remind Labour to remain electable.

If the isn't the most easily electable All - Star on the planet, then my name is Paris Q. Richie - Lohan - Fawcett - Majors the third.

Smith must think he's Corbyn - lite; in doing an Ivana Trump by lifting large swathes of comments, opinions & policies from Jeremy & John this will suddenly make this invisible little man electable!

In short, with a December 2016 victory under his belt and his combination of political strengths, a frontrunner Bawumia would be far more strongly electable, both internally and nationally, in a way the late Aliu

If he is elected leader, the Labour Party has no chance of becoming electable on whatever basis for the time he is leader.

I'll grant him Tom Paine (who probably wouldn't have been electable even in his....

I have said it about a «brokered» Republican convention whereby a candidate emerges who is actually electable.

Distancing Labour from the unions probably seemed like a good idea at the time, and it will certainly make the party more electable by pandering to the centre - right.

Don't get me wrong, I think Obama has done a poor job, but he's certainly electable, especially since the Repugs can't get together on a candidate.

So a famous conservative who's been positioned to know more about Rick than most of this sent me this very probing question and real analysis: Question: Who's more electable against Obama?

But purging enough people that the only ones remaining would serious consider someone like Santorum electable?

If the biggest issue is jobs to the majority of Americans who will vote in the general election, why does the Republican party seem to think the guy with the most comprehensive set of economic and foreign policy proposals as well as the one most experienced and capable of dealing with China is not the most electable??? Huntsman may not be winning the national polls, but voters don't know much about him yet.

«Joe Carvin the most electable statewide candidate in the Republican field and Westchester County overwhelmingly endorses his candidacy,» said Westchester County GOP Chairman Doug Colety.

Last cycle, the GOP's eventual nominee, Andrew Roraback, was widely viewed as the most electable GOP candidate in that primary.

Collins said the NRSC focused heavily on recruitment, helping the candidates the party saw as more disciplined and electable get through primary challenges to face Democratic incumbents and challengers.

The committee has long considered Jacobs one of the most electable politicians in the area.

The right of the party have positioned themselves as the more electable option, but it's not clear they currently have anything more to offer than a comparatively less humiliating defeat.

So why, some might ask, are the Democrats still struggling, pondering and plotting to produce a credible, electable Democratic candidate?

As the Labour Party once again faces years in the wilderness, this account of the creation of a more electable New Labour, and the three people at the centre of it, is more relevant than ever.

If only political scientists were electable then they would only represent the interests of political scientists.

Blair was fortunate too that few people then considered the Tories electable.

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Knowing the risks, the National Republican Congressional Committee does not publicly back candidates in primaries — even when more electable choices face rabble - rousing fringe candidates.

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Some Tories, far from being grateful to Cameron for making them look electable, are sounding dangerously suicidal again.

These are obstacles that may prove insurmountable, installing one party politics for years to come, even if Labour was in a highly electable condition.

«Labour is unelectable in 2020 with Jeremy Corbyn as leader» (and is thus by implication electable under a different leader)