Sentences with phrase «election chances took»

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The French presidential election, where a far - right candidate in Marine Le Pen has a small chance to win, takes place in late April.

«Having been hammered by political punters backing Jeremy Corbyn at 200/1 to be Labour leader, Donald Trump at 150/1 to be US President, Brexit and a Tory General Election victory both at 6/1, we're taking no chances this time round,» William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said.

They may not even understand tactics: Embittered former MPs, deprived of a chance to vent, may take their anger to local newspapers, as some have already done since the election.

And if that process takes place before the 2020 election, it could affect Trump's chances of winning a second term.

In April 2018, elections will take place and there is a slight chance that the opposition will win this time.

He will revise this, why take a chance of alienating the Hispanic community who are very religious and Catholic during an election year.

And I did that because I thought that Jeremy Corbyn deserved a chance to take Labour into the election,» says Craig, who is also a Labour councillor.

And I did that because I thought that Jeremy Corbyn deserved a chance to take Labour into the election.»

Now that the election is over and the new administration is taking place, there is the chance to re-position foreign policy centre stage on the UK's policy agenda, ensuring it helps drive his «one nation» economic growth and reform agenda by showing the UK is open for business.

It's a special election, though, and very few people had taken advantage of early voting as of this weekend, meaning that a candidate able to pull a core group of supporters to the polls has chance.

It may seem counterintuitive, but it may actually take a three - way battle, which this state has seen 4 out of the last 5 elections, for the Republicans to have a chance in this race.

«The chance to send a message to this Conservative - led government lies with the local elections that take place in local government, Scotland and Wales.

Last week I questioned whether CCHQ was taking the Oldham East and Saddleworth by - election seriously amidst concerns brought to me by many that the party wanted to maximise the chances of the Lib Dems gaining the seat from Labour.

One was that Labour's decision to allow Gordon Brown to take part in Britain's first televised election debates was — by that stage in the drama — calculated primarily as a means of damaging David Cameron's chances of an unimpeded advance into Downing Street.

But speaking to the Times, Mandelson said anyone who tried to take Labour back to the era before Blair's election as leader in 1994 would wreck the party's chances of a swift return to power.

A fifth GOP state senator bowed out of the 2018 elections, increasing Democrats» chances of taking control of the chamber.

And he didn't stop there, taking the chance to swat criticism of the vast sums spent on PCC elections last Thursday aside by noting that former DPM John Prescott had lost the election in Humberside.

Asked whether his determination to take a pro-European stand would damage his chances at the elections, he said he didn't mind being unpopular on the issue.

There'll be an ACCURATE poll taken on November 2nd and Carl doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the election.

Another theory is that people do it not merely because of the chance of changing the outcome of an election, but because it's an act of civic duty, although economist Steve Landsburg, in his popular book «The Armchair Economist», counters «But that ignores the fact that voting takes time away from other more productive acts of civic duty.

«In a sense, it could be risk aversion: that he doesn't wan na take any chances by stepping out and proposing a grand scheme in terms of the election, exposure that way,» Muzzio said.

Whoever wins the leadership election will have to outwardly talk up their chances in 2020, though in reality any proper revival will take much longer.

She'll have another chance to take her gripes to the mayor on Wednesday, at the final debate before the election.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said a potential election represents a chance for the UK to alter which path it takes during Brexit negotiations.

It would take 50 Republican House members to force leadership elections when the House reconvenes later this month — a move that would likely end DeLay's chances of reclaiming the post as majority leader.

At the risk of sounding cynical, everything about this — including the perfect timing — suggests to me that it's being staged: 1) Labour is on course for a huge defeat 2) no - one wants to take on the leadership of the doomed party at the 11th hour 3) GB's popularity (such as it is) is at an all - time low Given that no - one else wants the job on the eve of such a crushing defeat, surely the only chance Labour have of gaining support and mounting any semblance of an election campaign is to first restore some faith in their battered leader.

Changing demographics, the unpopularity of Donald Trump in New York and the efficiency of Hillary Clinton's get — out - the - vote effort, are all contributing to the Democrats» best chance in several years to take over control of the State Senate this Election Day.

Andrew Gwynne scrambled to insist the party is finally taking the scandal seriously, amid warnings it threatens to harm the party's chances ahead of local elections this week.

The backbiting started after White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made a politically boneheaded but obvious statement that Republicans have a chance to take over the House this year — in elections where many outside experts anticipate a Democratic bloodbath.

It takes three conditions for minor party candidates to have a chance at winning a local election on their line.

«However, because of pending deadlines for parties to formally place alternate candidates on the ballot, I simply am not willing to take a chance that Ken LaValle and his incompetent political agenda would run unopposed for a second straight election should my further appeals fail.»

When I looked at this after that by - election Wandsworth Voter mentioned it looked to me that the Tories were just about safe, but after the GE result I would have thought Labour now have a good chance of taking the council for the first time since 1974.

WASHINGTON — An environmental scientist who moved from Saudi Arabia to Syracuse to run for Congress launched a campaign today for the Democratic designation and a chance to take on Rep. John Katko in the November election.

Even if the book had been sitting in storage on the off chance that the Republicans did not take the White House at this year's elections — and some commenters did seem suspicious of the speed to publication, wondering if there was a similar ebook at the ready entitled Why Obama Lost — the time to market for this title is incredible when compared with traditional print publishing.

Juicy Excerpt: Silver's take was rooted in two realities: (1) three - point polling errors are common; (2) there was an unusually high number of undecided voters going into the election and that increases the chances for seeing a polling mis - prediction.

The Alexander Pryor legislation, I think Senator Alexander, who we might think of as the next Dick Lugar, is trying to provide cover for Democrats in tough election races to say that they're voting for something that has absolutely no chance of passage, because their bill would take 60 votes, whereas Senator Inhofe's much better resolution, which would block the rule entirely, only takes 50.