Sentences with phrase «election year debate»

One education issue, school choice, took a prominent place during this election year debate.

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In France, the socialist party is hosting the first debate for the primaries ahead of presidential elections later this year.

Considering the massive ratings networks saw during the presidential primary debates and the intense media buzz around this year's wild election, some experts are predicting that Monday's event could pull in more than 100 million total viewers.

The debate will continue until Election Day in November and well beyond, and this year's Top States study has given both sides plenty of ammunition.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

In his maiden speech — which, following a tradition now rarely observed, he waited a year after his election to deliver — Sasse argued that the upper house of the U.S. Congress was intended specifically by the framers to preserve minority opinion by enshrining a process of long - form debate to preclude a legislative fast track.

This is really the first election year that I've spent a lot of time listening to the speeches and debates... This is really the first election year that I've...

Two years later, Partridge again revealed his political leanings when he hosted the «Partridge Over Britain» debate - and was unable to hide his admiration for Adrian Finch, the Conservative candidate in the West Chalfont by - election.

In backing the tax code changes this year, Heastie appears to be making an effort to not only push Cuomo, but get out in front of what would have been a debate not scheduled to reach Albany until next year and after an election.

With impending Argentine presidential elections, oil and gas exploration, and the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands Conflict, next year, all likely to attract global interest, the issue of the Falkland Islands and their future will continue to be debated in newspaper columns in the UK and elsewhere.

There has been much debate as to whether this year's local elections represented a good or bad result for Labour.

Interest in this year's European Parliamentary elections has been growing steadily: citizens» groups and political organisations started organising election panels and public debates by January — several...

The short legislative session in election years is ostensibly about making budget adjustments, but lawmakers find plenty of time to debate many other issues — some that have a fiscal impact and others that don't.

Running the numbers, one notices a rise in sports metaphors over the course of these five election - years from a mere 9.7 per debate in 2000, to a staggering 17.13 in 2016, with the most popular sports metaphors being «to run» (average 5.1 times per debate), «race» (2.3), «to beat» (1.2) and «round» (1.1).

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

With barely a year since John Dramani Mahama lost the 2016 elections, there has been heated debates from both sides of the political divide over whether or not the defeated president will consider contesting the 2020 presidential race.

Voters, perversely, have responded to the debate by firming up their support for Europe — despite handing Ukip victory in this year's European elections.

And even if it does not feature in the British election debate, the idea of replacing means - tested cash benefits with an unconditional, universal weekly payment to every adult citizen as a right of citizenship will soon be tested at the Swiss ballot box, with a referendum on basic income in Switzerland due sometime this year.

The forum was the first in a new series called the Campbell Debates, where panelists are asked to argue for or against asking rich people to pay more — a question deeply rooted in this year's presidential election, Occupy Wall Street protests and the tea party's dissatisfaction with traditional political parties.

A YouGov poll showing the Green Party has more support than the Liberal Democrats raises yet more questions as to why the party is being excluded from a planned series of debates ahead of next year's election...

As we have said in previous debates, both in Committee and in the House, there are elections for the devolved Administrations - for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly - but there are also elections scheduled next year for 81 % of England.

The TV debates during next year's general election look set to end up in a» 5 -3-2 formation», rather than being restricted to just the three main party leaders.

Much has changed in the 65 years since Clement Attlee declined the opportunity to talk to an obsequious television reporter, but Cowley is not sure that everybody yet appreciates how the television debates have changed utterly the nature of election campaigns.

It has featured very little this year, due to the referendum and the leadership election, but Labour's disarray was on full display in the debate that was staged to coincide with May's coronation.

One of the first debates I spoke in after my election just over a year ago was about immigration.

None completely stopped contributing to them, but the redirection of money from organized labor in the last election cycle foreshadowed some of the top debates in this year's session.

DeFrancisco said he thinks it's «healthy» for the state GOP to have a debate about making changes in advance of a crucial election year.

Coalition blues We're going to be going into the next election saying «coalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second election in 2010.

The debate over Uber, which will come amid an election year, will likely be among the marquee policy debates heading into the next legislative session, which formally begins in January.

However, the end of transitional controls on January 1st next year, so that those from the two most recent EU members have the same rights as citizens of the other western and east European member states, has created a heated political debate about immigration from the two countries, which is likely to run on into next year's European elections.

«The last time we had this sort of debate was after our second defeat in 1974, and that lead some months later to the election of Margaret Thatcher, and our victory in 1979 and 18 years of Conservative government.»

In an Observer article, the former Labour leader wrote: «In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment.»

The Prime Minister has expressed concern that the leaders» TV debates could detract from «issues» in next year's general election, despite saying he thought they were «good».

To those insisting on making the IEA Presidential Debate an election ritual in every election year, the National Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams says the Presidential Debate is not mandatory in Ghana's Constitution.

Jimmy McMillan, the 2010 candidate for governor who made a viral splash at the sole televised debate that year, was denied access to the statewide ballot on Friday by the Board of Elections.

The storm of outrage among civil society organisations over the government's bill to stifle campaigning by voluntary bodies, pressure groups and charities for a year in advance of the next general election has eclipsed debate on the abject weakness of the same bill's proposals for a register of lobbyists.

New York voters may have only a single opportunity to see the candidates debate before this year's gubernatorial election.

It looks like New York voters will have only a single opportunity to see the candidates debate before this year's gubernatorial election.

In recent years the right - wing populist [45] Danish People's Party has emerged as a major party — becoming the second - largest following the 2015 general election — during which time immigration and integration have become major issues of public debate.

By most accounts, the first general election mayoral debate was at best minimally helpful in providing voters a substantive exchange of ideas among the three candidates on stage, each competing to lead the city of 8.5 million people and an $ 85 billion budget for the next four years.

The study is «due at the end of the year,» Cuomo said during the only debate of the gubernatorial election.

The debate about which approach holds most promise for turning around Buffalo's schools has drawn unprecedented interest and involvement in this year's election.

Jones pays particular attention to Cameron's years working for Norman Lamont and Michael Howard in the 1990s (when he was covering those politicians» activities for the BBC on a daily basis) and later in the book - after dealing with the 2005 Tory leadership election, Brown replacing Blair, the political attitudes of the Murdoch press and Expenses-gate - he devotes whole chapters to both the TV debates and the role of the leaders» wives in a modern British election campaign.

JOHN MCDONNELL: No that's true, that's why we need the debate, this leadership election is to enable us to stand back, see how far we've come over the last 10 years, see the positives, and also look at some of the negatives.

But nearly three years later, one of the key architects of new Labour has announced his intention to step aside as Labour leader in the wake of the party's general election defeat which was dominated by bigotgate and the Leaders» debates.

In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment, extend injustice and flatlining incomes, sustain or worsen private debt, and deepen the balance - of - payments, productivity, housing and poverty deficits.

Instead, as the debate ratchets up those competing views, political strategists on both sides say that messaging for the elections next year is being shaped by these legislative battles.

It would seem to be a savvy move, especially since America is headed for plenty of debates next year, with a presidential election coming up.