Sentences with phrase «elections matter because»

We live in a system where elections matter because they determine who will make decisions that impact people — people created in the image of God and with infinite worth.

These attempts to frame the election matter because research shows that voters take the government's opportunism into account, as well as policy performance and leadership when they respond to strategic election calls.

Not exact matches

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----- The election doesn't matter because neither candidate is a serious challenge to the Republican Party.

Concerns raised that progress on major transport matters will stall in the short to medium term because of snap election

But a member of the Dogara - led faction, Muhammad Bala Jibrin, who is a governorship aspirant in forthcoming general election told journalists on the telephone that they decided to boycott the congress because the matter was already in court.

A Fair Elections system would allow the priorities of constituents to matter more, because big campaign contributions would matter less.

«Because everyone's eyes are on election matters right now, we wanted to take this moment to make very, very clear that New York City and all of us here are going to be very, very actively engaged in a campaign to change state law in the coming months to finally make this a state that's voter friendly, to finally make this a state where people can participate and not be disenfranchised.»

Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner, said New York is lagging behind other states when it comes to voting systems and procedures because state legislators often have partisan views on voting matters.

Yet another theory (articulated in the paper I linked to) is that the outcome of an election, especially for President, matters quite a lot to people because it affects the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans, so the low probability is made up for by the high reward.

Marginal seat polls matter because they are the seats that might change hands, and therefore the seats that will decide the election.

The Special Adviser on Political Matters to a leading National Chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, Uthman Shodipe - Dosunmu, has denied the rumour making the rounds that his principal has been removed as a member of Board of Trustees of PDP because of his bid to contest the party's national chairmanship election at the convention, coming up on December 9.

«As a matter of policy, I do not make endorsements in state and local elections, but I am making an exception here because I am uniquely positioned to assess Micah Lasher's qualifications for this seat, and they are outstanding,» Schneiderman said.

As a matter of fact, I might not even contest any election because I have been very busy overseeing my business.

No matter the outcome of the special election, Flanagan said Republicans would continue to work with the Independent Democratic Conference because keeping GOP control of the chamber is «pivotal for Long Island.»

These arguments matter to anybody with an interest in progressive politics because the winners will be dictating policy after the next election if — oh, lets drop the pretence — when the Conservatives win.

«Generally speaking, partisan elections deprive the public of the right to pick their own leaders because the only people that vote and the only elections that matter are the fringe group of whether it's one party or another party,» he continued.

So let's stick to attacking them and then it won't matter who the PM is come the next election because it won't be about them it will be about Labour's appalling record in government.

But generally speaking partisan elections deprive the public of the right to pick their own leaders, because the only people that vote in the only elections that matter are the fringe group of whether it's one party or another party.

It's partly because the topic is highly relevant to my forthcoming Letters to a Young Education Reformer, partly because of the well - deserved attention to Don Hirsch's new book Why Knowledge Matters, partly because expert predictions about everything from the consequences of Brexit to our current election have been so off, and partly because deference to (a vaguely conceived) «expertise» offers a fault line to so many of our current debates.

We walked door - to - door in elections because Board leadership matters.

Labor had to go through with it no matter how unpopular only because of the drubbing they received at the last election over their failure to follow through with their first plan they ballyhooed at the 2007 election that initially brought them in.

The election result doesn't really matter because the US president is much less powerful than people imagine.

Because of limited statutory authorization and the constraints of the First Amendment, the FTC is unlikely to investigate the most troubling aspects of the Cambridge Analytica matter — namely, the harvesting of user - specific data which was then deployed to shape that user's political views, all done to influence the election.