Sentences with phrase «electoral advantage»

Whatever electoral advantage it might give him — and that is itself questionable — it pulls British political discourse to the right in the most toxic manner.

As such, there's absolutely no tangible electoral advantage to openly declaring yourself as not being affiliated with any religion; and practical tangible electoral risks / disadvantages in failing to do so.

By contrast, our proposal is not only right for the country, but could deliver electoral advantage to whichever party first made the commitment.

schocken, 295 pages, $ 27.95 In 1981, at the height of his last tumultuous campaign, Menachem Begin was accused of bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor for electoral advantage.

The Conservatives have little electoral advantage to gain in pro-pipeline Alberta, where they won all but one seat in 2011.

In the past, Presidents have pushed their legislative agendas with varying degrees of success; at present, the commander - in - chief has so far failed to control the chaos of the healthcare debate or channel his considerable electoral advantages into the swift passage of his promised initiative.

The determined refusal of Labour and the Tories to even include PR as an option on the ballot paper makes it * look * as if they are trying to ensure that the status quo which gives them their undeserved electoral advantage is maintained, whatever the outcome.

Democrats have an overwhelming electoral advantage in Silver's district and also control the chamber with a more than two - thirds majority.

What a shame it is that the Westminster party leaders have reverted to type by putting narrow electoral advantage ahead of England and the United Kingdom's constitutional future.

Dave Levitan (22 April, p 24), and Alice Klein (p 25) rightly deplore politicians such as Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull, who disregard scientific evidence in favour of policies chosen for short - term electoral advantage or to further special interests.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's nuclear assault on public employees» collective bargaining and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's overheated claims that teacher pensions are bankrupting the state reveal a Republican Party bent on using its current electoral advantage to permanently cripple unions nationwide.

In 1981, at the height of his last tumultuous campaign, Menachem Begin was accused of bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor for electoral advantage.

If the two chambers of the Legislature were to appoint someone, that person could be portrayed during the upcoming campaign as beholden to Albany, offsetting whatever electoral advantage might be obtained by holding the post for a few months.

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Mitt needs to work on getting the electoral advantages of who he is down, because the Democrats are going to come after him ferociously with the patriarchal, «traditional» downsides.

But this is nonetheless a very useful first account of how the oldest and most successful political party in the western world lost its electoral advantage and then, finally, took years to find its way again.

The former allowed the governing party to undo Labour's electoral advantage.

«If you want to know what an authentic left - wing populist looks and sounds like — and you want to think through the electoral advantages and disadvantages of the Democratic Party embracing the approach going forward — pay close attention to former actress and activist Cynthia Nixon's recently launched campaign to unseat Andrew Cuomo.»

But of course he was already involved, having signed off on a gerrymandered district map that gave an electoral advantage to the Republicans he had comfortably worked with since taking office, and then, after the Democrats made gains anyway, conditionally supporting the Republican - independent coalition as preferable to the type of «dysfunction» and «shenanigans» that had characterized the Democrats» last stint in charge of the Senate.

Our research suggests that as long as the former activities remain the proven source of electoral advantage, parties would be advised to not forget about their core membership.

By proposing reforms to his party that could drastically reduce the power of the union bosses who made him Labour leader in the first place, Miliband could transform voters» views of his leadership, and by doing so blow away much of David Cameron's electoral advantage.

If you want to know what an authentic left - wing populist looks and sounds like — and you want to think through the electoral advantages and disadvantages of the Democratic Party embracing the approach going forward — pay close attention to former actress and activist Cynthia Nixon's recently launched campaign to unseat Andrew Cuomo as governor of New York.

is it true that Nick «Toenails» Robinson said on the BBC that Cameron can't expect any electoral advantage from this tragic event «as Gordon Brown has already lost a child of his own».

When this crisis struck, as John Kay has lamented, the political left offered no diagnosis or new ideas, and it gained no electoral advantage.

, the political left offered no diagnosis or new ideas, and it gained no electoral advantage.

Apparently that odious Nick Robinson on the BBC said that Cameron should expect no electoral advantage from this.

But to date they have suspended judgement, since they have been assured that he has a master plan: namely, a boundary review which would have the happy effect of greatly reducing Labour's electoral advantage.

These are done purely for electoral advantage.»

As we previously indicated, the demand for a new register was premised on falsehood and an inordinate desire to disenfranchise large sections of our population for electoral advantage.

«Excellent... a very useful first account of how the oldest and most successful political party in the western world lost its electoral advantage and then, finally, took years to find its way again.»

It is, to a much greater extent, in the polite - sounding pronouncements of the the cynics who try to use an undercurrent of bigotry and hatred to their electoral advantage.