Sentences with phrase «electoral battle»

That is much easier said than done, not least because conventional social democracy on many parts of the European continent is facing its own uphill electoral battles.
With the issue of abortion rights thrown back to the states, divisive legislative and electoral battles at the state level quickly follow.
TRENTON — Forget about the race to succeed lame duck Chris Christie: There's a more intriguing electoral battle in New Jersey this fall, and it's pitting the state's largest teachers union against its highest - ranking Democratic state official, Senate president Steve Sweeney.
In the case of Hon. Bamidele, he fought a gruel electoral battle to prove he was more preferred than Fayemi.
The encounter with the APC was an epic one and it was probably the most active and gruelling electoral battle in the history of our country.
The group has endorsed Mr. Simpson's primary rival, Bryan Smith, in a race shaping up to be one of the leading electoral battles between the Republican establishment and anti-establishment forces next year.
The February election of 1974 saw Prime Minister Edward Heath involved in an unusual electoral battle.
Although polling can sometimes detract from the long - term electoral battle and probably says more about the failures of Conservative leadership over the past fifteen years, it is a welcome and positive result.
«The United States will unleash one of the fiercest electoral battles ever imagined,» they announced.
«We did not want Dalits to be on the streets against the government at a time when the party is preparing to face crucial electoral battles,» said a senior BJP leader.
The money spent by candidates and political parties in Alberta elections are nowhere near the truckloads being spent south of the border in advance of November's presidential and senate elections, but some of these numbers demonstrate how pitched some electoral battles were in the recent provincial election.
With this three - pronged electoral strategy, Labour and the Conservatives are trying to cover the different fronts of the electoral battle.
Both the main parties could count on winning hundreds of safe seats each and the electoral battle would be won or lost in a smaller number of key marginal seats.
Since the legislative session wrapped up last month, both parties have shifted focus to this year's electoral battles.
Police have not named the Conservative MPs or agents under investigation, but it emerged on Tuesday that Craig Mackinlay, the Tory MP for South Thanet, was interviewed under caution over spending returns related to his electoral battle against the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage.
And I suspect many Labour party members will secretly wish him well in his electoral battles with the Conservatives.
Unlike Johnson, Hardie had no problem understanding that class struggle and the electoral battles are not mutually exclusive.
The Republicans represented the American capitalist class, and their electoral battle cry had been hard - line anticommunism.
This allows for situations where one candidate can rack up blowout wins in some populated states but narrow losses in the so - called battleground states and thus losing the electoral battle.
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