Sentences with phrase «electoral campaign for»

But it's actually a kind of fabric used in Nigeria to celebrate special events — in this case, Crosby's mother's electoral campaign for the Nigerian senate.

Rojo Mettle - Nunoo, who managed the electoral campaign for the late President John Atta Mills, said he was part of a research team that found that the then incumbent party's 2016 campaign messages were out of touch with electorates, but their recommendations were swept under the carpet.

Not exact matches

The report follows a week - plus of bad polling for the Romney campaign, combined with an increasingly narrow and difficult electoral path.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

His previously electoral experience includes running a generously self - financed campaign for St. Albert City Council at the age of 19 (he was unsuccessful in that bid).

«Divisive issues such as Hezbollah's weapons and the controversy over its participation in regional conflicts are almost entirely absent from the electoral campaigns, indicating implicit acceptance of the party's domestic hegemony,» wrote analyst Joseph Bahout in an article for the Carnegie Middle East Center.

Harris» campaigns for the President landed at a time Kenya was experiencing widespread media suppression and intimidation, the brutal murder of a key electoral official, and tit - for - tat accusations of hate speech by Kenyatta's team and Odinga himself.

Following the announcement of a parliamentary committee to study electoral reform with a special emphasis on gender equity and inclusiveness, a growing number of supporters have come on board the campaign for proportional representation.

For DeMoss, who is officially a senior adviser to the Romney campaign, the stakes of his work go well beyond electoral politics.

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

For instance, he discussed the fact that electoral campaigns spend a huge amount of effort building up volunteer lists, email lists and voter target lists, but that the data tend to go away as soon the election is over (particularly if the campaign loses).

Forward - thinking electoral and advocacy campaigns are gathering supporters» cell numbers now, to use them in a couple of years for applications we haven't yet imagined.

Sites like Hulu.com, for instance, stream thousands of programs to people across the country, and electoral / candidate campaigns in particular have begun placing web versions of their tv commercials at the beginning of web clips.

I fear that this is one battle that electoral and advocacy campaigns will be fighting for a long time.

In the past, most electoral campaigns have typically lasted only relatively a short time and haven't have to worry much about list exhaustion, but with this year's extended political season, Obama, Romney, Clinton, Giuliani, et al, have already been sending emails to the same people for months on end.

I have no doubt what I think the answer to «should Labour campaign for electoral reform» is, as regular readers will know.

Indeed, can't I equally argue that Neal Lawson risks narrowing his coalition of support for electoral reform by suggesting that the existence of a national campaign on PR means postponing or vetoing any consideration of party reform issues on their merits (where he seems to argue that the principle would be one he would support, were it not for this context)?

Besides, having vigorously campaigned for a presidential candidate that shielded corruption and treasury looting, and that candidate having lost to an anti-corruption candidate in the democratic election of 2015, many appear unable to recover from the electoral loss.

But the actual benefits of such fine - grained targeting seem to fall off pretty quickly — most electoral campaigns are happy enough with voter addresses and past political affiliation, with a bonus for lists of union members, past political donors, volunteers for past political campaigns, etc..

The resulting discussion went beyond the basics of using web video for electoral and advocacy campaigns, delving into real detail about what works and what doesn't.

Still, the basic approach seems valid for MANY different issue and electoral campaigns.

For us as advocacy organizations or electoral campaigns who want people to engage with us, these tweaks actually make it more likely our engaged audiences will see our content.

My own panel, «How to Act Like Obama Online When You DO N'T Have a Billion in the Bank» (which will talk about applying Obama 2012 lessons to this year's advocacy and electoral campaigns), is coming together nicely — we just signed up Ethan Roeder, Obama's chief data manager for the presidential race and who's now gone back over to the New Organizing Institute, as a speaker.

Advocacy and electoral campaigns are turning to blogs for many of the same reasons and are confronting many of the same issues.

@Joe (54): Yes, the hypocrisy of the Beeb in explicitly calling the result a defeat for electoral reform WHEN THEY HAD REFUSED TO CALL AV ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind -electoral reform WHEN THEY HAD REFUSED TO CALL AV ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind -ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind - blowing.

His former immigration spokesman Phil Woolas's shameless tactics in Oldham East and Saddleworth during the last general election campaign, and subsequent ejection from Parliament, have offered a well - timed opportunity for Labour to give the coalition and, in particular, Nick Clegg, a thrashing in the by - election on 13 January - the first significant electoral test of the coalition's popularity.

Organizing Committee (standing) develops and implements the club's organizing strategy for all social action (e.g., rallies, protests, social campaigns), electoral campaigns, and county committee reform.

And James running a strong AG campaign, especially if she is allied with Cuomo, could bring votes for the governor in minority neighborhoods in New York City that have been electoral bulwarks for Cuomo in the past, but which Nixon is courting.

So far (at least), the launch of Community Pages doesn't directly affect electoral political campaigns, since Facebook doesn't seem to be auto - generating pages for Sarah Palin, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John McCain or other politicians whose names might show up frequently in people's profiles.

This gives the voter the chance to not only be more informed, but to also spend more time engaging with the campaign, a goal for any electoral candidate.

Manjoo's article focuses on how the new feed emphasis is leading certain LOLCats - style word / picture combos to go viral, which may be useful for some advocacy and electoral campaigns to know, but it also suggests that our substantive content is LESS likely to get noticed now than before.

However, despite the popularity of this opinion, it is of considerable significance to state that, apart from the youths non-possession of the financial strength to execute the electoral projects as being speculated in some quarters, there are of cause other probable factors that may render the move fruitless irrespective of the demographic advantage enjoyed or the glamour that graced their much celebrated not - too - young - to run campaign recently embarked on to press for power shift.

But both are crucial parts of a competitive campaign and shape how it is possible for ordinary people to take part in the electoral process beyond casting their vote.

It was the acrimony surrounding the campaign for the electoral reform referendum which ended the coalition's prolonged honeymoon.

Tools and organization translated the efforts of millions — mobilized by Obama's charisma, rhetoric, and the political opportunity to elect a Democrat and African American to the presidency — into the concrete electoral resources that formed the mantra for the campaign's New Media Division: «money, message, and mobilization.»

Smart candidates and organizers do what Obama did and what many other advocacy and electoral campaigns are doing right now: create videos that are designed for a specific and concrete purpose, whether it's to motivate a donor, train a volunteer, or deliver a message aimed at a niche audience.

The campaign group Saving Labour has claimed that the polling translates into a loss of 44 seats for Labour, while angry Labour MPs have seized on the figures as further evidence that Corbyn can not lead the party to electoral success.

For all of his political mastery and electoral successes, Andrew Cuomo doesn't appear to enjoy campaigning, and certainly not to the degree that Teachout does.

His first challenge was the legislation for the AV referendum on electoral reform that was defeated after Harper's other boss — David Cameron — asked Tory donors to donate to the No campaign that trashed his Cabinet Office boss.

«To expand accountability and disclosure in campaign fund raising, the Assembly has passed this legislation to close the LLC loophole for several years because we believe it's critical to ensuring the integrity of our electoral and political process.»

As this collective outpouring took shape, the campaign had much of the staff, practice, and tools in place to convene and harness it for electoral ends.

Two years after an unsuccessful campaign for her party's nomination for governor of Arizona, Republican Christine Jones is looking at giving electoral politics another try.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has erased a $ 19 million - plus debt months ahead of schedule, a major achievement for a party committee that was reeling from electoral disaster in November 2010.

Moreover it is a bit rich for the de Blasio campaign to complain about using race as an electoral tactic.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D - N.Y., has no obvious electoral challenger, but some of his House Democratic colleagues are busy helping him bulk up his campaign bank account for 2014.

In a radio interview this week, Gov. Cuomo renewed the call for statewide campaign finance reform, decrying the corrosive effect that super PACs and high contribution limits continue to have on electoral politics in Albany.

Are you working for an electoral campaign?

David Cameron and Nick Clegg have laid the groundwork for a «no» campaign win in the upcoming electoral reform referendum.

He continued: «While PR was a perennial fixture of Liberal manifestos, educating the electorate in voting systems was then a subject too complex for an electoral campaign.

If you agree that we need a better electoral system, campaign for electoral reform.