Sentences with phrase «electoral campaigning»

It adds, «For these reasons, we would like to propose that our AFCO committee, as the committee responsible for Constitutional Affairs, organises a hearing with high level representatives from Facebook and from Cambridge Analytica as well as the whistleblower Christopher Wylie in order to get a proper understanding of the role this companies have played during the Brexit referendum campaign and in electoral campaigning.»

I held the position of Research Fellow on The Northern Ireland Assembly Election Study 2016 and I am currently undertaking collaborative research on electoral campaigning, citizen attitudes to parties, partisan engagement and apathy.

Once they get into electoral campaigning mode, they'll break through again easily.

The new organisation, Conservative Voice, claims its main purpose is to improve the party's electoral campaigning techniques and connect grassroots Tories with those working for the party on a professional basis.

In the high - stakes world of federal electoral campaigning, where every word and every character matters, candidates can't afford to neglect technologies and software that their opponents are using.

Another law also prohibits the formation of coalition outside periods of electoral campaigning, and yet another law states that «organizations should notice four days in advance to local authorities if they plan a demonstration of a party meeting.

I interviewed many participants on [the Progressive Exchange listserv] in the course of researching the book, which tells the history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade.

«Taking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade.

The French judges are examining whether Havas supported the electoral campaigns of candidates who once in office granted port concessions to Bollore's group, the magazine said.

Then Obama's State of the Union speech, which sounded off alarm bells in Ottawa and Alberta by unexpectedly bringing up climate change, an issue largely ignored during the president's electoral campaign.

Climate change, largely ignored in the electoral campaign, resurfaced in the president's State of the Union address.

It has participated in over 25 international electoral campaigns since 1994.

Before his move into digital marketing in 1994 he was a brand marketer and a political consultant, with major roles in state, federal and presidential electoral campaigns.

«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.

Interestingly enough, George Bush gave clear expression to this feeling during the 2000 electoral campaign.

They have introduced religious prejudice into electoral campaigns and have so tied themselves to political factions as to neglect their ministry to men of diverse views.

In the process, the Obama organization achieved both a scale and a level of effectiveness unlike any electoral campaign we've ever seen, and all because of one basic idea: that you can trust people to work on your behalf if you give them the tools and the training.

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).

Another note of caution: electoral campaigns in particular need to be careful to distinguish between a candidate or officeholder's Twitter feed and one updated by staff, since Twitter as a community tends to value authenticity.

In particular, electoral campaigns used to spend relatively little money advertising to web audiences, particularly compared to the huge amounts they raised online.

Speaking of electoral campaigns, let's look next at what can we can learn from the current presidential campaign cycle:

Note that Ivan is describing something very different than traditional mass communications: he's talking about working closely (no doubt frequently one - on - one) with people on Facebook and other networking sites over a long period of time to help build a cadre of very committed activists — something that most electoral campaigns (and even most issue advocacy campaigns) simply can't do, whether because of lack of time or lack of resources.

The first leader of the new Party, Walter Veltroni, embraced the liberal agenda in a powerful speech given in Turin in June 2007 and, on the basis of that political platform, engaged Silvio Berlusconi in the 2008 electoral campaign.

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.

What really jumped out at me were his numbers on data: small electoral campaigns will tend to buy voter lists from their county elections agencies, but the quality can be atrocious.

As the electoral campaign has shown, these distinct demoi have not only different cultures, but also different priorities and preoccupations.

The EP's electoral campaign has showed the issues the European publics really care about.

The way this works in practice is that senators often run their electoral campaigns without mentioning their potential replacements, even though they have already been chosen.

Have you run an advocacy or electoral campaign that's tried something interesting or new and you want to spread the word?

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

The most important proposal is to end private electoral campaign financing, a problematic arrangement that works against those candidates who refuse financial contributions from interest groups.

It is well known that those candidates who collude with special interest groups are better placed to run extravagant electoral campaigns — often devoid of any real content — and that the same interest groups that donate to candidates will later on demand privileges and benefits from them.

The proximity of these two electoral blocks is, nonetheless, likely to embitter the electoral campaign as candidates reinforce ethnic loyalties through hate speech and the possible organisation of violence.

i have faith that obama will find the words we need to respond not only to underhand or negative electoral campaign tactics, as he proved over the past months, but to terrorist atrocity, economic depression or natural disaster.

And in this week's parliamentary elections, after a very dull electoral campaign, Poles again voted in the same two - party coalition.

Certainly decisions such as ousting Papandreou from office and interference into the Greek electoral campaign could have been made only in Berlin given Germany's economic and political clout.

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..

Besides being cheaper and faster compared with traditional surveys, social media analysis can monitor an electoral campaign on a daily (or on an hourly) basis.

The element of surprise and short notice of opportunistic (as opposed to fixed) elections further plays into the hands of the incumbents and undermines the effectiveness of opponents» electoral campaigns.

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.

Another answer involves the fundamental difference between an electoral campaign and the often - ugly process of governing, since electing Barack Obama (or any other candidate) can be a shining goal to which to aspire, but passing a controversial piece of legislation is a murkier and messier proposition, particularly when there isn't a distinct bill to point to yet!

This shouldn't surprise us, as it is in line with the incentives that electoral campaigns face — as I wrote in my book Ground Wars based on research on previous election cycles:

The electoral campaign is still in its early days and there are only so many slogans, personal attacks and policy proposals that voters can digest without getting dizzy.

In an attempt to look different, the embattled Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg chose the worthy but politically neutral cause of mental health to kick - start his electoral campaign.

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 they don't have long to do it — an average electoral campaign lasts only a few months and has very limited resources to get its job done.

However, it did influence an already contentious electoral campaign in Austria, consumed substantial amounts of time and attention, and, forced the incumbent to spent time defending himself and his campaign, failing to distance himself from the underhanded tactics of his erstwhile campaign advisor Silberstein, while looking somewhat incompetent and ignorant about what was going on.