Sentences with phrase «electoral campaigns in»

Bitcoin donations have been helping politicians organize well - funded electoral campaigns in recent times.

«We have seen earlier this year across the country successful electoral campaigns in Virginia, New Jersey, Alabama - places where we never thought that Democrats would be competitive, let alone win.

So electoral work, electoral campaigns in general are a tool that socialists and those on the left need to use more.

A 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.

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.

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.

Officially the electoral campaign in Slovenia started a month before the elections, a campaign activities start beforehand.

The secret donation — a much larger sum than the DUP has ever spent on an electoral campaign in its history — attracted particular interest because almost none of the cash was spent in Northern Ireland.

The # 435,000 donation — a much larger sum than the DUP has ever spent on an electoral campaign in its history — attracted particular controversy because almost none of the cash was spent in Northern Ireland.

It will be interesting to see how and if the EFTA Court judgement will influence the electoral campaign in Iceland where election is expected latest in April.

Not exact matches

In tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachablIn tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachablin next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachable.

The U.S. and NATO buildup in eastern Europe comes days after U.S. intelligence agencies accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering an effort to help Republican Donald Trump's electoral chances by discrediting Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign.

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.

Time will tell if Trump's recent imbroglio does lasting damage to his electoral prospects, or if it's yet another instance in which he survives a controversy that would fatally doom any other campaign.

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.

The companies are at the heart of an international controversy triggered by allegations that data was inappropriately harvested to help political campaigns pull off electoral wins in the U.K.'s Brexit referendum and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

«In recent campaigns around the world — from India and Indonesia across Europe to the United States — we've seen the candidate with the largest and most engaged following on Facebook usually wins,» Zuckerberg himself wrote earlier this year, starkly underscoring his company's electoral clout.

Priebus, then the chairman of the RNC, told had Trump that he could drop out of the race or lose in the biggest electoral landslide in US history, according to a new memoir written by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

«Of course, it's undeniable that in our electoral system, candidates need access to wealth to run financially viable campaigns, and the most successful fundraisers are politicians who swim in those circles to begin with.»

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

If a campaign could persuade thousands of voters in those 50 ridings to vote strategically, countering the perverse nature of our electoral system, it could determine the outcome of the election.

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

But the one constant in his electoral machine was the beard and brogue of Doug Finley, his campaign director.

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.

It is also not beyond the realm of conceivability that the current Trudeau government in Canada, which promised electoral reform in its last campaign, would consider such a thing.

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.

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).

Campaign finance refers to the rules that govern the use of money in electoral processes such as general elections, by - elections, and referenda.

«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.

Ross Douthat had a nice piece recently showing the electoral and rhetorical stupidity of this strategic move on the part of Huntsman's campaign in attacking the base of what conservatives think is important.

I pointed out above that the politicians who campaigned on a strident culture - wars theme were not particularly successful in 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.

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

In the 2012 presidential campaign, while other pundits predicted a Romney victory, he forecast a large Obama margin in the electoral college, ultimately missing just two stateIn the 2012 presidential campaign, while other pundits predicted a Romney victory, he forecast a large Obama margin in the electoral college, ultimately missing just two statein the electoral college, ultimately missing just two states.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In common with agrowing number of older voters, what young people don't care about is the sort of politics that you and I rather like - the knockabout, the earnest discussions, the thrill of electoral organisation and campaigning.

He conducts research on political attitudes, public opinion and elections with a particular interest in campaigns, political representation and electoral accountability.

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.

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.

Let this campaign be a lesson to all political Web 2.0 enthusiasts — in electoral politics, the voter opinions that ultimately matter are the ones they have in mind when they pull the lever on a voting machine.

The city comptroller campaign of the former governor has spurred monied interests in labor and business to form separate independent expenditure groups with the purpose of ensuring his electoral defeat.

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.

On Rivers» general electoral anarchy: «Shocking cases of cold blooded killings and beheading, obstruction of votes, arson, voter intimidation, ballot snatching, missing result sheets, presenting of fake ballot papers, multiple thumb - printing, campaigning at polling units, compromise of ad - hoc staffs, absence of level playing environment, violence against media personnel and impunity were witnessed in different magnitude across the length and breadth of the state.

Plus, more - traditional mass outreach may still work in online social settings, since extensive advertising on MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn is still relatively untested, and campaigns with the resources to buy ads targeted at their particular electoral districts may find them an effective way to tap a politically active audience.