Sentences with phrase «electoral defeat»

The result was a series of races where Democratic incumbents were able to drag themselves from the brink of electoral defeat by going negative early and often against their Republican opponents.

The damage to democratic process is immense, as electoral defeats would come to be seen as a violation of a right to dignity.

Any party seeking to recover from electoral defeat has to develop a coherent analysis of why it lost, and what ought to be done to put it right.

The enduring image will be that of a broken man listening to his own remarks about a voter that have all but guaranteed electoral defeat for his political party.

According to him, the opposition PDP has not got over its 2015 electoral defeat which has led it to the position of losing touch with reality.

Any party seeking to recover from electoral defeat must develop a coherent analysis of why it lost and how to put it right.

Sir Dingle and Michael FootMichael Foot, the famous Labour MP and leader of the opposition against Margaret Thatcher, led his party to its worst electoral defeat in 50 years.

The crushing electoral defeat of the Ethiopian opposition does not actually help the ruling party and encourages its slide into authoritarianism

His time in Downing Street ended 20 years ago, when Major suffered a crushing electoral defeat at the hands of Blair's New Labour.

After significant electoral defeats at the hands of the SNP in 2015 and 2016, and splits over Corbyn's leadership bid last year, senior figures in both wings of the Scottish party say they are keen to preserve unity during the leadership election.

Party secretaries have been weakened by the rising power of internal factions, used as scape - goats after electoral defeats and blamed for both lack of charisma (Pierluigi Bersani) and excessive protagonism (Massimo D'Alema and especially Matteo Renzi himself).

The popularity of some of these policies in opinion polling - high public support for renationalising the railways, banning zero hours contracts and taxing the rich - means that many Labour members will mostly blame electoral defeat on Corbyn's unpopularity.

Did nobody ask whether ScoMo could really wave the deal through right now given it would spell the certain electoral defeat of Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce in New England, and a host of other Nationals in battleground seats where foreign investment is a hot - button issue?

Even after such a humiliating electoral defeat and the aftermath of Kwesi Botcwey fact finding committee report, Mahama loyalists are still living in the past.

The NDC suffered its worst electoral defeat in the December 2016 polls when its candidate and incumbent President, John Dramani Mahama polled 4,713,277 votes (44.40 %) against the NPP's Nana Akufo - Addo's 5,716,026 votes (53.85 %).

The Liberal Democrats are a stubborn bunch, who continue to battle on at the centre of British politics despite suffering such a massive electoral defeat in 2015 that they now have just eight members of parliament.

But he also says Labour have historically been far too squeamish about removing leaders heading for electoral defeat, and warns the party that they must not make the same mistake again.

Despite these high - profile challengers from inside and outside his party, Mr. Anders has yet to face electoral defeat in the political arena.

Parallels are already being made with Labour's left - wing image and subsequent heavy electoral defeat in 1983.

In 2011, Scottish Labour suffered a major electoral defeat and the hands of the SNP who mobilised a coalition of voters far in excess of those who back their raison d'être, independence.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed Democratic electoral defeats in New Jersey and Virginia as «two very local elections» that say nothing about President Barack Obama's standing with the American people right now....

The NDC Member of Parliament for Yunyoo constituency in the Northern Region, Joseph Bipoba Naabu in a recent interview, accused former president John Mahama of being responsible for the party's historic electoral defeat.

It was an abidingly defensive enterprise, framed by the experience of successive electoral defeats.

And the promise of being a good steward of the province's economy, every pundit agrees, was a big part of the reason why she was able to deliver a resounding electoral defeat to the punditry's favourite, the NDP's Adrian Dix.

In a nutshell, Fidesz is reacting to a not so distant past, when the socialist and liberal dominated domestic press, the mostly foreign - owned private TV stations, and a handful of high - profile international pressure groups have played outsized roles in the surprising electoral defeats of the Hungarian centre - right.

It was also painful to watch the Black Tory candidate and barrister, John Taylor, tell the world's media in a rather pompous accent that his 1992 general electoral defeat in the safe Tory seat of Cheltenham, had nothing to do with racism.

Progressive fervor over President Donald Trump's election has catapulted Murphy's standing among Democrats, who are looking for energetic young leaders as they recover from a humbling electoral defeat.

Many politicians on Capitol Hill - including Democrats - were not going to risk electoral defeat by being accused of allowing «terrorists onto American soil».

The UMP is bitterly divided, especially over the Schengen issue while the Socialist Party has kept a low profile a few weeks after a severe electoral defeat in city council elections and as president Hollande hit rock bottom, being identified as the most unpopular president ever.

In 2003, Duncan Smith was inexorably leading the Conservative party to a huge electoral defeat, and the party had little to lose in replacing him, whereas since 2010, the political landscape has been far more uncertain.

[26] Suffering mass electoral defeat at the local elections, in London, Labour lost 15 boroughs, including Livingstone's London Borough of Lambeth, which came under Conservative control.

In the White House, electoral defeat gave way to a shifting series of explanations: Mr. Trump's first reaction was to savage Ed Gillespie, the defeated Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, on Twitter.

5) Your leadership have recorded the NPP Two consecutive electoral defeat and still counting.

And if that becomes a salient part of liberal politics, liberals are going to suffer tremendous electoral defeat.

I mean here is a party that has suffered the biggest electoral defeat in the fourth republic.

All very mid-1992 when following a fourth electoral defeat, the best that many senior leaders of the party had to offer by way of strategy was «one more heave.»

According to him, the regional chairmen realizing their popularity is waning took the decision to endorse him so that they do not lose their positions considering how they propelled the party to its abysmal electoral defeat

Given the history and profile of terror attacks, that would appear more plausible than Dasuki's Chatham House reason: that the armed forces, hitherto snoozing before Boko Haram, just sprang awake to face down their nemesis, with putative electoral defeat facing the president!

The former president, the sources noted, did not sound divisive during his delivery as he did not touch on blame game regarding who in the party caused the NDC's shocking electoral defeat to the NPP's Nana Akufo - Addo during the 2016 polls.

The Scottish referendum proved that nationalism can thrive in electoral defeat just as easily as in victory.

(CNN)- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is standing by his recent prediction that President Obama may be headed for a massive electoral defeat similar to that which President Carter faced in 1980.

But to repeat the pre-election mantra that «nothing is inevitable here» after an overwhelming electoral defeat, after the people have rendered their verdict... was McCain's choice of words yet another coded message in the manner of his disdainful debate reference to Obama as «The One»?

Though deeply traumatised by electoral defeat last May, the party has not succumbed to internal feuding - the Brownite and Blairite groups keep the peace by vetoing each other's suggestions.

But you can't help noticing how far Jerusalem is from Liverpool, how remote his globetrotting, worldly and would - be world - saving, persona now seems from the Labour party he once led and that met this week on Merseyside to map its place a year on from a catastrophic electoral defeat.

They oppose Labour and are sirens seeking to lure it towards further electoral defeats.

Former Labour frontbencher Jamie Reed said the Labour leadership had decided to «pursue electoral defeat» on Trident.

Carey found that politicians who won primaries received a «bounce» of three to six percentage points in general elections, compared with politicians who were nominated or selected by party elites — a margin large enough to spell the difference between electoral defeat and victory.

The left - thinking members of the Labour party are prepared to stomach electoral defeat knowing fully well that a Conservative government will be walking into an economic hornet's nest and will take most of the flak for Labour's mismanagment, just like in the early 1980s.

At the state level, Wisconsin and Illinois Republicans suffered substantial electoral defeats during the 1880s, when Catholic and Lutheran voters joined forces against legislators who voted for laws that cramped parochial school operations and forbade instruction in any language other than English.