Sentences with phrase «electoral landslides»

In South Africa the main stage for political competition has shifted inside the dominant African National Congress (ANC) which attained electoral landslides since 1994.

There certainly are such people, but not enough to ensure electoral landslides for female candidates.

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

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.

Johnson was rewarded with an electoral landslide in 1964 against conservative Barry Goldwater, which broke the decades - long control of Congress by the Conservative coalition.

The Guardian reflected this enthusiasm: this election, the editorial at the time decided, «now joins 1945 and 1906 as the third great progressive electoral landslide of the 20th century».

Not exact matches

Under a uniform national swing, fighting seats on the current boundaries in a first - past - the - post electoral system, that would result in a landslide for Theresa May, according to the Electoral Calculus website.

It was a landslide victory that should not surprise any keen watcher of the electoral process in Nigeria.

Major's no - show did provoke anger from the programme's audience, though it was on the eve of a poll he was about to lose by a landslide, so this may not have had too much bearing on the electoral outcome.

When congressman are in landslide districts, they don't face an electoral threat in general elections, but still have to worry about primary elections.

Flush with campaign cash, McKinley beat his Democratic opponent William Jennings Bryan by a landslide in 1896 — the greatest electoral sweep in a quarter - century — and by an even wider margin four years later.

And his speech put miles of clear red water between him and the man who led Labour to three electoral victories, the first a historic landslide, the third won in spite of taking Britain into profoundly reviled wars.

«The probable Conservative landslide is now more securely etched onto the electoral canvas,» said ICM.

Labour pledged a referendum on electoral reform in its 1997 election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair after his landslide victory.

And if a Republican were to win in 2016, the electoral map suggests getting even 60 such votes in the Senate — the Republicans will be defending the seats they won in the 2010 landslide — is unlikely.

The result of this cherry - picking is that democratic presidential candidates would have to win the popular vote by 6 percent or more (a landslide) in order to edge out republicans in the electoral college.

Considering that the Obama 2012 campaign was lauded for its then unprecedented harvesting of Facebook social graph information en route to his landslide electoral win over Mitt Romney, this current uproar is less to do with what Facebook did, or did not do, than about Hillary Clinton losing the 2016 election.

According to information posted on CA's website, its client won a landslide victory in the elections, achieving over 90 percent of total seats targeted by CA through in - depth electoral analysis and targeting swing voters.

Garrett pointed out that Obama managed to win significantly more electoral votes as Romney — 332 to 206 — even though he lost the white vote «by a landslide,» or about 20 percent.