Sentences with phrase «few presidential elections»

Not all local parties in swing states have gotten this much attention, particularly in states such as Michigan and Wisconsin where Democrats have won the last few presidential elections, high - ranking officials there told POLITICO.

In the last few presidential elections, the strategy of the Republican presidential candidate has been to only talk about abortion when asked.

Not exact matches

With only a few weeks to go until the first round of the presidential election, it seems clear that the French are dissatisfied with European politics.

The crisis comes just a few months after revelations that Russia exploited Facebook's platform to influence the U.S. presidential election.

In the meantime, Canada has been keeping close tabs on the United States» presidential election with a social media campaign, «Tell America It's Great» trending on Twitter a few weeks ago and» #MeanwhileInCanada» trending on election night.

And yet, though many investors were wrong about the U.K.'s Brexit vote and the American presidential election, few ended up disappointed by their portfolios.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on claims about a «rigged election,» firing off a few early - morning tweets in which he accused the press and the Hillary Clinton campaign of trying to «poison the minds of the American Voter.»

Zuckerberg initially rejected the idea that misinformation on Facebook had contributed to the 2016 presidential election outcome, but he later admitted that fake news is a problem on the social network and that ads linked to Russia's attempts at disrupting U.S. politics, including the 2016 election, reached roughly 126 million U.S. Facebook users over the past few years.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

That said, it seems VandeHei may not have been so much urging Zuckerberg to run as he was commenting that the 2016 race is so outside the bounds of typical U.S. presidential elections that almost few twists in the narrative would be surprising at this point.

Business owners turned their attention over the past few days squarely toward the Iowa caucuses, the first national contest in the 2016 presidential election.

He lost a presidential election in 2005 to hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the little - known mayor of Tehran at the time, a defeat that indicated resentment toward Rafsanjani as part of the elite and the perception he served few interests other than his own.

Health Care Equipment & Services is one of the few slices of the US market that has demonstrated a statistically significant relationship with changes in presidential election odds (see What to Expect When You're Electing, Sep. 11, 2016).

Mortgage rates took a big leap following the presidential election, and while they have since moderated, they remain higher, leaving fewer borrowers to benefit from a refinance.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

Financial stocks have pulled back over the last few trading days, but remain the best performer in the S&P 500 since the U.S. presidential election with gains of more than 17.5 percent.

The full horror of last week's presidential election became evident a few days after the result had been called.

Strider, who helped spearhead Democratic faith outreach in 2006 and 2008 - when he directed that work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign - said the party put substantially fewer resources and effort into faith - based strategy work this year than in any election since 2004.

When thinking about abortion and this year's presidential election, a few questions come to mind.

Our columnist, Matthew Lee Anderson, has a few thoughts on how to survive the presidential election with your perspective intact.

A few weeks before last year's presidential election, Mitt Romney held a high - profile meeting in North Carolina with the Reverend Billy Graham, patron saint of American Evangelicals.

In three elections over just a few years, Walker's team seems to have built an operation that's primed to leverage digital tools to help win Walker the Republican presidential nomination.

During the last presidential election cycle, Reed won by only a few percentage points over then - opponent Nate Shinagawa, a former Tompkins County legislator.

The Republicans, who for the last few years have been leaning heavily to the right, lost the second presidential election in a row, and for their own interests they should rethink this strategy.

Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign exemplifies the problem, since they were so confident in their modeling that they didn't even bother to conduct polls in the last few weeks of the presidential race in the states that swung the election.

And newspapers, law journals and political commentaries will be filled for the next few weeks with evaluations of his judicial legacy, the consequences of his death for the court, and its impact on the current presidential election in the United States.

At past trainings I've conducted, I've predicted that by the 2020 Presidential elections very few people will lug around laptops — everything we need to do online will be done on a smartphone or a tablet.

The East - West split in Ukraine in the 2010 presidential election was a matter of a few percentage points.

The second parliamentary and presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since independence in 1960 in a few days time on 28 November 2011 are a crucial indicator for the state of the country.

With barely three weeks to the country's presidential and parliamentary elections, the party is yet to make any significant impression on the political landscape with very few posters and low media publicity.

According to him, the cold murder of Mr Joseph BoakyeDanquah - Adu, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region few months to the presidential and parliamentary elections was for ritual purposes for Akufo - Addo's victory.

(It is hard to speak of a real democracy in a country such as the US where winning a presidential election costs $ 1 billion and where that $ 1 billion comes from a few very wealthy donors.)

The next presidential election is nearly three years away, but in the Capitol the race is already unfolding, with no fewer than six senators — including New York's Kirsten Gillibrand — eyeing the Democratic nomination in 2020, with each angling to get to the left of the others, complicating things for their colleagues seeking re-election this year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he is considering using the April 19 presidential primaries as an election date for a few vacancies across the state, including the seat last held by now Councilman Joe Borelli.

Williams — one of just a few New York City elected officials who endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president in the New York presidential primary — also weighed in on the upcoming presidential election in November.

There will also be a higher Democratic voter turnout for a presidential election, fewer Democratic incumbents to defend and many more vulnerable Republicans to challenge, he said.

With few days to the 2016 Presidential and parliamentary elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has opted to freely advertise the baby drink; Kalyppo Fruit Juice, above its policies for Ghanaians for the next four years, should its Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo - Addo, win the 2016 elections and takeover the Flagstaff House from the current occupant, John Dramani Mahama.

With year - end fundraising reports flooding into the Federal Election Commission over the past few days, money is the focus of this month's presidential Line.

Some states provide qualified minor parties with their own presidential primaries, and minor parties have used presidential primaries in at least a few states, in all presidential elections starting in 1972.

With Kenya's presidential election drawing near, campaigns here are for the first time making widespread use of opinion polls, text messaging, teleprompters, spin doctors, $ 15,000 - a-plate fundraisers and even high - powered foreign political consultants such as Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, who swooped in for a few days to counsel opposition candidate Raila Odinga.

King gives an example of a group of students a few years ago who were working to replicate a paper about presidential election campaign strategies by a respected social scientist — King declined to name names — and after following the paper's methods section to the letter came up with vastly different results.

Unmanned autonomous vehicles designed to help combat the Zika virus, ethical and safety considerations related to new human gene - editing tools, advances in the fight against cancer and U.S. science policy following the presidential election will be a few of this year's headlines at the world's largest general scientific conference.

I have tried to reassure those children (and not a few adults) that this date represents nothing more cosmically special than the year of the next presidential election.

I think two reasonable people can have opposing political views and be ok, although there will be a few touchy months during Presidential elections like the one we are in the midst of.

Marriage equality, refugees seeking safety in Europe, the Confederate flag, police shootings of black and Latino men, the presidential election, Caitlyn Jenner, ISIS, and immigration are just a few of the news stories that inhabited the headlines this year on our phones, laptops, and newspapers.

We know from presidential election polls that most polls yield results that do not differ more than a few percentage points, but, then, the question posed is almost exactly the same: Who do you plan to vote for?

There are few things more difficult than changing a position from elected to appointed, but we encourage the legislature to continue the education reforms of the past four years, and move forward with proposals this year to switch to a uniform system that includes all elected school board members, whose election coincides with the presidential election, and all appointed superintendents.

President Donald Trump's defeat last November of Hillary Clinton capped the most divisive presidential election in recent memory, and the first few months of his tenure have been marked by controversy.

In addition, with the presidential election a few months away, both were asked if a national education construction program would be considered to improve America's dilapidated and inefficient education infrastructure.

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