Sentences with phrase «for election disaster»

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The disaster of this presidential election is a long time in coming — it will spawn disasters beyond our imagining — and yet it remains our responsibility to persevere and make the best of our challenges and opportunities as they come upon us.The first thing is to steel ourselves for a disaster in....

The election was also a disaster for the pollsters and the political scientists.

All parties unite when general elections come along - doing otherwise is a recipe for disaster.

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.

«What Nick will need to do as deputy prime minister is to show what a difference the Liberal Democrats have made and why a majority for either Conservatives or Labour at the election would be a disaster,» blog Lib Dem Voice quoted him as saying.

As well as the month or so after the general election debacle, the other perilous period for the PM was after her disaster at the Tory conference.

Until nearly 9 pm on the night before parliament broke up for Christmas, the prime minister appeared well set to end the year in better shape politically than at any time since the election disaster in June.

But the 1983 disaster also saw the election of two MPs who went on to shape and dominate the party and the UK's political scene for nearly two decades: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

The media spent the entire election asking me about the scale of the likely disaster and predicting a wipeout for the Welsh Liberal Democrats.

A month ago, Labour had one of its worst ever performances in the local elections, pointing to disaster for Corbyn in Thursday's general election.

The basic contrast in elections is «vote for us, or face disaster».

The prediction Theresa May will have just 314 seats - down from 332 going into the election - is a disaster for the Prime Minister.

The election was a disaster for Labour, which had hoped to form at least a minority government, and an outright catastrophe for the Conservatives» partners in coalition, the Liberal Democrats.

Election 2015: Exclusive Daily Record poll predicts disaster for Murphy's Labour in Scottish heartlands 6 May 2015

This could easily be a recipe for disaster in future elections.

On Wednesday, City Council Member Mark Treyger will introduce a bill to ensure that the Board of Elections, which administers voting in the city, joins these agencies in formulating its own disaster - preparedness procedures for conducting the polls.

What if tonight's European election results bring even greater disaster — say, less than 20 per cent for Labour?

For Labour members, many still reeling from last year's brutal election defeat, electoral disaster is unthinkable.

Says Poorly Conducted Elections, Recipe For Disaster The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said he would not...

The Liberal Democrats will be looking for an signs of recovery after disaster at the last General Election in 2015 which saw them dip from more than 50 MPs to just 8.

According to the group, the «deliberate» delays by the EC in making a decision on the voter's register «could easily be a recipe for disaster in future elections»

He blamed the conduct of the Minister for the rescheduling of polling station elections in the area indicating that she was said to have through the DCE hijacked forms meant for polling station contenders for fear that the Deputy Coordinator of Nationa Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Peter Wuni who is eying the Gambaga seat will ensure his favourites purchase the forms to contest.

I left in July 1994, for no good reason other than I thought the election of Tony Blair would be a disaster (such was my political insight that I thought John Prescott would be a more fitting heir to John Smith's legacy).

In a disaster for voting rights and democracy — and a horrifying embarrassment for New York — the incompetent New York City Board of Elections inexplicably removed more than 100,000 Brooklyn voters off the rolls amid the national spotlight of a crucial presidential primary.

Losing a Democratic U.S. Senate seat from New York would be nothing short of a disaster for the Obama Administration in next fall's mid-term election.

Oakeshott resigned as a Liberal Democrat peer, warning that the party was heading for disaster, after the secret polls were leaked to the Guardian in the wake of very poor results in the council and European elections.

And last summer, after the disaster that kept giving that was Falkirk - when Unite was accused of attempting to rig the process to select a Labour candidate in the by - election - Ed Miliband stood tall and declared it was time for change.

During his campaign and since his election, President Trump has called NAFTA «a disaster» that's robbing U.S. jobs, and he has called for a review of the 23 - year - old agreement.

Obama will most probably lose the election and the next 4 to 8 years will be a Conservative sponsored disaster for the U.S. and the world.

In the last year alone, for example, we've come through a national election, a changing of the guard at NAR, and a series of natural disasters that has touched many thousands of lives and is impacting our industry in many ways.