Sentences with phrase «for election loss»

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'' (The ongoing standoff between the euro zone and Greece) also increases the chances of snap elections in Greece as after overplaying his hand and facing increasing difficulties in concluding the review, Tsipras may be tempted to cut his losses by calling early elections before Syriza (the ruling party) loses more support for adopting unpopular measures,» Piccoli said.

The victory of Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the French election could prove a loss for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Stewart's cable news targets include a CNN reporter who asserted that a loss for Scott Walker would be «one of the worst indignities for an election official,» and a Fox News host who asked a Wisconsin voter to compare the recall election to her experience living in communist China.

It remains to be seen whether or not Hillary Clinton's election loss has tarnished her family's brand and, if so, what this means for the future of the foundation.

The caucus merger, which was either in negotiations for months or sparked by the Wildrose by - election loss (depending on which story you believe), was encouraged by Conservative Godfather Preston Manning (Mr. Manning later apologized for his role).

The result is the loss of any reason for the election of Israel, a foundational idea of Judaism.

CT followed Ahok's blasphemy accusation, election loss, and imprisonment — but also explained why Christians should still have hope for Indonesia.

Rwanda counts votes as Kagame eyes third - term + + + Kenyans in the city flee for rural safety ahead of Tuesday's elections + + + Businesses in Burundi count losses as electricity crisis continues

Clinton may be headed for another loss in a Democratic primary battle in West Virginia today, though she believes she has already locked down the party's nomination and is focused on the general election and Trump.

It was also a redemption of sorts for GOP County Chairman Nick Langworthy and ex-County Executive Chris Collins political team after last year's NY - 26 special election loss of Assemblywoman Jane Corwin to Rep. Kathy Hochul.

The losses suffered by the Lib Dems in this election have dented the party's reputation for having virtually unshiftable MPs.

The loss of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 general elections was not only a defeat but a rejection, hence the party needs a new leader for successive elections, former President Jerry John Rawlings has said.

This is salutary reminder that the political significance of numbers of gains and losses depends very much on the numbers of seats up for election.

After the primary, but before candidacy for the actual election opens, the winner of the primary experiences a marked loss of popularity.

The Social Democratic losses in 1998 were associated with a surge in support for the Left Party, allowing Göran Persson to remain as prime minister after the election.

Indications of such a trend have been identified by some in recent elections in the UK (Brexit) and the US (Trump): voters disenchanted with globalised competition and fearing of job or status loss are seen to have voted in particularly high numbers for Brexit and Trump and against the established order.

His decision follows Austrian populists blaming Farage for their loss in the party's presidential election in December.

Clinton's loss in the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump was seen as a galvanizing event for many women to run for office in down - ballot races — from local elections, state legislation races and congressional campaigns — this year.

Corbyn rejected speculation over his own leadership despite a raft of pollsters predicting huge losses for Labour at the May 4 elections.

In Northern Ireland, the election compounds the political turmoil, which followed the failure of the DUP - led power - sharing government, electoral losses for the DUP, and the subsequent inability of the unionist and nationalist parties to come to a new agreement.

Besides, having vigorously campaigned for a presidential candidate that shielded corruption and treasury looting, and that candidate having lost to an anti-corruption candidate in the democratic election of 2015, many appear unable to recover from the electoral loss.

Hillary Clinton last weekend took broad swipes at Trump's 2016 election victory, seemingly putting blame for her loss on poorer areas of the United States.

Clinton claimed she's taking responsibility for her 2016 election loss but believes misogyny, Russian interference and questionable decisions by the FBI influenced the outcome.

A wide majority of voters who supported Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election say they would vote for her again despite her loss, according to a new poll.

James Comey's searing, tell - all book touched off a forceful attack on the former F.B.I. director's character by Trump and his allies, even as many Democrats struggled with conflicted feelings about the man they blame for Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 election.

While Republicans have been bracing for months for a punishing election in November, they are increasingly alarmed that their losses may be even worse than feared because the midterm campaign appears destined to turn more on the behavior of the man in the White House than any other in decades.

Giving the commencement address to graduates of Medgar Evers College, Hillary Clinton invoked her election loss, took multiple shots at Trump and urged graduates to fight for social justice.

Although sitting US President's party's lose seats in midterm elections (i.e. Democratic losses in 1994; Republican losses in 2006), the 2010 election resulted in the highest loss for a party in a House midterm election since 1938.

The state Independence Party has endorsed Republican Matt Doheny's challenge to Democratic Rep. Bill Owens in NY - 23 — a move that could prove significant in the GOP's effort to win back the North Country seat it had held for over a century until last year's special election loss.

I suspect this is actually an attempt by Clegg to construct a narrative which will see the blame for any losses at the 2015 general election placeable at the feet of someone other than himself.

Regular readers will recall that the Magic Number — the difference between the number of Conservative and Labour seats in the House of Commons, and therefore the combined number of net Tory losses and net Labour gains needed for the parties to have the same number of MPs after the next election — is 46.

The Republicans are certainly taking the threats to their seats seriously, especially considering the historic trend of losses for the president's party in midterm elections.

By implication the geography of local election voting must be doing a lot of work to dampen the scale of gains and losses for the Conservatives and Labour parties in the Rallings and Thrasher projection.

My forecasting model for seat gains / losses at local elections has previously been a simple model based on change in party support in the polls.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

Taking the responsibility for the NDC's defeat in the 2016 elections, Mahama said: «Of course as the general who led us into battle, I take ultimate responsibility for our losing the election and so if it will satisfy those people, blame me for the loss.»

And in a sign of possible trouble for the administration, Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who is leading a Senate intelligence committee probe into alleged Russian influence on the election, expressed disquiet at the firing of Comey, which he described as a «loss for the bureau and the nation.

Though the WFP was not without its low points in 2011: the shuttering of its controversial for - profit arm Data and Field Services on Oct. 26 and the loss of WFP - endorsed candidate David Weprin in the NY - 9 special election.

Democratic Assemblyman Sam Hoyt today had some rare kind words for his fellow Buffalonian, Carl Paladino, following the businessman's big loss to Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday's election.

The problem seems to be that whenever a party loses an election, their first inclination seems to be to move in the opposite direction to the swing of the population, so when the Tories lost to Blair, they retrenched further right for two elections, and Labour assumed that New Labour was to blame for their loss in 2010, so publicly ditched that and moved left — when actually New Labour was the only time in history Labour have completed a second term, let alone a third.

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th September 2013 New boundaries for Ireland's European Election constituencies were published today, following a review that was necessitated by the loss of a European Parliament seat by Ireland after Croatia's accession to the European Union.

In 1994 the Conservatives» net losses amounted to 10 per cent of the seats up for election that year.

Never make the case for the EU and its attendant loss of national sovereignty; never go into an election talking of electoral reform; never remind voters of the environmental damage associated with their lifestyles.

For instance, Labour's overall share of the vote increased in 2015, relative to the 2010 General Election, by 1.5 %, but the extent of the party's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted votes.

For the two other candidates in the race, Democratic City Councilwoman Liz Crowley and GOP Councilman Dan Halloran, the congressional election represents a free shot of sorts, as neither is up for reelection until 2013 and their day jobs would not be directly affected by a loss in any wFor the two other candidates in the race, Democratic City Councilwoman Liz Crowley and GOP Councilman Dan Halloran, the congressional election represents a free shot of sorts, as neither is up for reelection until 2013 and their day jobs would not be directly affected by a loss in any wfor reelection until 2013 and their day jobs would not be directly affected by a loss in any way.

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R - Calif., told CQ Roll Call on Tuesday that it was «perhaps too soon» for his committee to look at how federal prosecutors» allegations that Mayor Vincent Gray knew about a shadow campaign scheme in the 2010 election might have contributed to his loss to Muriel Bowser.

As the last general election in the United Kingdom showed, this is a hazardous task to engage in, as the votes to seats ration can be skewed by geography and spatial differences in terms of support gains / losses for the different parties.

In 2015, he came to the University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus for NPP TESCON programme when I was NDC TEIN president and preached a very terrible message by asking Ghanaians to make sacrifices like the people of Ivory Coast did some years ago and that «a country smaller in size and population compared to Ghana, which had endured bloody dispute in their last election, resulting in the loss and displacing of thousands of lives, had, in a short period, turned around their fortunes.

Though details of the report, especially reasons for the party's loss in the election, were not disclosed at the presentation ceremony, Dr Botchwey outlined a number of recommendation by his Committee that would put the party back on track.

And are these May 23rd election results for the party prefiguring a large number of Labour Party losses at this next general election contest?