Sentences with phrase «from electoral defeat»

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

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But black votes for Obama were inconsequential in preventing Alabama's nine electoral votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama in that state with 60 % of the vote.

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

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.

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 opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) chapter in the UK and Ireland has urged members of the party to desist from running to the media to blame each other for the party's 2016 electoral defeat.

In a speech setting out how Labour would move on from an election defeat that remained «very raw», Ms Harman stressed that the influence of the unions over the decision on leadership had been altered by the move to a «one person, one vote» electoral system.

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

Flt Lt Rawlings who spoke from both a prepared speech as well as extempore said so much fire was burning inside him but confessed that he had been compelled to hold back by some leading members of the party who feared his heavy criticism will affect the party adversely after a bad electoral defeat.

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.

It took Tony Blair just three years from his rise to the Labour leadership in 1994 to turn these years of habitual defeat into a moment of colossal, crushing victory in which the same Labour activists who had soldiered so miserably for so long became all - conquering electoral troops who, as Blair puts it in one of the phrases that make his book A Journey so readable, «scattered our enemies in the imaginations of their hearts».

Lifted by more than $ 1 million in outside spending from Republican groups determined to avoid another electoral embarrassment, Ms. Lesko defeated Hiral Tipirneni, a physician and first - time candidate, in a district President Trump carried by over 20 points.

In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that a mixed electoral system in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner» in each of the state's four regions.

At the moment, many believe John Mahama may be running to possibly make up and «save face» from the 2016 electoral defeat.

Political failures like Common Core, Portfolio Management in New Orleans, electoral defeats (like those recently in Tennessee), and repudiations of the entire ed reform agenda by Black Lives Matter, the NAACP, and the DNC despite extensive courting by left - leaning ed reformers suggest that ed reform might benefit from learning a thing or two about how politics works.

The source pointed to the 2003 Blume story as evidence that the reformers have consistently failed to learn lessons from past electoral defeats.