Sentences with phrase «general election like»

I am a silver surfer and am determined to vote in the general election like the rest of my ilk.

[Updated] Was Grace Meng really endorsed by the New York Times in the general election like her official campaign literature seems to claim?

Mr Shuker also said the Conservatives had failed to clear the deficit by the next general election like they promised to.

Not exact matches

Sugar said: «If [politicians] lie, which results in massive decisions like leaving the European Union, or gaining votes in a general election, then this should be a criminal offence as it would be in a public company if I lied to my shareholders.»

It's hard to tell how many do this — I know of a few politically engaged Liberals who periodically hold Tory membership cards too — but it's a fact of life for those of other political stripes in a one - party province like Alberta: the political direction of the province is decided at the PC leadership conventions, not in general elections.

«I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late,» Trump said, a statement which ignores the fact that Bannon was the campaign C.E.O. for most of the general election.

In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt — who, like Sanders, was considered by many to be too far left to win the general election — failed to garner the necessary two - thirds majority of delegates.

It's funny, I was chatting with god the other night, you know about girls and money and basically life in general, and then from out of no where god was like, «Yo, Chuckles, I have a job for you, it's very important that you do it, I need you to go and vote this upcoming election and I need you to vote for Rick Perry, he seems a little crazy, but don't worry, he's all good in my book».

It's not like a caucus even remotely resembles a general election.

If the prophets speak on behalf of social and economic justice, they do not preach a general abstract morality, but pointedly and specifically proclaim an election / covenant ethic, the sense of which is something like this: You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt (election) and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my righteous will (covenant).

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

The Arsenal transfer saga is much like the Australian General Election, a boring «stuff up «with no outcome.

As a consequence, just like the general election in the summer, the Tories will maintain power for another 4 years and Arsenal Wenger and the board will be there on the first game of next season.

So much like Nick Clegg before the last General Election, Wenger proposed a «third way».

«This is the largest amount of money ever concealed in an election,» says Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, as tobacco - style tactics by likes of PepsiCo and Nestle are revealed in Washington State's lawsuit against the Grocery Manufacturers Association over GMO labeling fight.

He adds: «We've still got some people pushing out materials and advice from the 1997 general election when people like me were still at school.

With just over a month until the general election, the Camerons feel like they're studying for a Masters in the art — and artifice — of the political photo opportunity.

Under normal circumstances, if we left conference season 19 months before the general election with polls like this we'd expect the government to be re-elected — but these are not necessarily normal circumstances.

Edwards, like much of the rest of the state, is now awaiting word from his original running mate, Rick Lazio, as to whether he'll stay in the general election on the Conservative Party line.

I'd like to see non partisan elections in New York State or instant run - off voting at the general election.

Intense emotion — more like a general election than a primary?

He stood for Cardiff South East in the 1964 general election but couldn't manage to accumulate votes like he did runs, losing to James Callaghan.

We would like to review and replay your first day on the campaign trail in the general election, and together see how you might be able to improve on that performance.

Nixon said she wants a one - on - one debate with Cuomo, sans the multiple candidates who have appeared in general election debates like in 2010 and 2014.

The continuing economic situation and the fact that up to 250 first - time MPs could be elected mean this feels like a new dawn whatever the result of the general election.

Republicans, particularly Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, have worked hard to woo Latino voters in recent years, and some worry that a single negative ad run against Long featuring comments like these would tank her — and fellow GOP candidates — in the general election.

That Paladino defeated Lazio in the primary was something of a surprise, but like the general election against Cuomo he managed to get high turnout in western New York.

Both Wendy Long and her primary opponent, Rep. Bob Turner, found something to like in this morning's Q poll, despite the fact that it found both of them trailing their general election target — Democratic US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — by a very wide margin.

Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).

Inevitably however most analysis of the results will simply reflect how many votes were cast for each party on the day and commentators will imagine what parliament will look like if the same results were for a general election.

So, expect to see more comments like this because it will serve the dual purpose of trying to weaken Gillibrand for the general election while also making Long's case that she is the best candidate to take on the Senator.

Other strategies, like exiting leases, negotiating out of contracts and selling properties and land in Central London has saved # 1 billion since the 2010 general election, according to the minister.

Many are asking how much more can the so - called moderates in the party put up with — the likes of Chuka Umunna, Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves have largely sat tight since the general election.

Samuels noted that the ticket won't be set until the general election, which means Cuomo could end up — much like his father did — stuck with an LG not of his choosing.

The SNP, like the Conservatives, received a mixed message from the electorate at June's general election.

Whoever wins the special election will take office immediately and won't have to wait until January 2011 like most of the general election victors.

There has previously been some speculation that if the Conservatives win the general election and David Cameron becomes Prime Minister, he might combine the Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices into a single «Department for the Nations» or such like, with one minister sitting in the Cabinet.

His suggestion that the debates should be «just like at the last general election» is being interpreted as ruling out the participation of Nigel Farage.

Republicans want a strong general election candidate to take on Sen. Joe Manchin in November, and trying to block a jailbird from the GOP nomination seems like a no - brainer.

It's time for David Cameron to stop ducking and diving and agree to those TV debates, just like at the last general election, so the country can make its choice.

To make the context more like a general election I focus just on places fought by the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats both in 2013 and 2017.

The Labour leader says the debates should be «just like at the last general election», appearing to rule out the participation of Nigel Farage.

The following graph shows results for those local elections, like this year's, that were held just a year after a general election.

At the European election in June the Conservatives beat Labour in the popular vote in Wales for the first time in living memory, and if the findings of this poll were replicated at the general election, it looks like being a close run thing again at the general election.

In Tea Party activists and in angry voters electing or putting on the ballot, excuse me, in primaries, people like Christine O'Donnell in Delaware — does that create a situation where the Republican Party in a general election is so out of the mainstream, is so filled with candidates who are so crazy that the party actually ends up blowing an incredible opportunity that's been handed to them on a silver platter and fails to capitalize in a significant way on the intense voter dissatisfaction?

She said, the current economic hardship, which has led to high unemployment and school dropout rates, has made a large section of the youth vulnerable to the entrapments of some mischievous politicians, who would like to recruit them to engage in violence in the November 7 general elections.

Like Aesop's mountain, we're led to believe, Nicola Sturgeon has spent the days since the general election labouring, or rather «reflecting», on the future of independence.

On AV, I think it is more complicated, as neither you nor I can say we know what the pattern of 1st preferences would be in the first AV General Election, still less do any of us know what the overall candidate and party system look like, and the way in which different candidates and parties might interact over two or three elections.

The 2010 general election is like a tour around Britain's failing democracy.

Cuomo reiterated his support of «progressive politics», stressing that his calls for fiscal conservatism don't mean he is no longer a liberal on social issues like abortion rights (which is shaping up to be a big focus of the Schneiderman - Donovan general election battle).