Sentences with phrase «get enough votes»

The competition will end later this week, but I'm really hoping to get enough votes on my rugs (only the top ten will be produced).

He answered «I did not get enough votes».

How Mr. McCain plans to institute an agressive climate plan and still get enough votes from Republicans in 2012 to win (if he is still either with us or mentally fit) is beyond me.

Well, if you think you can get enough votes to win, and don't mind waiting 30 days, then there is nothing wrong with trying it.

Unfortunately, another bill, House Bill 372, did not get enough votes this week to make it off the house floor.

The school didn't get enough votes to move forward, but it is an indication of future education trend.

Jeanette told me later that I had been able to get enough votes to win primarily because I was local.

If one teacher's Explo doesn't get enough votes, someone else's Explo gets a chance.

Will Kruger get enough votes (and will enough people see «In the Fade» in time) to get her nominated as well?

4... unfortunately, the poll didn't predict the winner, because Jackson didn't get enough votes in the electoral college.

Now, Legislator Kevin Hardwick has moved to reverse that 1991 decision, but he couldn't get enough votes from other legislators to send the plan to the session next Thursday.

There's no doubt in my mind that as long as this bill is brought to the floor, it will get enough votes to pass and [Governor] Cuomo will sign off on it.»

Third party candidates for president generally don't get much publicity and most of the time don't get enough votes to make a difference in a presidential election.

The main reason smaller parties don't win more seats is because potential voters don't expect them to get enough votes and would rather choose a second preference over a third or lower preference.

Ivan Lewis will take over as Shadow Culture Secretary from Ben Bradshaw, who failed to get enough votes in the Shadow Cabinet election to take up a place.

Peter Hain and Shaun Woodward keep their roles as the Shadow Secretaries for Wales and Northern Ireland despite failing to get enough votes to win another Cabinet post in the election.

The source predicted that Levy would fail to get enough votes at the GOP nominating convention to get on the primary ballot, and that the tough - talking and still - barely known Paladino would defeat Lazio in the September primary.

Carroll said he thinks Teachout has «not a prayer of winning» the primary, but could still get enough votes to «embarrass» the governor.

In response WFP officials pointed to a recent Siena Poll that showed the smaller party would get enough votes from a candidate, other than Cuomo, to keep its line in future elections.

Little Rock, Arkansas (CNN)-- The campaigns for Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lieutenant Gov. Bill Halter are in full swing Tuesday as each candidate in the Arkansas Senate Democratic primary tries to get enough votes to break the requisite 50 - percent mark to avoid a run - off.

Still, that effort by Ed Cox, and his approach to getting it done, created intense friction within the party and an upset at the GOP convention that saw Levy fail to get enough votes to qualify for the ballot.

Well, there isn't much news today other than the failure of the House Republicans to get enough votes on their signature issue of the last seven years: Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.

The resolution failed to get enough votes at last week's town board meeting, although Mondello said he had urged Santino, D'Esposito and Dunne to cooperate with the incoming supervisor.

«For her to govern, she has to be able to get enough votes,» said Michael Dawidziak, a Bohemia political consultant who works mostly with Republicans.

Despite last week's deadline, the legislature's appropriations committee took no vote after Democrats could not get enough votes to pass the budget bill.

Maybe he can get enough votes and win, maybe this whole election is up for grabs again?»

Or, alternatively, we could let voters choose their single preferred candidate and if Griffin doesn't get enough votes, he doesn't become the MP!

There is no such thing as an «official» announcement; the only official ways to be a candidate are to get enough votes at a convention or signatures on a petition, and accept them in order to be on the ballot.

Conferees are of course still bound by the need to get the final bill passed in both bodies, but working behind the scenes they're more able to make the swaps and changes to shape a bill (however ugly) that'll get enough votes to survive.

Lozaro had sought the backing of the caucus in November, but failed to get enough votes.

The year he didn't get enough votes, he just wasn't healthy.

Needless to say it didn't get enough votes to pass but dissenting voices will now face isolation and intimidation and it will pass eventually.

Obama pretends to be a Christian so he can get enough votes to win elections.

Any politician who publicly admits that he is an atheist or a Muslim or a Hindu, or anything other than a Christian would not get enough votes to get elected.

We're here at Business Insider Greek Election HQ to watch the information come in, and to learn if the pro-bailout New Democracy party, and its leader Antonis Samaras, can hold off the upstart leftist Alexis Tsipras, and get enough votes to form a government.

However, it's unclear whether the transgender or base closing amendments will get enough votes to be included in the Senate's final NDAA.

The unrealistic part of it is the person who only got enough votes to win one state (and only 34 % of the vote in that state) being the person chosen by the house.

Merkel could choose to form a minority government, by getting enough votes to be elected Chancellor.

Lazio promised Conservative Party chairman Mike Long months ago he would remain on the line, and the big issue now is making sure the party gets enough votes to maintain ballot status (party leaders would also like to get enough to retake Row C, and push past the Independence Party).

The bomb - throwing Buffalo builder got enough votes on the Conservative line in his disastrous gubernatorial campaign against Democrat Andrew Cuomo to secure the No. 3 spot on the ballot for the right - leaning political party, which had once been written off by political observers.

Astorino got enough votes on the line that the party gained official status.

Even if it loses to Earthworm Jim, I hope it gets enough votes that Sega ports that too.

Kindle Scout campaigns last 30 days and if your book gets enough votes, Amazon will give you a $ 1,500 advance to keep it off rival platforms for five years.

If he gets enough votes, there will be a picture of him put on the tail of Frontier's Airbus 320.

Now, it is possible that if K. Rool (or anyone else) gets enough votes in the Smash Bros. character poll he could potentially still be added.

So if Oliver K. Manuel, Ph. D. gets enough votes, that means that the sun's core will suddenly change from hydrogen and helium plasma to a big hot ball of iron?

Not exact matches

I wanted to know: Are business owners passionate enough about getting out the vote that they'll promote their candidates through their businesses?

No, he was speaking to supporters of the other three candidates, imploring them to vote strategically and deny Trump enough delegates to win the Republican nomination outright, even if he gets the plurality.

Dell put off shareholder vote on its founder's $ 24.4 billion buyout offer, after failing to get enough support to seal the deal.

The SPAC was trading slightly below its offering price when Traina signed the merger agreement, which has made it difficult for him to round up enough yes votes from Terra Nova shareholders, who may be better off voting down the deal and getting back their original investments in the SPAC.