Sentences with phrase «going over voting»

It took Al Gore sitting down with Emanuel and going over voting lists, name by name, to persuade the White House to throw its muscle behind the bill and pressure congressional holdouts to fall in line.

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«At a fundamental level, you're gonna strip people of their power, prestige, money, whatever over a vote?

Italian shares on its FTSE MIB index closed up over 1.5 percent, as traders awaited for clarity on which parties are going to form the next government following the inconclusive vote over the weekend.

Last week, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that represent over 37,000 wireline employees said they had voted to go on strike, if needed, after their contract expired on Aug. 1 at midnight.

If Jobs» biggest accomplishment over the past 10 years could be pinpointed, my vote would go to his convincing AT&T to offer unlimited data on the iPhone for less than $ 100.

«That being said, by 8:15, we went from being down 725 votes to being up by over 2,000,» he continued.

Mark Pincus, founder of the gaming company Zynga, is reducing his voting power over the company, going against a trend where entrepreneurs lobbied for more control.

There would also be a 60 - vote point of order if the bill increased the deficit over the first five or first ten years, per the Senate «Pay as you go» (PAYGO) rule, unless the budget resolution repealed the Senate PAYGO rule or established an exception to it.

I vote NO to the mosque... not now, not ever... They already have enough churches in NYC... This is being done for spite, plain and simple... get over it and go somewhere else... I hear the middle of Harlem is in need of a few places to pray

The latino vote is going to be absolutely critical in every future election, and they are not incapable of being won over with the right message and more importantly right actions.

The only military reason to vote for Obama is that Romney has already pledged to go to war with Iran over their nuclear program.

I used to be a repub till congress was taken over by the tea party and Romney as our candidate.I can not support a man who is a draft dodger and a tax evader.The repub congress has done nothing for vets, nothing for the middleclass.All of the good repubs have gone or have been forced out by the extremists that care nothing for the average joe or veterans like myself.Until we get real candidates that care for the middleclass and vets I will not vote for the repubs.Honor and respect, and caring for this nation is what the repubs used to stand for, now we have wackjobs from the tea party holding america hostage and thats as un patriotic as it gets, it is hurting many americans, our economy and soldiers who are looking for work.

Heck, what are they going to do, vote for Obama over Romney?!

Nationally, a little over half the Catholic vote went for Gore.

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

The idea, for instance, that because science tells us about the maturing brain we ought to raise the drinking age to twenty - five is going to go over big, with an electorate that can vote at eighteen.

For 15 furious rounds it could have gone either way, and often did, but the vote for Ken Norton over Jimmy Young was what counted in the end

Catalonia went to the polls on Sunday to vote in an independence referendum and the ensuing scenes of violence made headlines the world over.

Even if you have not voted over the past 4 months (shame on you), please go and vote now.

I invited moms over and we took turns going out to vote without kids, while the other moms cooperatively babysat.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

Tonight's vote over 42 - day detention is going to be «very, very close» with the full pressure of the government machine being brought to bear, civil liberties campaigners are saying.

In 2004 over a million votes went to third party candidates who were disillusioned or uninterested in the two major parties.

Caputo also threatened to outspend Lazio «five or six times over» on Paladino's independent Taxpayers Party line, which he said was «designed to completely take away the vote that would be going to the Conservative line under any other circumstances» and «destroy» the Conservative Party.

Clearly concerned about slipping poll numbers in Iowa, Hillary Clinton's campaign went after Bernie Sanders this week, attacking him over past gun - control votes and his health care proposals.

So, as a practical matter, I think Dave has shown that he's voted consistently with the Republicans over the past couple of years, and there's really no reason to go after him to maintain the voting base that we want to move New York State forward.»

Do the right thing today and go out and vote NO on your local school budget especially if they're trying to go over what's allowed by the tax cap.

This week, insiders began a whisper campaign that Alice Cancel had the most votes from the committee going into tomorrow's (S) election process in which new votes are taken over and over again until a candidate reaches 50 %.

That is why, before the election was called, it was felt that the key vote in 2017 was going to be the contest over Unite's general secretary role.

In 1976 Richard McKelvey went much further, in a complex series of mathematical proofs, establishing that given control over a voting agenda it was possible to bring about almost any outcome the agenda setter desired.

The operative for whom Team Lazio is searching would basically take over the convention vote whipping operation — the calling and maintenance of committee members who have pledged their support — and also manage the proxies pledged by those people to make sure nothing goes awry after their delivery to state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who has endorsed Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy over Lazio.

Over a third of Labour voters in 2015, where it went down to heavy defeat, said they would not vote for the party under him.

One delegate who told me she supports Sen. Eric Schneiderman, (who was expected to get onto the ballot if the party went the one - vote route), was downright furious over Jacobs» flip - flopping on the AG vote.

Criticizing not only Trump, but also the electoral college process that got him elected over the popular vote, which went to Clinton.

If the debate on this bill so far is anything to go by, we will see many more flourishes of excitement and protest over EVEL certification and voting in the next few months.

With just over three weeks to go before a crucial byelection in the normally safe Tory seat of Rochester and Strood, which Ukip threatens to seize, the poll puts Ukip on 18 % of the national vote, with the Lib Dems on 6 % and the Greens on 4 %.

He also founded Business for Britain, which represents over 1,500 business leaders, is affiliated to Vote Leave, and recently published «Change, or Go: How Britain would gain influence and prosper outside an unreformed EU».

Because Labour could, potentially, win if the previously Labour but now non-voters can be persuaded to start turning out and voting Labour again, but only if the non-voting support base is fairly large, and without that sort of analysis over larger areas it's hard to judge — it's definitely partially true in my ward, Labour had disappeared electorally years ago, but won the seat in 2012, despite most other parties getting similar votes to normal (and our support mostly going to an Independent we were tacitly backing).

Farage has repeatedly praised Johnson in recent weeks, going so far as to suggest that he would take a job in a government led by Johnson if he took over after a vote to leave.

Going into the May, 2015 election the Green Party of England and Wales membership had grown to over 60,000 members, they ran 571 candidates and received over 1,157,613 votes.

Phil / Jane / Dave / Regular Joe... You are going to hear the same drum beaten over and over until your boss Flanagan agrees to bring a meaningful campaign finance bill to the Senate for a vote (where it will pass 60 + to zero).

Moreover, London has a unique vulnerability, being at the mercy of Bob Crow, and Ken's historical reluctance to go fully into battle with the RMT is not going to win over those outer London voters likely to vote for Boris.

We knew we were going down; but, as in 1992, we hoped that when it came to polling day, stubby pencils would hover over the box next to the Labour candidate on the ballot paper, and people would decide to «play safe» and vote Conservative.

It is more likely that Cameron will seek to embarrass the Lib Dems politically over their sudden opposition to boundary reform, but have to accept that they are not going to vote through the boundary changes, and carry on with the coalition.

Why not go with something like either Instant or later Runoff vote such that the winner will have an over 50 % mandate?

«With just over a week to polling day, No to AV activists will be working hard to ensure that people go out and vote on May 5th.»

Despite the robocalls that went out on Long Island over the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has now made heretofore source - based speculation official: His conference will provide sufficient votes this afternoon to pass the 11th budget extender and avoid a government shutdown.

With just a few weeks to go until the referendum, Cabinet ministers are becoming concerned that some relations will be hard to repair once the vote is over.

«There's some very open - ended language in the executive order, which could result in the city having to recur a substantial additional cost that will not go through our budget process, that the Council doesn't get to vote on, that I as mayor have no control over,» de Blasio said.

«There's going to be some quite intense discussions over the next few days, I suspect, and I hope our party officials and our national executive will see sense on this and recognise that those people that have freely given of their time and their money to join the Labour party should be welcomed in and given the opportunity to take part in this crucial debate, whichever way they decide to vote,» he said.