Sentences with phrase «in elections like»

And with primaries on the horizon, it's an open question as to how much help Klein will be willing to provide in elections like Mayer's.

Some have even embraced potential Russian involvement in the election like a get - out - of - responsibility free card: You can't blame us for getting it wrong.

«It remains to be seen what Adriano's operation is going to look like on Election Day,» Smikle said, noting that endorsements only really move the needle in an election like this if they come with a ground organization.

Mr. McGreevy said that in an election like the one for county Legislature, which covered three towns, or a Congressional election involving all five East End towns, a group like Mr. Seabrook's can be valuable, in that people from one town would be more familiar with issues in other towns.

Not exact matches

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

But Saujani as a pick in the current election seems like a longshot.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

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.»

«While this might make Putin look like a tough guy flexing new nuclear muscles ahead of upcoming undemocratic elections in Russia that will coronate him again, the new systems don't change the essential deterrence equation between the US and Russia,» Barry Pavel, a senior vice president and director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council wrote.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

Does a man who received almost 3 million fewer votes than his opponent in the election really have the political capital to carry on like this?

«I was trying to explain, in response to a question about the election, that my limited understanding was that the President talked to a portion of America like an accessible person they could relate to, as he was NOT a politician.»

The days when Mark Zuckerberg felt like he could be glib about the idea of Russia using Facebook to interfere in the presidential election suddenly seem long ago.

I've polled every statewide election in Michigan going back 30 years... I don't like to get it wrong, but I'm not alone.»

In a quarterly - earnings call on Wednesday, Penegor said that the presidential election is weighing on consumer sentiment and, in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy'In a quarterly - earnings call on Wednesday, Penegor said that the presidential election is weighing on consumer sentiment and, in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy'in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy's.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn't going to let Facebook - related controversies like its repeated data privacy problems and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections ruin his hopefulness.

Facebook said it will make sure political ads on its platform will be vetted and transparent in time for England and Northern Ireland's 2019 local elections, that only verified accounts will be allowed to pay for political ads, and users will be able to view all promotions paid for by a campaign — not just those targeted to them based on their demographic or «likes.»

What's it been like to cover the election in 2016?

Like any boxing promoter, the press hypes every election, exaggerating differences between the parties and hyping each candidate as a legitimate contender, Matt Taibbi wrote in an article on the Republican convention for Rolling Stone: «Otherwise, why watch?»

Much like Mitt Romney in the 2012 election cycle, he'll need to try recasting his more elite experiences into a cohesive national agenda with a strong populist appeal, political experts say.

Similarly, earlier in the week, a Deutsche Bank research team argued that in light of upcoming European elections and ongoing large - scale economic and political challenges like the migrant crisis, Europe is unlikely to see deeper coordination:

«If you believe in the Trump revolution, you can believe a candidate like Mark Cuban could win an election,» the source added.

In addition, this is an election that Republican candidate Donald Trump has claimed is «rigged,» and where he has urged his followers to go to «certain sections» of states like Pennsylvania and monitor the polls to make sure the elections are not stolen from him.

Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election,» Trump tweeted on Saturday.

With the Liberals now in power — and with heavyweights like former Finance Minister Joe Oliver defeated in the recent election — Kenney will take a prominent spot the opposition bench.

That sort of attitude has been missing in this presidential election, in which a large portion of the American public has been encouraged to blame their financial struggles on free trade agreements like NAFTA.

Presidents like Bill Clinton have tried to personally influence elections in places like Russia and Israel while in office, but Levin said he has not come across an instance where a former president has offered an endorsement in a foreign leadership race like Obama.

Depardieu, a former heartthrob who has puffed up like a profiterole in recent years, plays an aging mayor in the election battle of his life in the eight - episode series.

We expect just a bunch of people mostly living in a suburb in Northern California [to] safeguard U.S. elections in 2018, not cause ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, not help Duterte kill off people he doesn't like in Philippines, not kill off media companies by mistake in Serbia, and a few more.»

At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy media organizations like the Associated Press and new media organizations like the data - journalism website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass of the election, pondering why data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the media literacy to sift through fake and poorly reported news.

Whether we're talking about the recent Uber revelation, or the world's cyber-elite meddling in elections, stealing data with impunity and infiltrating power grids — one change in particular seems like a safe bet: the rise of chief information security officer, or CISO for short.

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.

But, with criticism of the media from all sides continuing to mount in the wake of the election, the question is: will networks like CNN reshape their political and election coverage going forward?

«We're not political necessarily — the election has been like mood music — but it highlights for people that they want a way to be able to show what they believe in on a day - by - day basis,» Cherny says.

By the time it received Steele's dossier in September 2016, the FBI had already been investigating Russia's election meddling for two months and had begun looking into possible ties between Trump campaign officials — like Page — and Russian actors.

Former sheriff's deputies in Virginia brought a lawsuit against their old boss, claiming he had fired them because they had liked the Facebook campaign page of his opponent in the upcoming election.

As a result, the United States» wealthiest are increasingly resembling President George H.W. Bush, who lost a presidential election in 1992 in part because he seemed to be out of touch with the realities of everyday life, like shopping in a supermarket.

President Barack Obama took the state in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, marking a political slide toward blue as demographics in Nevada started to look more like California.

«Waco» was in development before topics like gun control and white supremacy saw high - profile coverage leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

Like Doug Jones's win in the special election in Alabama, a win for Democrats in Pennsylvania's 18th District would further add to the party's momentum in the run - up to November's midterm elections and hint at dwindling support for Trump.

Time reported on Thursday that the hackers successfully altered voter information in at least one election database and stole thousands of voter records containing private information like Social Security numbers.

Like the voting machine companies, Internet voting services — mostly purveying their software in private or corporate elections — largely resist subjecting their work to public trial.

CalPERS apparently liked the fact that Apple's proposal called for the majority election of all directors, in addition to the elimination of what CalPERS termed the «blank check» preferred stock.

«It's like winning bingo on the Titanic,» said my fellow election viewer Mitch Anderson, referring to Elizabeth May's win and Jack Layton's minority in the wake of a Harper majority this evening.

That year hedge fund performance suffered as managers were surprised by events like a plunge in oil prices, Brexit and the U.S. election.

The shutdown affected diverse countries from all over the continent: whether they had small populations like Gabon or big ones like Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo; whether in the south of the continent like Zimbabwe, in the north in Algeria, across the east in Burundi and Uganda, and in the west like the shutdown preceding the elections in The Gambia.

«If this is true then it looks like Cohen may have made an unreported loan to the campaign rather than a contribution,» said Richard L. Hasen, an expert in election law at the University of California, Irvine.

Harper has promised to bring in fixed election dates, like those in B.C..

Glen Clark replaced him, and a scant few months before the election was hit by an alleged BC Hydro scandal where a company set up by Hydro for a deal in Pakistan had a shareholders list that looked like an NDP party rally.

In this election Adrian Dix and his campaign hit lots of precise if small notes that a political journalist like myself might keep track of and tally, but overall the New Democrats apparently neither summoned enough fear of their opponents nor struck the themes or meme - like policy ideas that summoned enough inspiration.