Sentences with phrase «is an election issue»

It's an election issue that gets virtually no attention, but we found out today that many of you do feel strongly about it: Churches being used as Election Day polling places.

(CNN)- It's an election issue that gets virtually no attention, but we found out today that many of you do feel strongly about it: Churches being used as Election Day polling places.

Now, fracking is an election issue in New York state — finally!

But Susan Eng of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons lamented that the ministers had missed an once in a generation opportunity, saying «this will be an election issue» in 2015.

As recent polling shows, just 10 % think climate is an election issue.

This needs to be an election issue... no more incompetency!

«On a day when the election is going to be called, it's sending a signal to our elected leaders that climate change is an election issue,» said Campbell Klose, from 350.org one of the organisers.

Access to Justice Should Be An Election Issue June 2, 2014 RESTRICTED ACCESS TO JUSTICE NEEDS TO BE PART OF THE ELECTION DISCUSSION With Ontarians heading to the ballot boxes in less than a month, people...

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The notes, which were photographed as one of his aides closed the binder during a short break from testifying, were extensive and covered issues of data scraping, data safety, and matters surrounding disturbing content on the platform, as well as broader issues of diversity, competition, Facebook's business model, Apple's business model, and «Election Integrity (Russia).»

«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

The urban / rural divide isn't just an issue in presidential elections.

It's not just arrogant for newspapers to issue endorsements in elections - it may also be financially unwise.

Up until now, this issue has mostly been watercooler fodder, but with the Federal Reserve having raised rates in December and Donald Trump's election victory causing the 10 - year treasury yield to spike by 19 % since election day, many investors are now reducing their exposure to these rate - sensitive sectors.

When it comes to election interference, Zuckerberg's testimony says advertisers promoting political or issue ads will have to be authorized by confirming their identity, location and who paid for each ad.

«The year - old program has been constantly under assault since the election of President Donald Trump,» is the summation of one article on the issue Feld sites.

And so this sleeper issue — largely absent during the election itself — looks like one place where the Conservatives will decide incremental change is no longer good enough and a more brash approach is required.

When Donald Trump won the presidential election on a platform that many people believed would roll back those rights, Mallory, Sarsour, Perez, and Bland wanted to send the message that these issues were nonnegotiable.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

Drug policy is one of the major issues in Mexico's July 1 presidential election.

They also explain why, despite protectionism punching above its weight as an issue in presidential elections, there has been little movement on the issue in Congress over the years.

In early January, before Trump was sworn in, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill designed to go beyond the punishments already levied against Russia by the Obama administration and to demonstrate to Trump that forcefully responding to Moscow's election interference wasn't a partisan issue.

Liberal transport critic David McGuinty said the government's ambitious timeline for replacing the unsafe cars is unachievable, and they know it, but it punts «a dangerous issue for the Conservatives» past the 2015 election.

The Cambridge Analytica issue was the reason Zuckerberg was on Capitol Hill, answering questions for the second time in two days about how the group - which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign among its clients - got hold of data on many millions of Facebook users.

Because it's issues like these that must become central to elections if rational solutions are to be adopted before economic and financial crises compel hasty, inequitable and severely traumatic ones.

Ivy adds, «We did issue statements following both election victories for President Obama, as we have after State of the Union addresses and other situations we felt warranted our voice on how certain issues that the federal government is pursuing would affect the architecture profession.»

Despite the fact that Trump was widely viewed as having lost the recent debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the election itself is just over a month away, the candidate chose to tweet not about the political issues in the campaign but about his dislike of former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado.

Some observers believe that the profusion of fake articles on Facebook helped sway the presidential election in favor of Trump, although others have argued that all this accomplished was to entrench the views that Trump voters already held about various issues.

An ad created by the pro-Trump Great America Alliance — a nonprofit «issues» group that isn't required to disclose its donors — casts Comey as a «showboat» who was «consumed with election meddling» instead of focusing on combating terrorism.

And in the lame - duck Congressional session that will follow the election, the best anyone can hope for is a short - term deal that punts the issue into the new year.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

Since his election, Trump has not publicly addressed transgender issues, though he did ease some concerns among gays and lesbians by saying that he considered same - sex marriage to be settled law.

«I am hoping that once elections are out of the way, we will be able to solve these issues,» he added referring to the rights of EU citizens who already live in the U.K.

- One of the sturdiest rules for CEOs has long been to stay out of highly charged political issues, especially in election years.

«Brooke, I got my hands on this tape because I decided... to do real investigative journalism, because I was tired of watching how the news was reporting this issue,» Pollock said, before laying into the media for its handling of Donald Trump's candidacy and eventual victory in the 2016 election.

If this election is truly about the future of the Canadian economy, then these issues must be addressed.

There are a lot of big issues on the table this election, a fact many pundits and politicians are ignoring.

Those hoping for calm, political discourse on these issues should cheer the election of Alison Redford, who has been supportive of Alberta's participation in the national economy.

The impact of the new tax law is expected to be a major campaign issue this year, as Republicans battle Democrats for control of the House and Senate in the November election.

«We hear all of the time that we are a democracy, but the fact of the matter, even excluding the issue of Washington, D.C., not having elected representatives in the congress, is that, all of you know, increasingly, big money is buying elections,» he said.

The issue arose in the Republican primary debates, and reportedly resentment of the abuse was a major contributor to Hillary Clinton's loss of Florida in the general election in the 2016 US presidential race.

Tom Angell, the chair of pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority, says marijuana is a mainstream, bi-partisan issue but will not swing the election.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

President Trump took to Twitter again Wednesday to call claims that his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election a «hoax» and laid out a checklist of issues his administration is working on.

That's why so many elections seem to revolve, predictably, around the issue of employment.

Having tried to dissuade Trump behind the scenes, hoping that he would vacillate on this issue as he had on DACA and guns, the usually supine Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan finally spoke up after five days of public silence, expressing concern on the part of their followers that the tariffs would set off a trade war and wipe out the economic gains on which they were pinning their November election prospects.

When you engage in the election through WE Decide 2016, your viewpoints on the issues will be brought directly to the candidates, the media, and the voters.

The company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is testifying before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday on users» data privacy and other issues, including foreign elections interference.

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

This makes sense, since Ross and Navarro were the co-authors of an important policy paper the Trump campaign put out during the election season that mostly focused on trade issues.