Sentences with phrase «issue based campaign»

I want to run a very issue based campaign.

The spokesman said once the emergence of its candidate, his party would task the opposition to issue based campaigns, based on manifesto and ideology.

Addressing party faithful and founding fathers of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, on the party's 24th anniversary, President Mahama said he will remain focused on promoting an issues based campaign and not personality attacks to make a case for re-election.

Not exact matches

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

The campaign then did its own field surveys in battleground states to develop a more precise predictive model based on issues preferences.

The campaign hopes to raise awareness about gender - based violence as a human rights issue at the local, national, regional and international level.

As U.S. Sen. Obama's adviser on faith issues on Capitol Hill, as candidate Obama's religious affairs director on his 2008 campaign, and as President Obama's director of the White House faith - based initiative, I have had the honor of seeing firsthand the life and heart of a president who cares deeply about his country, his family and his God, in times of prayer, conversation and diligent work.

Baby Milk Action refused to do this on the basis that it and other civil society organisations were already campaigning on the issues and Nestlé had published its own responses on websites and elsewhere.

From 2011 - 2012 Kevin was CEO of Be the Change, a nonprofit that creates national issue - based campaigns on pressing problems in American society.

Based on the results of its investigation, WBASNY will launch a campaign to promote and protect the rights of employees who need part - time or flex - time employment, or family leave time, to deal with family care issues.

For campaigns and advocacy groups, the trend presents both problems and opportunities: problems in that it dilutes the effectiveness of mainstream - site advocacy, opportunities in that it creates targets for niche marketing and issue - based recruiting.

The same basic ideas that a lot of us in the Democratic political world have been talking about, that Democratic campaigns ignored big - picture messaging around the economy, the health care law, immigration and other base - mobilizing issues while still running a turnout operation that was highly proficient technically.

In contrast, they welcomed the contributions of those with direct experience of the issues — whether a prison guard talking about immigration in Boston, a former EU commissioner describing his work in Brussels, or a Brussels - based journalist challenging the elected politicians representing the campaigns.

«This is an issue - based mailer, not a campaign mailer.

Based on all of that, it was quickly recognized, both in comments and in that email group, that the obvious choice to target for a «hold» was Dodd, who had made constitutional and oversight issues the centerpiece of his presidential campaign.

This divide in candidate support base is perhaps unsurprising as issues surrounding Article 50 and withdrawal negotiations are expected to dominate the campaigns.

The party was initially formed as a «Stop Common Core» ballot line — an issue - based ballot line that was added to the ballot last year as Cuomo's re-election campaign installed the Women's Equality Party ballot line.

Every element of the campaign's online presence should link to a recruitment form, and when possible individual «landing pages» should be tied to the source: for instance, a Google Ad about a candidate's policy on taxes should link to a page that both talks about the topic and that invites readers to join the campaign based on that particular issue.

Obama's 2008 campaign remains the prime example, but many other groups on all parts of the political spectrum are building up grassroots donor bases with an eye toward repeating his success on behalf of their own issues.

The Conservative Party was fornally neutral in the referendum on the basis that there were differing views within the party on the issue, although the Tory Assembly Members were supportive of the Yes campaign.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

«If the Democrats are so desperate to motivate their base that they have to resort to the issue of gun control, then they are in for a long 2016 election cycle,» said Chris LaCivita, a GOP strategist and adviser to Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign.

Let's get some more content in here — I'm not the first to wonder if Federalism is really enough of an issue to base a presidential campaign on (unless we're in the year 1800 and I didn't notice).

In the meantime, District Attorney Rice will stay the same course as every campaign she has ever run, each time beating tough Republican opponents: an issues - based discussion rooted in sincerity, honesty, transparency and accountability.

Schumer has previously said he believes the timing of the case will help Democrats, based on the idea that if the court upholds the law this summer it will blunt conservative objections, and if the court strikes it down, it removes the issue from the campaign.

Willie Bain did his best to disassociate himself from Gordon Brown and the UK Labour party, fighting the campaign instead on a local basis, as a local candidate, standing up for local issues.

«I am running a substantive campaign, based on the issues that matter to New Yorkers,» Halloran, a Republican, said in a statement.

She said the organization's events are usually issue - based, and added that having a candidate in the middle of the campaign process connected to the group's purpose.

«We're going to be out there campaigning on economic justice issues and we will take the fight to the Tories because there is a choice to be made: do we want to live in a society based on individualism and private provision, or do we want to defend the principles of the national health service and properly fund social care?»

In her first speech as the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, Clinton will criticize Trump's positions on women's issues — a signal to the Democratic base that she intends to anchor the general election in the same slate of progressive issues she campaigned on in the primary.

He asked them to do issue - based campaign.

«With the emergence of a formidable candidate such as Olusola - Eleka, and the incontrovertible popularity of the PDP across Ekiti, we are already standing shoulder - to - shoulder with the people as we set for a very robust, issue - based campaign.

Democracy Matters is a campus - based organization that advocates for campaign finance reform as well as issues concerning the environment, civil rights, education, health care and foreign policy.

ROBERT F. MCDONNELL»S crushing victory in Virginia's gubernatorial election Tuesday testified to his skills as a politician and to his disciplined, focused and generally positive, issues - based campaign.

«Republican voters deserve a primary campaign based on the issues,» Thompson consultant Darrin Schmitz said in the statement.

Odigie - Oyegun said that people in the state knew what they wanted, adding that his party's campaigns had been issue - based and quite successful.

If it takes off, the so - called «federated» approach to campaigning could connect like - minded political advocates on an ad hoc basis to tackle new niche issues.

The young people attending are currently being supported by Envision on a weekly basis to design and implement their own youth - led community projects and campaigns around social and environmental issues.

Electoral campaigns based on grass - roots activism (and lots of doorstep conversations) on the concrete issues that matter to voters are behind the meteoric rise of political parties such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain.

The next step is to transform Stein campaign committees that are not based on Green party organizations into local parties that will be active on local issues and run independent candidates.

Bysiewicz said her campaign will focus on growing the state's economy while supporting issues important to the Democratic base, such as paid family and medical leave, raising the minimum wage and pay equity for women.

With Rob Astorino waging an upstate campaign (there are few Republican votes in the big city) based on hot - button issues like repealing the Safe Act, economic deprivation and mandate relief, the tide, even in Democratic districts like the 46th, will probably be running toward the GOP.

«The Green Party will focus in the coming weeks and months on strengthening its local branches to build up its grassroots base for upcoming issue and electoral campaigns,» Hawkins said.

He said the main interest of the organizers was to help make the 2016 election campaign issue - based and less of personality driven attacks, addressing issues that affect the lives of the people, and reduce the situation where campaigning is full of insults and intimidation of political opponents.

He said abortion isn't an issue in the campaign, but simply a way for Democrats to energize their base.

Rubio, meanwhile, said the new reality of a three - man race will not change his election strategy, saying he'll continue to run «an ideas - based, issues - based campaign.»

He's also known for being willing to show a little skin and dazzle as the occasion requires, but Entergy will probably see how a more issues - based ad campaign goes first.

My commitment is to run an ethical, issue - based campaign.

«This issue is great with the base,» Carbo said of campaign finance reform.

In addition to this issue with the national campaign, an analysis of the local, constituency - based campaigns at the 2010 election was carried out by the Electoral Reform Society in 2013, finding that the difference in expenditure was 22 times as high in the constituency with the highest campaign spend per vote as it was in the lowest.