Sentences with phrase «losing sides of an election»

Of course, accusations of bias in the media are nothing new, particularly from the losing sides of an election.

If it does not it will continue to be on the losing side of elections.

Not exact matches

A social - media election silence law would have the karmic side benefit of driving Facebook users back to these news organizations, who have lost untold business thanks to the social - media platform.

While there have always been two sides in an election and a large percentage of voters explaining to their children why one particular candidate won, or lost, that is not the substance of the calls I'm getting.

He, after all, has more latitude as in this instance the elderly pacifist socialist Leader of the Opposition is more - or-less on the government's side, as was his election - losing predecessor?

The last of this dying breed was John Ravitz, who represented the Upper East Side in the Assembly between 1991 and 2002, when he lost a special election for state senate and walked away from public office.

The seat of the President has been turned up side down to show that it was empty and that a successor was required... so I knew the President would lose the 2016 elections and that is why I was confident about my prophecies,» he said.

With barely a year since John Dramani Mahama lost the 2016 elections, there has been heated debates from both sides of the political divide over whether or not the defeated president will consider contesting the 2020 presidential race.

But she added: «It is normal in any election for those on the losing side to be feel disappointment, but today, many in America and across the world, will also feel a real sense of anxiety.

On the reasons why the party lost the 2016 election, implicitly in agreement with Former President Mahama's assertion that the reasons are multifaceted, he said the electoral college constituted by the party and failure to monitor the process effectively led to malfeasance and manipulation of the process which usurped the power of the genuine supporters of the party which automatically, denied the party the opportunity of going into the election with some genuine supporters on its side.

The imprint of first - past - the - post is so strong that voters see general elections as football matches in which a side has either «won» or «lost».

register is compiled they will lose the 2016 general elections because in the Volta Region, when it?s time for registration, a lot of big men come and then we cross over to the other side of the border, bring in some Togolese, explain to them what we want them to do and then we give them motorbikes, a lot of things, promises, especially this health insurance thing.?

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

Romney lost the general election despite having a clear advantage in the amount of outside money on his side.

For Burnham, Labour's problem at the last election was that «we lost that sense that we were on the side of people working hard.»

Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme he said: «We lost the election when we started attacking each other about Brown and Blair — now being reiterated in Peter's book — and then some of the people on the sides coming in and blaming somebody else.

Ms Abbott, who is one of Mr Corbyn's backers, said: «It would be absurd if you halted an election just because you thought your side was going to lose».

On the Democratic side, two candidates have lined up to lead the state ticket in the coming presidential election year: state Sen. Jeff Kessler, who was replaced by Cole as Senate president when Democrats lost control of the chamber in in 2014, and businessmen Jim Justice.

Quinn is substantively on the right side of this issue, but in an election year, she has lost her nerve to stand firm.

If Zimmer loses to challenger Kate Anderson, both sides agree, that will permanently tip the scales 4 to 3 in favor of a board that pushes for more charter expansion and data based teacher evaluations.KPCC Donations From Independent Groups Shaping City, LAUSD Elections Independent...

When one side loses an election, some conclude the next best thing is to cast a specter of misconduct and illegality over the winners or their allies.

In the wake of the revelations that Trump campaign consultants Cambridge Analytica used data from 50 million Facebook users to target digital political advertising during the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook has lost billions in stock market value, governments on both sides of the Atlantic have opened investigations, and a nascent social movement is calling on users to #DeleteFacebook.