Sentences with phrase «mainstream candidate»

Frontrunner among mainstream candidates for Labour leadership denies his supporters had urged female rivals to stand aside after row over Falconer article

But Perry joins a growing list of increasingly mainstream candidates who hold extreme views about climate that aren't anchored in reality: Michele Bachmann is a famous climate naysayer, and Ron Paul has also described global warming as a hoax.

Former economy minister Emmanuel Macron launched his bid for the presidency on Wednesday, a move likely to take votes from mainstream candidates in a tight race that promises a strong turnout for Le Pen.

Mohammed refers to the recent by - election in Oldham East — but the result there is a perfect illustration of the way that AV gives the supporters of fringe parties extra chances to have their vote counted, whilst the supporters of mainstream candidates only get their vote counted once.

Proponents say the open system usually rewards moderate, mainstream candidates because they have to appeal to the entire electorate, not just the narrow ideological party base of each party.

After the first round we saw an improvement in Political Stability, which market watchers and political analysts attribute to the apparent increase in the likelihood that Macron, the more mainstream candidate, will win the presidency.

The Socialists fielded Benoît Hamon, one of the most inept mainstream candidates in a very long time.

As the 2015 leadership election commenced, the most left - wing mainstream candidate, Andy Burnham, launched his campaign from the offices of Ernst & Young (the global accountancy firm) to demonstrate his «pro-business» credentials.

What's more, if Republican primary voters continue to nominate paleo - conservatives over mainstream candidates, the general electorate might well decide to let Democrats gain seats.

The fact that supporters of minor parties may have their votes counted several times, while those supporting mainstream candidates have theirs counted once, is deemed fair.

There are three mainstream candidates for Syracuse mayor: Republican nominee Laura Levine, independent candidate Ben Walsh and Democratic nominee Perez Williams.

But France is not known to be particularly proud of its constitution, and it is even somehow a controversial topic (every now and then, mainstream candidates in the presidential election propose to write a new one).

None of the three mainstream candidates for the job — Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall — is really proposing anything, only reacting.

His strong showing against George Bush in 1992 seemed to make him a mainstream candidate.

AV IS UNFAIR: Supporters of fringe parties can end up having their vote counted five or six times — and potentially decide the outcome of the election — while people who backed the mainstream candidates only get one vote.

Now, if for example both mainstream candidates were incredibly hated by everyone in the House (hypothetically of course, since that could never possibly happen) if you got enough of them to vote for you, well, you're the new president!

He insisted that he is «in it to win it,» but also appeared to see himself as the Bernie Sanders to de Blasio's Hillary Clinton, adding, «We're in it to raise these issues and get these issues in the mainstream» that mainstream candidates are «not willing to endorse, not because they're not right or make sense, but because they're too politically charged.»

Collins also broke the narrative that as the perceived «mainstream candidates» dropped out of the race, their supporters would rally around other perceived establishment candidates.

Because if you vote for a mainstream candidate who is top of the ballot in the first round, your other preferences will never be counted.

So, instead of the mainstream candidate X making campaign for that demographic, a new party appears that includes as part of its platform promises to get that objective, and that such a party then endorses candidate X...

Imagine1 that there is a large enough group of people that say that to get voting rights you need to know how to play a musical instrument; a mainstream candidate appealing for their support could lose a lot of votes elsewhere.

Katko is running on a combination of the strength of himself as a mainstream candidate, and the party he belongs to, Gadarian said.

Simmons, now head of the Syracuse Housing Authority, said Hawkins often brings new ideas that mainstream candidates may think are too controversial.

«And a lot of these narratives, which at the time would have seemed crazy for a mainstream candidate to run on, those were the things that we were finding that there were pockets of Americans who this really appealed to,» Wylie added.

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