Sentences with phrase «major parties supporting»

Gathering petition signatures can be one of the most grueling parts of a campaign, especially for a candidate lacking major party support.

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LNG development also has strong political support in B.C. — all three major parties favour it in principle — because, unlike oil from Alberta, it would almost certainly result in higher royalty revenues.

Y Combinator president Sam Altman tweeted he would not fire someone for supporting a major party nominee for president, even though he disagreed with Thiel's support of Trump.

However, Altman said before the election that YC is «not going to fire someone for supporting a major party nominee.»

Gallup polling on favorable or unfavorable views of both major parties has found neither party has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percparty has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percParty (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percent).

That conversation included a discussion of, «why mommy, who's a woman, did not support the first female presidential candidate of a major party,» she said.

The state government's asset sales campaign has hit a major snag today, with state Nationals leader Terry Redman announcing the party would not support the sale of Fremantle Ports, which had been forecast to raise $ 2 billion.

Walmart recently finished a major overhaul of its web site that will allow it to handle more variety, provide more information on each item and better support third - party sellers.

But in public, the major federal parties are unanimous in their support for the status quo.

Any substantial defections requiring the support of major opposition party New Democracy would open up the possibility of broader changes to the government or a referendum, said Saravelos, who calculates that between 10 and 40 Syriza lawmakers could dissent based on local media reports.

With NDP support concentrated in urban areas of the province, the PCs also face a major challenge from Brian Jean «s Wildrose Party in rural Alberta.

The FED may have suffered the barbs of some «tea party» legislators but for the most part the major powers in Washington and Wall Street provided the needed support for the FED.

Thus leaders of most major parties and officials tend to support the global capitalist system as there seems to be no reasonably viable alternative to it (and for them) in the short term.

Whether or not the amendments are made official, its a significant move for the LGBT community, which has never had its cause officially supported by either of the major political parties...

Many candidates, making their Christianity a prime qualification, calling for a return to Old Testament law, or promising to get «prayer back into the schools,» secured major party (mostly Republican) support.

The responses effectively blurred the lines between the two major parties on the issue of foreign investment, despite repeated statements from Labor ministers supporting foreign investment and ridiculing the Coalition's policy.

Political scientists have noted that many third parties that had strong political support but not enough to elect many official to office have often found planks of their party platforms migrate to the platforms of major parties later on as the major parties seek to do so to co-opt support from third party voters and backers.

Also, one could argue that Duverger's Law also applies on the parliament level in such countries, because usually every minor party feels more aligned with one of the two major parties and will support them over the other.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

In the US the two major «parties» are more like coalitions than traditional parliamentary system parties, but the Democratic coalition tends to strongly support the mixed economy system, and parts of the Republican coalition do as well.

They expressed sympathy for the WFP and Conservative Party's argument against doing away with Wilson - Pakula, but also said they would support rescinding it for major party primaries, reasoParty's argument against doing away with Wilson - Pakula, but also said they would support rescinding it for major party primaries, reasoparty primaries, reasoning:

However, I guess one might then anticipate greater support for the three current major parties to counter that, and the effect might be somewhat countered by using AV + and STV systems which can tend to reward more pluralist parties with broader support who can win transfers, as against non-preferential PR systems (like those in Scotland and Wales) which may be more prone to fragmentation.

Opposition to Voter ID laws in America can be seen as a left - wing attempt to disenfranchise right - wing voters because one of the major concerns is that alien (as in from a different country, not different planet) residents may be voting, and in America aliens generally support the Democratic party.

But tensions between and within parties could see progress grind to a halt, a situation unwanted not least because all of the three major parties have actually expressed support for reform, at least in principle.

Major forces within the Republican Party have recently supported more corporate power (privatisations, lower taxes, etc.) and a restrictive government (invasive privacy rights, harsher sentences, Patriot act, stricter control on border and immigration, etc.).

Support for major new road investment in Northern Ireland is promised by the Conservative's new «confidence and supply» agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party.

Both major parties continue to assiduously woo big business and its leaders, but in private for donations rather than in public for support.

We have the situation where the major party has 36 % support but wields 47 % of the power and the third party has 24 % support but wields only 9 % of the power; in terms of votes.

The ease of altering a constitution differs from country to country but almost always fails without the support of at least half of the major political parties; preferably all.

Trump said he supports Mitt Romney's bid for the US Senate from Utah, endorsing a former rival and major figure within the Republican Party.

The only way that the 55 % mark for dissolution can be reached is with some support from the major party.

Given that SNP electoral success largely follows support for independence, we might expect the losing September referendum to deal a major blow to the party's prospects.

Cameron's «Europe speech `, finally delivered on 23rd January 2013, and the anaemic response of Britain's other major parties — whose leaders ostensibly support the EU but are not willing to expend any political capital making a positive case — have finally forced the issue.

Although Muniz is a Democrat, he said he has no qualms with reports Bharara is considering running without the support of either of the two major parties.

The budget passed both the House and Senate with overwhelming support from the three major parties.

Instead, the governor has gained the support of two major unions that pulled out of the Working Families Party over its support for Nixon.

Eight percent of voters support neither major party candidate, and 9 % are undecided.

[55] These proposals are supported by members of the three major parties, though no others allow discrimination in their shortlists.

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

Labour has not won a major election for a decade, while the party has suffered a sharp erosion of support due to the unpopularity of its previous leaders and its inability to manage the issue of immigration (Clarke, Sanders, Stewart, & Whiteley, 2014).

Good government and fiscal watchdog groups had advocated for 5 major clean contracting reforms during the legislative session, with 78 different lawmakers across party and ideological lines signing on to legislation supporting at least one of the reforms.

This year, the major parties worked to organize two «puppet parties» that exist on paper only to support their own candidates.

Lavine, 61, has received support from major Republican Party representatives, including Onondaga County Joanie Mahoney and Ed Cox, the state Republican Party leader.

When the Conservative Party last won a general election, in 1992, it did so with just under 42 % of the vote, indicating that the David Cameron has, at best, restored the Conservatives to the levels of support achieved by the unpopular John Major administration.

With the PAC supporting Faso having been funded by Mercer and Singer, two major donors who have been outspoken in supporting GOP presidential candidates other than Trump, Heaney's full embrace of the brash developer might make this primary a referendum on whether the party's grassroots have fully coalesced around The Donald.

Today's confirmation that Labour will end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers means the Conservatives are the only major party still supporting the policy.

It's far easier to think of each decision as a yes / no answer, and this is largely why you usually have 2 major parties in any political system that supports multiple parties.

He also pointed out that the Thatcher and Major governments had not built new grammar schools, despite the Conservative party's supposed support for the 11 plus.

The poll shows Cruz scoring new love from the party's most conservative members, with evangelical and tea party voters showing major support for him.

None of the donations was especially large by New York standards, so it's less about the prominence of the individuals within the support structure of a major party as much as an indication of how few people are willing to donate to a party that has not won an election for statewide office since 2002.