Sentences with phrase «means voting for a party»

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«I think it's just a disaster for the Republican Party, because it means you need 60 votes on most pieces of legislation and you're not going to get it.»

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United Stparty — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United StParty, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United StParty in the United States.

Known as the Religious Right, vocal Christian leaders on radio and television convinced an entire generation of evangelicals that faithfulness to Christ meant voting for the Republican Party.

This is unfortunate, because it means that it is bad for someone to really have their say and vote for a third party that is closer to what they believe, and because it entrenches the established parties, whom I would argue are both in desperate need of major evolution.

I'm a libertarian, which means I tend to vote Republican almost entirely on the basis that I really just don't trust the government to do almost anything right and always tax the hell out of us so they and their friends can get rich, which is what the Dems love to do, but the Republican party is making it harder and harder for me to continue voting for them with asinine statements like this.

If there is no party out there, nor leader to do justice, we should not compromise and shut our eyes to their hypocrisy, even if it means that we have no one to vote for!

California has an open primary system, which means that generally speaking, voters are not restricted by party as to for whom they can vote.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

«My party has held to [the coalition] contract even when it meant voting for things that we found difficult,» he added.

This would be a bigger deal in election years where one party has a contested primary and the other one doesn't (meaning there's not too much of a reason for people to go vote in one of them, so why not vote in the other?).

It is very difficult for third parties to make any kind of progress in first past the post systems, as few people will be willing to vote for a third party when that means they don't get to express their choice about the more dominant parties.

And now brown and Mandy run back to new labour to try and get the middle class to vote for it, new labour is nothing more then a Thatcherite party, and she lost and a Pray New labour is kicked out of power even if it means it never agains takes power

About two thirds of the Dutch voters are a «floating voter» (Dutch: zwevende kiezer), meaning they don't have any particular party loyalty and could vote for one of several parties.

Surely what you mean is «Ken may well employ sophistry to claim that he is not technically in breach of party rules, because saying that the candidate should not have been dropped, walking around for the TV cameras with the rival candidate (and having a quick chat about why the Labour candidate) did not in fact entail an explicit «vote Rahman» public statement (even though the whole point was to convey precisely that impression to any sentient being).

52 %, however, feel that UKIP feel the same.This doesn't necessarily mean that people will vote UKIP, however; only 13 % of those who held as strong a view about the EU as UKIP voted for the party.

Social conservatives support socially conservative ideology, which means that their votes could potentially go to a candidate with little concern for party enrollment.

These findings will be cause for concern to the major British parties — especially the Conservatives — and will mean the results of the forthcoming European Parliament elections will be taken especially seriously when looking ahead to the likely vote shares of the parties in 2015.

By all means campaign and vote for whichever candidate and party you prefer at the next election.

The press release says the ad, which will air statewide, is intended to remind voters that it «means more when you vote on the Conservative Party line for Carl Paladino.»

This means that if there are more than two candidates running, a third party candidate can «spoil» the vote for the viable candidate most similar in ideology to him by splitting the vote of people who share their ideology, making the winner the candidate whose ideology actually has less support in the electorate than an alternative.

This means attracting people who voted for a different party last year.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

For instance, Labour's overall share of the vote increased in 2015, relative to the 2010 General Election, by 1.5 %, but the extent of the party's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted vparty's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted vParty (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted vparty had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted votes.

«Let me say this clearly, if the party takes the position to the South South, it means they are saying they don't need the votes of that region and the implications will be dire for the PDP», he warned.

General election matching funds, which could mean several million dollars for the Green Party come the year 2016, can only be achieved by our presidential ticket winning 5 % of the vote this November.

For all MPs in the current parliament, the mean rebellion rate (the proportion of votes where the MP voted against the majority of their own party) was 0.54 %.

MPs hold their mandates as individuals and although the mass of votes, as in almost all constituencies, will have been for the national party they represent, that doesn't mean that a party should simply be able to nominate a successor when a seat falls vacant, no matter how tragic the circumstances.

«Also the uniqueness of the two candidates means that people have voted for Ken and Boris, or against them in spite of their party affiliation - everyone really knows that.

«Our lack of self confidence and our willingness to be defined as being a party of timid centrists rather than bold liberals means people look at us and may be reassured that we will be a brake on the other two, but that's hardly a reason to vote for us,» he said.

Forty - nine per cent of Mumsnet users said they would vote for a party with greater female representation and 63 % said they thought having more women in top political jobs meant they would have a greater understanding of their concerns.

A falling share of the vote for the main parties means a rising chance of coalitions.

This means that only party members can vote in primaries, which in many parts of the state are, for all practical purposes, the deciding election.

As a floating voter who has now voted for all 3 main parites in my adult life, I will be voting YES to AV ONLY for this reason, and what it means for the elecotal hopes of individual parties plays NO PART in my decision.

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Importantly for the party this means that GB vote intention polls are understating the increase in Labour support in England and so their potential to take seats from the Conservatives.

Lloyd believes he lost in 2015 because of the Conservative's strategy of arguing that a vote for anyone but David Cameron would mean a Labour / Scottish National Party coalition.

That means anyone who wants to become a leader of the Women's Equality Party must enroll as a member, and would lose the ability, for example, if he or she were a registered Democrat, to vote in Democratic primaries.

The Buffalo News notes that Senator Mark Grisanti's proposed district is now entirely contained within Erie County, which means the local Conservative Party will control the party's nomination, rather than the state Conservative Party, which has vowed to oppose legislators like Grisanti, who voted for same - sex marrParty will control the party's nomination, rather than the state Conservative Party, which has vowed to oppose legislators like Grisanti, who voted for same - sex marrparty's nomination, rather than the state Conservative Party, which has vowed to oppose legislators like Grisanti, who voted for same - sex marrParty, which has vowed to oppose legislators like Grisanti, who voted for same - sex marriage.

The primary vote test for statewide office is 300 votes, which means the statewide candidates need an average of about 6 voters within each legislative district to choose the minor party's primary ballot.

This also means basically ignoing your own left wing supporters and virtually inviting the most vocal to vote for another Party — one that believes in tax and spending and the magic money tree..

Candidates for special elections in New York are picked by a weighted vote of the relevant party chairs — in this case, that means Erie, Monroe, Niagara, Livingston, Orleans, Wyoming and Genesee counties.

Nigel Farage has told the Ukip spring conference that a «dying» Labour could mean «millions» of votes for his old party.

Evidence from John Curtice at Strathclyde University shows that the decline in the number of marginal seats and the reduced share of the vote for the two main parties means coalition government is now much more likely in the future.

There are arguments for and against PR (if you mean proportional representation) Charles — the party of my own choice would have gained massively at the last General Election with PR, held the balance of power in fact probably with 4 million votes... but that does not mean that even I think you have to support PR «if you believe in democracy».

From the beginning of this mayoral campaign, the public advocate has been using the issue of paid sick leave, and Quinn's increasingly awkward three - year - long - and - counting refusal to allow it to come up for a vote on the Council, as a means of distinguishing himself from her, and of highlighting her sometimes - awkward attempts to placate her party's liberal base without alienating Michael Bloomberg and the business establishment whose support she has courted for years.

While all electoral systems have flaws and none can offer a «perfect» solution, having a higher number of political parties allows for wider representation of the community's views and could mean more voters feel that their vote counts, which may help engage younger voters.

The ComRes poll is also ominous for the Conservatives in putting Ukip as high as 17 % (with up to a third of electors saying they would «consider» voting for Farage's party) in seats where the electoral arithmetic means that the battle should be focused on the major government and opposition parties alone.

Asked whether the threat of UKIP could cause Plaid to lose their only seat in the European Parliament, Ms Wood said that choosing to vote for UKIP at the forthcoming elections would mean «a dangerous future» for Wales and that it was important to choose a party like them who wanted to remain part of the EU.

He said that for a party like PDP, with true membership across all polling units, it meant that voting would take place at wards or local government levels.

Unable to turn to either political party to stem the predations and larger designs of the plutocrats -LRB-(which voters thought they were doing in voting for Obama), the public will have to devise and apply its own means for resistance.