Sentences with phrase «much last election»

These district boundaries didn't bother us so much last election, when they enabled Mr. Romaine to continue representing us in the Legislature, but the possibility of a change on the horizon highlights just how oddly the county jigsaw pieces fit.

Not exact matches

Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the media tycoon who narrowly lost last year's general election, has forecast that Prodi will not last much longer in power.

The social media company has been surrounded by negative news for much of the last 18 months, since news broke that Russian - linked groups allegedly hijacked its service to spread propaganda to try to influence the 2016 election.

«I strongly believe that this election is the beginning of a much larger blockchain voting movement,» Agora CEO Leonardo Gammar told CoinDesk last Thursday following the elections.

Although slightly below the average, this is much higher than returns in the last two election cycles when a new president had to be selected: In 2008, the market plunged nearly 40 percent; in 2000, it ended down 9 percent.

Mark Zuckerberg may have ditched the dark suit he wore during his congressional appearances last month, but the serious data - privacy and election - security issues raised during his testimony are still very much on his mind.

To date, those companies have been operating as if it is up to them to decide how much to tell us about their role in Russia's interference in the last elections.

Meanwhile, the Trudeau government will add four times as much debt as it promised in the last election.

President Obama and the Republicans did not agree on very much over the last two years, but on the question of what this election was all about there was not an inch of daylight between them — at least when the campaign began.

They also are much more likely to have voted in the last election, which helps identify one of the strengths of the electronic - church movement.

If they did why, during this last election cycle did I hear every single religious person, more so Evangelicals telling me how much they HATE Obama.

So much like Nick Clegg before the last General Election, Wenger proposed a «third way».

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last time.

On Election day, it will be revealed how much Italians have learnt from the last quarter century, and if voters will indeed pave the way for Berlusconi comeback.

Former chairman Patrick McLoughlin took much of the heat for the disastrous general election campaign and reportedly wanted to stand down last year, before being persuaded to go out in the January reshuffle.

Trippi in particular mentioned being brought in to talk with the British Labour Party a couple of weeks before a major election in the last decade, and having to tell them that there was very little they could do online in the time they had remaining that would do much good.

Much of the analysis of last week's general election has focused on whether Labour were seen as either too left or right wing.

While I can't say much about the West Coast races, I voted for Teachout against Cuomo in the last election.

Last fall, Democrats lost control of the Senate and fell further into the minority in the House, but pinned much of the blame on low turnout in the midterm elections.

But compared with last year's local elections Labour suffered at least as much.

Given the huge changes in overall levels of party support for the Liberal Democrats, SNP and UKIP since the last election, voters are likely to be much more unsure of the parties relative standings in their constituency.

UKIP's share of general election vote intention, at 14 % last week, is much more muted than the 23 % they achieved in the Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from the local elections.

Last week a poll from Survation suggested that the huff and puff of the campaign, including not least two televised leader debates that took place either side of the Easter weekend, had not made much difference to the balance of voting intentions for next month's Scottish Parliament election.

Much has happened since he last appeared on the floor of the House in February — the boundaries of his Congressional district have been redrawn and extended into the Bronx, and he is facing one of his most formidable election opponents in many years, State Senator Adriano Espaillat.

(The fact that this is often said by people who both regard themselves as working class and voted Conservative at the last election probably says as much about the strength of the Labour brand as it does about the caprice of voters).

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

Ndume described the APC flag bearer in the Osun West by - election as a symbol of good governance whose wealth of experience had added much value to the senate while he represented his people in the last dispensation.

For the government to ask that though would be to concede too much ground to Labour and to undermine the message on fiscal discipline that proved so effective in last year's election.

However, much has changed since last year's elections.

Indeed, if one wanted to find pretty much the worst attempt at subterfuge in British political history, a good starting point would be the «election that never was» last year.

These common - sense reforms will bring much - needed transparency, modernize practices, and help ensure we do not experience an election day like last week's again.»

That's how much money the defeated candidate in last year's epic NY - 23 special election raised in the first quarter of 2010.

Yet, just one point ahead at present, Labour have not enjoyed as much as a five point lead in the polls since last April, while the Conservatives have not been seven points ahead since shortly after the last election.

As the general election loomed, he launched a full - on Google saturation campaign, to the despair of those on the Left who noticed how much he's outspent Deeds online (that last article via Brian DeVine).

Last night, Patrick Ruffini published an article on his own site and on techPresident that everybody writing about online politics should consider — though much in the online political world that gets public attention is shiny and pretty, it's generally not what's winning elections.

Tales from Number 10 have circulated that the pair held too much sway over the PM insisting she stick to the «strong and stable» script during the election campaign and even making her wear a pair of much criticised # 1000 leather trousers for an interview last year.

It spent much of the last parliament trying to pass a bill guaranteeing an EU referendum this parliament, even though anyone with the tiniest glimmer of understanding about how politics works would tell you that the way to guarantee that is to win an election.

A defection is pretty quickly forgotten though, the real kicker from the Carswell defection is the by - election that comes with it, if UKIP win that by anything like last night's Survation poll suggests expect a much more concrete impact on the polls.

After the last election, the new prime minister, formerly known for his husky - cuddling and his «greenest government ever» shtick suddenly remembered his back benchers and became, for the most part, a much more traditional kind of Tory.

A year and a disastrous election later, it appears from public statements by Democratic candidates for Faso's congressional seat that not much was learned from last year's results.

I was somewhat concerned that the Government's amendment gave too much wriggle room to returning officers - but the measure was passed into law last week, and it clearly focused minds as over 100 more returning officers have informed the Electoral Commission in the last week that they will indeed be counting on General Election Night.

Last month, The Observer wrote a piece detailing how the New York Times endorsement process works, what the editorial board looks for in a candidate, and how much getting the gray lady's nod determines who emerges victorious on election day.

Finances were, as always, carefully managed, but the digital team had raised ten times as much in small donations from e-mails than the same period before the last election.

Carswell, who won the Clacton by - election with a huge majority last week, said he argued that «we needed to Spotify» the Tory Party, but found too much opposition to change.

Mr Salmond said: «This is a historic result for the SNP - up 10 points from the last European election - and the first time we have ever won a UK - wide election in Scotland, with a much greater margin of victory than even the Holyrood win two years ago.

I think the last election showed Sienna doesn't know too much and I'm not defending anyone just saying banning outside income does nothing to solve the problem of corruption in Albany.

As much as 29 % of Lib Dem voters in the last election told the poll they would vote for Labour or the Green party, 15 % would defect to the Conservatives or Ukip and 22 % said they did not know who they would for.

Yes, damage has been done by the sight of Labour candidates refusing donations from the party's last election - winning prime minister, but nowhere near as much damage as the impact of Blair's actions since leaving office.

Voters also turned away from Labour at the last election because of a fear that «a Labour government would spend and borrow too much» and a sense that the country had been moving in the «right direction» under David Cameron.

Hillary Clinton gave one of her first — and most political — public speeches since losing the presidential election and criticized the much - circulated photo showing an all - male group of Republican lawmakers last month negotiating women's coverage in health care legislation.