Sentences with phrase «much less a vote»

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

FYI, of course there was absolutely no discussion of these resolutions, much less a vote.

Despite some older Academy voters allegedly refusing to see, much less vote for, Get Out, Peele's directorial debut won.

There are 1000s of bills that are written every year and never even introduced, much less voted on, and if this exists at all it is probably just an idea (and a poor one at that).

Not exact matches

In the meantime, the political math has become far more demanding for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with key GOP Senators saying they won't even vote yes on the motion to proceed on the bill, much less the legislation itself.

Still, some conservative German lawmakers have indicated ahead of Friday's vote reservations about whether they believe Greece fully meets the conditions required to tap aid from the European Union's bailout fund, much less qualifies for debt relief.

Baghdad has much less influence, so if Turkey declines to follow through on its threats, the independence vote could give the Kurdish government some leverage with Baghdad in negotiations over revenue sharing, a longstanding grievance that has not been addressed.

Neither, of course, expected the vote to go through, much less survive a presidential veto.

@ Peter: for the first 3 centuries of Christianity, Christians could not have imagined being able to «vote» for the Emperor, much less that his beliefs would even remotely reflect biblical ethics.

Much of the most heated debate is less about the conduct of the candidates than about the meaning of a vote.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

The youngster Hector Bellerin may have only been in the Arsenal starting line - up for less than two seasons, but he has already become a firm favourite with the Emirates faithful so much so that he was voted in Third Place in the Arsenal Player - of - the - Season behind veteran superstars Mesut Ozil and Petr Cech.

In real - world elections, there are some systems where is is much harder to vote tactically than others - you never have perfect information on everyone else's vote, so the more information that you need to be able to vote tactically, the less likely people are to do so.

The extra UKIP votes in 2014 appear to be at the expense of the Conservatives, and also (though to a much lesser extent) at the expense of the Liberal Democrats.

Black, who is the SNP's youth campaign co-ordinator for the Scottish Parliament election, added: «It's troubling to see the latest polls showing that young people are much less likely to be certain to vote in the election than other age groups.

Heaney: It's one thing to be unhappy with Byron Brown and it's another thing to vote for somebody who's 32, and has never held elected office before, much less held executive - type positions.

My understanding is that much of campaigning in the US is already about non-voters, either trying to get «your» non-voters to vote, or to a lesser extent turn «their» voters into non-voters.

According to Professor Sir John Curtice Labour's vote was up on average by as much as 11 points in wards where more than 35 per cent of voters are aged between 18 and 34, and up by just 4 per cent where the proportion of younger voters is less than 20 per cent.

It is much less than what George Cunningham insisted on in the Scottish devolution proposals that led to the 1979 legislation on that; he insisted on having 40 % for a yes vote, whereas I am calling here for only 40 % of the electorate.

A number of methods of tactical or strategic voting exist that can be used in STV elections, but much less so than with First Past the Post.

You will note that young people are much less likely to vote and historically this group is much more likely to vote Labour.

There was much less of such voting.

John himself is not an American citizen, much less a New York resident, making him ineligible to actually vote in the race for governor.

But ironically, keeping the WFP's ballot status, much less its spot at Row E, appears to be increasingly a concern for party leaders and activists as the governor pushes for voters to back him on the Women's Equality Party line, which is increasingly being seen as a rival for liberals» votes and potential siphon away support from the WFP.

The Senate's Republican conference seems unlikely to allow any of them to come to the floor of the chamber, much less contribute many aye votes for them.

However, in the 1983 general election, when Labour received its lowest vote share (27.6 %) since 1918, the SDP fared much less well: the party took 11.6 % of the vote, slightly below the 13.7 % its Alliance partners the Liberals polled, and it ended up with only six seats.

It's even unclear at this point where polling sites will be, much less whether storm - ravaged New Yorkers will manage — or care enough — to cast their votes next Tuesday.

Cameron's eight percentage point lead among «enthusiastic voters» just before the May 2015 election seen in Figure 2 contrasts with the much less clear - cut picture given by «voting intention» alone (Figure 3, below).

The Boca Raton Democrat did as much to Clemens in the 2016 race, using nearly $ 1.9 million of his own money to bolster his insurgent campaign, though he ultimately received less than a third of the vote in in the three - way primary race.

Its core support comes from a mix of financially insecure working - class men, who were traditionally loyal to Labour but who feel they have been «left behind» in modern Britain as mainstream parties chased the middle - class vote, and strategic Conservative sympathisers, who are keen to express hostility to the European Union but much less loyal to UKIP in general elections.

This time around there was much talk by election «analysts» that Labour's majority would be reduced to less than 3,000 votes, and that Ukip might even win the seat, ending Corbyn's regime before it had even reached 100 days.

The AV voting would be simply unnecessary, and the frustration much less acute, if those elected MPs returned by the electorate simply kept to those commitments and promises upon which they were elected.

«Given the bill was dropped on the legislature in the middle of the night and immediately voted on there is no possible way Senator Gipson could have read, much less received public input on, the proposal before voting for it.

AV expresses that much better than the stricter First Past The Post system, which forces many of us to substitute our actual beliefs for a damage limitation exercise, where we vote for a party we don't really like just to stop a party we like even less getting in.

All too often, deals continue to get cut behind closed doors and rank - and - file lawmakers are called upon, sometimes in the dead of night, to cast votes on bills they are given little time to read, much less vet.

A minority government tends to be much less stable than a majority government because, if they can unite for the purpose, opposing parliamentary members have the numbers to vote against legislation, or even bring down the government with a vote of no confidence.

There are over 100 seats where the Lib Dems got less than 16 % of the vote in 2010 and so their vote share can not fall by this much.

State Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who represents a swing district in the middle of the island, had been a state chair for Marco Rubio, and now, she says, she can't decide whom to vote for, much less endorse.

«Top Democratic Senate staff members are much less diverse than the Democratic voting base,» the report found at the time.

Whipping (politician to politician lobbying) can change vote to vote, much less from one prime minister to another.

But Paterson today argues that not too much should be read into the Teachout - Wu campaign's marshaling the Cuomo dissenters enrolled as Democrats who were interested enough in the less - than -10-percent turnout primary to vote.

«It is simply a giveaway to rich contributors and I am appalled that anyone who represents people from Upstate New York and Syracuse would support this vote, much less defend it,» Miner said.

Republicans believe that Brown's collapse means that the Democratic primary will be much less competitive than expected, a development that means independents are more likely to vote in the Republican primary between Sen. Lincoln Chafee and Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey.

That means that some votes cast in this race between Rep. Dave Reichert (R) and Darcy Burner (D) haven't even been received yet — much less counted.

Both systems have their faults — it's obviously absurd for the Lib Dem vote to fall by 10 % in seats where they currently have less than 10 % of the vote, but it's also unlikely that it would fall by as much as 23 % their safests seats.

His party seems unable to climb above the 10 % or so voting support that it has endured for much of this year — less than half its General Election figure last year

From personal observation in the North, there seems much less interest in English Votes for English Laws (EVEL) compared with devolution.

If the election was held today, the Conservatives would win significantly more votes, and very probably more seats than Labour, though it is much less certain whether they would win enough to secure more seats than all other parties combined.

Only 5 % in these seats were less likely (2 % much less likely) to vote Conservative in these circumstances.

«I will not take lectures about democracy from a government elected on only 24 % of those eligible to vote - and only 10 % of those eligible to vote in Scotland - much less, of course, than the proposed thresholds that they wish to impose on strike ballots.»