I leave you with this: don't make too
much out of the election results, the presidential cycle, the «sell in May and go away» phenomenon, etc..
Not exact matches
By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential
elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France
out of the euro into something
much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).
Not that I would need him to be toted
out and displayed in public or anything like that, in fact, I felt it was wrong when it was done so
much during the
election - after all young children should be sheltered from the crazy attention that follows the Palins around - but the lack
of mention
of his presence makes it pretty clear he is not taking this bus tour.
This
election was not so
much about the Christian Right, but about keeping a Mormon
out of the office
of the President.
I know Romney performed better than McCain among evangelicals, but I still think it's
much easier for the Republican Party to win a presidential
election with a candidate with fervent evangelical support (this requires the rather delicate trick
of not scaring the daylights
out of everyone else in the country).
There's been
much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third
of Republican votes in recent
elections, will turn
out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.
This is far from an original idea — it's been obvious to a lot
of folks — but it still startles me that we're paying so
much attention to campaign minutiae almost a year
out from the FIRST primary and close to two years from the general
election.
With so
much of the 2015 UKIP vote now embedded in the Tory Coalition, and with Labour now more officially a party
of soft Brexit, it is very difficult to see how the next
election will play
out.
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.
The Party
of European Socialists has attracted some rather unfavourable comment in the FT and The Economist (and
much positive coverage elsewhere) on our manifesto for the 2009 European
elections — agreed by all member parties including Labour at our meeting on December 1 in Madrid: check it
out at http://www.pes.org/content/view/1457/72.
Socially conservative groups like Slattery's could be the deciding factor in the Democratic primary,
much in the same way the socially conservative religious voting bloc came
out in force for the
election of Congressman Bob Turner in Queens and Brooklyn.
Voters who are excited by an
election of any sort are
much more likely to turn
out on polling day and this could well matter.
Considering how
much Democrats love to hate him — and how little they can afford association with anything that reminds voters
of their dysfunction (they've got their hands full with Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.), I suspect all the stops will be pulled
out to block him in this
election, too.
And then just recently, you know, after these tapes came
out of Donald Trump on a hot mic saying terrible, terrible things that I can't even repeat here, 30 days before an
election John Katko decides that it's too
much for him.
«I'm
much more critical
of the fact that under the Blair era we knew, and this will all come
out in the pubic inquiry, we knew that Blair flew just before the 1997
election to the other side
of the world to meet Murdoch, we know that Tony Blair, three times in the ten days before the Iraq war was declared, was in touch with Rupert Murdoch»
Monday, NYPIRG released a study detailing how
much campaign cash lobbyists doled
out between the 13 - month period from the 2008
elections to January
of this year.
The levels
of turn -
out for
elections to its board
of 53 elected members was not huge — 44 %
of the electorate voted in
elections across the 13 inner - London boroughs — but
much better than turnout in
elections for more recent devolved positions
of authority, such as police commissioners.
The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has
of forming a government - with 198 seats
out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers
of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event
of the next
election going exactly the same way in terms
of votes then 214
out of 650 is 32.93 %
of seats compared to at 198
out of 646 seats - 30.65 %
of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number
of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty
much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing
of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.
The reason why so
much money can be dumped in to the system is because the
election cycles drag
out months and months, with all
of that TV advertising time available to be bought.
The Upper House is lobbying heaven, and comparing the Mercer scandal with the one in the Lords demonstrates perfectly why that is: while Mercer has effectively been kicked
out of his party and is having to make assurances he will not stand at the next general
election, what's happening to the trio
of peers accused
of doing pretty
much the same thing?
Unfortunately freedom
of speech is contingent to how
much money you have given that the media is itself a business that has to make profits as well, so a «lobbyist» like this comes to this program without any ethics, without any remorse but with a lot
of money as well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's
elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side
of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (
of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak
out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issue.
While Cameron employed ex-BBC producer Craig Oliver in the job for
much of his premiership, May has been without a communications director since Katie Perrior quit at the start
of the general
election and Fiona Hill was forced
out afterwards.
I can't think
of another issue where I've had more communication and it's unprecedented for so
much of that to come from England and what people have been saying to me is if what you meant during the
election that you cared about more than Scotland, you wanted to hold
out a hand
of friendship to people in England, build progressive alliances where you could, if you meant that, then please on this issue vote with us to retain the ban on foxhunting.
His firm decision to snuff
out the so - called «snoopers» charter» has boosted his hand with his party and given them a
much - needed boost
of energy ahead
of next week's local
elections.
«This one was a little difficult,» said Ulster County Board
of Elections Commissioner Tom Turco, who spent
much of last Tuesday, April 19 fielding phone calls and traveling between polling sites trying to sort
out the confusion.
Although European
elections are generally seen as second - order
elections across all member states, the turn -
out of 20.84 % in Croatia was especially low, but the often - heard explanation that parties did not invest
much time or money in getting the vote
out for a one - year term simply does not hold water.
Erin Stamper, member
of Indivisible Chatham and an organizer
of the canvass action in Hudson, NY shares, «We had the largest turnout in the district, more than 100 volunteers turned
out in Hudson to learn how to knock doors — we've been amazed at the ground swell
of energy for this first voter registration effort — canvassing 20 months before an
election is pretty
much unheard
of.»
While Clinton won
out over Trump in Onondaga County in the primary
elections, upstate and central New York had a more mixed voting record, according to Politico, with the rural areas providing
much of the Republican support.
Obviously when we have the next presidential
election, I believe very strongly that the Democratic candidate will be a
much stronger candidate than any Republican that is
out there in terms
of values and issues.
Despite a fiercely contested race, Péladeau was the frontrunner for
much of the campaign, causing Jean - François Lisée to drop
out in January 2015, Bernard Drainville to drop
out on April 22, 2015, [32] and Pierre Céré to follow Drainville only five days before the leadership
election.
I'm always wary
of writing too
much about by -
elections here — afterwards people already try to work
out what they say about the national picture when the answer is nearly always «not
much».
Which political technology firms came
out on top in this week's
elections; Al Gore's outspoken views on Edward Snowden; Google's director
of charitable giving explains its «moon shots»; and
much,
much more.
Governor Paterson is very
much like President Obama, in that he is DETERMINED to do the people's business, even if it costs him the
election... By THAT I mean that he has stood up to NY Congress and called them
out for playing politics instead
of resolving the budget issues.
While so
much of the focus in city
elections falls on the Democratic ranks, which make up a whopping 73 percent
of all registered voters in the city and whose members hold every elected office in city government, some
of the most colorful and contentious story lines play
out in the battles for the minor - party slots.
However
much voters might be charmed by Johnson, they might be appalled in equal measure by the sight
of a party turning in on itself, either for a coup or a drawn -
out leadership
election.
The hundreds
of donors who have given more than $ 40,000 to Cuomo's
election coffers won't be losing
much sleep over his proposal,» said Howie Hawkins, who finished third
out of seven gubernatorial candidates three years ago.
This past January, at the request
of Maryland's Department
of Legislative Services, a «red team»
of eight computer security experts set
out to test these security measures on a Diebold system configured
much as it would be on
Election Day.
«We'll come
out of this
election with a
much firmer understanding
of what worked and what didn't, once we see who did well and who did not,» Zukin says.
Climate change seemed to have slipped
out of the public awareness a little bit, and it wasn't helped at all during the
election process, because nobody was talking about it
much then, either.»
The low - budgeted thriller The Purge:
Election Year started
out strong but both The Legend
of Tarzan and The B.F.G had unremarkable opening weekends considering how
much money was spent to bring these stories to the big screen.
The amount
of mileage you get
out of The Purge:
Election Year (or as I prefer, American Nightmare 3:
Elections) will depend on how
much you enjoy just being stuck in this particularly dark universe.
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«The pressure to get something
out at
election time was a
much more dominant theme than the idea
of letting it go through review,» said Henry M. Levin, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University.
It's not as good a book as «The Gospel According to Larry» and because Tashjian chose to place the characters in the middle
of the 2004 USA Presidential
Election, elements of the book already appear not so much dated as slightly out of kilter - because the political front runners of the book aren't the front - runners of the election at th
Election, elements
of the book already appear not so
much dated as slightly
out of kilter - because the political front runners
of the book aren't the front - runners
of the
election at th
election at this time.
Trying to lay
out a reasonable and final fossil fuel draw - down is as pointless as putting
much hope in the emitter - dominated climate negotiations, given the reality
of politics today that diminish the meaning
of elections and climate science.
Since the
election result was unexpected, climate analysts haven't figured
out exactly by how
much other countries would have to cut emissions to compensate for lack
of U.S. action, or even if it's practically doable.
But what we have seen since then is, a number
of months later there was a major French
election, and there we deployed some AI tools that did a
much better job
of identifying Russian bots and basically Russian potential interference and weeding that
out of the platform ahead
of the
election.
In a statement, the acting CEO
of Cambridge Analytica, Dr Alexander Tayler, said «Cambridge Analytica was formed in 2013,
out of a
much older company called SCL
Elections.
And an overwhelming majority
of voters continue to call
out the importance
of quality preschool, even if the issue isn't getting
much air - time yet in the 2016 presidential
election.