Sentences with phrase «national elections we voted»

Three times in national elections we voted for a simulacrum of the «American Century,» for a candidate who projected a sense of American superiority in the world and ethically untroubled affluence at home, willingly suspending disbelief in the possibility of such a restoration.

Not exact matches

A regional election in Sicily over the weekend could lift the party of former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi, as the country gears up for a national vote next year.

The election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.

Stories on the U.S. election tend to focus on national polls, ignoring the fact that the president is chosen through the electoral college, not a popular vote.

Opinion polls show independent centrist Macron is set to beat National Front candidate Le Pen in Sunday's second round of voting, in what is seen to be France's most important election in decades.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

Whether President Donald Trump was involved or not, and whether they actually affected the vote or not, it's very clear that Russian operatives took part in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in a number of ways, including hacking into the Democratic National Committee's emails, according to FBI, CIA, and NSA investigations.

Following Switzerland is France, where the National Front earned around 14 percent of the country's vote in the past three presidential elections.

The comments from Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, came one day after The Intercept reported on a top - secret National Security Agency document that said hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

The Danish People's Party gained 21 percent of the vote in national elections in June on a nationalist, anti-Islamic platform.

The British people will vote next week in a national election to decide the country's fate within the European Union.

In France, for example, Marine Le Pen's anti-euro, far - right National Front party gained a respectable 26 % of the vote in last month's local elections, but it didn't emerge as the top party as had been predicted.

Especially when we keep losing national elections, we have to confront our fellow citizens with the de facto constitutional decisions they keep making by voting for the Democrats.

And rightly so, for without a great deal of willingness from social conservatives to come out and vote in the national election, the Republican nominee has no chance of winning in November against the Democrats.

Reznik's book was already completed when the national - communist Gennady Zhyuganov and his «patriotic» rival Alexander Lebed won tens of millions of votes in the presidential elections.

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

During my year in Italy when the blood failed to liquefy, the priest announced that this sign indicated God's displeasure over the large communist vote the public opinion polls were predicting for the upcoming national parliamentary elections.

But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

Though Republicans have been carrying their vote in national elections of late, when factoring out working class Southern evangelicals the numbers change significantly.

The accompanying table reports on the religious vote, based on a large national survey of the adult population (conducted before and after the election at the University of Akron with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts).

The EU Court of Human Rights may reverse a national vote in the next few years, declaring the election of a right - wing candidate a violation of human rights.

In fact, over a million people in Egypt voted for Salah in the country's national election, even though he wasn't on the ballot paper!

Congress has used the italicized power to define the national presidential voting day as the same one for the general election of Senators & Representatives.

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has declared «Operation 50 — 50» in the Eastern Region, which is to split the votes with it opponent, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and President Mahama's visit is to boost the morale of the regional executives of his party, as they prepare for this year's elections.

In a one - on - one - interview, the former Trades Minister refuted assertions that, he has no «constituency» in NDC and that will affect his chances of getting delegates to vote for him to become the presidential candidate ahead of 2020 national elections.

Spring will bring local authority elections in England, national elections in Scotland and Wales, and the promised referendum on voting reform.

And the ongoing row over a cut - off date for the leadership election led to McDonnell attacking the «small clique» on the National Executive Committee that was trying to restrict the vote to members who had signed up before 12 January.

The party's national executive committee meets today and is expected to vote down moves to change the leadership rules and discuss a review of the general election campaign.

In conclusion, we urge the teeming Konkomba Youth to campaign assiduously to canvass more votes to retain H.E John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress as we go into the general elections.

But most states do count the votes of the recently deceased, according to the bi-partisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), an NGO that tracks US state election laws.

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 tVote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last tvote in the different county council divisions last time.

The outcome of the national popular vote versus the electoral college in the recent elections is an example.

According to him, Ghanaians made a mistake by voting for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the last election.

The 72 - year - old Akufo - Addo beat President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over one million votes to win the presidency at the third attempt while his party, the NPP snatched almost 50 of the NDC's seats to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the elections.

Electorally impotent but mass - membership parties of the far left are not anything new in Europe: the French Communist Party attracts 600,000 visitors to its annual «Fête de L'Humanité» yet polls as few as 900,000 votes in national elections.

Although voting experienced unprecedented delays and reports of pre-ticked ballot papers, the national presiding officer described the election as «successful» in spite of the glitches.

This high level of participation in political affairs is not typical for a country where the declining voting rate in the national elections stands at 65 % (2009).

There is nothing wrong with plural voting, other than the fact that all historical occurrences of it on a national elections scale were designed to favour certain groups on questionable bases (white male property owners, for example).

Popular radio personality and member of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abeiku Santana, has said the party will win the 2016 elections because Ghanaians will not vote for a leader who can not keep his house in order.

Third, the Constitutional Committee organized a national election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a ranational election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a raNational Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a rare feat.

While parties such as the Austrian Freedom Party and the True Finns may have scored better in their most recent national elections, UKIP's share of the vote is very similar to the results of the French Front National (2012: 13.6 %), the Danish People's Party (2011: 12.3 %) and the Dutch Freedom Party (2012: national elections, UKIP's share of the vote is very similar to the results of the French Front National (2012: 13.6 %), the Danish People's Party (2011: 12.3 %) and the Dutch Freedom Party (2012: National (2012: 13.6 %), the Danish People's Party (2011: 12.3 %) and the Dutch Freedom Party (2012: 10.1 %).

The African - American vote has become a major focus during this national election with the presence of the first serious black contender, Barack Obama.

The CNDD - FDD (National Council for the Defence of Democracy / Forced for the Defence of Democracy) historically had most of its votes from rural areas, as shows the map of the results of the 2010 municipal elections.

The ROPAA law seeks to empower eligible Ghanaians abroad to vote in national elections.

Boasts Of Making Nzema People NPP Regional and National Chairmen As He Begs For Votes The 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections is...

I know of no firm metrics (other than voting patterns, which are flawed as participation rates are so low 38 % - 62 % typically for national elections), though there is a plethora of writing on the effectiveness of government.

The graphs of the predicted vote share illustrate the predicted results of the model and the actual results of the subsequent national election and show the predictive power or the model is fairly accurate.

On average estimates for the national level vote at local elections are different from the results of a subsequent national election by nearly 5 %.

It is just (based on the clever idea of the OP) a way to evaluate separately the two respects in which the Electoral College is different from a direct national election, where the candidate with the most votes nationally is elected.