Sentences with phrase «not get any more votes»

I think the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) can not get any more votes than they got this last time because there is no way that they can spend the same amount again on campaigning for the second round.

Not exact matches

And we organized «get out the vote» efforts that helped more than 2 million people register to vote who might not have voted otherwise.

I'd feel a bit better if they were going to use the revenue to expand our economy so we aren't just resource based, but governments see a way to get more so they can spend it buying votes.

And you may vote a certain way or not but that doesn't matter, you've got 27,000 employees and I think the fact is that you're operating under a Federal Trade Commission consent decree from 2011, that's a real thing and it goes for twenty years so when someone said «do we need more regulations, do we need more legislation?»

I have always said that there must only be one standard to government decision making — what makes Canada more prosperous — not what gets more votes.

Romney won't get my vote, but he at least seems reasonably normal and will look better and better the more he stands next to any of those three.

You must not be paying attention to not only how people will be voting, but / and even more importantly the people (especially the hyper - religious) that are running for and getting voted into office are with zealotry... attempting, and in some cases passing laws that are based on their «religious beliefs.»

I don't know if it's ever occurred to any of speakers that all those kids are someday going to vote, or might have to figure out their change at the Taco Bell if the computer goes down, or might be passing out pills in the rest home, so the better schooling those kids get now, the more helpful they'll be to them in the future.

i don't think it will pass but its just about getting it in the headlines... the next bill will be more to the point and far more misunderstood so it make really make it past the vote.

To finish, religion and government should be completely separated, religion should be private and should not be discussed / debated to get more votes and they should stick to what really matters which is getting the economy back on track, getting people jobs, and getting corruption out of businesses / government.

They both belive when they die they well have, meet there 7 wives in heven u think that's not a cult?if america votes in a CULT member to run our country the gates of hell well open and we better be ready america.so america there is 2 of them I for one am not well to go back 150 yrs.6 on one off mentality.I grew up around those people and they r sick like the musliums they wear grab also but they hide there's under there clothes.what more r they hiding plenty.ask them how many times they r babtized not in there they take someone elses name everytime they get diped that is why there cult is so big ask one and they well lie or come up with even a bigger lie.they need to be fully investagated ppl.don't let the deep pockets and smile fool u.

They're targeting a large swath of the population who is normally not politically engaged enough to vote in non-presidential elections, but has been much more politically engaged since Trump got elected.

There are four more voting updates to go, and now that Giants» have seen that their efforts haven't been enough, maybe they'll try harder to get Nori Aoki to Cincinnati for the July 14 All - Star Game.

Me asking why Seo would be preferred to play on the right rather than left got more up votes than down and considering I get down votes for my arrogance... I would not say the question I asked is clear for everyone, or if it is then it is in favor of what I asked.

I voted for Alexis why, cos 1) he runs around too much without an end product most times 2) his game is more readable by most defenders now 3) if he's all that, why did Barca get rid of him 4) his interlink play is not that good 5) he gives the ball away far too often 6) too independent really - not much of a team man

Getting Congress to act the adult, to vote in the best interests of children, shouldn't be an even more daunting task.

I guess Obama and Sebellius can make the Affordable Health Care Act more affordable by denying such care to these unfortunates to get them to die young and wipe them off the slates completely — the burden of keeping them alive to age 18 to glean another Democrat vote deemed not «cost effective».

oh sorry I need more than one vote, they are all amazing and I really can not choose so if I have got to put them in order I choose No 2 then 18 then 4 then 10 then19...... ok so I had better stop and if it really has to be only one vote then its got to be No2.

Though, if it were some measure generally opposed by the ruling majority and there were enough defections, then the missing 7 votes would have more of an impact on something not getting passed.

We also have mandatory voting, so that the winner isn't decided by «who can get more people to vote», nor by voter suppression techniques.

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.

Background: Over the recent months of observing different campaigns for presidential election in the U.S. and their one - sided views on everything, I got to the point of thinking that indirect vote by representatives of the people is not working any more.

The Wilson Pakula threshold for anyone not enrolled in the party who wants to run on the line, as you'll recall, is just over 50 percent of the weighted convention vote — more than twice the 25 percent necessary for party members to get onto the ballot.

And we didn't get it Daniel Wesangula Read more Most of Kenya has remained calm since the vote, but several people have been shot and killed in clashes between police and opposition supporters in poor neighbourhoods in Nairobi, as well as in the western city of Kisumu

You wouldn't claim people get more votes under other forms of runoff voting (two round system or exhaustive ballot for example).

They don't get two votes, Paul, because their first vote is discarded, it doesn't count any more.

We shouldn't be surprised then that campaign spending — which largely operates on turnout — has more effect for candidates whose voters require a little more persuasion to get out and vote, than those who will turnout regardless.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

When the Tories got destroyed in 1997 (with more votes than Labour got in 2010) Tory activists didn't plan to force the elected government to back down from pursuing its agenda.

«I assume the Assembly will not designate someone, other than maybe a placeholder, unless they get more than 50 percent of the vote at the meeting,» Jacobs said.

«And that means you can ensure there is stable government but you can still vote according to your principles... that might mean that you don't get the ministerial car but it would mean you could sleep a little more comfortably at night.»

What I don't get is why did they win when under the party totals, Labor clearly had nearly 800,000 more votes in the party totals as compared to the Liberal National Party?

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

«Technicality she [Vazquez] got more votes than every candidate that ran and a lot were not duplicates — they voted for one or the other,» according to a source familiar with the situation.

I don't see how Labour could accept second place to the Lib Dems if it gets more votes as well as seats.

Lancman and Avella said they will push legislation in Albany to reform the voting process, including allowing college students to be election inspectors even if they do not live in Queens, which is currently mandated, in order to get younger people who are more adept at technology working in elections.

The public was demanding more, we were told, assuming away the significant number of people who voted for UKIP simply to get one over on the establishment parties or who may have voted on an aspect of UKIPs policy that doesn't involve the EU.

I might have taken a swing at it if I didn't observe that fact - based but politically polarizing answers on this SE get voted on by political alignment more than quality.

The answer for the losing parties is to work harder to win more votes - not to demand that their voters get more votes, more bites of the cherry, than anyone else.

But it does happen and more often then not, its when the popular party gets so cocky that they feel they can nominate any lousy candidate they want and still have enough votes to hold the safe state.

While Asian - Americans historically have faced voting barriers and discrimination, our goal is not solely to get more minority candidates elected.

But more senior figures in Tory Brexit camp backed Cameron and insisted a confidence vote would not happen because the rebels would not get enough support.

With just two more full days before the ballots are set to be counted, most PEF members who plan to vote have probably returned their ballots: If not they risk missing the 9 a.m. Thursday deadline (the association gets a morning mail delivery).

«If I had gotten [six] more votes, I wouldn't have considered the town board,» said MacIsaac.

Republican operatives concede that Cochran failed to deploy technology in any meaningful way during the early June primary, when McDaniel led by more than 1,300 votes but couldn't get the nomination outright because he didn't have a 50 percent majority.

«Bill de Blasio wants Melissa Mark - Viverito to get as many votes as possible so that he can claim not only a win but a huge mandate and have even more leverage and power to push his agenda and diminish the power of critics and skeptics,» said one labor insider.

Labour are also doing worse the better they did in 2010, but mainly because they are getting more Liberal Democrat votes where they started weaker and not so much because they are shedding votes to UKIP more where they started stronger.

More worryingly for May, Tory grandee Nicholas Soames also posted on Twitter: «It really won't be enough to get people to vote against The Corbini.

She did get 10 million more votes, don't like it?

The bill was also getting more and more unpopular as the «debate» went on and got uglier and it started becoming apparent that anyone who voted for the bill that wasn't in a totally safe district would face major challenges in reelection bids, especially for republicans, for supporting the bill, so passing fast there was hope that the public's short memory would forget the worst transgressions.