Sentences with phrase «now abandoned his party»

More than half of those who did vote him into third place have now abandoned his party.

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Since Southern Baptists abandoned native son Jimmy Carter and joined the Reagan revolution in 1980, they have become an increasingly important part of those values - voters who have made the Republicans, at least for now, the majority party in American political life.

Lyndon Johnson, taking Walter Cronkite's misreporting of Tet seriously, lost heart; the Democratic party largely abandoned the war that John F. Kennedy had begun; public opinion, shaped by what now appears to have been some of the worst reporting of the television age, turned decisively against the war.

♦ Michael Kinsley of The New Republic ponders reports that apparatchiks at the Moscow Higher Party School are now parroting Gorbachev's line, just as they parroted the Marxist - Leninist orthodoxies currently being abandoned.

David Cameron made it very clear during the leadership election that economic stability would be prioritised over tax cuts and he was subsequently elected leader by a significant majority of the party membership, so I think anybody that expects him to abandon that position now is being a bit unreasonable to be honest.

«Charlie Crist has now officially filed to run for the position he once abandoned,» Florida Republican Party chairman Lenny Curry said Friday.

This all goes to the heart of the party's core strategy which now appears to have been abandoned.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to impparty after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to impParty was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

Eze reaffirmed BSO's conviction that President Buhari is fulfilling his campaign promises to Nigerians and Ndigbo in particular, pointing out that federal roads cruelly abandoned by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the South - East and Second Niger Bridge are now receiving attention.

While there is some evidence that Ukip was successful in closing the gender gap by appealing to more women at the European elections, it is women who are now the most likely to abandon the party.

The review sets out far - reaching changes to the union - party relationship partly prompted by the now abandoned allegations of vote - rigging in Falkirk.

Take Back Parliament launched dramatically a few weeks ago, at the height of the coalition negotiations, when several thousand people chanting «fair votes now» and «we want to speak to Nick» gathered outside the LGA building where Nick Clegg was meeting and called the Liberal Democrat leader out to demand he does not abandon the party's historic commitment to PR.

Microsoft has abandoned its fans and now only hired second party companies to make AA GAMES like ori and state of decay and crackdown

Zelda alone isn't enough — it will still be there a year or two from now (if the Switch even survives that long) This thing is more than likely going to bomb, and 3rd parties will abandon it.

Not just because the physical version comes with some downright fabulous packaging (including a color manual - something Nintendo's now abandoned in its first - party titles) but because this edition of Cave Story + feels so at home on the Switch.

Despite being abandoned by all US carriers & now Best Buy, Huawei is still pushing their devices through 3rd - party retailers.