Sentences with phrase «of election debates»

Said subsidy - junkies had polled themselves, and found them disillusioned with the substance of the election debates.

They include fairer funding of the trade union movement; staggered timing of the election debates; and, most interestingly, the holding of a referendum on general election day to mobilise the maximum possible Tory vote.

The majority of election debates involve candidates from different parties rather than any single political tendency.

Much of the election debate will be over who can devise the best plan to use the projected surpluses to help Canadians and support economic growth.

Should there be an election, these projections could become part of the election debate.

Grant Shapps pulled out of an election debate in Hampstead tonight because he had parents evening.

Not exact matches

The CNN anchor moderated a debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the 2012 election and took a lot of heat for doing exactly what Fox News» Wallace has said a moderator should avoid.

We all should welcome Timothy Lane and everyone else at the Bank of Canada to a debate the election didn't settle.

The seven candidates fighting to represent the socialist party in the upcoming presidential election in France are facing each other in the first of four TV debates on Thursday.

In France, the socialist party is hosting the first debate for the primaries ahead of presidential elections later this year.

«Though it came halfway through the debate tonight, I think the definitive moment of the evening, of the election, of the American experiment came when Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump if he would accept the results of the election on November 8,» Colbert said.

The debate over high drug prices has been a red hot topic here and inspired a lot of anger and legislative threats, especially in the midst of the 2016 election cycle.

Fox on Monday announced the new debate, its latest in the primary season as the party chooses its candidate ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

So nobody should be surprised by the big headline out of Wednesday night's debate: that Trump would not commit to accepting the results of the election if he loses.

As pundits and polls declared Clinton the clear winner of the first debate, the Mexican peso had its best day in about seven months, surging nearly 3 %, and making the peso perhaps the best predictor of the 2016 election outcome.

Despite the fact that Trump was widely viewed as having lost the recent debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the election itself is just over a month away, the candidate chose to tweet not about the political issues in the campaign but about his dislike of former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado.

Hosted by CNN (TWX) and Facebook (FB), the first Democratic debate of the 2016 election season averaged 15.3 million total viewers, according to Nielsen's numbers.

With its ability to influence opinions, social media does remarkable harm by playing a role in the rigging of elections and public debate.

The debate over migrants has polarized society right across Italy, ahead of its election this weekend.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

Italy's fragile economy was also a feature in the run - up to the election with somewhat lackluster growth and an unemployment rate of 11.1 percent dominating the debate.

The issue arose in the Republican primary debates, and reportedly resentment of the abuse was a major contributor to Hillary Clinton's loss of Florida in the general election in the 2016 US presidential race.

Trump, known for his use of Twitter to drive political debate, tweeted about an Indiana air conditioner maker he featured in his election campaign as an emblem of trade deals he said were unfavorable to American workers.

The debate will continue until Election Day in November and well beyond, and this year's Top States study has given both sides plenty of ammunition.

The GOP nominee has repeatedly asserted his belief that the debate, and the entire election process, is «rigged» in favor of Clinton, whom he refers to as «Crooked Hillary.»

Pro-Trump programmers «carefully adjusted the timing of content production during the debates, strategically colonized pro-Clinton hashtags, and then disabled activities after Election Day.»

Apart from the occasional sound - bite on military spending, the Iraq war, and missile defence, Canada's role in the world was not part of the mainstream election debate.

Halfway through the election, BC Liberal candidates have ducked debates in about half of BC's ridings.

The indictment of 13 Russian nationals for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has reignited the debate on whether Facebook and other social - media giants are a threat to democracy.

The debate over the role of Congress will be further complicated by the impending U.S. midterm elections as well as constitutional litigation over the respective roles of the White House and Congress regarding abrogation of trade agreements.

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

One night, over dinner with Hsieh and his friends at Carson Kitchen, a new high - end restaurant in what was once the rundown John E. Carson hotel for men, I lost track of the conversation, reached for a pork slider, considered sipping my Fernet shot, and suddenly realized they were fiercely debating how to explain to me a Holacracy concept called «circle elections.»

The politics of the coming November midterm elections will consume the Capitol for much of the rest of 2018, as lawmakers debate a farm bill, possible new disclosures for social media companies and federal spending beyond Sept. 30.

Two times as many 18 - to -24-year-old watched the first GOP debate of the presidential election on Snapchat as watched it on television.

Indiana Republican Senate candidates clash in final debate before May 8 primary election Dan Carden, The Times of Northwest Indiana

Former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras arrives to an election debate with the leader of the Greek conservative opposition party New Democracy, Evangelos Meimarakis in Athens, Greece on September 14, 2015.

Some of that is due to the U.S. election — the company reported record daily audiences when it streamed the presidential debates, for example — but Twitter is chalking up the bulk of the growth to product and marketing efforts, not politics.

On the very day of the televised leaders debate for the 2017 BC Election, Premier Christy Clark has suddenly found a reason to ask Prime Minister Trudeau to ban thermal coal exports from BC ports.

With only 30 candidates nominated in 87 constituencies, most viewers tuning in to the televised debate will not have the option of voting for an Alberta Party candidate on Election Day.

At the same time the Liberal Party, and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, have made environmentalism a major component of their election platform through a policy initiative known as the Green Shift — an initiative that was the source of considerable discussion and debate in the lead - up to the election.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

There is no denying that the Wildrose Party is a force in this election campaign and should be represented in the televised debates, but it is important to remember that neither Ms. Smith or any of her party's four incumbent MLA's were elected as Wildrose candidates in the last election.

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

With the first presidential debate of the 2012 election set to kick off Wednesday, Americans may soon get a clearer picture of where President Barack Obama and GOP candidate Mitt Romney stand on housing and a better sense of the policies that they might implement.

«Imagine if [the Daniels affair] came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton,» he said, apparently under the impression that linking the story to its potential electoral consequences would make the money seem less connected to the election.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

To be sure, the immediate Monday night market reaction to the debate could reverse, and analysts were quick to point out that there are still two more presidential debates to come ahead of the November election.

Much of the recent, heated debate surrounding Zimbabwe's coming elections centers on the nation's largest foreign investor, China — and analysts say...

And the province can do much more to clean up provincial election laws, something that a new all - party committee will be tasked to do soon (and they should consider adopting some of the amendments made by Wildrose MLAs during recent debates in the Legislature).

There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.