Sentences with phrase «of election disaster»
«The 10,000 members who joined the party in the immediate aftermath of election disaster are the type of people who donate money to save mangy bears tethered to stakes in castle moats as a tourist attraction.
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The disaster of this presidential election is a long time in coming — it will spawn disasters beyond our imagining — and yet it remains our responsibility to persevere and make the best of our challenges and opportunities as they come upon us.The first thing is to steel ourselves for a disaster in....
The disaster of this presidential election is a long time in coming — it will spawn disasters beyond our imagining — and yet it remains our responsibility to persevere and make the best of our challenges and opportunities as they come upon us.
Bush was discredited, and the disaster of his poorly planned war (along with a perfectly timed financial crisis) allowed Obama to win the 2008 election and throw away the gains of the Surge.
When Republican Governor Mitt Romney lost the presidential election earlier this month to incumbent Barack Obama, Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary classified the election as «an evangelical disaster.»
The introductory comment states «with the election in November 2008 of a new President, the US has embarked on an intense self examination... [they have had]... the capacity to renew and rebuild the nation at times when it seemed overwhelmed by disaster.
«If you've had the first lot of elections and they haven't been a complete disaster, most people would probably say «let's continue»,» he says.
But the 1983 disaster also saw the election of two MPs who went on to shape and dominate the party and the UK's political scene for nearly two decades: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
«We may have a Conservative Prime Minister, but Lord Ashcroft believes the election campaign was a disaster and that the blame lies with David Cameron and his coterie of advisers.»
The controls on immigration mugs were a disaster and shamefully immigration was a central theme of Labour's election campaign.
The media spent the entire election asking me about the scale of the likely disaster and predicting a wipeout for the Welsh Liberal Democrats.
Lib Dems, paralysed by the shock of successive local elections disasters, have realised they have no other choice but to cling on until 2015.
The Liberal Democrat leader was on the brink of an expected disaster in local and European elections the following month — the voters» roar of disapproval at his decision to go into coalition with the Conservatives.
In the face of all available evidence — in council elections, byelections and opinion polls — there was collective self - delusion, and the party was going to press ahead to disaster.»
A month ago, Labour had one of its worst ever performances in the local elections, pointing to disaster for Corbyn in Thursday's general election.
Eric Pickles is being blamed by Team Cameron: «There is now considerable concern that there are other candidate disasters waiting to happen and that these could derail the opening weeks of the Tory election campaign.
Clegg said after the election that he had no choice but to go back on his word: a national economic disaster loomed, national interest trumps party politics, amassing power and all its trappings through brazen dishonesty was actually an act of sacrifice!
Brilliant Strategist Jeremy - an early General Election would help him get rid of all those pesky Labour MPs who regard him as an unmitigated disaster.
I totally agree that a convention that is established quickly against a backdrop of narrow party political point scoring in the run - up to the election will be a disaster.
In a strange quirk of fate, Labour's poll rating is almost identical to the party's performance in 1983 — regularly held up as the benchmark by which all other general election disasters should be judged.
On Wednesday, City Council Member Mark Treyger will introduce a bill to ensure that the Board of Elections, which administers voting in the city, joins these agencies in formulating its own disaster - preparedness procedures for conducting the polls.
Says Poorly Conducted Elections, Recipe For Disaster The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said he would not...
Turning round last year's general election disaster — when Labour lost all but one of its 41 Scottish seats — was never going to be straightforward.
Many discerning and well - meaningful Ghanaians are still unravelling the disaster of the 2016 election.
The Liberal Democrats will be looking for an signs of recovery after disaster at the last General Election in 2015 which saw them dip from more than 50 MPs to just 8.
He blamed the conduct of the Minister for the rescheduling of polling station elections in the area indicating that she was said to have through the DCE hijacked forms meant for polling station contenders for fear that the Deputy Coordinator of Nationa Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Peter Wuni who is eying the Gambaga seat will ensure his favourites purchase the forms to contest.
It is the latest (arguably quite redundant) evidence of a more fundamental truth about politics: The instinct that leads many people obsessively to pursue public approval and power through winning elections is closely linked to the instinct that leads many of these same people (and let's face it, they are all men) to sexual excess and disaster.
I left in July 1994, for no good reason other than I thought the election of Tony Blair would be a disaster (such was my political insight that I thought John Prescott would be a more fitting heir to John Smith's legacy).
In a disaster for voting rights and democracy — and a horrifying embarrassment for New York — the incompetent New York City Board of Elections inexplicably removed more than 100,000 Brooklyn voters off the rolls amid the national spotlight of a crucial presidential primary.
Losing a Democratic U.S. Senate seat from New York would be nothing short of a disaster for the Obama Administration in next fall's mid-term election.
«A disaster,» said one New York Democratic operative when asked about the prospect of a trial detailing the charges against Rangel in the midst of the fall election campaign.
Oakeshott resigned as a Liberal Democrat peer, warning that the party was heading for disaster, after the secret polls were leaked to the Guardian in the wake of very poor results in the council and European elections.
And last summer, after the disaster that kept giving that was Falkirk - when Unite was accused of attempting to rig the process to select a Labour candidate in the by - election - Ed Miliband stood tall and declared it was time for change.
During his campaign and since his election, President Trump has called NAFTA «a disaster» that's robbing U.S. jobs, and he has called for a review of the 23 - year - old agreement.
It boggles my mind to see the (US) media babble excitedly about the European debt crisis, while doing their level best to ignore the current or looming fiscal / debt disaster at the US federal & state level, another looming trillion dollar student debt problem (sure to be a key plank of Obama's new election... sorry, stimulus plan!)
Exhibitions include a / wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Memoirs of A Watermelon Woman (2016) and A Subtle Likeness (2016) at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, S / Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, where she previously served as Curator, and baby boy (2017) at Transmission gallery, Glasgow.
Exhibitions include a / wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Memoirs of A Watermelon Woman (2016) and A Subtle Likeness (2016) at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, and S / Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and baby boy (2017) at Transmission Glasgow.
It's almost like we — the twenty - and early thirty - somethings — are coming of age at some weird potluck of every social issue staring us in the face: food insecurity, epic natural disasters, stock market crashes, three wars, droughts worse than the Dust Bowl, banks getting away with robbery, extreme poverty, corporate - purchased elections, rising childhood obesity, rising deficit, salmon run extinctions, flocks of birds dropping out of the sky, college debt surpassing credit card debt, you name it.
That's why he spent millions of his personal fortune in the last two election cycles promoting liberal causes and supporting Democrat candidates: in order — as he puts it on the website of his NextGenClimate SuperPac — to «prevent climate disaster.»
One of the leading purveyors of climate change panic has described the Presidential election of Donald J. Trump as a «global disaster,» adding that if were to meet Trump he would tell him: «Kill yourself immediately.»
To compound the consensus expert election idiocy of 2016, many of the same «experts» then predicted that economic disaster would immediately follow this «unexpected» election of Trump.
In the last year alone, for example, we've come through a national election, a changing of the guard at NAR, and a series of natural disasters that has touched many thousands of lives and is impacting our industry in many ways.