«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.
Not exact matches
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.