Sentences with phrase «of electoral issues»

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But right now, so soon after such a historic electoral victory and despite her centrality to Canada's most pressing issues, she has not yet presented a viable energy sector alternative — only answers with varying degrees of compromise and alienation.

Doing so will significantly diminish the likelihood of electoral fraud, which is a huge issue despite the prevalence of electronic voting systems.

The eight - justice court is hearing arguments Monday in two cases that deal with the same basic issue of whether race played too large a role in the drawing of electoral districts, to the detriment of African - Americans.

Skillful use of wedge issues such as abortion could make an electoral difference in that context.

Then Obama's State of the Union speech, which sounded off alarm bells in Ottawa and Alberta by unexpectedly bringing up climate change, an issue largely ignored during the president's electoral campaign.

THE exposure of rorts in our electoral systems raises a number of serious issues, not least the continuation of events which serve to undermine our faith in politicians.

The list includes Patrick Muttart, his most important electoral strategist; communications kingpins Soudas and Kory Teneycke; Jenni Byrne, who used to be in charge of «issues management» (putting out fires).

All of this suggests that it is the political parties which demonstrate the best ability to handle economic issues that will stand the best chance of electoral success.

As with the economy, it is the political parties that gain public confidence in this issue area which stand to enjoy a better chance of electoral success.

Find articles on current and past elections in Canada, as well as on the nature and issues of Canada's electoral and political party systems.

«Divisive issues such as Hezbollah's weapons and the controversy over its participation in regional conflicts are almost entirely absent from the electoral campaigns, indicating implicit acceptance of the party's domestic hegemony,» wrote analyst Joseph Bahout in an article for the Carnegie Middle East Center.

With touching concern for the welfare of the Republican Party, an editorial in the very Democratic New York Times warns that abortion is the issue that «could split the party open» and takes Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition to task for having «overplayed his hand» and endangered the Republicans» electoral chances with his demand for pro-life candidates.

Now, the Catholic Church of the 1980s was nothing like as potent a force as it had been in the age of Cardinal Spellman, when it could count on the solid electoral support of most of its faithful, and it already faced major revolts over issues of gender and sexuality.

Did nobody ask whether ScoMo could really wave the deal through right now given it would spell the certain electoral defeat of Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce in New England, and a host of other Nationals in battleground seats where foreign investment is a hot - button issue?

Note that Ivan is describing something very different than traditional mass communications: he's talking about working closely (no doubt frequently one - on - one) with people on Facebook and other networking sites over a long period of time to help build a cadre of very committed activists — something that most electoral campaigns (and even most issue advocacy campaigns) simply can't do, whether because of lack of time or lack of resources.

UKIP has grown now to a membership of over 35,000 and seems to be finally breaking out of its single issue, single personality mould, to become a real electoral challenge to the Tories.

And we believe the party must start tackling this issue before it gets out of hand, and begin to create needless problems whose consequences could lead to electoral disaster.

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

I agree that I'd like to see electoral reform as one of the issues debated in the leadership contest.

But beyond electoral processes, it is just as vital to the health of a democracy that ordinary citizens are meaningfully involved in the discourse concerning issues affecting their lives and country.

In response, David Cameron thus relied on the tried and tested method to use EU referendum commitments in order to decouple European issues from domestic electoral agendas and to defuse the appeal of Eurosceptic challengers.

It is the biggest issue facing the country and potentially the most powerful driver of electoral support.

«The Balls intervention perhaps highlights how there may be a range of different political responses to arguments about how and why part of Labour's electoral defeat was that it struggled with middle income, and particularly C2 voters, over issues like crime, welfare and immigration.»

My worry is that it would collapse before it achieved anything concrete on electoral reform, particularly given the additional problems of getting a Lords majority and the ambivalence of the PLP on this issue.

Quite frankly I'm getting a bit sick and tired of hearing people like Tom Harris MP telling the rest of us that electoral reform is «an issue for half a dozen Guardian readers in [my] constituency.»

But Labour has neutered immigration and Brexit as electoral issues by simply signing up to a hard Brexit that leaves the single market and ends freedom of movement.

Labour is on the back foot over the issue of electoral and political reform.

Indeed, can't I equally argue that Neal Lawson risks narrowing his coalition of support for electoral reform by suggesting that the existence of a national campaign on PR means postponing or vetoing any consideration of party reform issues on their merits (where he seems to argue that the principle would be one he would support, were it not for this context)?

Secondly, and more importantly when it comes to the future of the party, we had spent decades building up a very local base of electoral support, from council to parliamentary levels, on the basis of populist, or indeed protest, issues that played well with disgruntled voters, but almost impossible to deliver in government.

This year's electoral frenzy has popularized a whole new set of electronic communications tools, from video to social media to text messsaging, and issue advocacy campaigns are busily incorporating them into their strategies.

However, if a more isolationist or nationalist US president emerges from the 2016 electoral process in America, and European electors give ever higher levels of support for nationalist - oriented parties, then we have little reason to expect partnership on foreign policy issues, and even fewer reasons to expect multilateral responses to global problems.

That is exactly the issue at hand with our democracy today: politics concentrates power to a handful of voters in wealthier swing seats, while throwing 22m votes in the electoral scrapheap.

Advocacy and electoral campaigns are turning to blogs for many of the same reasons and are confronting many of the same issues.

The dominant issues that ran through all the engagements include Police neutrality, handling of electoral offences, political party vigilantism, and invasion of polling stations by executives of political parties.

Suffolk County and NYS Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay issued the following statement: «We believe our electoral slate represents the spirit of good government reformers.»

In a call with The New York Times that was livestreamed online Tuesday night, Stringer said it was likely thousands of voters were disenfranchised by the purge - related problems, and he laid some blame for electoral issues at the feet of state lawmakers.

But beyond broadening the range of issues up for discussion, the presence of an older politician as a credible contender (Corbyn is 66) marks a long - overdue shift in British electoral politics.

By focusing Labour's local and European elections campaign on the «bread and butter» issues of housing stock shortage, rising housing prices, zero - hour contracts and a widespread sense of general economic insecurity, Miliband is trying to diffuse the electoral challenge posed by UKIP.

The effect of the issue on non-students rather than students will probably have greater electoral implications.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

«I am honored to have the endorsement of Queens Politics — a blog that stands for the issues I believe in, including transparency in government and electoral reform.

So Rick, go ahead and attack me rather than address the issue the Frank's lack of credibility on the issue and his attempt to equate democratic electoral politics with movement on equality issues.

Where an application for registration as an elector has been received before the issue of a writ and it has not been possible for the Electoral Commission to ascertain, at the time of the issue of the writ, whether the applicant is currently registered as an elector of another electoral district, the Electoral Commission must, subject to subsection (4), include the name of the applicant on any main, supplementary, or composite roll printed as at writ day.

The issue of electoral reform for the National Assembly is back on the agenda after the Secretary of State for Wales indicated she may change how AMs are elected.

Finally, strategically, the two key issues around which Blair will seek to fundamentally re-draw the map of the British political system are entry into the European Single Currency and electoral reform.

I'm grateful to Vote Better NY for bringing attention to an issue that goes to heart of our democratic system, and look forward to working with my colleagues to create a better, fairer, and more open electoral process for all New Yorkers.»

The hard - fought referendum on electoral reform was defeated by a huge majority of voters on a turnout of above 40 %, effectively ending the issue for a generation.

For Labour, the issue of electoral reform may become pressing.