Sentences with phrase «of running for an election»

«The average citizen is finding that the cost of running for election has become too expensive,» Silver said.

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The company treated this election's party conventions as practice for the NFL games, running live streams of each as a way to experiment with the format.

She also supported Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election, and ran for governor of California in 2010.

«I'm not planning to get involved in many elections now that I don't have to run for office again, but the French election is very important to the future of France and the values that we care so much about.

Koch and many of his top donors refused to support Trump in the run - up to his election, raising questions about both his readiness for the job and his dedication to conservative principles.

The use or abuse of that data by Cambridge Analytica in work that it had done with Donald Trump's campaign for President in 2016 and potentially for other businesses in the run up to the election is at the heart of Donal

In the U.S., women are already responding to the 2016 presidential election by pursuing their own runs for office: since November, more than 4,500 of them have signed up for She Should Run, a new organization that trains women for public life.

Ford O'Neil, who oversees about $ 100 billion in bonds for Fidelity Investments, says the sharp run - up in yields since the election of Donald Trump may not be justified.

Such is the case for Trump, who filed a letter with the Federal Election Commission establishing his eligibility to run for a second term in 2020 just hours after taking the oath of office.

He also said he hoped the company would deliver on its promises of improved returns so «we don't need to run for election next year.»

Playing on the general publics» naivety, the libtards propped up Jughead Trudope and ran with «legalize marijuana» at the forefront of their election platform.Hook, line and sinker the electorate fell for this nonsense.Jughead Trudope doesn't know what «legalize» means.How quickly the fed libtards put that front and centre election platform on the backburner.

For Trump, the dispute runs the risk of blunting the economic benefits of his tax overhaul, which is at the center of congressional Republicans» case for voters to keep them in power in the 2018 electioFor Trump, the dispute runs the risk of blunting the economic benefits of his tax overhaul, which is at the center of congressional Republicans» case for voters to keep them in power in the 2018 electiofor voters to keep them in power in the 2018 elections.

After he was defeated in the 2015 federal election, Dykstra ran for the presidency of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, winning by acclamation after his friend Brown brokered a deal where the other candidate, Jag Badwal, withdrew.

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral election had it been run under different electoral systems.

BAGHDAD (AP)-- Iraqi women running for parliament this month are undaunted, despite many challenges they face ahead of the May 12 elections — including unprecedented smear campaigns complete with sex...

Ms. Notley's candidacy has received a number of high profile endorsements, including those of fellow NDP MLA Deron Bilous, former NDP MLAs Barrie Chivers, Bob Hawkesworth and Jim Gurnett, former Red Deer mayor Morris Flewwelling (who ran for the PCs in the 1997 federal election), former PC MLA Tom Sindlinger and former Edmonton Public School Board trustee Dave Colburn.

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

Buffalo is currently represented by Liberal MLA Kent Hehr, who is running for the federal Liberals in Calgary - Centre, and has elected Liberals in six of the eight elections held since 1986.

Voter turnout ranged from a low of 20.4 % in the 2000 Red Deer - North by - election, held to replace PC MLA Stockwell Day who resigned to run for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance, to 45.5 % in the 1996 Redwater by - election, held to replace Liberal MLA Nick Taylor who had been appointed to the Canadian Senate.

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.

Following Mayor Stephen Mandel «s recent announcement that he will be running for a third - term in office, I have a couple of quick thoughts on the October Municipal election:

Rutherford previously ran for the federal Conservative Party nomination in Edmonton - West ahead of the 2015 election.

The Board of Trade is renewing its call for all parties running in the provincial election to pledge to establish a regulatory framework to introduce ridesharing and provide residents with greater access to safe and reliable passenger transportation options.

How European markets might react to the possibility of «Brexit,» which is shorthand for «British exit from the European Union,» both in the run - up to the UK election and its aftermath, remains unclear, although given that UK assets suffered as the result of the referendum on Scottish independence became less predictable such volatility could conceivably reoccur.

The Wall Street Journal reported shortly before the 2016 election that the publisher of the National Enquirer, American Media, had paid $ 150,000 for McDougal's story but never ran it.

Following the election of President Donald Trump, who ran on an economic platform of bring back manufacturing jobs that had been sent from the U.S. to points overseas and pledged to «Make America Great Again,» more attention has been paid to the offshoring trends that have permeated the economy for a generation.

Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»

Reuters: Israel considers ban for far - right candidate over gaffe on blowing up shrine An Israeli panel weighed a request on Sunday to disqualify a candidate of a powerful far - right party from running in a January 22 election for alluding in a speech to the possibility of seeing one of Islam's holiest shrines in Jerusalem «blown up.»

One night at the beginning of the year, all over California, election parties were being held at candlelight dinners to gather signatures so that Eugene McCarthy would run for the presidency, and I had been among the minor - level instigators of the effort.

So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of....

Well, we recently had our elections here in Rutherford County, and it's humbling and sad all at the same time ¯ humbling to see the number of folks who give themselves selfishly to causes they believe in, humbling to see men and women subject themselves to the mauling they get when they run for office, humbling to see folks waiting to vote in the heat of this miserable Tennessee summer we're having, but also sad to see how insular and crimped a lot of us have become.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

O'Donnell also talked about some of the challenges her campaign faced in the 2008 election, when she ran against Joe Biden for his U.S. Senate seat.

The last time a guy from Texas said that God told him to run for President, we had kind of a bumpy ride as a country when he won the election with support from Christians...

My first introduction to this world on a personal level was at Virginia's Boys State program, when one of my closest friends ran for governor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant Governor.

Jesus CHrist is not running for election — He is already on the throne and none of the negative comments spewed on here will change that.

After fleeing to the United States for several years, she returned to Liberia to run for the office of president against Charles Taylor, a man who has since been convicted of war crimes.She lost that election, but through the campaigning process became known as Liberia's Iron Lady.

Ed Fulton, political trading spokesman for Sporting Index, said: «After yet another enthralling Premier League season in England, timed nicely in the run up to a snap election next month, we thought it would be interesting to identify which manager would generate the most support if they were to run for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Although strong tonic for the local fans, the flurries of touchdowns, the long runs and the passing averages that read like election returns are usually made against opposition as fierce as paper tigers.

This latest foray into the magical world of Sol Campbell's Cosvervative adventures follows the news that the ex-Arsenal man was seen as a prospective Tory candidate for the London mayoral elections in 2016 and there were even suggestions he was being vetted to run for a set in Parliament in the upcoming General Election.

The three newcomers and one incumbent running for the two open seats on the Palatine Park District board talk about issues including a district - owned stable and the future of a municipal golf course as being key in the April 9 election.

Any resident of the Park District of Highland Park who meets the requirements set forth by the Lake County Board of elections is eligible to run for a seat on the Park Board.

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

Allies of convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate, who is now running for the NYC Council, say they will file a lawsuit against NYC Board of Elections for moving polling sites from his stronghold in LeFrak City in Queens.

For the Conservatives are about to admit that Neil Wallis, the former News of the World former deputy editor, was hired by David Cameron's communications chief Andy Coulson in the run - up to the general election on a consultancy basis, the BBC are reporting.

Between 50 % and 90 % of LGB people anticipate being discriminated against if they were to run for election as a member of a mainstream political party.

Former state Sen. Terry Gipson has taken another step toward running for governor, forming a campaign committee to explore a statewide run next year, according to a filing posted Friday at the state Board of Elections.

``...» So, the class of 2010 is interesting across the board for this year's election, but 2010 may go down in political history as the year in which a guy like this isn't the perennial kook candidate who runs in at least one election every election cycle.

Since 1991, all candidates of parliamentary or presidential elections, as well as candidates for the Assembly of Experts, have to be qualified by the Guardian Council in order to run in the election.

The re-election campaign committee for Gov. Andrew Cuomo donated $ 11,000 to the state Senate campaign of Democrat Barbara Fiala, who is running an uphill race for a special election to fill a vacant Binghamton - area district.