Sentences with phrase «party election machine»

Theresa May under pressure to shake up party election machine, and advisers are seeking ideas to appeal to younger voters

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«I struggle to make an activist party, a party that is involved in building a movement, and not just an election machine.

Firstly, encourage the creation of a very serious review into what went wrong for the party at the last election so that mistakes in the message and machine can be dealt with; secondly, encourage the party to create a policy platform ruthlessly focused on generating popularity across the country to raise the party's standing in the polls; and thirdly, secure enough political support that they can ideally walk into Downing Street uncontested.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

Local political parties get all of their funds from donations, although the mechanics of primary elections (voting machines, space rental, ballot counting staff) are often publicly funded.

A win by Gonzalez would help re-establish the WFP in Albany and also solidify its standing in NYC as a vehicle for reform against the well - established so - called Democratic «machines» in the outer boroughs — particularly Brooklyn and, in the case of the 2009 NYC Council elections, in which the WFP teamed up with HTC and 1199 against party - backed candidates, Queens.

The Ukip election machine was today found wanting when former leader Nigel Farage spoke live from the campaign trail in Sleaford and North Hykeham — and party operatives managed to misspell the name of the constituency.

U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report in January that the television station, which broadcasts on cable in the United States, is «Russia's state - run propaganda machine» and that it contributed to the Kremlin's campaign to interfere with last year's presidential election in favor of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.

«The bias against smaller parties is one concern arising from this study of our election system in 2011 another is the power handed to party machines in deciding who goes where on the list and so in many cases who gets a seat.

IDS» attack was almost the exact opposite: that the Tory election - winning machine has betrayed the principles the party needs to survive.

Niou's victory in the seat formerly held by Silver and briefly occupied by Cancel, who defeated Niou in a relatively close April special election, is a boost to the Working Families Party, who backed Niou, and a blow to Silver's old downtown machine.

The party succeeded in creating a fantastic by - election winning machine for those famous victories in Crewe in 2008 and Norwich in 2009.

It remains to be seen how dim a view the Labour Party machine takes of his public courting of UKIP, but Neil Carmichael, who will fight Stroud for the third successive election for the Conservatives, has a simple message for the local electorate:

Meeting him yesterday afternoon he told me that there were less than 1,000 days until the next general election (969 actually if its 7th May 2015) and the party machine needed to start getting into battle mode.

Niou won the September 2016 Democratic primary — backed by the Working Families Party — and November general election after losing a prior special election to Alice Cancel, who had been the choice of the Silver machine.

With this powerful story and the Labour Party political machine behind her, she is Galloway's only credible opponent in the election.

Republicans mulled court action on the grounds that party lawyers were prevented from observing the counting of some absentee ballots, voting machines erroneously recorded votes from Lamb, and voters were confused by some information from the state election Web site.

The Chairman of SIECOM, Dr. Saratu Binta Dikko Audu, who disclosed this at an interactive session with stakeholders, newsmen, security agencies and political parties at the commission's headquarters in Kaduna Friday, also said Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) would be used in the conduct of the election.

The party «machines» are helping to organise campaigns for the local and European elections this month, and gearing up for the 2015 general election.

Robert Harris, writing not long before the election was called in the New Statesman, «can't quite understand how the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party can sit there day after day, month after month, year after year, knowing that they're simply heading towards a kind of mincing machine at the next election.»

Perhaps replacing General Elections with a Rule of Thirds would reduce the power of the Party Machine.

In that election, Tinubu used his political machine to betray his own party, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), across the Southwest, except in Osun State where people voted solidly for Mr. Ribadu.

Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said Blackwell should step aside because his office is responsible for the rules that govern county election boards that had scattered problems last Tuesday, including poll workers who did not know how to turn on new electronic voting machines.

Tinubu noted that the shift in the dates for the general elections was a mere pretext by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to gain time to perfect its rigging machine.

With the General Election now just a year away and the parties» hype machines humming, the Independent on Sunday's chief political commentator John Rentoul predicts what we can expect from the next 12 months in the race for Number 10

Livingstone says some conspiracy theorists have floated the theory that the rightwing Labour party machine delayed the disciplinary hearing into his case until this month because they wanted it to damage the party at the start of the local election campaign.

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.

Despite the post-coalition electoral calculations — the Guardian notes them here — this is a centralisers» reshuffle, a victory for senior civil servants and crocodile - strangling Australian election strategists over what remains of the party faithful and over armchair political strategists in the newspapers, for the No 10 machine over the Whitehall baronies.

McConnell expressed fears that Labour would experience increased difficulty in regaining the confidence of Scottish voters following the election of Sturgeon as SNP leader, and described the party as «a political machine that is angry about what has happened in Scotland in the recent past».

In a follow - up study, the researchers were able to examine the word associations of a group of 324 participants and, by using machine - learning algorithms, predict their political leanings and what party they belonged to, as well as which candidate they were likely to vote for in the presidential elections.