Sentences with phrase «presidential election spending»

But even without outside money, U.S. presidential election spending has dwarfed Canadian spending by increasing margins over the past 12 years.

Not exact matches

In a quarterly - earnings call on Wednesday, Penegor said that the presidential election is weighing on consumer sentiment and, in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy's.

One thing, however, is very different about this season's presidential campaign: an explosion of election spending by groups known as super PACs.

That eclipses the $ 167,401 that Donald Trump has spent on his private security detail during his presidential election bid so far, according to campaign finance disclosures.

The parent company of Clear Channel Communications, one of the nation's biggest radio station and outdoor advertising firms, saw its 2013 loss widen as political spending dropped without a presidential election to drive results.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

He added: «Crooked Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars more on Presidential Election than I did.

It has been previously reported that a Russian troll farm spent $ 100,000 on Facebook advertisements to sway the mindset of the public during the 2016 presidential elections.

In particular, the results of the U.S. presidential election have spurred many to believe that greater government spending will stimulate the economy and bring big wins to Caterpillar.

The money spent by candidates and political parties in Alberta elections are nowhere near the truckloads being spent south of the border in advance of November's presidential and senate elections, but some of these numbers demonstrate how pitched some electoral battles were in the recent provincial election.

National data pointed to continued strength in the Spanish economy but a loss of momentum in France, as French consumers reined in their spending, probably due to political uncertainty in the run - up to the country's presidential election.

Pro-lifers get formal policy maximalism in the Republican platform, while Republican presidential candidates spend the general election talking about abortion as little as possible.

Two months before the presidential election of 2000, the PNAC unipolarists issued a position paper titled «Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century» that spelled out the particulars of a global empire strategy: repudiate the ABM treaty, build a global missile defense system, increase defense spending by $ 20 billion per year to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, and reinvent the U.S. military to meet expanded obligations throughout the world.

If Russia can allegedly influence the American Presidential Election by spending $ 100,000 on facebook adverts, one must ask what influence the $ 18,000,000,000 given by George Soros to Open Society buys.

Television ad slots have been scarce in contested states during election seasons before, but the combination of big - money super-PACs and the expectation that both presidential campaigns will spend heavily seems to be driving political actors to reserve time much earlier than usual.

But in February, Police Commissioner James O'Neill sent a letter to members of Congress requesting reimbursement for the $ 25.7 million the NYPD and FDNY spent on «presidential - level security» for Trump Tower and the First Family between the election and inauguration of President Trump.

It has recently been alleged that the «Russia - linked» accounts spent 50,000 - 150,000 USD on some kind of «politically divisive ads» on Facebook before or around the US presidential elections in November 2016.

(CNN)- Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will spend Election Day on the road in Ohio and Virginia, his campaign said Monday night.

Ms. Yellen played down surveys showing a sharp rise in the optimism of consumers and business executives since the presidential election, noting there is little evidence that such surveys predict spending decisions.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton devoted another speech to portraying her likely GOP general election opponent, Donald Trump, as unfit for office, and Trump fired right back, even as he spent a good part of his day to trying to win over Christian conservatives.

Say there was a law that limited how much a presidential candidate could spend during the election process per month all / most of the campaign money isn't used (According to this article there isn't...

WikiLeaks spent the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election leaking information harmful to Clinton's campaign — but now they're not happy with the man who beat her, saying he broke his promise about releasing his tax returns.

While opposition forces, led by labor unions, have already begun to spend sizeable sums of money to encourage a «no» vote, it is unclear how rising populist sentiments indicated in last year's presidential election — especially through the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — may factor in.

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The APC would later claim it spent just a little above N1 billion in the 2015 Presidential election, but this has not yet been investigated, and I don't think anybody believes it.

The extant 2010 Electoral Act, as amended, caps spending limits as follows: Presidential election — N1 billion, Governorship - N200 million, Senatorial — N40 million, House of Representatives candidate — N20 million, and House of Assembly — N10 million.

Replying on March 3, Grimes told the Electoral Commission that he decided to spend more than # 675,000 with AggregateIQ after volunteering with Vote Leave and watching the US presidential election process.

While 527s like America Coming Together, the Media Fund, Progress for America and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were a major factor in the 2004 presidential election, there is little proof that affluent individuals have much interest in spending to influence specific House and Senate elections.

I am aware of how much a presidential candidate spent on an election day.

Reports late in the campaign suggested that Dole suffered from Barack Obama's decision to aggressively contest North Carolina in the presidential election, [21] while Hagan received substantial support from independent 527 groups lobbying / advertising against Dole, [20] as well as the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which spent more money in North Carolina than in any other state during the 2008 election season.

Drawing a comparison between this cycle and the last presidential election doesn't paint an accurate picture because super PAC spending was still in its infancy in 2012.

Pataki spent a lot of time in Iowa during the early stages of the last presidential election cycle, but opted not to become a candidate.

He has no opinion whether or not tax dollars are used to promote candidates for Presidential election, on having the Government regulate the internet (much like it regulates the mail and the VA), or most importantly if the Government ever stops spending more money than it earns (increasing the path to insolvency for the nation).

If Democrat Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election, Obama would likely threaten to veto any spending bill that barred Green Climate Fund contributions, he said.

Many people I've spoken to here — and I'm talking about the cab driver who took me to Islamabad to the waitress at the Islamabad Pizza Hut to the clerk at the book store where I spent my early evening — they all think that timing is more tied to the American presidential election schedule.

A team of scientists spent the past six months examining where the most recent presidential election went wrong.

Mohammad Rasoulof is a filmmaker on the ideological front - line, a fearless campaigner who's spent time in Iranian jails for publicly denouncing the country's rigged 2009 presidential elections.

November 7, 2012 • This presidential election attracted $ 1.5 billion in outside spending — TV ads, robocalls and other political activity by groups created to take advantage of the new rules of campaign finance law.

He also spent two years working on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign — joining then - Senator Obama's exploratory committee and working through the primary and general elections.

Considering that this is not a presidential election year, the political spending is noteworthy.

In addition to early presidential endorsements by both the AFT and NEA, the largest teachers unions in the nation spent a whopping combined total of $ 32.2 million dollars during in the 2016 election cycle as of the September 30th FEC reporting period.

In 2013, Sinquefield spent more than $ 3.8 million on disclosed election - related spending, and that was a year without presidential or congressional elections.

The senator who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential election has never suffered fools — or equivocating witnesses — gladly, and he would be certain to use his new perch for tough questioning about Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and military spending.

Stephen Douglas spent the night he lost the presidential election to Abraham Lincoln at the Battle House.

During the months leading up to the 2004 presidential election, D4D «spent» these assets to educate, register, and mobilize voters and to support candidates committed to individual liberty, social justice and democracy.

«As ratings for TV programming continue to decline, advertiser spending will also continue to see declines, especially in years that do not boast major events such as presidential elections and Olympic games.»

Spending will perk back up in 2020 with the U.S. presidential election and summer Olympics in Tokyo, but then will fall again to reach only a quarter of total ad spend by 2022.

That caused it to hesitate when fighting fake news before the 2016 Presidential election... and then spend the next two years dealing with the backlash for allowing misinformation to run rampant.

Here's what's worth knowing: following the fall - out over Russian - bought ads in the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook said it created the tools needed to handle political ad spending better.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton spent big on Facebook ads last year ahead of November's presidential election.