Sentences with phrase «primary election party»

• An independent left party must be a mass - membership party of dues - paying members organized into activist locals, not a copy of the state - regulated top - down registration / primary election party structures of the Democrats and Republicans.

Not exact matches

If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

To be sure, Trump's tone and overall demeanor does seem to have contributed a great deal to his success in the GOP primary — he is the party's presumptive nominee — though it remains to be seen if that success will carry over into a general election.

In France, the socialist party is hosting the first debate for the primaries ahead of presidential elections later this year.

Fox on Monday announced the new debate, its latest in the primary season as the party chooses its candidate ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

In Argentina, President Mauricio Macri is stumping for his party's candidates ahead of August 13 primary elections, which precede October 22 legislative elections.

In order to affect public policy, the Republican Party must win general elections and not only primaries.»

While that may play well to some of the more extreme members of the Republican party in the primaries, political experts don't see such talk surviving in a general election campaign.

Zimbabwe's ruling party saw some major upsets and raucous bickering during its primaries this week ahead of general elections due by August.

Critics point out that the open system can be gamed, especially when an incumbent's backers flock to the other party's primary to support a weaker candidate, who then ends up as the other party's nominee against the incumbent in the general election.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

A GOP candidate placed second in BOTH parties primary election in New Hampshire.

Due to a voter - approved initiative that has the two highest primary vote - getters appearing on the general election ballot regardless of party, some November races for major state offices are contests between a leftwing Democrat and a radical Democrat.

He then went on challenging the party's leader, Pierluigi Bersani, in a hotly contested primary election for the premiership.

They accused the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, of compromise stating that majority of the members of the NWC had upheld the decision of the party's Appeal Committee to nullify the primary election and conduct a fresh one.

Clinton may be headed for another loss in a Democratic primary battle in West Virginia today, though she believes she has already locked down the party's nomination and is focused on the general election and Trump.

The state Conservative Party has given its nod to Elise Stefanik, one of two Republicans contenders (as of today) vying for the North Country House seat of retiring Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, ensuring her a ballot line in the November general election regardless of the outcome of the June GOP primary.

Cuomo had endorsed or offered to support two Republicans in 2012 who had voted in favor of the measure: Sen. Stephen Saland, who lost a three - way race, and Sen. Roy McDonald, who had retained the Independence Party line after losing his primary, but ultimately declined to compete in the general election.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

But the primary drivers are the success of Reagan, the galvanizing of people behind the Reagan model, and the wide divide between the two parties today and the nature of the primary election, which cuts the vote in half, and the «More true conservative» often has a clear path to office.

«INEC, the body charged with the responsibility of conducting elections in Nigeria, had stated its position on the crisis rocking the party before the parallel primary elections.

We have had great candidates lose election... I have read in some papers quoting family sources that he is not going to stand again but I have not heard any denial from him but he has indicated to us... that his primary focus now is how we will rebuild our party,» he added.

If you imagine the American presidential election as a single constituency (for the sake of ease), both parties put up a wide range of candidates who, through the primary process, voters finely tune to the two best options.

The committees are Election Strategy Committee, headed by Chief Mike Kwentoh; APGA Electoral Guidelines for Primary Election Committee, headed by Mr Ifeanyi Mbaeri and Party Membership Review Committee headed by Mr Ibrahim Carefor.

Dohney has been endorsed by the state Independence Party, which means he also has an assured spot on the general election ballot should he lose the GOP primary.

During a live interview with NY1's Erin Billups during our live statewide election coverage, Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long re-asserted that Rick Lazio will be the Conservative Party's nominee even if Lazio loses the GOP primary to Carl Paladino, although he says he's confident Lazio will be victorious against the Buffalo businessman.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

This would be a bigger deal in election years where one party has a contested primary and the other one doesn't (meaning there's not too much of a reason for people to go vote in one of them, so why not vote in the other?).

The result of all this is that FPTP bodies tend towards dual party systems after a while; the similar candidates fight it out in primaries so that in the real election, there's only two major choices and the effect of vote splitting is minimized.

Because this is a special election, there will be no primary and the candidates will be selected by the party leaders (or bosses, if you prefer).

«If the violence, abuse, intimidation and the use of the occults during the parties» primaries are anything to go by, then I think we are moving towards the very edge for Election 2016,» Dr Aning said.

A party selects their candidate for an election through an open primary election.

Electoral Act concerning the organization of party primaries, it was not even deemed to have participated in the April 11th 2015 governorship election in Taraba State in the eyes of the law.

The Usual Suspects moved quickly as news spread of Eric Cantor's sudden fall in Tuesday's primary election: my inbox filled fast with fundraising messages from the Democratic party committees, outside political funding groups, individual candidates and more.

Both candidates in the 40th state Senate district race — GOP Sen. Greg Ball and Democrat Justin Wagner — are hoping to win the Green Party line through an opportunity to ballot in Thursday's primary elections.

Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

Should be a special election to replace Latimer, the party nominees would be selected by committee members rather than in an open primary.

A battle between Rep. Dan Donovan and his GOP primary opponent, former Rep. Michael Grimm, over the Reform Party line has been referred by the state Board of Elections to federal prosecutors.

But Long, who received the state Conservative Party's unanimous endorsement yesterday, and so will be on the November general election ballot no matter what happens in the GOP primary (unless there's a post-primary deal, a la Paladino - Lazio 2010), was careful not to offer a full - throated endorsement of Ryan's proposal — or to say she would vote for it if she had the opportunity — saying she needs more time to review it.

Despite some Republican party activists asserting this is the most important presidential election since George Washington was elected (no, really), voter turnout in several cases was lower than in the 2008 Republican Primary.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

And of course the state party may be able to help you if there's no primary (if there is, it's even more important to make friends with other local Democrats who have run and won elections in your district — ask for their endorsement and their list).

Seeking to put to rest rumors that his support of Doug Hoffman might be wavering, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long sent a memo today to NY - 23 county leaders and committee members seeking to tie Hoffman's GOP primary opponent, Matt Doheny, to the woman he forced out of last year's special election, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.

But a confluence of factors have led to that relationship souring, including the election of new, more conservative senators and skepticism from liberals that Cuomo has not done enough to help the party take control of the chamber, the latter of which Nixon has repeatedly pointed to in the nascent days of the primary.

In a statement released by PCCC and DFA, Balter, who also has the Working Families and Women's Equality party lines, which could create a spoiler scenario in the general election, should she lose the June Democratic primary, criticized Katko for refusing to meet with her to talk about healthcare reform.

But remember that in many (not all) states, the Republican party uses the same winner - takes - all system which the actual presidential election uses (list of states by republican primary delegation system).

Speaking at a joint press conference alongside his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, Cameron said: «Knowing the gruelling nature of the primaries, what you have to go through to go on and represent your party in a general election — anyone who makes it through that deserves our respect.»

If the tenure of our party executives can be legally faulted, then it means that any nominations and primary elections that they may conduct, can also be faulted.

Staten Island Republican Rep. Daniel Donovan maintains that two men associated with his campaign never impersonated Board of Elections investigators when they questioned Conservative Party voters who had signed petitions for his GOP primary rival, Michael Grimm.

Last year, while attending a conference, we heard a speaker arguing that Giuseppe Civati won the primary election of the Italian Democratic Party, at least on Twitter.