Sentences with phrase «public in the general election»

The poll is the first independent survey to be made public in the general election campaign.

The poll, the first independent survey to be made public in the general election campaign, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.

The poll is the second independent survey to be made public in the general election campaign.

Not exact matches

Sugar said: «If [politicians] lie, which results in massive decisions like leaving the European Union, or gaining votes in a general election, then this should be a criminal offence as it would be in a public company if I lied to my shareholders.»

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

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

Their tensions seeped into public view in February, when General McMaster said at a security conference in Munich that the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was beyond dispute.

Past Red Deer - North Liberal candidate Michael Dawe announced via email this week that he will «investigate what might be involved, and what might be possible, in creating cross partisan alliances in the next election, in order to ensure that the people who elect us come first, instead of a group of semi-anonymous backroom players, who are always trying to set the agenda, regardless of what the general public might feel.»

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

Each election cycle, the media and general public take voyeuristic pleasure in examining how candidates made money and the charities they supported before knowing that the national microscope would be on them.

Election returns and public - opinion studies indicate discontent with some serious imperfections in recent liberal political policies and programs; studies also show that the general population does not want to give up the values of such programs and still wants additional selected government services.

As for the end result of all of that enthusiasm, we already know the story: online fundraising allowed Barack Obama to opt out of the public campaign financing system and outspend John McCain by hundreds of millions of dollars in the general election.

It has chosen this moment to publish the details of its general election public information campaign, presumably in a bid to head off any concerns about the register.

Brand had argued that voting in general elections is a sign of tacit consent to the current system, which failed to represent the interests of the public.

«One thing about McDonnell and his tribe is that they're intellectually curious,» says Allen Simpson, public policy director at Barclays and chair of Labour In The City, who stood as Labour's candidate for Maidstone and the Weald in the general electioIn The City, who stood as Labour's candidate for Maidstone and the Weald in the general electioin the general election.

After a near 40 - year career in public office, state Sen. Kathy Marchione announced Wednesday she will not seek re-election in November and party leaders are searching for her replacement ahead of the November general election.

But, polls show that at least 40 % of the British public, many of whom voted Labour in the last general election, agree with me.

In the run up to the 1997 general election, Labour made courting the City and garnering public support from it an absolute priority.

... that would be Mark Green, the former public advocate and unsuccessful AG contender the former governor was widely speculated to prefer over the eventual primary and general election winner, Andrew Cuomo, in 2006.

Congratulating Theresa May on becoming Prime Minister, Huw Evans, Director General of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: «The appointment of our second woman Prime Minister is a positive day in British public life which will hopefully encourage many more women to stand for election to Parliament.

The unchecked exploitation of social media for false public information has raised serious concerns among security experts who fear it may be used to forment trouble in the heat of the 2016 general elections.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

«Where Labour needs to learn lessons is that twice now — and I say this with no personal animosity to either, I respect them both greatly, they're remarkable people — but twice in a row now we've gone into a general election campaign with leaders that we knew to be unpopular with the public, and people weren't prepared to speak out, and when they did they were attacked for disunity,» he says.

However, as in scenario 1 but not so starkly, it is hard (if not impossible) to imagine that the Liberal Democrats would walk out and force another general election because they could not secure greater cuts to public services.

As the public affairs industry continues to fight to improve its reputation, the battle was not helped helped by two of its number who were standing as Tory candidates in the 2017 general election.

The Senate Republicans» assumption, that two candidates in every general election would receive the maximum amount of public funds, does not jibe with the experience of New York City, where a multiple matching funds system is already in place.

Public Advocate Letitia James has filed papers with the state Board of Elections declaring her intention to run for attorney general in the fall.

In truth, the general election after this one may be the most critical, for if a new group of politicians come into Parliament, and the public, after five years, sense that little has changed, then public attitudes to politics and politicians may plummet still further.

Still, same - sex marriage and LGBT issues in general have not received much oxygen this election cycle, despite President Obama say this summer he now favored marriage rights for gay couples and a record number of gay and lesbian candidates running for public office.

Dr. Lee Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, passed along some insight as to what me might see in the general election match up between Carl Paladino and Andrew Cuomo.

My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.

The evidence from the General Election shows that the media in full voice can persuade a wavering public with decisive consequences.

«The second general elections... represent an opportunity for all the stakeholders to promote their vision regarding the future of the DRC in a peaceful and constructive way and to the Congolese people to exert their fundamental rights to make a choice regarding the conduct of public affairs for the coming years... I believe that the country deserves our support in this effort... I wish her [Mariya Nedelcheva] and her team all success in their independent assessment of these important elections».

She now has more than $ 5 million cash in her campaign war chest — which, when combined with public matching funds, is more than the $ 6.4 million candidates are allowed to spend during the primary — leaving her with $ 2.4 million for the general election or a potential run - off with a fellow Democrat.

She spent a year as parliamentary under secretary of state for public health and innovation before losing her Oxford West and Abingdon seat in the 2017 general election.

In the last general election, the Republican candidate for Public Advocate received about 14 % of the vote, and in the two prior elections Republicans did not even have a candidate on the balloIn the last general election, the Republican candidate for Public Advocate received about 14 % of the vote, and in the two prior elections Republicans did not even have a candidate on the balloin the two prior elections Republicans did not even have a candidate on the ballot.

He insisted on sticking to Darling's deficit reduction plan and argued that Labour should run for the next general election committed to leaving the current government's cuts to public services in place.

Republican sources have pitched Councilman Dan Halloran's chances in the general election, but there has been no public indication of his intentions to campaign for the seat thus far.

«As a national organization that closely monitors public affairs in the Latino community, in general, and the Dominican Community, in particular, we have witnessed disturbing allegations of voter suppression and lack of transparency in the 13th Congressional District election,» Dr. Maria Teresa Montilla, the organization's president, said.

They indeed started doing so in several areas, but public sector was not touched at all (most probably due to the short period before general elections).

A new poll by the Committee on Standards in Public Life has revealed that four in ten people are so disillusioned from politics that they might not vote at the next general election and that under 30's are particularly disenchanted.

«In the run up to the General Election the vitriol from the opponents of public services is intensifying.

With the reasonableness of the provincial lawyer that he is, Darling muses that if Brown had come clean with the British public about the depth of the economic crisis and the urgent need to cut spending in the coming years, this could have brought success at the 2010 general election.

On allegation by another ex-militant leader, Africanus Ukparasia, alias «General» Africa that he bombed pipelines, Tompolo said he alerted the public that some aggrieved All Progressives Congress, APC, members in Bayesla and Delta States wanted to destroy national assets in the Niger Delta and finger him because of the outcome of the Bayelsa State governorship election.

Speaking in public for the first time since his resignation as party leader a day after the general election, in which the Lib Dems lost 48 of their 56 MPs, Clegg said his successor deserved the party's «undivided unity and support».

This prediction takes account of both recent YouGov polling data and the lessons from history about how public opinion moves in the final weeks before general elections.

The party has been broadly united in public since the general election, though shaken over the weekend by Corbyn's sacking of shadow ministers who defied the party whip to vote in favour of an amendment to the Queen's speech brought by Chuka Umunna, committing to keeping the UK in the single market after Brexit.

In the same way, the opposition to boundary reform smacks of reaching for an excuse ahead of the next General Election, instead of doing the hard work to make an attractive offer to the voting public.

Obama opted out of taking public funds during the September to November general election period, becoming the first candidate for president to opt out of public financing since the system was created in the 1970s.

The former director of public prosecutions has only just become an MP after being elected in Frank Dobson's old seat of Holborn and St Pancras, in North London at the general election.