Sentences with phrase «state elections like»

Not exact matches

Just looking at the presidential election, there are the obvious concerns, such as the loss of Rust Belt states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

In addition, this is an election that Republican candidate Donald Trump has claimed is «rigged,» and where he has urged his followers to go to «certain sections» of states like Pennsylvania and monitor the polls to make sure the elections are not stolen from him.

As a result, the United States» wealthiest are increasingly resembling President George H.W. Bush, who lost a presidential election in 1992 in part because he seemed to be out of touch with the realities of everyday life, like shopping in a supermarket.

President Barack Obama took the state in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, marking a political slide toward blue as demographics in Nevada started to look more like California.

«Given that she states her goal is accuracy and verification, that sounds like the language for an audit,» Ned Foley, the director of Election Law at Moritz at Ohio State's law school tells Business Insider.

By revitalizing the rust belt, Trump dramatically improves his chances in the 2020 elections, no matter how big the outcry from the deep blue states like New York and Californa.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

Congresswoman - elect Tulsi Gabbard, who will represent the state's second district, told CNN Monday that her election «shows the respect, diversity and love and aloha that people have in Hawaii that would allow for something like this to happen.»

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

He might have been their favorite candidate, but they knew he didn't have a chance, and, when Bob Dole began to look like a lost cause, they backed away from him and paid more attention to state and local elections.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

It's like calling a presidential election complete just by looking at the numbers from just one state.

«This is the largest amount of money ever concealed in an election,» says Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, as tobacco - style tactics by likes of PepsiCo and Nestle are revealed in Washington State's lawsuit against the Grocery Manufacturers Association over GMO labeling fight.

States like California, New York or Texas, which send large Congressional delegations, could easily afford switching to a proportional representation system leaving the personal elections only for Senators.

Edwards, like much of the rest of the state, is now awaiting word from his original running mate, Rick Lazio, as to whether he'll stay in the general election on the Conservative Party line.

I'd like to see non partisan elections in New York State or instant run - off voting at the general election.

and Stone is like the snake in the Garden of Eden seducing seducing and then destroying; Ognibene is a never was and never will be... The Republicans save Donovan are lost in this NY State election.

Mr President, the desperation so far exhibited by your person and your government in manipulating sensitive agencies of state like the judiciary and now the electoral commission to further your bid to win the 2020 election is totally against the spirit of democracy and peace bestowed by the NDC in conceding defeat at the Presidential election.

«By treating LLCs as individuals rather than artificial business entities like corporations or partnerships, the Board of Elections created a gaping hole at the heart of our state's legislatively enacted campaign finance system,» said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

I feel like we are all in a bit of a suspended state, waiting to see what happens with the elections next month.

He stated that while the NDC works to increase its seats from 20 to 25, «the leadership of the party should not take their eyes off seats like Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfrom, Ablekuma Central, Madina, Ningo Prampram and Adentan because these are seats that the NPP may cause an upset in the December election.»

Gerald Benjamin, a professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz and longtime Albany observer, said that issues like heroin abuse may be a driving force for some families and pockets of voters throughout the state, but it will be secondary to how the presidential election will affect down - ballot candidates.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some state lawmakers like Sen. Patrick Gallivan have seen the threat of tampering and voter fraud during elections, and are responding by proposing a bill that would have voters in New York State show photo ID before they cast their bastate lawmakers like Sen. Patrick Gallivan have seen the threat of tampering and voter fraud during elections, and are responding by proposing a bill that would have voters in New York State show photo ID before they cast their baState show photo ID before they cast their ballot.

It says something about the sad state of affairs in Albany when a newly elected governor has to barnstorm the state like a candidate on election eve to advance the same agenda that earned him a landslide victory only months before.

«My top priority is to help get New York's economy moving and bringing new jobs and industries to our state,» said Reyes,» Republicans understand that private sector experience like mine is invaluable with New York's current economic condition, and I urge every Republican voter to come out on Thursday, September 13th and help me win this critical election.»

The governor, who said there was nothing wrong with the legal system in Nigeria, added that «in recent times, politicians like President Buhari are the ones responsible for the rot in the judiciary because of their desperation to use the courts to foist one party state on Nigerians with conflicting judgments from election tribunals.»

Considering that Roy Moore, who's leading the polls for the election in Alabama, has been accused of being a sexual predator targeting underage women, and considering that the elected president of the USA, Donald Trump, is himself someone who has admitted to groping and spying on naked, underage models, and even said that he would like to have sex with his own daughter, my question is, to what extent is pedophilia an accepted sexual orientation in the United States?

Palladian Health, like most of the firms named in the subpoena that arrived at Buffalo City Hall in July, made political contributions to Brown over the years, according to financial reports filed with the state Board of Elections.

Like any election season for the state Senate and the battle for control of the chamber, there are a number of x-factors.

I understand that the parties are private organizations which are free to conduct their own elections however they like, but their elections are publicly - funded and state - administered.

ALBANY, N.Y. — With social media's influence on the 2016 presidential election still under review, a provision included in New York's state budget will require new disclosure for digital ads seen on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Cuts and tough choices, that is, like election year tax breaks that the state can't afford.

Both sides will benefit, Democrats would get Downstate (which in my humble opinion should be called the Commonwealth of New Amsterdam after the most progressive city in Europe and in reference to the city's history), a guaranteed two seats in the US Senate (+1 because Gillibrand did well Upstate in the last election, so 3 seats for the Democrats), guaranteed control of the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches, and the once in a lifetime opportunity to write a state constitution to their own liking (firearms rights applies only to military and police, right to choose for women, protections for LGBT New Yorkers, etc)

«The President should know that there is trouble; if things continue like this, in the next election, nobody will vote for him,» the cleric had stated.

«Enough to swing an election, even in a big state like New York.»

That being said... She will lose and I will gladly vote against her like I did in the last state Senate elections.

State election law allows former officeholders to retain their campaign treasuries and spend their funds on expenses like criminal defense.

It looked like Russo would also have a third party line — the Taxpayers line — but his petitions will likely be invalidated at a Sept. 16 meeting of the state election commissioners.

From now on, the electronic memory sticks from inside of voting machines will be used to calculate preliminary, election - night totals, just like every other county in the state.

Palladian Health, like most of the firms named in the subpoena that arrived at City Hall in July, made political contributions to Mayor Byron W. Brown over the years, according to financial reports filed with the New York State Board of Elections.

Those on the shortlist include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of progressives who has emerged as a blistering critic of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump; Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a well - liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a rising star in the Democratic Party.

State Board of Elections spokeswoman Cheryl Couser said there is no provision in law to shield the names from the public of high - profile voters like a prosecutor.

Another election like 1994, when Pataki, a state senator, came out of the woodwork to narrowly defeat a hugely unpopular Mario Cuomo, represents a stretch, but not an impossibility.

On his roles in politics, the former NSA who has been having running battles with the Department of State Security narrated how he supported the campaign aspiration of Muhammadu Buhari for Presidential elections in 2003, 2007 and 2011 noting that such respected Northern elements like Adamu Adamu, Bashir Kurfi, Sule Hamman, Wada Maida and Kabir Yusuf are among individuals privy to his active involvement.

Avella noted that he would like to see the state Board of Elections issue a voter guide, similar to what the city puts out, in order to better inform residents about candidates.

Silver's bill would require all committees to register with the state Board of Elections and file regular disclosure reports — just like PACs and regular candidate committees do.

Alternatively, I do not think the Republicans are dead in NYS, instead I think New York's GOP must learn to pick their spots as they have in state's like Massachusetts (Romney and Baker) and Maryland (Hogan) with pitch perfect gubernatorial candidates, capable of at once fostering and pouncing upon Democratic divisions while consolidating support from independent voters, in order to win gubernatorial elections.

She noted that she was speaking in the home state of the Seneca Falls Convention, and argued that women's rights, like civil rights and unionization rights, are ultimately «what this election is about.»

It sounds like a stupid move to me, where is the state saving money there??? I know where to cast my governor vote next election day that is for sure