Sentences with phrase «target seats campaigns»

As a Conservative, I find a «crumb of comfort» in knowing that the former leader of the LibDems has started funding our target seats campaigns.

The parties have been developing sophisticated target seats campaigns to allocate resources accordingly.

The book also gives an account of my involvement in the party's target seats campaign, and my view of David Cameron's decision to form a coalition government.

From December 2005 to September 2010, Lord Ashcroft was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for the target seats campaign and opinion research.

Yet if it is to convert these silver medals into seats, it has to work out why its target seat campaigns this year were a total failure.

Between December 2005 and September 2010, I was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, with special responsibility for the target seats campaign and opinion research.

This work can build on the experience of the 2010 target seats campaign, which delivered a net gain of 23 Tory seats over and above what would have been achieved with a uniform national swing.

Former Conservative party director of operations and head of the party «s target seats campaign.

Lord Ashcroft: «There is clear evidence that the Conservative Party's target seats campaign made a decisive difference to the outcome of the election.

Several other organisations are running targeted seat campaigns, including pro-EU Open Britain and the centre - left thinktank Compass.

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«I moved to the area right away and started campaigning as if it were a target seat.

But he remains shadow London minister and it is in this capacity that Khan is taking a central role in campaigning across Labour's 12 target seats in the city.

Taking all these factors together - regional variations, over-statement of the Labour vote and more vigorous campaigning in target seats - and we would expect a modest Conservative majority of 30 to 50.

Fresh off the second weekend of nationwide protests against President Donald Trump, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has released its initial list of Republican - held seats it plans to target in 2018.

Taking their lead from some of the best US campaigns, parties have been making extensive use of polling, local intelligence from voters, and additional useful information like consumer data, to produce microtargeted campaigns to raise turnout amongst specific groups in target seats.

Katko's seat has been targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a significant race this fall in a broader effort to regain majority control of the House of Representatives.

The Business Council of Australia, the lobby group representing the nation's largest companies, is now spending big on political campaigning and is targeting marginal seats.

North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat whose seat could likely be a top target for national Republicans in 2018, will soon announce whether she will pursue a political path that could take a re-election campaign out of the picture.

Reading this very personal account one concludes that without all the targeted campaigning, publicity and positive work done by Gavin Barwell, Labour might have taken the seat with a majority of 2 - 3,000.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Friday its latest round of candidates in «Red to Blue,» a program that targets open - seat races and districts held by Republicans.

It follows a week of controversy over Michael Ashcroft's targeted funding for campaigns in the swing seats likely to determine the outcome of the election.

His team of election strategists, led by Stephen Gilbert (see No 26), have funneled money into the 150 or so target seats and now reside in Conservative Campaign Headquarters itself.

So a relatively large and professional central and regional campaign team ensures direct mail, leaflets, staff and so on is all targeted on the marginal seats.

The suburban seat was targeted by New York City Democrats including Mayor Bill de Blasio, who funneled over $ 500,000 to Murphy's opponent through the use of straw donor committees using a loophole in New York State campaign finance law.

It is difficult to prove that the battlebus campaign was the factor that swung the last election in the Conservatives» favour, although it was specifically targeting marginal and swing seats, and clearly the Tories saw it as a key campaigning tool.

[10][11] He was also a target of the strategy led by Lord Ashcroft to concentrate resources on key marginal seats which saw # 50,000 donated to the Conservative campaign to unseat him.

The party has decided to scale back its campaign against the Lib Dems and instead aggressively target up to 20 more Labour seats.

Comstock, already a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee target for 2016, won the open seat to replace GOP Rep. Frank R. Wolf, her former boss, by 16 points in 2014.

Spending on direct mailings and poster campaigns are being scaled back to focus resources on a string of local campaigns in key seats as well as targeting voters online.

There will also be lots of candidates in target seats who fear the loss of their agent, area campaign manager or administrative staff.

Lord Ashcroft has been pouring funds into their 200 target seats and the party has # 10 million available to wage a nationwide campaign.

The Tottenham MP could have also mentioned that election campaigning across Labour's 12 target seats in the city was being overseen by a certain... Sadiq Khan!

Kerry McCarthy's Twitter activity has been the target of online campaign KerryOut, which has utilised Twitter and YouTube in their efforts to remove her from her seat in government.

He is currently working on a campaign by the group Searchlight to keep the British National party below the threshold they need to win the EU seat they are targeting in the north of England, and in the process discovering how rightwing organisations are also using social networks to mobilise people.

Clarke worked as director of the RoadTrip2015 and RoadTrip2020 campaigns, which involved bussing hundreds of young activists to Tory target seats across the country.

Stephen Gilbert, the man Lord Ashcroft picked for his target seats strategy and now the Prime Minister's Political Secretary, is another of the heroes of this campaign.

The level of sophistication behind Lord Ashcroft's «target seat operation» is revealed in an extensive article for Wired magazine, which includes the man once in charge of building up the Tories» new media campaign, Francis Maude, saying he «isn't sure» whether the technology will be ready in time for the election.

Democrats must target to hold Connectiuct, Washington (Rossi has alot of negatives from running 2 losing gubernatorial campaigns) and WV to make sure Manchin keeps that seat for them.

[21] According to the newspaper Lohud, «it has been a target of Republicans in expensive campaign battles in recent years and is expected to once again be viewed as a target seat by the state GOP.»

@tonyblairoffice donation of 100k to 106 target seats great boost to Labour campaign.

In New Mexico, the NRCC is targeting the 1st District seat being vacated by Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham at the end of the term and the 3rd District seat held by Democratic Congressional Campaign Chairman Ben Ray Luján.

Former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth of Drumlean has today given a stark assessment of the state of the Scottish Conservative Party in the wake of a general election campaign which saw the party fail to gain any of its targets seats.

Plaid also failed to gain any of its targets including Ynys Mon, where former leader Ieuan Wyn Jones was standing, as well Llanelli and Rhondda — a Welsh Assembly seat which party leader Leanne Wood took from Labour after a tough campaign in 2016.

The contributions represent a strong start for Brindisi, a state Assembly member from Utica, as he campaigns for a congressional seat targeted by both national political parties as one of their top priorities in 2018.

His hallmarks are strong message discipline and very targeted campaigning in key seats.

Those 10 all appear on a list of 59 targeted seats released last month by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Tiffany Trenner - Lyle is 19 years old and has been interning on the Conservative campaign in the key target seat of Hampstead and Kilburn since last October.

Combine a wider target list with the large number of Republican incumbents already heading into retirement (26 and counting) as well as the massive cash edge the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has over its GOP counterpart and a double - digit seat gain for Democrats starts to seem like a real possibility.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has announced the second round of candidates — including a New York City candidate — that it will be adding to its competitive «Red to Blue» program, targeting strong Democratic candidates vying for open seats in GOP - controlled districts.

Murphy also wanted to spend # 5,000 on campaigns in every Labour - held Scottish constituency at Holyrood and Westminster, as well as seats the party planned to target at future elections, and pledged a «radical change» in Labour's campaign strategy.