> I recently highlighted the large number of Labour and Lib Dem MPs in Tory
target seats not contesting their seats at the general election and in the last couple of weeks there have been further Labour departures announced here and here.
Not exact matches
Dd's room was next to ours Swaddle Blankets yes Crib yes, but you could put off the purchase several months SnuggleU Rocking chair / glider yes, at least somewhere to sit Activity gym yes Bouncer yes Bumbo Exersaucer yes Jumper no, but some babies love it Front Carrier yes, for shopping in stores without carts Stroller yes Wet wipe warmer Changing table yes, it keeps all the supplies in one spot Swing yes Lilly Padz Nursing pillow yes Milkies Nipple cream yes Nursing nightgown no, no I gave up and just wore a t - shirt to bed Bottle warmer Bottle dishwasher basket yes, it's great for anything small, like pump parts Bottle drying rack Highchair yes, we use the Fisher price space saver Booster
Seat for Meals yes Burp clothes yes, we just used Gerber diapers Baby bathtub yes, totally
not necessary though Nasal aspirator yes,
target one you can suck!
Not only do we carry carry this great Bob Builder Soft Potty
Seat, we carry Construction Theme Tinkle
Targets.
Don't forget that you can also recycle your old car
seat at
Target and save 20 % on a new one through April 30.
And if I take everybody to
Target, my older kids can push the stroller while I push the cart — and I don't have to fill up the whole cart with the car
seat.
Allow him to
target practice; this is a great way to teach him how
not to pee on the
seat.
I used the
Target one before my baby shower to help me register and now I'm going back to buy the things that are still on there... nail clippers, thermometer, baby tub soft liner, baby monitor (I'm getting one with two receivers so I can have one upstairs and one down) two car
seats, a light stroller frame to hold them in, and a few more
not - to - terribly exciting things like newborn diapers (work for up to eight pounds of baby) wipes, etc...
Seats would be won by convincing voters across the constituency,
not just
targeting action at a few swing voters.
Yesterday, Cuomo took square aim at incumbent Republican Marcellino, who was
not previously thought to be on the Democrats» top
target list, but thanks largely to the controversial candidacy of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, many more
seats are now believed to be in play.
To get an idea of how disastrous this election has been for the Conservatives, look at what has happened in the Labour held
seats that the Tories were
targeting yesterday but didn't win:
Well done, Sunder, for
not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with
targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal
seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...
In 2010, though the Conservatives did
not achieve the national vote share they wanted, the party's
targeting strategy meant it won 23 more Labour
seats and 9 more Liberal Democrat
seats than it would have done on a uniform swing.
Tony Blair's donation of # 106,000 to Labour this week — divided between candidates in the party's 106 designated
target seats — doesn't make him the party largest individual donor (there were seven individuals who gave more in 2014) but he is certainly the most controversial.
The party is asking the following rather pertinent question: «If the Conservatives can't beat us in the 11th top
target seat under these circumstances, when can they beat us?»
«Many immigrants who are already terrified of being deported and
targeted under this administration, will simply choose
not to participate, out of fear that the information they provide is being used to
target them,» said Meng during a press conference at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), where lawmakers and advocates warned that lack of immigrant participation would lead to inaccurate census data and could jeopardize New York's share of federal funding and Congressional
seats.
His 5th District
seat wouldn't normally be a top Democratic
target, but Democrats have spent millions trying to unseat the seven - term Republican this year.
Heavy on rhetoric but light on specifics, the statement from the party called for «
targeted political action» to ensure the 124 MPs who voted against Lords reform last night do
not keep their
seats in the next election.
What the Boundary Commission doesn't do is work to a specific
target for the number of
seats they must produce.
And, she doesn't duck the big question: yes, he obviously wants to be PM, but she has caught the current gossip about which
seat he is
targeting for his return.
But it was
not regarded as a
target seat for resources by CCHQ, and he only received help a few months before the election.
There has been an Ashcroft poll in one of their most viable
targets (Norwich South), but it showed Labour well ahead, so it is possible that the increase in Green support may
not translate into any extra
seats.
What, I suspect (I don't know), is more likely is that he'll support individual candidates in individual
seats, especially where those candidates have produced the kind of battleplans that he encouraged them to have when he ran the party's
target seats operation.
Oh and I don't suppose that after talk only 1 Labour MP in Scotland (yes I know it's silly but they do it after every By Election) we could have a list of SNP / PC
Target seats.
While a resurgent Sinn Fein is viewed as posing a significant threat to Labour on the left of the political spectum, the previous post relating to Sinn Fein
target constituencies did
not identify any constituency as being one where a Labour
seat would be lost on the basis of a 2 %, or less, swing to Sinn Fein, whereas three Sinn Fein
seats would be lost to Labour if there was a 2 %, or less, swing from Sinn Fein to Labour in the Cork East, Dublin Central and Sligo - North Leitrim constituencies.
Among those
seats listed above are a number of marginal and
target seats, which could potentially make all the difference between a party winning a decisive overall majority or
not.
If we are to
not only win the next election, but ensure a sustained period of electoral success, then a more medium term strategy is also needed, in addition to the current focus on today's
target seats.
A representative survey for CND, seen by the
NS, shows that Labour's parliamentary candidates - from traditionally safe
seats to unwinnable Conservative strongholds through to some of the most vulnerable of Labour's
target seats - are overwhelmingly against maintaining the nuclear deterrent when it comes up for renewal.
Asked about J4MB's plans to
target Tory
seats in the next election, Davis said: «I don't think any of my colleagues will ever feel threatened by the political party concerned.»
But Watford councillor, Rabi Martins, countered that the debate was «
not about money - it's about representation - what we as ethnic minority members are calling for is an equal playing field to get selected into
target seats».
Too many of the party's
seats are
not hitting their
target funding, one activist claims, because the incumbents have simply given up the ghost and there is no real effort to hold them.
Republican Congressman Chris Gibson is
not seeking another term, making his
seat a plum
target for both political parties.
You can see that marginals do behave a little differently sometimes — the Conservatives managed a better swing in their
target Labour marginals in 2010, Labour did better in those
seats where they had fresh incumbency in 2001 — but the differences aren't huge.
Not to mention all those
target seats.
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.
Research should
not be ignored, as it too often was (though
not by the
target seats team).
Nevada 3rd District: Democrats haven't been able to defeat Heck, but his open
seat should be a top takeover
target.
«That is higher than the national swing — 4.5 per cent in YouGov's latest Britain - wide poll — but
not enough to win every
target seat.
But that doesn't seem to have happened and a whole range of key
target seats — such as Chester, Halifax and Darlington — that the Conservatives hoped to gain have stayed Labour red as a result.
Alas, I was disappointed,
not even a mention of the
targeted marginal
seats funding.
Many local Labour figures view the safe
seat as a
target for their ambitions and had
not expected Sir Gerald to stand in 2015.
First elected to Congress in 1994, LoBiondo won re-election to his
seat last year by a 22 - point margin and was
not on the list of top
targets for Democrats in 2018.
Lord Ashcroft also released four new constituency polls, this time covering four UKIP
target seats (or at least, four where he had previously found them doing well, I'm
not sure whether Cannock Chase was ever a
seat they were targetting — certainly Ashcroft's poll found respondents reporting a lower level of UKIP activity there).
This further delay will mean that a candidate will
not have been in place for most of this year in a
seat which is 106th on the Conservative
target list and held by Labour minister Ian Austin with a notional majority of 4,106.
At the moment you're probably right that even if Con picked up every UKIP voter, it wouldn't affect the result in those most marginal
seats... but it would make a difference in
target seats further down the list, and consequently to Labour's majority / largest party prospects.
Carlisle has
not returned a Conservative MP since the 1959 general election, but the redrawn boundaries mean that John requires a swing of 6.7 % to overturn a notional Labour majority of 5,085 (based on the Rallings and Thrasher figures)- making it the
seat that would deliver a Tory majority of 32 if it and the 131
seats above it on the Tory
target list all fell to the Conservatives.
As was the case last year, UKIP are doing fantastically well at coming second in many places and that doesn't build the council base they need to build support in
target seats for the general election.
I am a bit worried now, do you think we can win in a non
target seat, if you throw the kitchen sink at it maybe the answer is yes, but did John expect to get picked as the Labour Candidate, I do
nt think he did.
But in their real
targets, the places they claim they intend to win parliamentary
seats, they simply haven't performed.
(A party insider countered Burns» claim in an interview, contending that part of the GOP strategy is to
target lower - level
seats and
not stoke Democratic turnout by running top - of - the - ticket candidates.)
Democrats haven't made this
seat a
target.