Sentences with phrase «than political campaigns»

«Running a public high school, they say, is more like running a fine restaurant than a political campaign, a foundation or a college.

The average 90s Pokemon fan site must have held more deliberate falsehoods than every political campaign put together!

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Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

Political action committees, or PACs, face different contribution regulations and file records of contributions with the FEC on a different schedule than presidential campaigns.

It should be clear by now to Andrew Forrest that his campaign for a political inquiry into the iron ore industry has done the company he runs, Fortescue Metals Group, more harm than good — and might even have stirred up trouble for another local billionaire, Gina Rinehart.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

Masses of data about each voter's political tendencies - gathered through public sources and through campaign contact - allowed Obama for America (OFA) to target voters more precisely than ever before.

It blames most of the positive coverage on the tendency to cover political campaigns like a horse race, rather than focusing on the issues.

It was Zuckerberg's job in the hearing to provide reassurance in the wake of the news that political data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested information from more than 87 million Facebook users to create voter profiles that were used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

But it is Wintour's role in promoting fashion and luxury goods manufacturing as an important US export business, coupled with her growing political fundraising acumen (according to the Obama campaign, she is a «top bundler», raising more than $ 500,000 for the Obama Victory Fund) that led to speculation she is eyeing a political position.

Not because the BC Liberals won — political opponents have to accept that some times the other team had a superior campaign than your own, more ideas, a more effective leader or just did a better job.

And the alt - right website Breitbart, which was formerly run by Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and has associated itself with Trump since he began his campaign, continually ascribes political failures to congressional leaders like Speaker of the House Paul Ryan rather than to Trump.

News that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by President Trump's 2016 election campaign, gained access to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users has weighed not only on the shares of Facebook but on Alphabet as well.

WASHINGTON — Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump's 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network's alerting users.

After retreating into political exile for a few months, the veteran political operator returned with a vengeance to lead the Wildrose election campaign that brought the party from the depths of the abyss to 21 MLAs, more than they won in 2012.

The smearing campaign should be directed at this political party rather than the NDP.

Donors who want to shape the political environment would do more good running these kinds of advertizing campaigns than giving Karl Rove money to intervene against the ghost of Christine O'Donnell and run ineffective general election ads.

Then ask yourself why churches spend money on billboards and political campaigns, rather than following the example of Jesus to help those in need.

His tax plans would be poisonous in the general election, he spouts off in ways that people who are not already his supporters find ludicrous, and his political organization more resembles a scheme to amass a post-election fundraising list than it does a campaign designed to win.

In a TED talk a few years ago, political scientist Erica Chenoweth talked about her research comparing nonviolent and violent campaigns, and she said that while she used to believe that violent resistance was more successful than nonviolent resistance, the data she collected blew her away and changed her mind forever.

In terms of the political system, the media, again reflecting the values held by society generally, give us politics by image, treating politicians and their campaigns as products to be sold rather than as people and ideas to be understood.

The political action committee for Abbott Laboratories, the maker of U.S. market leader Similac, spent more than $ 1.5 million in contributions to federal and congressional candidates during the last election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington - based watchdog of campaign contributions.

NOM wants to raise and spend more than $ 1,000 this fall through independent political committees that aim to bolster candidates but don't coordinate directly with their campaigns.

When Donald Trump sent a thunderbolt to the Democratic and Republican political establishment last Tuesday night, it was more than just a stunning political upset — it marked a fundamental shift in how political campaigns at every level will soon be fought and won.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said yesterday he will give away all contributions Harvey Weinstein made to his political campaigns, hours after defending his decision to donate less than half.

Many of the «third parties» being clamped down on in the bill are trade unions, who will each be restricted to spending no more than # 390,000 on political campaigning.

Other research in political psychology suggests that the no campaign has had a much easier job — those inclined to political conservatism are more likely to have a «negativity bias» in their response to environmental stimuli — conservatives have more of a physiological reaction to potential threats in the environment and subsequently devote more psychological resources towards dealing with them: conservatives, quite literately, see more things that could go wrong than liberals.

As anyone who's used the two sites knows, MySpace pages allow much more customization than Facebook profiles, meaning that MySpace offers great flexibility to a political campaign.

Astute observers of the digital political world will remember the furor over Change's pivot a year ago toward working with groups across the political spectrum (rather than just liberal / progressive or politically neutral campaigns), and here we see the new strategy in action.

[7] Given Gove's antipathy towards Europe, the fact that he claims that the decision to campaign for Brexit was «the most difficult decision of [his] political life» [8] perhaps means that it had more to do with political ambition than with political beliefs.

For political campaigns, this change means making room in television budgets for additional creative, so that media consultants could run a different ad aimed at persuadable swing voters than they send to likely base voters.

So, in the current indictments, there is nothing regarding «collusion» between the Trump campaign and Russia, or any other foreign interest, other than a foreign policy advisor seeking but not getting dirt on a political opponent from a foreign country, which isn't necessarily illegal but is politically quite damaging.

Paul Manafort, who was forced out as Trump's campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed that his consulting firm had received more than $ 17 million over two years from a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

Accepting the premise of the above, the truly urgent goal of digital campaigning becomes clear: political infrastructures that are able to scale to the point that they can build and manage an infinite number of genuine, one - to - one relationships can become infinitely more powerful than those who continue to maintain just a couple hundred relationships with rich and powerful people and try to persuade the rest.

Mr Cameron's first TV grilling of the campaign, by Sky News political editor Faisal Islam and then by a studio audience chaired by the queen of afternoon TV, Kay Burley, must have been more uncomfortable for the PM than he was expecting.

«We don't think we could be any more different than the Dean campaign,» said Hildebrand, a veteran political strategist.

They need to seek out and train individuals with an understanding of the permanent political campaign which seeks involvement and input rather than a central committee issuing orders and demanding perfect obedience.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

We'll now be told that economic arguments don't win political campaigns anymore and that Brexit is more about identity than it is about finances.

Television ad slots have been scarce in contested states during election seasons before, but the combination of big - money super-PACs and the expectation that both presidential campaigns will spend heavily seems to be driving political actors to reserve time much earlier than usual.

Through his campaign account and his political action committee, the Kerry campaign operation generated more than $ 10 million for various party committees and 179 candidates for the U.S. House, Senate, state and local offices in 42 states focusing on the midterm elections during the 2006 election cycle.

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

And Percoco, who has managed Cuomo's political campaigns for more than a decade and shared an office with Howe during Cuomo's 2014 re-election effort, received at least $ 50,000 in consulting fees from COR that year — something Cuomo has said he did not know.

His indictment comes more than two years after he confirmed while testifying in the corruption trial of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos that federal prosecutors were probing his role in county contracts that went to political campaign contributors.

He spent considerably less than his opponents (about $ 300,000) and was a pioneer in his using the Internet as a medium of reaching out to voters in a political campaign.

«When the limits for contributions to the parties are much higher than for candidates, contributions to the parties in effect become a pass - through to the candidates,» said Michael Malbin, a University at Albany political science professor and director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank.

Says one Democratic operative of Messina: «I hope he's better at political campaigns than at managing big, important pieces of legislation.»

A member of a government reform group says it's OK if New York Governor Andrew Cuomo uses his campaign coffers to finance this week's trip to Israel if the visit is for political, rather than government purposes.