Sentences with phrase «than the election results»

By the end of the day, I cared far more about my spouse's immediate condition than the election results, but the rest of the state focused more on two statewide upsets, one in the Republican primary for state superintendent: incumbent John Huppenthal was beaten soundly by Diane Douglas.

Not exact matches

«Prospects for renewed gains, other than a relief rally following the election results, would require somewhat larger wage increases and continued job growth as well as the maintenance of low inflation.»

Accurate crowd measurements can be more revealing than poll or election results, Curbed reports.

«If Trump wins, the Japanese are more freaked out than almost anyone in the region,» Bremmer told Business Insider in an interview as the election results were rolling out on Tuesday night.

They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump got more popular votes than Hillary Clinton.

On Wednesday he filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Montgomery, Ala., calling for a delay in certifying the results of the Dec. 12 Senate election which saw Democrat Doug Jones prevail over Moore by more than 20,000 votes.

Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

Certainly this is a conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an election result they disagree with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal ads, unintended consequences or not.

As Mueller digs into CA's political ties, and Facebook promises to restructure itself to better handle the maelstrom of problems that formed through its platform and factored into the election results, both companies are experiencing an intense amount of scrutiny, from more eyes than ever before.

As in Britain, and now the Canadian election, results were much more decisive than had been expected.

The announcement came less than 24 hours after the B.C. election results were finalized, with the two parties holding a majority of the seats committing to do anything in their power to stop the proposal.

Not only have mortgage rates jumped to more than four percent following the November election results, but the Federal Reserve recently opted to raise its rates for the second time in almost a decade.

As a result of this election, the information that we provide stockholders may be different than you might get from other public companies in which you hold equity.

But American Outdoor, whose stock price has been more than halved since the 2016 election, stressed that «the solution is not to take a politically motivated action» that «results in no increase in public safety.»

The Evangelicals stay home rather than rewarding the Republican party with their votes on Election Day as a result of throwing Akin to the wolves.

(CNN)- The number of Muslims in the United States is tiny - less than one in 100 Americans - but their votes could sway the results of the presidential election in November, a new study says.

If the election results are substantially different than what the alphabet national networks have been telling us, then we know Obama has promised change and delivered to us a socialist - totalitarian police state where the media and journalists are under the complete control and financing of the White House.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

My suspicion is that the way politics and religion have bound themselves to one another for many evangelicals has resulted in an immigration view that is more informed by «their guy in the Governor's mansion» or their candidate in an election than it is by their Bibles.

As other state chambers follow suit (and they will), they will speak much more loudly than ambiguous election results to the power brokers who determine the direction of the party.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

Sucking up aside, it's interesting to note that the most significant change to the way the election will be fought is a result of innovation by the old rather than new media.

He came third against John Major in the 1992 general election — a better result than his party's fifth - placed position in this contest.

In the run - up to the June elections many militias and civil society organizations are lambasting the interim government's mission to centralize authority rather than its lacklustre results at achieving that task.

«We are relying on the Supreme Court to play its role... other than that it will not augur well for all of us if people refuse to accept the results of an election; it has happened in several places in Africa and elsewhere,» he cautioned.

You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.

In short, whether east, west, north or south, Europeans are now finding themselves confronting each other rather than their common challenges, a situation which the European Union was supposed to bring to an end, and which the French election result will almost certainly aggravate.

Sorry, but it seems like the British Election Study data are just data from their studies (surveys and such), rather than the results of the elections.

Also, range voting satisfies the participation criterion, i.e. casting a sincere vote can never result in a worse election winner (from your point of view) than if you had simply abstained from voting.

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.

Obviously this is better than losing elections, but is this set of results good enough?

The local election results indicate more than ever that the antisemitism scandals under Corbyn are forcing Jews away from the Labour Party.

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

The result of the 2010 general election was closer than many people expected.

No wonder, then, that the north - east of England rejected the Conservatives almost as decisively as Scotland at the last election: less than 24 % voted Tory, while Labour — facing its second worst result since 1918 on a national level — won nearly 44 %.

In the 2012 election, for example, Democrats nationally won 1.4 million more votes than Republicans in US House races, but Republicans won control of the House by a 234 - 201 margin — a lopsided result that some blame on redistricting.

More impactfully, the election result might change, so the federal government recognizes a different winner than the state does.

If we look at the 2010 general election results, we can see that 116 MPs (from 649 excluding the speaker) got a higher vote share than the average Conservative leader, versus 48 for the Labour leader and 277 for the Liberal Democrat leader.

To believe the next election will result in anything other than a Tory victory, you have to believe the following three things.

Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4.5 %.

«Barring any surprises that we don't anticipate, there is no plausible result other than what happened last night,» said David Gugerty, Nassau's Democratic elections commissioner.

As a result, the coverage and discussion of the UK election across the region and beyond was more muted than in previous years.

The result of this background was that the rerun elections were worse than the Bayelsa bloodbath!

«If the November 8, 2016, election results in a one - vote majority in the House of Representatives, for example, a December 6 special congressional election in New York would take on far greater importance than the others,» argued Martins» primary challenger, Republican Philip Pidot of Glen Cove, through his filings in a federal appeals court Thursday.

If the errors are not systematic, than before a vote is set aside it must be shown that the errors could reasonably have resulted in changing the outcome of the election.

More of his colleagues joined the movement after Trump fired back at the congressman on Twitter, saying he should spend more time fixing his «crime - infested district» than «falsely complaining» about the election results.

The Conservatives in Wales have had their best General Election results for more than 30 years after gaining three seats.