Sentences with phrase «then split the vote»

Doheny doesn't yet have competition for the GOP nod, since the man he defeated in the primary last year, Doug Hoffman, (the Tea Party darling of the 2009 special election, who forced former Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava out of the race and then split the vote with her, costing the Republicans a seat they'd held for more than a century), hasn't yet decided whether to run.

Not exact matches

There would need to be a whole fierce debate first which would turn the whole community into a metaphorical state of civil war, then a vote, then miners have to agree, then there might be a coin - split, price would probably dive, and so on.

At the convention, Graziano split the baby, voting for Lazio in the first round of voting and then in favor of granting Levy the Wilson Pakula in the second.

(Obviously, this couldn't happen under a one - vote system, because then the party would split its votes and hand the election to its opponents.)

The Politicker then craftily attempted to devise a hypothetical, asking if a candidate were in the race simply to split the vote, should that be condemned?

If there were numerous parties (instead of two) and the vote was almost evenly split, then one party slightly ahead in every state could win.

Labour was badly split on the issue at that time so Wilson promised a referendum in order to control the dissenters, but then announced at the last minute that the minor concessions he had won from the European Commission justified a vote to stay in.

But since then Senators who cast their votes for gay marriage have been ousted from office, many some faced challenges from more conservative candidates that split the vote and enabled a Democrat to win.

But the fact that his victory seems pretty likely may actually encourage lots of moderate Americans to vote for him for President, but then ticket split further down the ballot.

Then you shouldn't have split your vote by supporting 3rd party candidates.

Valesky, then a public television executive and first - time candidate, won a three - way race in 2004 that he probably would have lost had Dadey not split the Republican vote.

Does anyone remember during the 2009 «coup» after Montserrat flipped back and it was 31 - 31 split Espada threatened to use his power as acting Lieutenant Governor to vote twice once as a senator and then once as a tie breaking vote?

They will be voted down and unless the Tories can be induced to split, then Labour faces a bleak future where it continually fails to set the agenda while the SNP (north of the border) and the Lib Dems (South of the border) collect the Remain votes.

Since then, he's signed an executive order to allow parolees to vote, pushed a study about marijuana legalization, announced initiatives to address the high maternity - mortality rate among black women and, after years of criticism, forced an end to a split among state Senate Democrats that kept Republicans in control of the chamber.

It wouldn't Last till Xmas then the Labour vote in England would collapse, the Labour party will implode and maybe split.

When I realized this, I got so excited that I started typing on my computer at 2 a.m. Maybe voting is like a shampoo commercial where a woman gets so enthralled with her shampoo that she tells two friends, and the screen splits into two, and then they each tell two friends, and the screen splits into four, and so on.

Then again, all these main contenders could split the top votes and something like «Room» could sneak in and win, which would be amazing.

All donations will be then split amongst partner charities, as voted for by members of the UK games industry later in the year.