Sentences with phrase «thinks of the next election»

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If you've grown resentful of the never - ending 2015 election campaign, and you feel like punishing the next candidate you see, here's a suggestion: Ask him or her whether he or she thinks the Bank of Canada should continue using the core inflation rate as its North Star.

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

But here's the thing: Even back in 2012 — when Mike Duffy was a household name as a former broadcaster and Harper was looking solid, solid, solid — 57 % of Canadians still thought he should quit before the next election.

After reading many comments about the election I think what I want most is to have the «United» put back into «United States of America» let's all stop fighting against each other and work together to make this country the best it can be regardless of who gets elected next month!

This holds whether we are thinking of how to grow more grain in the tropics, reduce the birth rate, control inflation, stimulate economic growth, get rid of tooth decay, provide better health care, find some way to turn garbage into a useful resource, reduce air pollution, win the next election, avoid war with Russia, develop human potential, extend the length of life, or find a cure for cancer.

Ed Fulton, political trading spokesman for Sporting Index, said: «After yet another enthralling Premier League season in England, timed nicely in the run up to a snap election next month, we thought it would be interesting to identify which manager would generate the most support if they were to run for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Agreement on the scale of the obstacles seems pretty clear, although I think there may be a much more hopeful outlook for enhanced progressive co-operation after the next election.

I think it's worth mentioning that the point of the 50 % + rule is to ensure that a party that wins the popular vote should not lose the next election due to gerrymandering.

There's a lot of general talk and buzz about Foursquare — we've discussed it at length on the NMS Blog (At SXSW Last Year's Next Big Thing Was This Years Actual Big Thing) but with Foursquare and Gowalla gaining more traction and greater acceptance by small and big businesses, it's time to start thinking about the 2010 and 2012 election cycles for geo - social.

With the general election - and another possible hung parliament - now due next year, both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are thinking more seriously about the idea of working with each other.

Politicians stand accused of being incapable of thinking beyond the next election, the next parliamentary session, or even the next 24 - hour news cycle.

And I am also unapologetic that I think of these things in terms of years not 18 months to the next election.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Labour will need thinking «outside the box» if it is to have a chance of remaining in government after the next election, but as a Labourite I'm not convinced this would work.

And now, one of his biggest potential rivals is thinking about running against him in the next mayoral election.

God I think some of you are still in the new labour dream world, would Labour win the next election if called tomorrow, it would be close but it would be hung.

A majority of members (53 per cent) think Labour is now on course to be in government in 2020, but if Corbyn was replaced only 42 per cent think Labour would win the next general election.

I think people will say in the next election» why vote for a Liberal Dem when you will get a Tory» If our leaders are pressurised into ditching this bill we may have some chance of a future.

Most dangerously of all, they think the coalition will prove so unpopular that Labour will win the next election almost by default, without needing to change.

Recent research by YouGov found that, though 72 % of Labour members support Jeremy Corbyn as leader, only 47 % think it's likely he can win the next general election.

«60 % of Tory members think pact with UKIP will help Tories win next election Main «Yesterday, the Conservative Party suffered its worst single electoral setback since Black Wednesday».

If Corbyn does lose then I think this will be down to how much people dislike Corbyn's leadership and his public perception rather than the ideas in this manifesto, but do you think that the more right - leaning aspects of the party will use this to attempt to sweep away all the Corbyn policies that are proposed in this manifesto in a bid to be seen as «more electable» when the next election comes around?

Mr Harris added: «I am raising the possibility - the very slim possibility of my candidacy - because there are ideas that I have that I think the party should at least be debating, because by the time the next Scottish Parliament elections come up in 2016, we need to know what type of party Scottish Labour will be.»»

«So I think after the next election, you will see a lot of the reforms happening because many of the governors will decide to do the same thing.

44 % of people told Populus they thought it was important for a political leader to have strong religious belief, 53 % disagreed (for the record, Tony Blair is known to be a practicing Christian who regularly attends church, Michael Howard attends a Liberal Synagogue on the High Holy feast days — not that it matters anyway, since neither of them will be leader of their respective parties by the time of the next election).

Given the probable timing of the next General Election, I thought it only fair to the constituency to come to a final decision over the summer months.

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.»

If the UK's top lobbyists thinks that Jeremy Corbyn has a chance of winning the next general election, they have an interesting way of showing it.

The disappointing ratings are reflected in a second ICM survey for the News of the World, in which 57 per cent of people said they held Mr Brown responsible for Britain's current pensions shortfall, while a further 44 per cent thought that the chancellor's handling of pensions would impede his chances of winning the next election if he becomes the next Labour leader as expected.

The leader of the frustrated unemployed nurses association said «we think it will be tragedy for Ghana for the Npp to win the next election because they have not even apologised to the nation for how they have destroyed the economy and the massive corruption going on in government.

«If it turns out when Nick Clegg hangs up his clogs as leader... whether that's directly after the next election — I doubt it — or in a few years» time — more likely — when he does that, of course there will be colleagues like myself and others, who will think about whether they want to stand for leader,» Davey speculated on LBC.

Coalition blues We're going to be going into the next election saying «coalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second election in 2010.

It is symptomatic of the lack of thought given to fixed - term parliaments that one had the spectacle in 2007 of people arguing with one breath that Gordon Brown's accession as Prime Minister necessitated a general election, and with the next that there should be a fixed term.

According to the statement: «President Muhammadu Buhari should perish the thought of his anointed candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi, wining the July 14 election and face the reality of his failed Presidency with a view to making amends before he is sent back to Daura next year.»

The next presidential election doesn't take place till 2020, but many voters are finding a way to let Trump know exactly what they think of him — by slamming him in the wallet.

Next year (in spring, I think) Greece will hold elections for the Presidency of the Republic.

The worry I have is the more we bang on about immigration — and it seems as though that is going to be one of the big themes of the next election — it resonates with what we understand people are concerned about, but the more we bang on about that as the Conservative Party, the more we will seem I fear to people in this country with brown skin, with black skin, people who've come from outside the UK, they will just think «God, Tories somehow see us as being second - class citizens».

Asked what they expect the result of the next election to be, 40 % expect the Conservatives to retain power (27 % outright and 13 % in a coalition), compared to 28 % who think Labour will win (21 % outright, and 7 % in coalition).

«We must get beyond the short - term thinking in Albany that never sees beyond the horizon of the next election,» the report says.

The next election will see a big turnout by Labour and Conservative supporters and where Liberal Democrat MP's do survive it will be solely due to tactical voting, UKIP could even make a breakthrough in a couple of seats but I think Labour will still win, so it will be more strongly toward a 2 party system but with the strongest 4th party performance in UK history.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Four - term city Councilor Pat Hogan said today he is thinking about running for election next November against Mayor Stephanie Miner and will make his decision after the first of the year.

When voters go into the polling booth at the next election they could be thinking of any number of things.

Asked about the Conservative party's chances of winning the next election, 57 % thought they were improving at the moment.

Of course the response was highly skewed by the loyalty of Conservative and Labour supporters — interesting that 12 per cent of those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than OsbornOf course the response was highly skewed by the loyalty of Conservative and Labour supporters — interesting that 12 per cent of those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osbornof Conservative and Labour supporters — interesting that 12 per cent of those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osbornof those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osbornof those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osborne.

«I believe that we're a brave country, we're a strong country, we're a country of great people, and the next election, I think we're going to see a tidal wave and I think you're going to see change.»

A Populus opinion poll published in The Times newspaper yesterday added further woe for Mr Brown, suggesting that 55 per cent of Labour voters thought the chances of success in the next election would improve if the prime minister stepped down.

It's clear that he thinks any chance of a deal with Labour was wrecked by Labour and he also says Ed Miliband shows no sign of wanting one before the next election.

If she loses her seat at the next general election, when the constituents get the chance to send a message on whether they think she's let them down, this could be the defining final moment of her parliamentary career.

According to Momentum, the festival will feature more than 160 hours of workshops, debates, live music, art exhibitions, children's activities, plays, and parties, including a «political games corner», interactive art exhibitions, pop up think tanks run by various groups including «Mums for Corbyn», a four day Hackathon tasked with building the tools needed to win the next election, workshops on how to make a viral video, a play telling the stories of striking miners and live streams of the Labour Party Conference.