Sentences with phrase «up to the election focused»

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Through 2015 Facebook had actually been ramping up its internal focus on elections as a revenue generating opportunity — growing the headcount of staff working directly with politicians to encourage them to use its platform and tools for campaigning.

As some of our readers know by now, IMANI is, in keeping with past tradition, strongly focused exactly on this issue: filtering out partisan and self - serving opinions and claims from solid facts in the promises and policy proposals being made by politicians in the lead up to the 2016 elections.

With his election in November to a fourth term, Buffalo's chief executive, Byron Brown, has set himself up for high expectations from a community that needs strong and focused leadership.

As we enter the crunch time for 2006 primary elections and as the 2006 generals start to heat up, there are probably a lot of campaigns that are really only now getting started with focused email campaigns.

Next up in this series, Josh and Tyler look at online advertising late in an election, when the focus shifts to persuasion.

Cuomo reiterated his support of «progressive politics», stressing that his calls for fiscal conservatism don't mean he is no longer a liberal on social issues like abortion rights (which is shaping up to be a big focus of the Schneiderman - Donovan general election battle).

Speaking after the ballot count, Labour leader Ed Miliband explained that his party's strategy in the run up to next year's general election is to «focus on the economy and standards of living».

Reform groups are focusing attention on Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti corruption commission's recommendations to beef up the anemic State Board of Elections but say they have not given up hope of public campaign financing for state wide races.

Tasini noted he had called during the campaign for Rangel to give up his re-election bid and focus on his defense for fear of bringing other Democrats down with him in the general election.

Reform groups are focusing attention on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission's recommendations to beef up the anemic State Board of Elections but say they have not given up hope of public campaign financing for state wide races.

In the lead up to the 2018 midterm elections, many Democrats are focused on embracing the #MeToo movement and therefore see former President Bill Clinton as «too toxic» to campaign for Democratic candidates.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

Although more focused on the General Elections, they seemed to help people make their mind up.

While not close to the 65 Queens candidates who ran for Council when the entire delegation was term limited, we see real races shaping up in a handful of seats where no incumbent is standing for election and one challenge to an incumbent that is certainly worth focus and ink.

Listen up: Hillary Clinton needs to turn her focus to the general election.

So it would have been no surprise had the PM come up with this boilerplate response, straight out of the politicians» communications handbook: «I am 100 % focussed on this general election and winning a Conservative majority and what we want to do in a second term» etc etc..

As part of our Focus on Education reporting, WBFO, WNED - TV and The Buffalo News teamed up to record interviews with more than a dozen candidates running for the May 6 election.

Up to July 2015, he worked in Parliament through the All Party Parliamentary Group APPG for East Asian Business which he chaired, the All Party Parliamentary China Group [32] of which he was the vice-Chair (special focus on Hong Kong), and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Trade and Investment [33] of which he was treasurer to promote better trade and political and cultural links between the UK and East Asia and work to encourage the next generation of East Asians and other diaspora to develop the leadership skills to play a greater role in public life, in society, and business, and in harnessing the resources that East Asians have globally and locally both financial and non-financial to address global and local problems today.These groups were discontinued after the May 2015 election.

The one time in the run - up to the 2005 election that I was asked by the party to run focus groups with the less well - off, their view of Labour was so devastating that the decision was taken never to talk to them again.

I am looking forward to seeing justice done in the up to 10 other related disciplinary cases involving police officers so that I can focus all my energy on delivering for my constituents and help David Cameron win a Conservative majority at the 2015 election.»

Up until this year I was a member of a serious left - of - centre political party whose focus was to win elections so that we could improve the lives of millions of ordinary people.

Ferrara published his findings of widespread Twitter bots in the run - up to the election in First Monday, a computer science journal focused on the internet.

Though he lost a close race for the governorship to incumbent Lawton Chiles in 1994 (the same year brother George won the Texas gubernatorial bid), Bush set up a nonprofit, the Foundation for Florida's Future, which would keep him focused on public policy and education until the next election, in 1998, which he won handily.

For Release Thursday, October 18, 2012 Media Contact Van Schoales, CEO, A + Denver [phone] [email protected] A + Denver taskforce calls on community to step up arts education for kids Bond election offers opportunity to re-envision arts education in DPS Denver — A + Denver, an advocacy group that has historically focused on student achievement in Denver...

As we gear up for the next state election cycle, Nevada Succeeds is committed to ensuring that the provision of a high - quality education for all of our students is a central focus for candidates.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's team of content reviewers focused mainly on violence and pornography, making it «incredibly easy» for Russian trolls to fly under the radar with their fake news, according to a former Facebook content monitor who worked at the social network for eight months in the lead - up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The focus on health in the lead up to the 2 July federal election has become bogged down in the politics of whether or not Labor is running an unwarranted scare campaign on Medicare privatisation, and whether or not the Coalition can be trusted this time around to keep its promises on health.

First I just want to talk up how awesome a concept #IHMayDay16 is, a full day to focus on Indigenous Health, in the lead up to the election!

Because 2012 election hype is already strong nationwide, members may wonder if this initiative is gearing up to focus on it.

For the march report, TREB focused solely on the YoY losses and it is ramping up its election time rhetoric regarding the responsibility of government to foster a healthy housing market.