Sentences with phrase «up to the elections saw»

The days leading up to the elections saw the resignations of several high - profile cabinet ministers.

Not exact matches

The Times saw its digital subscriptions boosted by 41,000 within one week of election day and added more than 276,000 new sign - ups to its paywall plan in Q4 2016 — that's more additions than in the whole of 2013 and 2014 combined.

Now that you've seen what's happened to the stock market, up 40 percent since Election Day, how businesses are growing confidence, are you happy with the outcome?»

«Waco» was in development before topics like gun control and white supremacy saw high - profile coverage leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

With midterm elections coming up, Republicans might not want to be seen to be opposing net neutrality, he said.

Once volume starts to rev up, we may see the sweet spot of the historically strong mid-term election year rally, which typically starts in late September, so I remain confident that we'll ride through this market «hurricane season» into a stronger fourth quarter.

------------------------------------------------------ Matthew Fassler of Goldman Sachs [7]------------------------------------------------------ I guess a brief follow up just to get clarity, are you getting any comfort from the build that you've seen since business presumably around the election.

The run - up to the election has seen confidence in the Chilean market balloon as Piñera's victory has been all but foretold.

With an election approaching in 2016, the U.S. administration sees a window of opportunity to finalize and pass TPP before campaign season heats up.

a favor and just make a massive write - in campaign for «god»... let's actually elect «god» to office, and see who shows up come Inauguration Day if «god» wins the election?

Reuters: Israel considers ban for far - right candidate over gaffe on blowing up shrine An Israeli panel weighed a request on Sunday to disqualify a candidate of a powerful far - right party from running in a January 22 election for alluding in a speech to the possibility of seeing one of Islam's holiest shrines in Jerusalem «blown up.»

This election has held up a mirror to our nation, and what we saw wasn't pretty.

To an extent rarely seen in the history of the nation, the content and meaning of the Constitution appear to be up for a vote in the next presidential electioTo an extent rarely seen in the history of the nation, the content and meaning of the Constitution appear to be up for a vote in the next presidential electioto be up for a vote in the next presidential election.

There are mid-term elections coming up and a decent woman is smart enough to see what crap like this is... I'd say that you should look forward to a woman president who is democrat... this is going to kill the republitards.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

No matter who ends up being elected, it is great to see so many barriers in regards to race and gender, finally being broken down during this election.

Between now and election day, Tinley Park residents can expect to see the model popping up all over town.

Were an individual Gloucestershire voter given up to seven votes to distribute as s / he saw fit, it is of course impossible to know whether this would lead to seven Conservative MPs returned (as was the case in the 2015 election), or a mixture of parties (in 2005 the seats were split three Conservative, two Labour and two Liberal Democrat).

In the lead up to the 1979 general election, a struggle within the Danquah - Dombo - Busia tradition saw the breakaway and formation of the United National Convention (UNC) headed by Paa Willie, Ofori - Atta.

Larkin represents a Democratic friendly area in the Hudson Valley that could see turn out drive up among the party due to the presidential election.

A general election now would probably see the Tory majority chipped away at, but Labour only able to govern in coalition with other progressive parties, in such an unstable formulation that it couldn't hold for long, if they could even set it up in the first place.

And despite her apparently inept campaign Coakley may yet pull off a victory, since like most special elections tomorrow is likely to see a relatively low voter turnout, giving the edge to a candidate able to persuade his or her supporters to actually show up and cast a ballot.

Since the cookies can last 18 months, I may be doomed to see tea party advertisements right up through the 2012 election (or until I clear my cookies.)

But seriously, I for one, would be delighted to see some left of centre political party rising up once the aberration that is New Stassi is eliminated at the General Election.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

Perhaps the Social Liberal Forum should see this as an opportunity to defeat the leadership and ensure we have Social Liberal Policies in the run up to the next general election.

opinion polls can change), it would be a disastrous move for the Lib Dems I'd have thought, to be seen propping up a Labour Party which had lost its majority in a General Election.

Six years after receiving the most popular votes in any senatorial election in U.S. history, the five - term Democrat has seen sliding favorability ratings as liberals in the Golden State hammer her for not being tough enough standing up to President Donald Trump.

It's not particularly surprising to see that seniors made up a disproportionate share of the turnout last year, as they historically represent a large share of the vote in low turnout elections, such as primary and special elections.

In the run - up to the elections, many of Labour's initiatives were seen either as gimmicks or wide of the mark.

We shall see him on the campaign trail in the run - up to this month's local and European elections.

And if you follow this link and sign in via Facebook, you can see just how much: Veeeeeery clever, and a good extension of the personalized video idea that MoveOn.org (one of the sponsors of the site, along with Brave New Films and SEIU) used a few times in the run - up to the 2008 election and...

Dr. Lee Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, passed along some insight as to what me might see in the general election match up between Carl Paladino and Andrew Cuomo.

The run up to the local elections on 4 May saw a clarification in Theresa May's election strategy — or more accurately Lynton Crosby's strategy: a pitch to mop up the UKIP vote by rebranding the Tories as the anti-European, «hard Brexit» and anti-immigration party.

Minority Verdict follows Lord Ashcroft's influential analysis of the 2005 election campaign, Smell the Coffee: A wake - up call for the Conservative Party, which called for the party to modernise and re-engage with voters having come to be seen as untrustworthy and out of touch.

The Dogs Trust «Doggy Manifesto» sets out our proposals to the political parties for commitments we would like to see them make in the run up to the next General Election.

His appointment to a politically crucial job in the run - up to the next UK General Election is being seen as a promotion from his previous rôle as a member of the Shadow Justice team.

«It will be interesting to see how a mayor elected with a huge margin of a small turnout fares with up - for - election state officials.»

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.

Conservative MP and Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, who once lost in a by - election to the Liberal Democrats, sees what his coalition colleagues are up to at their party conference in Liverpool.

This will undoubtedly cheer up Lib Dem party members who have seen their poll ratings plummet since the election and now regularly come forth to Nigel Farage's UKIP.

They will still be a major force at Westminster, unlike Ukip and the SNP, which will have seen their fortunes fade in the weeks leading up to the election.

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?

Reno, Nevada (CNN)- Some two weeks before the midterm elections, Tea Party activists are set to fire up their army of supporters to forge ahead in, what they see as, a political war.

The ConHome coach trip to the Norwich North by - election saw a party of 29 of us meeting yesterday at 9.30 am at St James's Park tube in order to make the two and a half hour journey up to Norfolk, during which we watched the first two hours of the classic drama, House of Cards.

Up to 150 Labour MPs face defeat if the new Tory leader calls a snap general election, according to research seen by PoliticsHome.

Further eroding public trust in Congress were a series of scandals that saw Democratic Representatives Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters, as well as Republican Senator John Ensign, all accused of unethical and / or illegal conduct in the months leading up to the 2010 election.

«Top Cat» Owen is the only member of the current OMRLP line up ever to poll over 1,000 votes (he polled 2,859 votes in the 1994 European elections), and his dip in fortunes despite a previously strong local following appears to have killed the last realistic chance the party ever had of seeing a saved deposit.

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung has opened himself up to stinging attacks following his initiation of peace talks over an already resolved case between the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick and proprietor of Giwa FC Christopher Giwa over the August 30 NFF Elections that saw the emergence of Pinnick as the President of the NFF.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,