Sentences with phrase «very last election»

Not exact matches

Last week we reduced risk - based asset exposure in anticipation of a very close presidential election.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

Mark Zuckerberg may have ditched the dark suit he wore during his congressional appearances last month, but the serious data - privacy and election - security issues raised during his testimony are still very much on his mind.

The most recent notable exception was Ken Kowalski, who retired before the last election after 33 years as a PC MLA (and his three decade long political career in provincial politics is very uncommon).

Susan, Alison Redford won the last election on promises she made that we very quickly learned were just pure lies.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

Reading those poets we have, by an election lasting generations, inducted into the canon, one finds very little that is sentimental.

There is a very ugly tone to the political discourse in USA beginning in the last election.

As someone who voted for one of the very few pro-life Democratic politicians left in my home state in the last election, I would love for there to be more openness among Democrats to the views of Evangelicals.

President Obama and the Republicans did not agree on very much over the last two years, but on the question of what this election was all about there was not an inch of daylight between them — at least when the campaign began.

But the hatred for our elected president was very evident during this last election.

A last - minute addition to the arsenal: the campaign's new media and tech teams managed to turn out a very efficient online polling place finder on a short deadline just in time for the general election, which they promoted via online ads, the email list and direct voter contact.

Third, it would in the circumstances of the last election, which even if untypical is necessarily the one most vivid in the recollection of the public, and very likely in the circumstances of the next one too, be unacceptably unfair to the Conservatives.

They have a history and she was very critical of Putin's last election, essentially turning Putin into a personal political enemy.

Harry Wilson has released what I believe is his first official policy statement since his failed bid for state comptroller last fall, or, at the very least his first of this election cycle, in response to the supercommittee's failure to reach a deficit reduction deal.

Firstly, encourage the creation of a very serious review into what went wrong for the party at the last election so that mistakes in the message and machine can be dealt with; secondly, encourage the party to create a policy platform ruthlessly focused on generating popularity across the country to raise the party's standing in the polls; and thirdly, secure enough political support that they can ideally walk into Downing Street uncontested.

Suddenly the stakes have become very high indeed for a Chancellor who delivered an amazing and unexpected election victory last year.

At the very least, the reports are leading to some Republican lawmakers to call on Sessions to step aside in the ongoing investigation of Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. election last year.

Trippi in particular mentioned being brought in to talk with the British Labour Party a couple of weeks before a major election in the last decade, and having to tell them that there was very little they could do online in the time they had remaining that would do much good.

«GrowPac supported Bob to victory during his NY - 9 special election last year, and we are very pleased to endorse Bob Turner for the United States Senate.»

Most contenders for the European elections in Slovenia waited until the very last moment to submit their candidate lists to the electoral commission.

The election of Donald Trump, after riding a similar class - based populist wave in the US, also suggests that one of the key mistakes made by established left parties in last 30 years was their neglect not only of the very idea of class but what also might be termed the living reality of «class traditionalism».

Lord Carlile told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: «Lord Rennard was absolutely very concerned personally not to do any possible damage to the party in the run - up to last week's local and European elections.

However, remember that DioGuardi got the Conservative Party's nod last week (in this very hotel), and so is assured a spot on Row D in the general election ballot.

Westminster by - election swings are way down on 2011 — the last proper comparator — and the local election results in May were just very, very poor indeed.

@JonathanReez To be clear, I specifically said that significant non-citizen voting could plausibly impact election outcomes in Florida if it took place at a high rate in the very last paragraph, even though it is very unlikely to have an impact anywhere else.

We also examine if the very public response of Parkland students (and other American teens) will have a long - lasting impact and whether any of this will affect the outcome of the 2018 midterm elections.

As the graph below illustrates, the distribution of voters by income is actually very similar for both parties, and around 40 % of Republican voters in the last election earned less than the median income, making them excellent candidates for inclusion among the 47 % who Romney claims pay no income tax.

[There is a] very strong Conservative case for reform — the whole thrust last election was moving power from the centre to the voters and the whole Conservative approach to having a smaller government, limited government and having better parliamentary control over executive.»

Considering the role these so called intellectuals played during the last general election and the very shameful role they have continued to play even in the face of full blown tyranny and state sponsored harassment of political opponents coupled with the unprecedented abysmal performance we are witnessing under a President they sold to Ghanaians, I'm reasonably convinced that they are a major part of our problem in this noble country.

To the amazement of President Koroma, the Ghanaian President, who all this while looked unconcerned as his appointees painted Mr Mahama in bad light, humiliating him and his family; said his predecessor «is a very good man and consummate democrat who placed his country's interest above his own interest by accepting results of the last election», a source revealed.

In 2015, he came to the University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus for NPP TESCON programme when I was NDC TEIN president and preached a very terrible message by asking Ghanaians to make sacrifices like the people of Ivory Coast did some years ago and that «a country smaller in size and population compared to Ghana, which had endured bloody dispute in their last election, resulting in the loss and displacing of thousands of lives, had, in a short period, turned around their fortunes.

But when the time comes, Gordon Brown will need to fight a very different Labour campaign from those of the last three elections.

and the BNP hadn't been standing last time so no one knows what vote they would have got last time - Council by elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - eElection or a Parliamentary By - electionelection.

But tactical voting of the old - fashioned, not very organised kind - backing not your preferred party, but the one most likely to keep out the candidate you don't want - has been critical in the last three elections.

The memo also says that the «astoundingly» low turnout in last week's Democratic primary for governor «demonstrates that there is very little intensity in this election among Democrats.»

Rather it seems to be the «others» who are gaining support — though at around 8 % their total is still very low compared to the 18 % minor parties got at the last mayoral election, albeit, that was probably partially to do with the election falling on the same day as the European elections and the consequential boost for UKIP.

If support for a tax rise is conditional upon people not understanding it very well it does pose the question of what would happen if they had it explained to them, or even «misexplained» to them (remember how a National Insurance rise was packaged up as a «Labour jobs tax» by the Tories before the last election?).

The Tories won just 8 % of the vote in the Blaydon seat at the last election but the quality of Glenn Hall's literature is very high.

Last fall when I was a first - time candidate in Westmoreland, even though I was running a very uphill battle, he came out to support me the night before the election, and every time I go to support him (like in the St. Patrick's Day parade) he asks about our town.

It's been a very tough week in our community and I know the election was the last thing on most people's minds.

«Already, we have several big politicians that joined after the last elections and this will provide a very good opportunity for them to register.

In an odd piece of timing, the woman who won Silver's seat in last month's special election, Democrat Alice Cancel, was attending her very first session as Capitol denizens followed the developments from the courtroom on Twitter.

Speaking on the book launch, the Turaki Adamawa said «It is amazing, and speaks volumes of his intellect, focus and dedication, that he found time, amidst all that was going on — merger negotiations, campaigns, elections, ministerial confirmation, and soon — to put together this book; a book that tries to chronicle and put on record the very difficult journey of a number of disparate but progressive and determined opposition political parties to come together in the interest of the country and our people to present a viable alternative to Nigerians in the last national elections.»

In fact, whatever else he may achieve in his pursuit of the presidency, the former Louisiana congressman and governor may be remembered as the last presidential candidate to ever receive federal matching funds; the very fact that he is the only candidate seeking and collecting those funds this year prima facie evidence that the public financing system for presidential elections is already functionally dead.

It has become necessary that the NDC changes the candidate it has been using in the last three elections because it is very clear that our candidate, Joseph Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo, who is the sitting Member of Parliament (MP) for the area has lost his popularity in the constituency.

Business convenor Bruce Crawford said: «This is a very strong poll rating for Scotland's government, with the SNP... being in a better position in the polls nine months out from the next Holyrood election than at the same stage before the last election.»

TP's very own Dan Hodges finally streaked down Whitehall today - three years after promising to do so if Ukip did well at the last election.

Actress Susan Sarandon doesn't seem to have any regrets over her staunch opposition to Hillary Clinton during last year's election, saying: «I did think she was very, very dangerous.

John Horam, Conservative MP for Orpington «Not everyone in the House may realise, as I did as his neighbour, that, in many ways, he was an old softie at heart.He was a very good neighbour to me and when I faced some difficulty in the last general election, he was the first to come and help out.»