Sentences with phrase «vote election primary»

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The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

After last week's Iowa caucuses, Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will have a hard act to follow after the excitement and controversy that came out of the first voting event of the 2016 presidential election cycle.

«They realized they could get access to the voting registration systems, which can have an impact on state elections and primaries.

Primary election votes, and whether they mobilized young voters, will be a better gauge of the movement's effects, she said.

The two top vote - getters in the June 5 primary will advance to a runoff election in November.

No, although I've voted Democratic in every election since 1976 — except for primaries in Texas where there's no point in voting Democratic — I can say that every candidate I've ever seen has made some effort to look like a man of faith.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

Even worse, separate primary elections are held in each state over six months, meaning states that vote early have far greater influence over the outcome as underperforming candidates drop out

At least 20 other states in the U.S. allow 17 - year - olds to vote in primaries, but Ohio's election chief had interpreted Ohio's laws in a way that kept 17 - year - old's presidential votes from counting.

A judge in Ohio ruled that 17 - year - olds who will turn 18 before the general election in the fall can vote in Ohio's primaries on Tuesday.

Early voting started a couple of days ago in Texas, and it sure makes it easy to vote for a primary election dated for May 29.

Due to a voter - approved initiative that has the two highest primary vote - getters appearing on the general election ballot regardless of party, some November races for major state offices are contests between a leftwing Democrat and a radical Democrat.

White Evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Trump in the general election, after propelling his campaign in the primaries.

In addition, as you might guess, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints who did not vote for Romney in the primary elections in 2008.

Forty - four of the 57 county boards of elections outside NYC reported voting machine problems on primary day.

Why can't we take a lead from the American system and have primary votes to select candidates for each coming election?

The 2004 elections saw the MP poll 15, 233 votes representing 52.1 % to outwit his contenders in the 2004 Parliamentary Primaries.

(b) A United States citizen who is 17 years of age, is a resident in this State, and will be at least 18 years of age at the time of the next general election may vote in any intervening primary or special election that occurs before the next general election.

Cuomo had endorsed or offered to support two Republicans in 2012 who had voted in favor of the measure: Sen. Stephen Saland, who lost a three - way race, and Sen. Roy McDonald, who had retained the Independence Party line after losing his primary, but ultimately declined to compete in the general election.

Skelos also did not suport Kevin Stocker who WON the Republican primary and lost the general election by 2,000 votes.

If passed, it would allow 17 year olds who will be 18 on the day of the next general election to vote in both primaries and special elections:

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

But the primary drivers are the success of Reagan, the galvanizing of people behind the Reagan model, and the wide divide between the two parties today and the nature of the primary election, which cuts the vote in half, and the «More true conservative» often has a clear path to office.

Betty Ann Canizio - Aqil, a Board of Elections chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote by the board's commissioners — the second BOE official to be suspended over New York's primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

Issuance of delegate tags to non-delegates and allowing the non-delegates to vote in the primary election.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

This would be a bigger deal in election years where one party has a contested primary and the other one doesn't (meaning there's not too much of a reason for people to go vote in one of them, so why not vote in the other?).

The result of all this is that FPTP bodies tend towards dual party systems after a while; the similar candidates fight it out in primaries so that in the real election, there's only two major choices and the effect of vote splitting is minimized.

It would mean that suddenly all of the perennially safe seats would be in play - to the extent that everyone who lives in them would get to express a meaningful vote for their next MP - if not on election day, then in the primary running up to it.

During the Congressional primary election in June, roughly 300 Republicans in the village of Ballston Spa in Saratoga County should have had a chance to vote in the primary race between Matt Doheny and Kellie Greene.

But Long, who received the state Conservative Party's unanimous endorsement yesterday, and so will be on the November general election ballot no matter what happens in the GOP primary (unless there's a post-primary deal, a la Paladino - Lazio 2010), was careful not to offer a full - throated endorsement of Ryan's proposal — or to say she would vote for it if she had the opportunity — saying she needs more time to review it.

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

The Tories get about 100 - 200 people to take part in their «primaries», and if the means of election involves going to a meeting to listen to speeches and vote, the numbers aren't feasibly going to be much higher than that.

While Biaggi voted in the general election's of 2016, 2014 and 2012, she did not vote in any of the Democratic primaries, often the where the real race takes place in New York since voter registration in the city is so overwhelmingly Democratic.

Similarly, this is why some states implement a caucus system for their primary elections, while other states prefer a straight majority vote primary system instead.

Cuomo chose to stay out of the primary, telling reporters, as a Westchester resident, he wouldn't vote in the election so he wasn't offering an endorsement.

For federal elections, data - driven campaigns get two data points on voting behavior every two years: whether someone voted in a primary (and which one) and whether they voted in the general election.

Nonetheless, as a tactical device it was highly successful - certainly many of the primary voters will now feel invested in the candidate and vote for her again at the general election.

What is so galling about his choice of Nov 2 for a special election is that voters in NY - 29 will go to the polls to vote in the primary elections in September.

In Nebraska's nonpartisan state legislature employs a top - two primary system in which the top two vote - getters in the primary face off in the general election.

In advance of the January 2018 meeting of the County Committee, we proposed a common sense reform to require a vote of the County Committee for choosing a candidate to fill a vacant public office seat, in the event that a primary election is unfeasible.

«One has to wonder why, now that there is enormous grassroots pressure to eliminate the IDC, the Democratic establishment wants to welcome them back rather than joining the movement to vote them out in primary elections,» says Andrew Jacobs of Lead Blue.

With 100 percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.

He faced five challengers in the Republican primary and received 45.4 percent of the vote, falling short of the majority required to avoid a runoff election.

«for the organized political party nominating by primary election that cast over one hundred thousand votes at the preceding general election.»

So with Messer out, the «primary vote» will be safe for Senator Stavisky putting S.J in a perpetual uphill climb: registering new voters and pulling them out on election day, which is not as easy as it sounds epecially when voters doubt a challenger's ability to trounce an incumbent of this magnitude.

In the event a primary election is unfeasible, the nomination of the Democratic candidate for all vacant public offices in all political subdivisions that include any part of Kings County should require a vote of the County Committee.

In Minnesota, the winner of a primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast for that office, even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

In a laborious and at times heated hearing Friday afternoon, Indiana's Election Commission voted not to uphold combined challenges to Rep. Todd Young's appearing on the GOP Senate primary ballot.