Sentences with phrase «vote for a fringe»

But if you vote for a fringe party who gets knocked out, your other preferences will be counted.

If there was any increase in the turnout for the European elections this time it came in the votes for fringe parties.

Not exact matches

Clearly my bias is showing, and there's obviously a lot more nuance to both partiest, the main issue though is that parties can be hijacked and have been on both sides which leaves the large majority of moderates voting for the lesser of two evils and hoping that the candidate that they vote for will drop the pandering they did to the fringe and go moderate.

Better for us all to know you can be bought by the fringe now so when you try and change your tune with higher political aspirations we have the proof you are not worthy of a vote.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

The Remain map tells us lots of fascinating things, but this post will focus on the Celtic fringe and the historical context for why people may have voted the way they did.

I've rarely known a conference when hours outside the hall are not as much filled with real policy debate and lobbying to win the votes on the floor, and fringe meetings for or against certain proposed policies, as exchanging campaign experiences, or party gossip.

And yet at the last general election, the near - fringe party status of the Tories was confirmed when less than 17 % of Scots voted for them.

At a fringe event, Fox, who returned to the cabinet as trade secretary under May, was applauded as he spoke with tears in his eyes about his pride in the UK for voting to leave the EU.

The day after Cuomo made his intentions perfectly clear by asking his email list to vote for him on his fake Women's Equality Party line, he referred to WFP as the «Working Short People» party and «fringe.»

This was the total vote for anti-EU, populist parties of the fringe right at the last European election in 2009 — 17 % for Ukip and 6 % for the BNP.

Asked point blank if his call to vote for him on his fake Women's Equality Party line was an attempt to harm the Working Families Party (it totally is), Andrew Cuomo responded that there's a lot of «fringe» parties out there.»

Leaders: The constituencies of the party leaders always attract attention — there is rarely any chance of them losing, the publicity of being party leader normally gives them a boost in their vote, but it's a good chance for upcoming young candidates to cut their teeth and the publicity normally attracts a wide variety of fringe candidates.

Mayoral spokesman Marc La Vorgna said all city agencies take similar cuts for fringe benefits, and the final amounts were clear in budget documents before the Council voted.

If too many people voted for the Liberals or all these fringe parties, you'd have a government which did not have the authority to take tough and necessary decisions all the time.

By voting in favor of this ban today, county legislators have aligned themselves with President Obama and Governor Cuomo's fringe, anti-business interests that have sabotaged New York's economy and jobs for our citizens.»

*... To refresh the raison d'être of the EPA & UN...... To move environmentalism from the fringes to the center of social concern...... To justify increased media coverage of environmental issues...... To give enviro - groups a powerful fund - raising and consciousness - raising tool...... and allow them access to the levers of national and international power...... To give activist & green parties a vote - getting wedge issue...... and a case - study justification for their habitual «hammer» (increased regulation and taxation)...... To provide at - a-loss «engagé / enragé» types with a new stick with which to bash the beastly bourgeoise...... To transfer wealth from the West to the South...... To fund alternative energy developers and researchers...

p.s. by the way Bob, the reason I pointed out that there were only 77 votes explicitly for Malcolm R was as a reassurance that the kind of psychopathology on display only appeals to a very limited, number of fringe dwellers.