Sentences with phrase «vote on policy rather»

Not exact matches

I would much rather have a person who believes in things that have evidence writing and / or voting on my fiscal policies then someone who believes in something due to faith and has no evidence.

But it appears that, depending on how the votes fall, the party could end up approaching the next General Election with a rather different policy platform to those upon which its previous electoral progress was built.

Amongst the population as a whole, we found that over half of Brits (52 %) feel that that the biggest influence on their vote is the values of the party, rather than hard policy issues (which polled at 27 %).

In 2013, the New York Public Interest Research Group complained to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that the party's efforts amounted to lobbying — the ads didn't urge people to vote for someone, but rather to support a pending policy action — and should be disclosed as such.

Possibly riding high on the relief — rather than out - and - out joy — of winning an important symbolic vote this morning when a motion was put to the conference hall on continuing the coalition's economic policies was carried, a debate where the Lib Dem leader himself summed up, he continued to push coalition strength and struggle over capitulating to his party's leftwing.

Possibly related to this, they have rather less say over the running of their party — they do not get a vote on policy, and only have a choice between two at leadership elections.