Sentences with phrase «voted for candidates other»

In 1968, people voted for candidates other than Lyndon Johnson in the early Democratic primaries.

The acting General Secretary is said to have campaigned and voted for a candidate other than the party's candidate in the 2016 elections.

He said, «It is about the party invoking a clause in the constitution in recognition of a decision he had made by ceasing his membership of the party by going public to say he voted for a candidate other than the candidate of the party, and also saying that he was advocating to his constituents to vote against the decision of the congress which is the highest body of the party.»

Not exact matches

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

In other words, over his two campaigns for president, more Americans will have actually physically voted for President Obama than for any other candidate in history.

Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders didn't directly comment on whether he favored Britain's vote to leave the EU, but in an interview with MSNBC's «Morning Joe,» Sanders said, «What worries me very much is the breaking down of international cooperation... On the other hand, I think what this vote is about is an indication that the global economy is not working for everybody.

If, for any reason, any of the nominees is not available as a candidate for director, the persons named as proxy holders will vote your proxy for such other candidate or candidates as may be nominated by the board of directors.

Harvey went on to use other candidates ages and health conditions as to why he was a better person to vote for such as one candidate being 65 and being diabetic.

In other words, shareholders would follow a common procedure to vote «for» or «against» a candidate, and only those candidates who receive majority support would serve as directors.

You vote for your Christian Obama or Bush who got us into this mess, or vote for one of the other Christian candidates, but in the end, none of them come close to having the experience needed to secure America's financial freedom.

But in instances when all the available candidates are pro-abortion, or when the pro-life candidate embraces other positions that are intrinsically evil, it might be permissible to vote for a pro-abortion candidate.

For instance, a 2014 Pew Research study found that Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist presidential candidate than any other survey category — even if they share that candidate's political vieFor instance, a 2014 Pew Research study found that Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist presidential candidate than any other survey category — even if they share that candidate's political viefor an atheist presidential candidate than any other survey category — even if they share that candidate's political views.

Additionally, 19 % of voters identified they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who had strong religious beliefs other than their own.

There were no other colors or flavors to vote for which means that this story is about as senseless as having Iowa as the first in the nation to choose candidates.

While 93 percent of those who supported other candidates will vote for Trump over Clinton, only 27 percent strongly support Trump:

This a strategy to take attention away from the other candidates, in the hopes that people do not vote for Ron Paul.

A brief history lesson - whenever 2 candidates go against each other in our country, about half vote for one candidate and about half for the other.

He also threw away early votes for the other candidate and kept his own.

Citizens should demand serious proposals in exchange for their votes, not just proofs of the other candidate's venality.

As in New York, a proposal for a local Islamic center has become a state - wide campaign issue in recent weeks in Tennessee, where certain Republican candidates in various primaries are trying to outdo each other for the fear vote by denouncing a recently approved expansion of an existing Islamic center in Murfreesboro.

I will never vote for a candidate who uses his religion and personal beliefs in their political office to then enforct it onto others.

It implies that there is no rational basis for voting for either candidate — that voting for one or the other is just the effect of how you have been (passively) formed by your environment — that there is no such thing as individual deliberation or political persuasion, just epistemic and behavioral determinism.

The weird thing to me is that you can say all this stuff, which you know is a bunch of lies, just in the hope that other people will believe them and vote for the candidate you prefer, and then you will go to church on Sunday without any sense of wrong - doing.

But his audience is those readers who are so trapped within a political subculture's echo chamber that they don't know anyone who will be voting for the other candidate.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

They're praying for a candidate who lies every day; evidences no core beliefs; has given no reason for us to vote for him other than it's allegedly «his time.»

These charges relate to him and the other presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam offering CFU officials $ 40,000 in return for their vote.

The Park Board, which voted unanimously for Brissa, chose him over six other candidates who interviewed after a nationwide search because of his effectiveness during the interim period and his communication skills, Wehrli said.

Sheldon and O`Malley, who were joined by two other Buffalo Grove officials in urging a delay in a vote on the zoning proposal, are candidates for Buffalo Grove village president.

The instant runoff system is considered a very good voting system when choosing between multiple options because it avoids the spoiler effect (e.g. two similar options stealing each other votes so a 3rd candidate who is actually less popular than them wins), doesn't discourage votes for options perceived as underdogs and leads to a compromise most people can agree to.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

@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).

I assume that under the existing system, the focus is on swing states, which contain moderate voters, which means convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to vote for the other candidate instead, or convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to get out and vote for them, or convincing moderate supporters of the opposing candidate to stay at home on election day.

Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and / or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are «natural born citizens» under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants» constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic.

If any delegate bound by these rules, state party rule or state law to vote for a presidential candidate at the national convention demonstrates support under Rule 40 for any person other than the candidate to whom he or she is bound, such support shall not be recognized.

Just not both from State X. On the other hand, electors from State Y and State Z are perfectly free to vote for two State X candidates.

Using other online tools such as email and Facebook and even offline tools like phone calls and text messages, they urged supporters to ask Susan to use her relationship with NYC Council Speaker (and expected candidate for NYC Mayor in 2013) Christine Quinn to allow the council to vote on paid sick days legislation.

(3) voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for a candidate for any one or more of such Federal offices.

The influential Erie County Democratic Town Chairs Association has unanimously called for ending the power of party leaders to enable candidates from other parties to run on their lines — otherwise known as fusion voting.

On the other hand, respondents who are certain they will vote may be enthusiastic about voting for a candidate, whilst others may be voting out of a sense of civic duty.

[28] Thus range voting may yield higher support for third party and independent candidates, unless those candidates become viable, than other common voting methods, creating what has been called the «nursery effect».

(There are two other candidates — the most viable a charismatic Harlem minister, Michael Walrond, who could siphon black votes from Rangel, or steal from Espaillat voters simply looking for a change.

(I can't speak for anyone else, but if Labour wants my vote on anything other than «least worst local candidate» basis, it's going to have to learn compassion)

[80] The three other defeated candidates for the Labour leadership all stood in the election, though Diane Abbott failed to win enough votes to gain a place.

However, other news this week suggests that maybe Republicans really don't know who votes for which candidate.

In the London election, roughly equal numbers of those voting for other candidates turned out to have a Labour or Tory preference - so those 250,000 voters got to count in the final outcome - though the result was unaffected by transfers.

Some of those questioned were asked to consider whether they would vote for Ukip as well as other parties, while candidates» names were not included - thus negating the incumbency factor typically enjoyed by Lib Dems.

Other people will vote for Party A to vote in their primary for the weaker candidate as they want to give Party B's candidate the better shot.

The German Green Party has never won over 11 percent of the national vote, yet for three decades has consistently won seats and promoted women's leadership by having a 50 - 50 rule for female / male candidates, prodding other major parties to nominate more women.

The system provides approximately proportional representation, enables votes to be cast for individual candidates rather than for parties, and — compared to first - past - the - post voting — reduces «wasted» votes (votes on sure losers or sure winners) by transferring them to other candidates.