Sentences with phrase «voted out of the elections»

The bill was voted out of the elections committee and is currently before the Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions, which does not meet regularly.

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We didn't translate that to being down double — we knew we were going to have a big Election Day, knew Republicans were going to turn out, because we had a state poll that showed 62 % of Republicans were going to vote on Election Day.

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.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

The chart assumes that Marine Le Pen will reach the second round of voting, and looks at the economic scenarios that could play out, as well as examining the political fallout of the election.

The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at Real Matters» Annual General Meeting of common shareholders held today in Toronto, Ontario are set out below:

He knows that as soon as there is an election, he'll be voted out of office.

He might be able to make a new Conservative Party out of the failures of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and he might be able to get the folks who don't want to vote Wildrosie to vote for his party candidates at the next provincial election.

The newspapers chirped out propaganda on demand before the election and now are pointing out that we have to live with the sorry business of voting NDP until the next provincial election.

Businessman Kevin O'Leary says he is pulling out of the campaign to succeed Stephen Harper because he is not convinced he could carry enough votes in Quebec to beat Justin Trudeau in the 2019 election.

The hashtag #DeleteFacebook is trending since the news broke out that data of 50 million users were harvested by the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica during 2016 US presidential elections in a bid to manipulate votes.

It's funny, I was chatting with god the other night, you know about girls and money and basically life in general, and then from out of no where god was like, «Yo, Chuckles, I have a job for you, it's very important that you do it, I need you to go and vote this upcoming election and I need you to vote for Rick Perry, he seems a little crazy, but don't worry, he's all good in my book».

And rightly so, for without a great deal of willingness from social conservatives to come out and vote in the national election, the Republican nominee has no chance of winning in November against the Democrats.

I can not WAIT till election day... so I can watch all those Christian fundamentalist, redneck, anti-Obamacare, anti-science Tea Party fanatics try and wiggle their way out of voting for a pro-Obamacare, Mormon, flip - floping, Liberal Republican Romney.

There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.

Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party carried the election on Sunday with 38 % of the vote, reinstating a government party that had ruled Mexico for 71 years, but had been voted out in 2000.

It was the second voting delay in four out of Kenya's 47 counties, highlighting the bitter divisions and political uncertainty that have intensified after Thursday's repeat presidential election, which was boycotted by supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga.

The GOP has not won the popular vote in 5 out of the last 6 presidential elections; that selection would guarantee 6 out of 7.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

He came in second to Pope Benedict XVI in the last election and pulled out of the vote voluntarily, because he thought, «We shouldn't be doing this, vote after vote.»

Initial reports suggest that four out of five white evangelical Christians voted for Trump, continuing their pattern of support for the Republican candidate in US presidential elections since the 1980s.

Though Republicans have been carrying their vote in national elections of late, when factoring out working class Southern evangelicals the numbers change significantly.

She describes how Indian voters angered by the BJP's pro-rich economic policies and anti-Muslim violence voted it out of power in general elections in 2004.

As The Nation pointed out after the election, «One out of every four Trump voters voted with the Supreme Court in mind, and it's a safe bet that a very substantial number of those see the Supreme Court through the lens of abortion politics... If you can rally voters around abortion, few other issues matter.»

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.

The clerk is taking a roll - call vote for the election of the speaker of the House, and when he calls out, «Bunning,» the distinguished gentleman sitting on the Republican side of the House says, «Michel,» just loud enough to be heard above the din.

An election in 2015 to try to name an official successor had to be thrown out when anti-corruption reformist Marcelo Tinelli and then - interim president Luis Segura evenly spit 76 registered votes, despite there only being 75 registered voting presidents of Argentine clubs.

We are four days away from Election day, and with that, a number of celebrities have come together star in an anti-Trump parody to urge people to get out and vote — and not for the «orange talking STD» as they so call Trump in the song.

A similar, more expensive $ 48 million referendum failed in the March election with 52.63 percent of votes rejecting it out of 12,189 votes cast.

4 May 2015: If you will be voting in the UK General Election on 7 May, check out the infant feeding policies of the different parties, and contact those that have still not answered.

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

Having made an apparently copper - bottomed campaign pledge to appeal to the student vote, many LibDem MPs have found out the hard way that headline - grabbing promises in the heat of an election campaign can come back to bite you hard if they are impossible to credibly support in office.

It's a familiar coalition for the Senate Democrats, with many of those groups contributing not just financial resources, but also a get - out - the - vote effort on Election Day that aided Democratic candidates.

In the 1910 elections, an unprecedented 87 per cent of the population turned out to vote.

@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 have a live and current understanding and experience of the changes in the party, both from the two leadership elections and the general election where I was out on the doorstep with all of these new members,» says McKeever, who missed out on the Commons by just 1159 votes.

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.

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

When I asked James Cleverly — the Tory MP for Braintree — about it for the Guardian's Politics Weekly podcast, he described bumping into a woman coming out of a polling station on election day, looking sheepish as she admitted she had not voted for him.

This election year has been a spectacle, an extended sporting event, an obsession, a flat - out, dopamine - bursting ADDICTION for millions of people in this country and even abroad, and we're all likely to suffer some kind of king - hell letdown over the few weeks after the vote regardless of who wins.

Hi folks, Quick Hits is off this week, but our friends over at the Campaign Workshop have posted a nice alternative to our usual Friday reading list: they've pulled together links to some of the best Get Out The Vote guides online, from sources like the New Organizing Institute, Campaigns & Elections and our own Epolitics.com.

In the Scottish Parliament election, 2016, SNP saw its constituency vote increase slightly (from 45.4 % to 46.5 %) and its regional vote decrease slightly (from 44.0 % to 41.7 %), leading to a decrease from 69 to 63 seats (out of 129) in the additional member system.

And the Labour Party, which had opposed the referendum during the election campaign, has now come out in support of the vote.

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.

With so much of the 2015 UKIP vote now embedded in the Tory Coalition, and with Labour now more officially a party of soft Brexit, it is very difficult to see how the next election will play out.

Representatives from across the political spectrum have spoken out against plans which could delay the counting of general election votes until the following morning - rather than the dramatic all - night count.

He attributes the Republicans» doubling of their normal share of the Ohio black vote in the 2004 election to the party's ability to reach out to the exact voters likely to respond to targeted messages and to not waste time and money on others.

Quoting portions of the 20 - page document to back his claim he said «What was done exactly was that, on election day a member went to his village and doled out one Ghana cedi each to about 50 vulnerable street drunkards and «busemen» as inducement for them to cast their vote for NPP.