Sentences with phrase «voters right after»

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Teamsters President Jim Hoffa sounded resigned to the right - to - work measure's passage, in a statement released shortly after the vote, but promised a voter backlash like those seen in other Midwest states.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

Election experts say Facebook must crack down on inflammatory ads on politically divisive issues such as immigration reform and gun rights, which were used to influence voters during and after the presidential campaign.

And then, five years after he retired, the voters did the right thing and... passed him over on two more ballots.

Blue collar voters were crucial to Margaret Thatcher's election victories in the 1980s, particularly after the right to buy scheme, which allowed working class voters to buy their council houses.

Emmanuel Macron, a youthful former investment banker, handily won France's presidential election, defeating the staunch nationalist Marine Le Pen after voters firmly rejected her far - right message and backed his call for centrist change, according to partial returns.

Recall that in the last election cycle, Cuomo created the Women's Equality Party — or WEP — a move widely seen in part as an effort to confuse voters — after all, E comes right before F in the alphabet — and get back at the WFP for daring to even consider backing a candidate other than Cuomo... more on this in a moment.

Conservative right - wingers have been warned against playing «fantasy politics» after new polling suggested their ideas are leaving voters cold.

I think a poll of likely voters should be conducted right after petitioning to be most valuable.»

New Jersey Could Become Second State to Pass Groundbreaking Voting Reform by Jennifer L. Clark After years of fierce voting rights battles in legislatures and courthouses, there is unmistakable momentum on the side of voters.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that he «totally accepts» the verdict of voters after his party's mauling at last week's European elections, but believes it was right to make a case for an open Britain that doesn't «blame foreigners.»

Since Nelson Rockefeller signed a law legalizing abortion here in 1970, New York has not elected a pro-life governor, and a June poll showed voters, after several questions explaining the legislation, supported a Cuomo - backed proposal to change abortion law and establish an affirmative right to an abortion by a 56 - 31 margin.

The «late swing» hypothesis is that the underestimation of the Conservative vote occurred because voters changed their minds right at the end of the campaign, after pollsters had finished contacting them.

It's Nice Ed's coming back he was at stoke after all, Ed dropped the triangulation line that Blair liked, funny as he actually appealed to both Daivd Owen, Maurice Glasman and Tony benn in 2010 ′ but the triangulation of middle / working class votes has gone that it's not even Left / Right anymore, and the dozen or so policies that unite ex Labour voters who vote Libdem, and the ones who vote Ukip can be summed up in, ignore Soctland and Northern Ireland politics concentrate on the economy, Defence, freedom of speech and women's rights,

The Democratic strategist involved in the effort said that Cuomo continues the gun control fight even though he suffered politically among Republicans and voters upstate and in the Hudson Valley after passage of the SAFE Act, which «was the right thing to do.»

«Every eligible voter has the right to have their vote counted,» Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta wrote on Twitter just after midnight on Tuesday.

Well to the right of labour supporters, I appreciate we lost supporters after 97 ′ mainly staying at home in 2001 as another landslide meant they didn't need to vote, and liberal interventionism, of Afghanisatan Eastern Europe, saw some supporters withdrawal support before Iraq, remember this ex Tory voters who voted Labour for the 1st time in their lives in 97 ′ did it with caution, of fear of labour returning to the 80 ’s

As for CLPs nominating him, yes they're all in areas where labour does well already the Midlands inner London, the right of the party being burnt out after 20 years, but it's not the CLPs it's the voters in the street, how many CLPs nominating people, know what their electorate think, as for Dan Hodges, whatever you think of him, can you deny he believes what he says about labour being massacred if corbyn took us into the 2020 election.

The changes on Tuesday, as part of a mini-reshuffle after Jenny Willott resigned as a whip, came after Baker intensified his attack on the home secretary by saying he had struggled to introduce policies in the face of a Tory «lurch to the right» in pursuit of Ukip voters.

Days after voters in the US state of Ohio rejected a proposal to legalise cannabis for recreational use, Mexico has ruled that smoking pot is a fundamental human right.

Immediately after seeing the ad, the voters» average attitude shifted away from supporting transgender rights — but that effect faded.

«Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon attacks Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he vows to restore voting rights to 35,000 parolees saying «we don't buy the governor's «new song - and - dance routine» because voter suppression should have ended eight years ago.

After seeing his Nocturnal Animals co-star Aaron Taylor - Johnson take the Golden Globe and nab a BAFTA nomination, Michael Shannon might have been right to feel he didn't have much of a chance at an Oscar nod, but it turns out his grizzled veteran detective was just the ticket for Oscar voters.

Moss is having her moment in Hollywood right now, and there is a strong chance she receives a second nomination in the limited series category for her work on Top of the Lake, a performance we know Globes voters loved after she won a few years back.

After more than a decade of trying, Virginia lawmakers have finally approved legislation giving state voters the right to elect school - beard members.

A poll taken in June, right after the Vergara decision was handed down in Los Angeles, found that 49 percent of California voters think that teachers unions have a «somewhat or very negative» impact on the quality of K - 12 education, with just 31 percent saying that they have a «somewhat or very positive» impact.

Ms. Dixon was part of a team of civil rights attorneys representing African - and Haitian - American voters in NAACP v. Hood (a class action suit that arose out of the 2000 general elections), and she served as co-counsel in Anderson v. Jackson on behalf of African - American residents who challenged the demolition of public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

After Connecticut's Supreme Court invalidated the scheme, Mayor Finch again attempted to strip voters of their right to an elected school board with a revision to the city charter calling for an appointed board of education.

And one of the strangest twists, after spending nearly $ 563,000 in their failed attempt to persuade Bridgeport voters to undermine their own democratic rights, Residents for a Better Bridgeport ended the campaign with surplus funds of $ 702.79.

The opposition Conservative party should have won the last two elections after all these scandals, but they kept choosing seriously right - wing leaders who scared urban and suburban voters (the majority in the Province now) away.

In articles right after the vote she described Leave voters as «canon fodder... Lied to and manipulated and deceived».

It's even more so now after Wednesday's news that Facebook sold ads during the campaign to a Russian «troll farm,» targeting American voters with «divisive social and political messages» that fit right in with Donald Trump's campaign strategy.