Sentences with phrase «votes he got in»

And the gamble worked — of the roughly 300,000 votes he got in winning the primary, about 50,000 were probably from his online network of home precinct captains.

In the Greater Accra, Central and Western regions, Kwesi Pratt said the NDC could increase slightly the votes they got in the 2012 elections.

Wayne Fish, who ran two years ago as a petitioning town council candidate, is doing it again, hoping for more than the 312 votes he got in 2015.

«The fact that we're starting earlier and the fact I'm going to get help where in the past we haven't had support, we certainly will grow on the 18 percent of the vote we got in 2014,» he said.

You can apply for Kerala Blog Express by registering here, the number of votes you get in a public voting along with the review of our judges will be considered for the final selection.

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Ultimately if you're seeking for approval or board consensus on an action (getting approval for a budget, raising money, investing in CAPEX, firing a head of sales — whatever) your job is to hold a discussion in which all board members who want to voice an opinion can do so and ultimately pushing for a vote or a resolution.

In one attention - getting move, the company created a billboard in downtown Toronto featuring a plus - sized model and then encouraged people to vote on whether she was «fat or fab.&raquIn one attention - getting move, the company created a billboard in downtown Toronto featuring a plus - sized model and then encouraged people to vote on whether she was «fat or fab.&raquin downtown Toronto featuring a plus - sized model and then encouraged people to vote on whether she was «fat or fab.»

They also argue that it threatens due process rights because it may not get done by the federal deadline to certify the vote, putting Wisconsin's electoral votes in jeopardy.

Some Republican lawmakers hope that this new health reform law will get Democratic support and pass the 60 - vote threshold in the Senate.

Buffett on Monday vowed to do «whatever it takes» to get out the vote in his congressional district in Nebraska, including driving voters himself to the polls to cast ballots.

According to the latest polls Esquerra will get the biggest share of the vote in the region, 20.5 per cent, narrowly leading Junts per Catalunya, the new name for the party led by Puigdemont, on 19.3 per cent.

Lacking a ground game in the state, as he did across the country, Trump relied on state and local parties, such as Ferrance's, to drive the get - out - to - vote efforts.

People get very vested in the decision, and when things start to get hard about the decision we've made, we come back to that vote — if we want to change the vote, we can change the vote, but this was how we voted.»

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, whose state of Connecticut shouldered the killing of 20 children in Newtown in 2012, led a filibuster on Wednesday to try to force a vote, insisting he would stay on the Senate floor «until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together.»

Critics complain «say on pay» votes are ineffectual because boards aren't bound to the results, but of the 53 U.S. companies for whom shareholders rejected compensation plans in 2012, 45 made changes and got positive votes the following year, according to Institutional Shareholder Services.

I suspect that this group gets out the vote — and their wallets — in big ways.

They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

Crowdery's technology is still in beta testing, but the process can be as explicit as asking consumers to vote on a favorite shirt style in hopes of scoring a presale discount if the item ultimately gets made.

For example, Americans have favorable views of Oreos, Home Depot and Bed Bath & Beyond, regardless of who got their vote in 2016.

Among white voters, roughly three in 10 said they had been targeted by Trump get - out - the - vote efforts; the same share said they had been targeted by Clinton.

Republican leaders in U.S. Congress scheduled a vote on Thursday for a proposed temporary extension to fund government operations in the hope of getting it to President Donald Trump's desk before Friday's midnight deadline.

You may even want to get the entire company involved in the process by taking up a vote as to what charities you'll support.

Google partnered with law firm Perkins Coie to get the information for the new in - depth search tool, which lets users sort by state for info on ID requirements, deadlines, mail - in ballots, and early voting.

Get - out - the - vote efforts have been intense in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

The NDP may have been born in Saskatchewan, but at the federal level, the Conservatives are saying they're no different from any other Ottawa political group: they want what you've got, and if you vote for them, they'll take it.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

But numerous irritants remain, leaving uncertainty about what happens next, with U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs set to kick in next week and the deadline fast approaching to get a deal that can be voted on by the current U.S. Congress.

And don't get me wrong, we got a lot of white liberal votes, but they tended to be people who were involved in social justice.

However, it's unclear whether the transgender or base closing amendments will get enough votes to be included in the Senate's final NDAA.

They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump got more popular votes than Hillary Clinton.

'' «You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,» in other words, black people,»» Obama allegedly said after the call, paraphrasing Romney.

During that span, the battle with Samsung is the only one that went all the way to a vote, and the only one in which the firm didn't get what it wanted — a sign of just how effective Elliott is at pressuring management to agree to its demands.

«I think everything's on the table, the way it is every time we consider it and the body will come up with in the Senate whatever 60 votes can attract,» said Sen. Richard Burr, adding that «clearly if the president gets behind it it probably could.»

We're here at Business Insider Greek Election HQ to watch the information come in, and to learn if the pro-bailout New Democracy party, and its leader Antonis Samaras, can hold off the upstart leftist Alexis Tsipras, and get enough votes to form a government.

The FCC voted 3 - 2 in December to overturn the net neutrality rules, which barred broadband providers from blocking or slowing access to content or allowing websites to pay for fast lanes to get their content more quickly to consumers.

The desire to maintain multiple voting shares might have something to do with why Bombardier didn't get the full $ 1 - billion in aid it was originally seeking from the federal government.

Until 1803, the vice president was the person who got the second highest number of votes in the presidential election.

In Reddit's case, there are no editors choosing articles that sit on the front page — or rather, there are millions of editors, all of whom vote with their clicks to determine what gets to the front page.

To bring an idea to fruition, you need emotional buy - in, not just the kind you get by winning 51 % of a vote.

The SPAC was trading slightly below its offering price when Traina signed the merger agreement, which has made it difficult for him to round up enough yes votes from Terra Nova shareholders, who may be better off voting down the deal and getting back their original investments in the SPAC.

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In a key House committee vote Thursday, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), or Trumpcare, officially got its first GOP «nay» votes.

After a successful preliminary health care vote on Tuesday, Senate GOP leaders may have a new plan to get their health legislation over the finish line: pass what, in effect, could amount to a blank legislative check.

The cleverly crafted offer is designed to get the revised merger proposal (RMP) in front of the WPL shareholders to force a vote (extraordinary general meeting will be held at the end of April).

In an infamous example, an app designed for help get out the vote failed on Election Day.

Franken also took on Representative Tom Price, Trump's nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.

Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.

, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.

«I don't believe they got into changing actual voting outcomes,» Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in interview with USA TODAY's Susan Page.

The proxy access resolution (so named because board nominations and ballots are contained in company proxy statements) got a majority vote of 55 percent at Chevron and 49.4 percent at Exxon.