Sentences with phrase «way up to the election»

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The Justice Department (DOJ) took Edwards all the way to trial over payments some supporters made to his mistress, Rielle Hunter, in the lead - up to the 2008 election cycle.

He could raise the GST, but the Prime Minister has ruled that out; he could fulfill an election commitment by undertaking a serious simplification of the income tax system, which could yield substantial revenues (about $ 3 to $ 5 billion), but he seems reluctant to do that; or, he could take the easy way out and simply cut his fiscal prudence in half and «miraculously» free up $ 3billion annually for his cabinet colleagues.

I recomend you brush up on your looting skills, I suspect things to go down hill either way the election goes.

George Hunt, ponders the ways in which Catholics vote in elections and comes up with this: «One sobering conclusion to all this: Beware all commentators who speak airily of the «Catholic» vote — or a uniform «Catholic» anything, for that matter.»

As Nigeria begins its transition from a military to a civilian government» the process working its way up from local levels, where civilians are already in charge, to the national level, where elections are scheduled for next year» it faces the possibility of a crisis like the one that almost destroyed the country twenty - four years ago.

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.

My friend, the way folks pumped up Obama during the election I thought he was going to walk on water.

He filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia after the elections board refused a ballot initiative on same - sex marriage, and when denied, followed it all the way up to the US Supreme Court (which also denied it).

In some ways, midterm elections are to the political world what the winter Olympics are to the sports world — fewer people show up and tune in.

But when the heart of the act was tested (financing)... the government drew up a blank... No way Obama calls it a tax before an election year... but its quite evident that it is... Secondly, you think that adding another tax on people that cant even afford to pay it will help??? Where is the money coming from??? Yea I thought so...

Iannece ended up losing the five - way Democratic primary in a surprise upset election won by Kevin Kim, an aide to retiring Rep. Gary Ackerman.

Removing names by due process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up with the Rule of Law and Due Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatorial rule.

Sucking up aside, it's interesting to note that the most significant change to the way the election will be fought is a result of innovation by the old rather than new media.

If Fossella were to get into the NY - 13 ring and win the GOP primary (assuming Grimm and his opponent, Michael Allegretti, remained in the race), he would not — as it stands now — have the Conservative line, which sets up a three - way race in the general election.

Despite being nominally given the opportunity to choose, the way the Maduro government has set up the electoral process, committed fraud, repressed the opposition and systematically undermined the process of free and fair elections over the past years, all but guarantees authoritarian durability.

Cuomo, meanwhile, took note of the political calendar, saying either way it will be up to voters, given the election in November.

The opposition and Tymoshenko's party have themselves to blame for setting up elections in this way.

But whether or not candidates are prepared to commit to sign up ahead of elections will send an interesting message which the electorate might interpret either way.

«We are nine months away from an election and there is a long way to go; there will probably be a lot of ups and downs between now and then.»

In Tea Party activists and in angry voters electing or putting on the ballot, excuse me, in primaries, people like Christine O'Donnell in Delaware — does that create a situation where the Republican Party in a general election is so out of the mainstream, is so filled with candidates who are so crazy that the party actually ends up blowing an incredible opportunity that's been handed to them on a silver platter and fails to capitalize in a significant way on the intense voter dissatisfaction?

Estonia is the only country in the world that relies on Internet voting in a significant way for legally - binding national elections — up to 25 % of voters cast their ballots online.

Be sure to have ways identified to replenish your email list or you could wind up with an empty bucket before Election Day.

You're supposed to work your way up the ladder, working on political campaigns and in legislative offices, running for local elections and then statewide elections, gaining experience along the way.

New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, already reportedly sizing up the majority leader's job should Harry Reid lose on Election Day, appears comfortably on his way to reelection.

Now the 2015 election is just over a year away, we know the political context in which it can be deployed: the «good society» breaks the economic deadlock by opening up a way to spend money better, and fits in with Miliband's broader «One Nation» dialogue about helping the little people deal with the faceless monolithic institutions of the private — and now, the public — sectors.

Sadly this invaluable book can not tell us in advance if this is going to happen but it does provide the information to help guide even the most statistically illiterate person as to what will be going on during the election and will come into its own during the long night of counting after the polls have closed, if returning offi cers up and down the country do not have their way and pull the plug on counting in a majority of the seats immediately after the polls have closed.

That way rather than have to look up a seat every time there is a by election you could get to current or indeed recent ones from the current parliament with a single click.

We have often had, I think, these relationships going only one way (only helping the marginal), where perhaps what we could do would be to have the marginal helping the safe seat in less crucial times and safe helping marginal in run - up to elections.

But the argument that elections for the Lords would be bad because «we need experts», aside from having to glide over people such as Rory Stewart in the Commons, founders on the basic question, «if we need experts, why is the Lords set - up the right way to go about it?»

After nearly screwing up the contentious primary between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, the troubled board voted unanimously Tuesday to immediately update the way it counts ballots on election night.

While the landlord interest group ran a previous ad campaign in the lead up to last year's rent freeze, the RSA plans to continue the negative spots after this year's vote — all the way up to the next mayoral election in 2017.

We can expect the dynamics of the last seven days to repeat themselves again and again for at least the 12 months and, probably, all the way up to the 2015 general election campaign.

«It's still a long way till the 2018 election, however, by a 12 - point margin, voters say they are prepared to re-elect Cuomo, up from seven points last month,» said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

According to EstoniaVoting: Estonia is the only country in the world that relies on Internet voting in a significant way for legally - binding national elections — up to 25 % of voters cast their...

Your Democratic State Central Committee has worked with county party organizations to build their individual capacity, increased our advocacy for the right to vote both in the legislature and leading up to election cycles, worked with volunteers to strengthen the Emerging Leaders Project, upgraded and invested in the Party's technology infrastructure, increased training and simply believe that being a «responsive resource» is the best way to build an organization.

As election day draws closer and the race between Carl «BAM BAM» Paladino vs «Cover Up Cuomo draws closer Lazio's numbers will go down and switch more and more to Carl» BAM BAM «Paladino thats they way it has always been.

Somehow I'm going to have to find a way to get total primary results for all 435 Congressional Districts, and the 35 Senate districts up for election, to compare partisan turnouts to general election votes.

The singular truth, and at the root of their fears, is that Election Day referenda will enable citizens to clean up New York's rotten system of government, in ways highly inconvenient to the power of legislative leaders and the special interests that butter their English muffins.

«In a Guardian interview, the Ukip leader said people would vote for the «real thing» on Europe and immigration rather than support David Cameron who is occupying «our turf» under the influence of the Tory strategist Lynton Crosby... But the Ukip leader has ambitions that go way beyond England's town halls as he said he hopes to follow in the footsteps of Ashdown, who steadily built up the Lib Dem parliamentary presence after grassroots success in local elections.»

Panorama, however, couldn't think of any more original way of making a programme on elected mayors and Eric Pickles, never one to miss out on a punch - up, is sending in his inspectors — though not to report back until well after the election.

Up to this point, the direction of travel for Ukip's poll European election rating had only been one way — uUp to this point, the direction of travel for Ukip's poll European election rating had only been one way — upup.

He said the NDC has serious issues with the way the economy is being managed by the NPP, a development he believes defeats promises made to Ghanaians in the lead up to the 2016 general elections.

«I will never apologise... for having stepped up to the plate in a plucky and brave way,» he told the Question Time election special.

And seen another way, the IDC may be gearing up its fundraising prowess in an effort to protect itself from challenges in either a general or primary election.

(In a rational political state, the Aqueduct report, coming so close to Election Day, would be devastating to Brooklyn's Sampson, who has wrung up one ethical transgression after another and fumbled his way through last year's Senate coup.

The campaign's poll, however, isn't without its own red flags: A whopping 24 percent of the Democrats it deemed likely to show up to the polls didn't lean one way or another in the presidential primary held the same day as the Senate election (the comparable number in most recent polls has been below ten), suggesting it might have been overly generous in estimating Democratic turnout on April 19.

Normally we'd hope for a longer stretch between the calling of the by - election and the holding of the vote — particularly given the huge hurdle all contenders have to face with the postal vote essentially stitching up the result barely half way through the campaign.

The similarity between all three parties in the run up to the 2010 election makes nonsense of any idea that Nick Clegg or his party were between the extremes — they were in the end superfluous because they were just another somewhere in the middle and appeared to have lost their way.

Last week, we reported that the upcoming election to lead Community Board 3 was shaping up as a two - way contest between current Chairperson Gigi Li and challenger Chad Marlow.

She told the BBC: «If you look at our recent European election results, we more than doubled the vote and we increased the share, so I think you can say this was absolutely a building process for us - we were starting from zero and we've come all the way up to third, so I don't think we should be too disheartened.»