Sentences with phrase «week election campaign»

After one week in an eight - week election campaign, a line has already been drawn between the Coalition and Labor's education funding commitments.

The electorate and colleagues are exhausted after a six week election campaign which resulted in no...

An 11 - week election campaign will be the longest in decades, and begins amid mixed economic signals

Not exact matches

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

The faux - election campaign continued this week as the Prime Minister allocated an extra $ 714 million to drought - affected farmers and $ 65 million for cancer scanners.

In the meantime, Canada has been keeping close tabs on the United States» presidential election with a social media campaign, «Tell America It's Great» trending on Twitter a few weeks ago and» #MeanwhileInCanada» trending on election night.

Her campaign has at least 55 offices across the state, a number expected to grow in the final weeks before the election, and has a veteran of the Obama campaign running the show.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

We're in the last week of a federal election campaign, and every party wants you to believe they're there for the hardworking families of a middle class under enormous pressure.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

This would still allow fake news to flourish for most of the campaign, of course, but the candidates have enough time to respond to fake news that spreads weeks or months before an election.

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a new set of changes to help users find and change their privacy settings, as well as download and delete whatever data has been collected through Facebook's network of social media services.

The findings come in the FAO's Spring 2018 Economic Outlook, released just a week before a provincial election campaign kicks off.

Zuckerberg's apology follows news last week that information from more than 50 million Facebook users was obtained without permission by Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics consultancy hired by the Trump campaign for the 2016 presidential election.

With the US presidential election about five weeks away, the popular press has feasted on the campaign events and survey results, with the primary focus on the Trump spectacle.

Page, who testified last week before the House Oversight Committee as a part of its ongoing probe into Russian election meddling in 2016, told congressional investigators in testimony revealed Monday that he had asked the former Trump campaign chief and Hope Hicks, now the White House communications director, about his trip to Moscow in 2016 in which he met with Russian officials and discussed the presidential campaign.»

Just last week, the Federal Election Commission, which regulates political campaign activity, voted to begin writing rules that detail the kinds of disclaimers they will require on online and mobile political ads to identify sponsors.

«Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals doubled MSP premiums and six weeks before the election campaign, they want people to forget their record,» said Horgan.

Patrick Ruffini, a co-founder Echelon Insights, a Republican - leaning digital analytics and research firm, said the public outrage this week over the disclosures about Cambridge Analytica «feels like a double standard» against the backdrop of how the Obama campaign and other Democratic and Republican political operatives sought to use Facebook data during the 2012 and 2014 election cycles.

WASHINGTON — Former president Barack Obama's top campaign aide on Tuesday rejected comparisons between Obama's extensive use of Facebook data to turn out voters in the 2012 election and the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a data and political intelligence firm ejected last week by Facebook in a growing controversy over social - media privacy.

With the Presidential election just two weeks away, prominent Hollywood Democrat Barbra Streisand has sent an «emergency» email to the entire Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) mailing list, urging all recipients to dig deep into their pockets for last minute Obama campaign donations, according to The Hollywood Campaign Committee (DCCC) mailing list, urging all recipients to dig deep into their pockets for last minute Obama campaign donations, according to The Hollywood campaign donations, according to The Hollywood Reporter

About six weeks before the election, Ecumenical Ministries began to campaign actively and to demonstrate that denominational opposition was widespread.

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader has revealed he decided to quit his position two weeks into the 2017 General Election campaign after repeatedly facing questions...

During the week, however, they engage in political campaigns, vote in elections, decry the emergence of hereditary dynasties and resist the centralization of power.

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader has revealed he decided to quit his position two weeks into the 2017 General Election campaign after repeatedly facing questions over whether he believed gay sex was a sin.

On Friday, he told Emma Barnett on 5 Live Daily: «I made the decision about two weeks into the election campaign.

If you're a small campaign with a single staffer, try to spend at least 8 hours planning and executing your online - specific strategy per week, particularly at the beginning, remembering that those early hours can be far more valuable than time spent right before the election.

If you're a small campaign with a single staffer, try to spend 4 - 8 hours planning and executing your online - specific strategy per week, at least at the beginning, remembering that those early hours can be far more valuable than time spent right before the election.

Speculation about which of the two main parties could attract Nick Clegg into a coalition has dominated the last week of the general election campaign, since his TV debate performance sent Lib Dem support through the roof.

But, aware that the prospect of a second referendum plays badly with even moderate «Yes» voters, the SNP will spend the next six weeks playing down the independence dimension while the Tories place it at the centre of their campaign, an attempt to turn the general election into a referendum on a referendum.

Our friend Ben Donahower (last seen on Epolitics.com writing about online opposition research) published a nice overview of the Best and Worst of Campaign 2012 on Campaigns & Elections a couple of weeks back, which included observations from him, me, Keya Dannenbaum, Brian Hanf and Geoff Sharpe.

Along with Dennis Johnson, Karen Jagoda and Morra Aarons - Mele, I had the pleasure of giving a presentation this morning on congressional and local online campaigns for the assembled journalists at the Knight Digital Media Center's symposium, Election» 08: Unleashing the Cyber-watchdogs (i.e., after a week of luxuriating in the California sun, it was time to sing for my supper and justify the trip).

All the more surprising then that over the last few weeks when I have dined with politicos they all express incredulity at the complete hopelessness of the Tory election campaign.

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For some Obama - campaign nuts and bolts advice, look for the next Campaigns & Elections Technology Bytes column, which I submitted last week and which should be live soon.

Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign exemplifies the problem, since they were so confident in their modeling that they didn't even bother to conduct polls in the last few weeks of the presidential race in the states that swung the election.

In the first week of coverage, women as a whole received a modest increase in their relative prominence accounting for 19 per cent of all individuals mentioned in the first week of the campaign, compared to just 14 per cent in both the 2005 and 2010 elections.

A secretive group is beginning campaigning in Scotland this week with a simple mission: stopping the SNP by encouraging tactical voting in the 2015 general election.

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.

If you missed last week's year - end fundraising webinar, never fear: Campaigns & Elections is holding a campaign - focused fundraising training next Thursday (November 21st), right here in the lovely District of Columbia.

Acting as the de facto head of the state Democratic Party, Andrew Cuomo this weekend personally convened a meeting with representatives of all the statewide campaigns as well as the state Senate and Assembly committees in hopes of presenting a united front in the final weeks of the general election campaign.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2018 re-election campaign donated $ 11,000 to Kaminsky, who faces Republican Chris McGrath in a special election next week, according to 24 - hour notices at the state Board of Elections.

Surprisingly well, particularly considering that the election's only five weeks away and campaign staff don't have much time to put its lessons to work.

I asked him why it was almost the end of the second week of the election campaign before a top Labour figure had showed their face.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

Hard to believe, but election day is less than a week away, and across the country, campaigns and outside groups are running a full - on GOTV blitz.

This week, insiders began a whisper campaign that Alice Cancel had the most votes from the committee going into tomorrow's (S) election process in which new votes are taken over and over again until a candidate reaches 50 %.

«The election campaign has gone on for past six weeks.

The House intelligence committee next week plans to interview John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign chairman whose hacked email account became central to Russian meddling in the US election last year, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

And in this week's parliamentary elections, after a very dull electoral campaign, Poles again voted in the same two - party coalition.