Sentences with phrase «well vote for a party»

UKIP's coming second in the 2009 European elections were a reminder that there is a right wing of Great Britain that doesn't vote always Conservative, but might well vote for parties who would be plausible coalition partners for the Conservatives.

Not exact matches

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

The Green Party has nominated Environmental Economics and Policy student Andrew Fehr, who faces the challenge of convincing Green - leaning voters that actually voting for a Green Party is a better choice than a strategic vote for Ms. Duncan.

That was good for 75 per cent of the total vote — a thumping victory for Kenney's agenda of unity between his party and Wildrose, the official opposition to the NDP government of Premier Rachel Notley.

The vacuum in the Liberal leadership is good news for the PC Party, Rachel Notley «s New Democrats and the Alberta Party, who will try to offer Liberal voters a new home to park their votes.

I am independent... I vote for the person I think is the best, not for the parry or for the party agenda.

Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the majority that voted them in and not a small insignificant group?

Good for the Republican leadership, a political party that profits from stupidity will never lack for votes!

Well, I'm changing parties so I can vote for Santorum in the primarys because he would be the easyest for Obama to defeat

I used to be a repub till congress was taken over by the tea party and Romney as our candidate.I can not support a man who is a draft dodger and a tax evader.The repub congress has done nothing for vets, nothing for the middleclass.All of the good repubs have gone or have been forced out by the extremists that care nothing for the average joe or veterans like myself.Until we get real candidates that care for the middleclass and vets I will not vote for the repubs.Honor and respect, and caring for this nation is what the repubs used to stand for, now we have wackjobs from the tea party holding america hostage and thats as un patriotic as it gets, it is hurting many americans, our economy and soldiers who are looking for work.

Unfortunately, for all of us, these same controlled individuals do things like vote for Tea Party candidates and are brainwashed into thinking that they are doing what is good for the country by demanding Tea Party policies.

I don't think they had a good response, though, to the pathology of the present presidential race for the Republican nomination: The party has run out of plausible candidates before anyone has even voted.

I don't think God cares what political party you vote for, it doesn't make you a better person.

I vote for the person best suited to the job regardless of their party.

The best lesson for both British parties to draw from Mr. Obama is the one Brooks noted when Obama abandoned his pledge to take public election financing: that as well as being an inspiring speechmaker he's also «a tough - minded Chicago pol (person of Polish descent) who would throw you under the truck for votes».

The young and the energetic Konkomba Youth Group, who have volunteered to preach to their people about the good things President John Dramani Mahama is doing and how important the NDC as a party recognize the entire Kokomba community have said, the President has exposed the NPP and their Northern Regional Chairman Bugri Naabu for the lies they have spewed across the Konkomba communities just to win their votes

So it is not hard to draw districts that give you a prescribed percentage of votes: for example, getting 51 %, 51 % and 0 % would be a very good outcome for a party holding 34 % of the total votes in a three - districts area.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

The app should have a special interface for party surrogates and superdelegates, by which they can vote each day as to which of the available talking points are better.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

@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).

Whatever the outcome, «English votes for English laws» is likely to offer the best of both worlds for the Conservative party and the worst of both for everyone else.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

Our panel — even those with no deep affection for the Prime Minister or his party — said that trusting David Cameron was the best guidance on how they should vote.

But in exchange for getting the popular Democratic gubernatorial candidate on its line — thus ensuring it would well surpass the required 50,000 - vote mark to live another four years (the party ended up moving to Row D)-- the WFP had to agree to Cuomo's «New NY Agenda,» which included a slew of agenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opposed.

Quite a lot of Americans wouldn't vote for an atheist on general principles; in 2012, a poll estimated it was around 43 % for a presidential election, assuming the candidate was of their party and well - qualified.

And that was good news for Labour, especially in the evening when the winning party's vote surged.

But it seems unlikely that a pro-immigration, pro-market, pro-globalisation approach is what those voting for populist parties want to hear or would ever respond well to.

The referendum campaign greatly increased support for independence, which is highly correlated with SNP voting in the General Election, as well as further dividing the Scottish party system, which was already split by attitudes towards independence.

This is because the Tories have been promoting primaries for a good while, and not as far as I can see on the basis of any other argument except that they think it would be good to engage more of the public in party political democracy and because it makes them look more welcoming as a party which might garner votes in the long run.

And not great for those who vote Tory because they think the party are the best bet on policing, either.

Still, while all MPs do better among those who will vote for that party than those who won't, Lib Dems appear to be able to connect with non-supporters in a way that neither Labour nor Conservative MPs can.

Nigel Marriott in his final model now includes a forecast for party vote shares as well as the previous seat forecasts and so this is included; we have also added new models from Election Data, Elections Etc, Janta - Lipinski, Kantar Public, Michael Thrasher, Andreas Murr et al and Number Cruncher Politics.

Surely what you mean is «Ken may well employ sophistry to claim that he is not technically in breach of party rules, because saying that the candidate should not have been dropped, walking around for the TV cameras with the rival candidate (and having a quick chat about why the Labour candidate) did not in fact entail an explicit «vote Rahman» public statement (even though the whole point was to convey precisely that impression to any sentient being).

The best way to do that was to have the party endorse Cuomo, who would be sure to get the WFP the 50,000 votes needed to stay on the ballot for another four years.

The message should be delivered quietly but very clearly to every Democratic Party official at EACH governmental level that if they expect any gay or Lesbian money or votes come November for a mayor, governor, the House or the Senate, DADT had better be in the dust bin of history by that time.

18 % of current Conservative supporters said they would, 30 % of UKIP supporters said they'd consider voting for Ed Miliband's party and a sizeable 46 % of current Liberal Democrat supporters said they would consider voting Labour as well.

Bushell's 1,216 votes (a 3.4 % share for that constituency), represented the English Democrats party's best showing for the election; though this was still a 5th place performance.

Traditional tactical voting in our first - past - the - post system involves supporters of parties coming third or lower in their constituency trying to better influence the outcome by voting for one of the top two candidates.

If a party can not control its internal affairs better than this, what hope for it to reform politics more widely, including cleaning up party funding and ensuring that everyone's vote counts equally?

«More current Liberal Democrat supporters — those who would still vote for the party now — believe the party has changed for the worse since the 2010 election (36 per cent) than think it has got better (20 per cent), according to a YouGov survey..

[29] Bushell's 1,216 votes (3.4 %) beat the UKIP candidate, Stan Gain, who secured 709 votes (2.0 %); [30] this was the party's best result for the election though still a fifth - place performance.

You would think, then, that the parties would have a pretty good idea of what sort of person is likely to vote for them.

This forecast assumes a «normal» pattern for the Liberal Democrat vote, which of course may well not be the case (the alternative of giving the Lib Dems the same incumbency effect as found for the other two main parties has them returning to around their 2010 vote share, which at this stage of the game seems unlikely).

Some of those questioned were asked to consider whether they would vote for Ukip as well as other parties, while candidates» names were not included - thus negating the incumbency factor typically enjoyed by Lib Dems.

Well, based on the assumption that a vote is cast in anticipation that the recipient of the vote is going to win, it seems to me that a vote cast for David Cameron or whoever is the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the election is far more likely to see a winner than any vote for the Liberal Democrats will do.

A vote for the Liberal Democrats, on the other hand, is a vote for a party which — wherever we're in power — does it's best to spread the burden of austerity fairly, investing in jobs and help for hard - pressed families.

Other people will vote for Party A to vote in their primary for the weaker candidate as they want to give Party B's candidate the better shot.

(Democrat Aimee Belgard, a county legislator who's already got one of the best opportunities in the country to pick up a seat for the party this year, given the area's voting history, lives in the political heart of the 3rd District.)

During the race, The Advance Group helped Mark - Viverito prepare for the race, which included several community forums and debates as well as behind - the - scenes politicking with council members and county party leaders who helped collect votes in her favor.