Sentences with phrase «what election debates»

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The CNN anchor moderated a debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the 2012 election and took a lot of heat for doing exactly what Fox News» Wallace has said a moderator should avoid.

With the world focusing on the U.S. elections, the debate about what makes a suitable leader has never been fiercer.

One night, over dinner with Hsieh and his friends at Carson Kitchen, a new high - end restaurant in what was once the rundown John E. Carson hotel for men, I lost track of the conversation, reached for a pork slider, considered sipping my Fernet shot, and suddenly realized they were fiercely debating how to explain to me a Holacracy concept called «circle elections.»

Regardless of what side of the debate you fall on, children need to know that they are safe, that there are adults in charge and that yes, you have feelings one way or the other about how the election went.

Let's put the debate about what happened on Election Day aside and cut straight to the chase.

The raging public debate, largely ill - informed, is not premised on what is in Ghana's national interest, but what will give the largest boost to the political fortunes of the NDC & NPP in the run up to November's Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

In backing the tax code changes this year, Heastie appears to be making an effort to not only push Cuomo, but get out in front of what would have been a debate not scheduled to reach Albany until next year and after an election.

Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

On 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and announced his resignation as an MP, in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil liberties.

What we got was a sensational election dominated by some very traditional TV debates, while the promises of the web and social media seemed to provide an entertaining but superficial backchannel.

Mr Harris added: «I am raising the possibility - the very slim possibility of my candidacy - because there are ideas that I have that I think the party should at least be debating, because by the time the next Scottish Parliament elections come up in 2016, we need to know what type of party Scottish Labour will be.»»

Syracuse.com talked to both sides of the fracking debate on what the Nov. 6 elections mean for the future of fracking, and what might happen next in New York.

After a raucous first general election debate where an unruly audience saw an attendee removed from the theater and the candidates shouted over each other, often cutting each other off and going over their time limits, what will happen at this final debate is anyone's guess.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

What arguments can be mode in favour of financial barriers for the participation of political candidates in elections or electoral debates?

Pidcock says the tickets were bought by her partner before the general election had been called and that she tweeted from Italy about the universal credit debate because «naturally I was keeping up to speed with what was happening in London».

Coalition blues We're going to be going into the next election saying «coalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second election in 2010.

Ahead of Thursday's seven - strong debate in the UK election campaign, here's what the Brits could learn.

Former Prime Minister Sir John Major weighs into the election debate with a warning about what he says are the dangers of a Labour government being propped up by the SNP.

Hours before the two candidates are scheduled to face off in the first of three televised general election debates, Democratic NYC mayoral frontrunner Bill de Blasio gave an indication of what will likely be his primary line of attack, releasing a web video that portrays Repubican Joe Lhota as a Tea Partier who's «wrong for New Yorkers.»

It's debate night for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — a televised event that's expected to draw a record - breaking audience, a capstone to what has so far been a highly unpredictable presidential election.

Two days after he roots for his wife at the first presidential debate, former President Bill Clinton returns to Long Island for what is likely his last fundraiser there for his wife in this election cycle.

Speaking on a visit to Cannock, Mr Cameron said he had «unblocked the log - jam» over what format a televised election debate should take and that he was sticking to his proposal that any debate must take place before the official general election campaign starts.

If in the TV debates at the next election the other parties» candidates turned on any of the current Labour leadership contenders and sneered «You're no John Kennedy», what answer would they have?»

Hague hit back, «I think, of what the leader of the Opposition was saying yesterday when he was calling for a debate, which means «I am desperate because the election is slipping away from me and I have nothing else to ask about at all».

More election news from Channel 4 - Gary Gibbon: what the post-election polls tell us - Tony Blair joins the Labour campaign trail - Poll of polls: Still all to play for - Leaders» debate: the verdicts on who won

If — as the pundits suggest — the May 7 election produces another form of coalition government, tensions surrounding what to do about the provision of places for all are likely to increase along with the ongoing debates into local accountability over education.

Republican underdog J.C. Polanco faced Letitia James, the incumbent and a Democrat, at CUNY's Graduate Center in Midtown in what could be the only televised debate before the general election.

They have been rehearsing for weeks in preparation for what will be the first televised debates during a British general election.

Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has weighed into the election debate with a warning about what he says are the dangers of a Labour government being propped up by the SNP.

Ed Miliband: «On this question of what happens after the election, I've got an old fashioned view, let the people decide on May 7th» (Challengers» TV Debate, BBC One, 16 April 2015).

A difficult debate on leadership - election reform is looking fundamental to deciding what kind of party Labour will become.

Unfortunately, this is also an election year, which means that political spin is likely to drown out reasoned debate about what policies are most likely to work in inner - city classrooms.

A new federal survey that says drug use among the nation's teenagers has doubled in the past few years has touched off a bitter election - year debate and left educators wondering what they've done wrong.

In the midst of campaigns and debates for the 2011 Chicago mayoral election, we hear many proclamations and promises about what it means to improve public schools.

But with debates regarding national climate change policy becoming more acrimonious in Washington as midterm elections approach, it is important to ask, what are the real options for climate policy in the United States — not only in 2010, but in 2011 and beyond.

However, what is much more questionable is the need for the prohibition to be extended beyond the main party political debate and outside election periods.

This effect is strongly driven by what happens to the mortgage interest deduction (MID), increasingly a topic of debate during election season.