Sentences with phrase «winning election strategy»

That's the crucial distinction between strong polling and a winning election strategy: people may support restricting benefits, but to get them to the polling booth you need to give them something to improve their own lot.

Not exact matches

Senate Republicans insisted at the time that the next president should replace Scalia, and the strategy paid off when Trump won the election.

The Green Partyâ $ ™ s previous strategy was to win as many votes as possible across the country to obtain more public funding, build toward future elections, and bring more attention to environmental issues.

According to Jay Cost, Obama is following LBJ's winning strategy: The 1964 election is particularly important to understanding the 2012 campaign.

Elections are won at the water cooler, at the bar, at the dinner table, over the phone and in bed, and Obama's supporters were primed to know the messages, know the strategy and understand the stakes every time his candidacy came up in conversation.

This strategy looks to be focused on the general election because its goal is long - term support - building rather than short - term persuasion or fundraising — the move of a candidate who's willing to invest at least some online money in expanding the pool of supporters, volunteers and (ultimately) donors for the Fall rather than in trying to win Ohio and Texas in a couple of weeks.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

The National Republican Congressional Campaign in a statement knocked Brindisi, linking him to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — a strategy deployed in the special election this month for a Georgia House race won by by GOP candidate Karen Handel.

IMHO cocial media alone can't win elections, but combined with a mature, grassroots - centric data strategy, it becomes quite powerful.

She said that the Democratic Party is in the process of developing its comeback strategy after the decimation it suffered on Election Day and in cycles prior, but argued that the party has to focus on winning back statehouses and start with grassroots organizing.

I've just returned from a remarkable fringe meeting at the party's annual autumn conference, in which Ian Dexter, a Ukip member, former candidate in county and district elections and potential parliamentary candidate for 2015, outlined his strategy for winning over Labour voters.

While the hyper - liberal approach the Schneiderman campaign has adopted might be a risky strategy — particularly when it comes to winning the support of Cuomo, who is clearly concerned the senator's left - of - center ideology will hurt him in the general election against Staten Island DA Dan Donovan — it is one that is being expertly executed.

The EFF was formed only eight months prior to the 2014 election and won 6 % of the vote, attesting to the effectiveness of populism as a voter mobilisation strategy.

He disclosed that the party in 2007 prior to the 2008 elections conducted a research into the political dynamics of the Jomoro area and the strategy that needed to be adopted to win the seat.

Moreover, whereas the 2012 delegates expected the at - that - time - leader Bersani to promote a process of identity reconstruction and grassroots» institutionalization, the 2013 Conference asked Renzi for concrete strategies to win the next General Elections (Martocchia Diodati 2014).

He said the identities of party agents are part of a political party's strategy for winning the elections and therefore can not be revealed too early.

The 2020 sees itself as a policy - focused group that can help complement groups like the 301, who concentrate more on election - winning strategies and tactics to win seats in urban areas, the North, etc..

King called for a December meeting of the full state committee to meet with the potential candidates and to have «a very serious strategy meeting on how we are going to win next year's elections.»

However, his strategy is still being questioned by some within the party following the poor election results, especially after his one - on - one debate with Ukip leader Nigel Farage did not appear to win him much support.

If we are to not only win the next election, but ensure a sustained period of electoral success, then a more medium term strategy is also needed, in addition to the current focus on today's target seats.

* Democratic National Committee: Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's 50 - state strategy appeared to pay off on Election Day when Democrats won in places few expected them too — Kansas's 2nd District and Arizona's 5th District jump immediately to mind.

Notably, to win the primary and general election contests, the Obama campaign adopted strategies from MoveOn.org and the 2004 Howard Dean campaign.52 Dean had used the Web to recruit thousands of «Deaniacs,» organize face - to - face gatherings of his supporters, and raise more than $ 25 million.53

The key to the modernisers» strategy being it involved winning a general election first.

«The strategy paid off, as the Party won all the elective positions in Ogun state without any exception and non of the elections was overturned in any court.

Although he expressed optimism about the chances of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in this year's elections, the President said there was the need for a careful analysis of their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in order to map out the winning strategy.

Most view their gains here as tough fights to hold; the Tories see winning seats against the Lib Dems in places like Cornwall, where the Lib Dems hold all five of the current seats, as part of their election - winning strategy.

More of the same strategy that has failed to win the party a majority in four elections in a row.

The MBA finance and Statistics holder said the party needs leadership with strategies, and hard working officers, who will be committed to move everywhere to deliver the votes for the NPP in the region to win the next elections.»

Her strategy called for cultivating the local Democratic leaders who could be relied on to turn out enough of the faithful to win a special election, traditionally a low - turnout affair.

However, David Davis, a former Conservative Europe minister, said Cameron still faces major challenges in Europe over his negotiating strategy if he wins the election and wants to deliver reforms before arguing to stay in at a referendum in 2017.

«Gordon Brown has a simple strategy to win the next election: to bribe his areas of traditional strength with money pinched from Tory - voting shires.

He asked Atiku to help the party develop a winning strategy that would enable it win the presidential election in 2019.

Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, also rejected suggestions there were any «wobbles» over Ed Miliband's leadership, as party officials insisted the key lesson from Thursday's byelections was that David Cameron no longer has a strategy to win a majority at the next election.

«Unfortunately, this will not produce a winning strategy, especially given that these outside efforts do not have an «on the ground» field component meant to drive voters to the polls on Election Day.

Relieved Liberal Democrats have claimed a narrow victory in the Eastleigh byelection, fending off a surge by Ukip that forced the Conservatives into third place — putting huge pressure on David Cameron to show he has a strategy to win the 2015 election.

Optimism has a good track record as an election - winning strategy.

«To win the next election we've got to win over people who previously voted Tory; the «one more heave» strategy is not going to work — you've got to broaden as well as deepen your appeal,» he said.

Not only has Labour's chairman of election strategy had his power consolidated; he also appears to have won the battle over whether Labour should focus on its core vote or aspiration.

Mr. Mathew Sung - aabu, Upper West Chairman of the NDC, disclosing details of the campaign strategy, said the plan forms part of an agenda to ensure that president John Mahama wins the 2016 election with a wider margin «to discourage the opposition New Patriotic Party from going to court».

The biggest reason is less to do with a solid Labour win in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by - election, or anything the Labour leader has yet done to set out his stall for the year ahead, which will be his task at Saturday's Fabian conference, but is rather the stark difficulty in identifying a plausible re-election strategy for David Cameron.

Third, it should design strategies for winning elections in view of the changes the nation has recorded so far in electoral technologies.

All three leaders from the main parties have hit the campaign trail across Britain today, with Labour leader Gordon Brown tearing up his election strategy and heading to Wales in a bid to win over the anti-Tory majority.

Alongside the strategy Lynton Crosby is developing to win the next Election, we need to think about a long - term plan to rebuild our Party.

My best guess would be that Ms Reeves is premising her strategy on the truism that elections are won in the centre ground.

The Conservatives hope to win an overall majority at the general election next May by adopting a two - pronged strategy.

It should now be clear that Cameron can not win the next election with incremental changes to Tory message or strategy.

The difference between these two strategies could be the difference between Labour winning and losing the election.

As Pete Hoskin explains here, team Miliband's secret plan for the next election is called the «35 per cent strategy» — because 35 per cent of the vote is all that Labour needs to win in 2015.

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Labour's core demographics are far, far less likely to show up and with a small Labour party membership with a virtually non-existent get out the vote strategy the Tories would nearly always win competitive elections by default.