Sentences with phrase «worse than the election»

Not exact matches

Tory platform says no Brexit deal better than bad one UK prime minister Theresa May unveiled the Conservative Party manifesto on Thursday, setting the stage for the general election on 8 June.

Merkel diminished as establishment parties suffer at polls German chancellor Angela Merkel will be forced to cobble together a three - party coalition after her Christian Democratic Union fared worse than expected in Sunday's election.

[In light of his position on gender roles, Piper could not bring himself to endorse Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election, but conceded that «defending abortion is far worse a sin for a man than serving as Vice President is for a woman.»]

Actually, however, the problem with the Calvinist view of election is much worse than being merely unsatisfactory or incomplete.

could be worse, Romney could be a muslim but denies he IS a muslim, but participates in Ramadan in the steps of the Lincoln memorial, but denies he is a muslim and says he is a Christian, but only goes to a Christian church during election times, but we already have one - of - those, so anyone IS subsantially better than one - of - those.

Would I, for the sake of elections, send young Jewish men toward certain death, or into captivity, which is worse than death?»

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Obama blaming the killing of the ambassador on the very county he's supposed to be leading rather than blaming it on Al Qaeda even though that would make him look bad in an election year was completely obvious without the need for FOX news.

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

But the most important lesson for those of us on the trailis that the primaries process itself has been hugely energising for Americans, a country with even worse turnout than Britain in recent elections.

So, what I'm asking is: Is there research or statistics showing whether controversial or «politically incorrect» candidates / parties tend to do better or worse in actual elections than in polls?

It is hard to win elections by constantly repeating that the opponents are bad rather than offering voters a credible alternative.

The context is made all the worse for the coalition by the fact that parties in opposition nationally tend to win more seats in local elections than governing parties.

Worse than being ill - named, such proposals are ill - timed as it is manifestly impossible to act upon them until the constitutional convention is convened following the elections.

I had foolishly assumed that whether I liked them or not, people in government were there because they knew how to do their job but the last 12 months alone have included the decision to hold a snap election that then lost them more seats than a bad IKEA intern, Brexit talks that have mimicked that track Paula Abdul did with a cartoon cat, an offensive defence secretary, an international development secretary who had to resign in order to spend less time on holiday, Boris Johnson sadly continuing to be Boris Johnson and all of that and more culminating in an assurance that everything is fine because now our passports will be blue to match the depression everyone will have in 2018.

The clock towards the next general election is ticking, but the situation is now looking worse, not better, than it did on that morning of optimism in Downing Street's Rose Garden.

While Republicans have been bracing for months for a punishing election in November, they are increasingly alarmed that their losses may be even worse than feared because the midterm campaign appears destined to turn more on the behavior of the man in the White House than any other in decades.

Although no electoral system is perfect, and the UK's First Past the Post method is worse than most, parliamentary elections are a better expression of democracy because unlike a referendum, there is no clear agenda setter: the agenda is contested between parties and candidates, the media, and, increasingly, via the internet, the voters themselves.

Also, range voting satisfies the participation criterion, i.e. casting a sincere vote can never result in a worse election winner (from your point of view) than if you had simply abstained from voting.

In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.

We won 100 fewer seats than them: our worst election performance in almost three decades.

But it could hardly have blown up at a worse moment, coming less than a week before the London mayoral election and elections in Wales, Scotland and English local authorities.

«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..

No wonder, then, that the north - east of England rejected the Conservatives almost as decisively as Scotland at the last election: less than 24 % voted Tory, while Labour — facing its second worst result since 1918 on a national level — won nearly 44 %.

An important thing to note is that European Parliament elections are much worse predictors of success at future general elections than local elections.

Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4.5 %.

This week, the Telegraph's James Kirkup produced an informative graph that showed with only one exception, in every election since 1992 Labour has ended up with worst support on polling day than at the 100 day from the election mark.

The result of this background was that the rerun elections were worse than the Bayelsa bloodbath!

However, in the absence of a leader who can unify the party and make a broad - based electoral appeal, it is possible that the consequences for Labour will be worse than either of the previous splits, especially if there is a general election before the end of the year.

At the same time, Lib Dem voters were the only group to disagree that «what Phil Woolas was accused of was no worse than what goes on all the time in election campaigns».

Conversely, as the most pro-European major party, the Liberal Democrats have typically done much worse in European than general elections or local elections where they do best.

That particular pattern is anything but uncommon; Labour trailed the Conservatives in the 1999 and 2004 EP elections and the Conservatives performed worse than Labour in 1989.

Heading into the final weekend of barnstorming before Election Day, there was a noticeable shift toward the GOP in many key House races while Democrats seem to be getting more good news than bad about the Senate map.

PR seems to me the worst possible alternative system, if it comes with Party List elections a la Germany / Israel rather than District elections.

In Australia too, Tony Abbott has just won the election despite being seen as a worse potential prime minister than his Labor opponent.

But is the party really worse off than previous opposition parties at this point in the election cycle?

At the same time, it had one of the state's larger drops in turnout relative to 2013 and it's one of the handful of places where the Democrat at the top of the ticket performed worse than in its last election.

«We have come to the conclusion that there is no intention on the part of the IEBC to undertake any changes to its operations and personnel... All indications are that the election scheduled for 26 October will be worse than the previous one,» said Odinga.

A new poll suggests the Conservatives will perform poorly at the next election, possibly even worse than in the last two elections.

«Indeed, in the event of a now likely early election there is a real risk we would suffer a worse result than in 2015.

On 8 May, three party leaders announced their resignations within an hour of each other: [199] Ed Miliband (Labour) and Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) resigned due to their parties» worse - than - expected results in the election, although both had been re-elected to their seats in Parliament.

«This mess, created by the board of directors of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, has created worse divisions than Donald Trump's election to the presidency,» said Bronx state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr..

That election was so badly rigged for «Andy» Uba, that he got more votes than the number of registered voters in Anambra state!

And assuming that this trend continues as the economic news gets worse, I am more convinced than ever that the election is a long way off - a view shared by two political editors writing in this morning's papers.

Of course a shadow Chancellor can not, more than 3 years from the next election, make any detailed spending commitments — nor would he be expected to — but, if pressed, he could certainly make clear his intention to redress the worst of the cuts as soon as the economic situation allowed.

A political broadcast on the eve of the election has been described to me by senior Scottish Labour figures as one of the worst they had ever seen: focusing on damning Nicola Sturgeon as a «broken record» rather than emphasising a positive Labour message.

«On my worst day, I think I know a little bit more about terrorist activities in New York City than Mr. Cruz on his best day — the guy hasn't been in Congress in the last year, he's been running for president,» Mr. Bratton said on WABC's Election Central with Rita Cosby this afternoon.

Despite Labour's commitment to half the budget deficit within four years (beginning in 2011 rather than 2010), and their admission that this would entail having to make cuts «worse than Thatcher», Labour politicians were rarely pressed on the subject on «The Andrew Marr Show» throughout the months leading up to the general election - unlike their Conservative opposite numbers, who were regularly pressed on the subject.

The Chancellor is a week away from an emergency Budget and had hoped to advance a clear narrative: that things are much worse than thought, so the cuts will have to be deeper than he had admitted during the election campaign.

They'll also talk about which party will control the state senate after the elections and whether state government is functioning better or worse than in the past.