Two
years before the last election the polls pointed to a huge Tory majority — and we know how that turned out.
The disconnect between people and politicians that was so palpable in that angry
year before the last election will not be bridged by a new voting system alone.
Not exact matches
Before Trump fired him in early May, Comey oversaw the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to interfere in
last year's presidential
election.
A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months
before last year's
election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.
«I think if you weren't skeptical of Trump
before the
election, you might be a little naive, but if you afterward you still remain «Never Trump,» I think you're trying to ignore what happened
last year,» he said.
The two that drew the biggest criticism
last year: an unprecedented press conference in which he chastised Clinton for using a private server but ultimately cleared her of criminal wrongdoing; and a letter to Congress announcing that he was effectively reopening the case 11 days
before the
election.
Macron's campaign was hacked shortly
before the presidential
election last year, but, thanks to France's
election - silence law, it didn't have anywhere near the impact of the hack of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016
election in the U.S..
Near the end of June, the VIX was around 11 %, which is historically low and about half where it was just days
before last year's presidential
election.
While at the firm, Bannon began preparing for the 2016
election two
years in advance, according to Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who testified
before House Democrats in a closed - door session
last month.
The spending legislation, which was viewed as the
last opportunity this
year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions
before the midterm
elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.
The most recent notable exception was Ken Kowalski, who retired
before the
last election after 33
years as a PC MLA (and his three decade long political career in provincial politics is very uncommon).
Hoping to ease the turmoil amid calls for the premier's resignation and the threat of an MLA revolt, senior PC Party officials gathered in Calgary
last weekend and imposed an ambiguous «work plan» on Ms. Redford, essentially putting their leader on probation two
years before the next
election.
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the average 30 -
year fixed mortgage rate was 3.54 percent just
before last November's
election.
Before last year's
election, the B.C. Liberal government pledged that the B.C. Place project would cost $ 365 million.
Campaigning for the French presidency
last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice
before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this
election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»
It was November
last year, shortly
before the
election.
Were you this upset when the media reported on Jerimiah Wright
before the
election last year?
and after listening to my local priest proclaim that he was a Republican during his homilies and after getting a
last minute «YOU know who your pastoral conscience suggests you vote for» at the
last mass
before the
election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the
election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE FOR.
A few days
before the US
election last year, new figures showed a rise in the number of jobs, though simultaneously the number registered as unemployed...
A few weeks
before last year's presidential
election, Mitt Romney held a high - profile meeting in North Carolina with the Reverend Billy Graham, patron saint of American Evangelicals.
«If we had this conversation four
years ago
before the
last mayoral
election, we would have been talking about nurses, porters and bus drivers not being able to live in London.
A hospital reconfiguration near to my home was put on hold for up to a
year before the General
Election last year and, on occasion, this was justified due to «purdah».
Former chairman Patrick McLoughlin took much of the heat for the disastrous general
election campaign and reportedly wanted to stand down
last year,
before being persuaded to go out in the January reshuffle.
A review by Sir Eric Pickles into
last year's general
election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat before the next scheduled General Election on 5th May 2022
election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat
before the next scheduled General
Election on 5th May 2022
Election on 5th May 2022».
Whereas, sixty - nine
years later and three
years before the 19th Amendment was ratified, women in New York won that right on
Election Day, November 6, 1917; to commemorate this important heritage, the New York State Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the
lasting legacy of women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy today; and
Last week, the Kentucky Republican hired Shane Noem, a senior political aide, to begin laying the groundwork for his campaign, nearly 2 1/2
years before Election Day, Pure Politics in Kentucky reported.
A federal judge ruled
last year that New York's traditional date for the primary, the second Tuesday of September, occurs too late for military absentee ballots to be processed
before the general
election.
Yet Liberal Democrat strategists, who had drafted a «confidence and supply» agreement for either Labour or the Tories
before last year's
election, admit the idea could be revived for the «decoupling phase» ahead of the next one.
Speaking
before the publication of his anticipated political memoir, written after his party was reduced to eight seats in
last year's general
election, Clegg hit out at David Cameron and his Conservative partners in government.
The Chief Imam observed that
before the general
election last year, Ghanaians, including Muslims, prayed to Allah to make a choice of who to govern the country, adding, «He gave us Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.
Stone's long - awaited appearance
before the committee is shaping up to be a combative confrontation with Democratic committee members who have publicly accused him of being a key player in Russian efforts to meddle in
last year's presidential
election.
Hoffman, running on the Conservative Party line in a special
election last year, came within 4,000 votes of defeating Owens after Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the race on the weekend before Elect
election last year, came within 4,000 votes of defeating Owens after Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the race on the weekend
before ElectionElection Day.
Jeffries answered first, tentatively, specifically targeting State Senator Jesse Hamilton, whose district overlaps with his own and who joined the IDC just
before Election Day
last year.
Before covering education, she covered the 2013 mayoral
election and the
last two
years of the Bloomberg administration.
Mr Harpham had won the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough seat at
last year's general
election and grilled David Cameron over 100 job losses in Sheffield steel at Prime Minister's Questions just two weeks
before he died.
He left Labour when he was 18, but rejoined
before last year's leadership
election.
The clash came a week
before the government's pre-Budget report, the
last before next
year's
election.
* Given their current fundraising trajectory — they have outraised the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in each of the
last four months and have raised more money than any of the federal campaign operations so far this
year — there is a belief that the NRCC can collect $ 12 million more
before the
election.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to appear
before the Senate Intelligence Committee less than one week after James Comey told the committee he could not discuss openly certain information about Sessions» recusal from the investigation into Russia's
election meddling
last year.
Before this
year, GM's largest donation to Cuomo had been $ 3,500 — back in 2011 — and the only other funding his campaign received from the firm was for $ 3,000
last year, according to state Board of
Election filings.
There were about 7,400 votes
before absentee ballots were counted, versus 9,500 in the
last mayoral
election four
years ago.
Democrat Susan Guinn is effectively tied with Republican county Assessor / Recorder / Clerk Ernie Dronenburg as his challenge of same - sex marriage
last year is heavily influencing voter opinion, according to a poll that also found nearly half of respondents undecided just days
before the
election.
The New York City Board of
Elections reportedly admitted violating
election laws by purging 200,000 voters from its rolls
before last year's presidential primary.
For some it's fear of what further cuts could do, for example damaging growth in the
last two
years before an
election or leading to costly mistakes like the West Coast rail franchise debacle.
Mr Cameron wants to focus this
year's party conference, the
last before the general
election, on «getting Britain working».
In
last year's
election cycle Americans had to wait until the closing days of the campaign
before Democrats running for office in states like Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina began the usual left - wing race baiting.
Manlius lawyer Irene Aurora Flores knows she waited too long — only six months
before election day — to seriously challenge William Fitzpatrick in
last year's district attorney's race.
The Guardian has reported that membership jumped from 201,293 on 6 May
last year, the day
before the general
election, to 388,407 on 10 January.
Whomever he picks would serve for two
years,
before a special
election would be held in November 2010 to decide who fills out the
last two
years of Clinton's term.
He said he believed Labour could succeed in areas such as the south west, which were Liberal Democrat strongholds
before the party collapsed at
last year's general
election.