Since the election, criticisms have been lobbed at Corrin Rankin, who only just became chair of the California Republican Party in March; former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who led one of the main opposition campaigns; former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who only tepidly opposed Proposition 50; and the national Republican Party. The No' campaign suffered from a disadvantage that no amount of money could fix: A lack of recognizable leadership for people to rally around,
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"We will have a decision on Saturday, and I think Sinn Féin's participation will be a game changer in this election. It'll be very much game on," Ms McDonald said. "We're going to be very active in this important campaign it, which starts, by the way, on the 24th of September, with the close of nominations. Then there will be four weeks or a bit more, of active campaigning, plenty of time for people to make up their minds," she added.
I really want this Labour government to succeed, and sometimes that means having the difficult conversations, she said in her email to constituency Labour parties. I won't snipe from the sidelines. But when we get things wrong, I have the guts to say we need to change course. We need to listen to the country, and our movement. When we don't, we make mistakes that overshadow our achievements. That's how we succeed and that's where our strength lies.
There's a perpetually simmering debate in the chattering classes of American politics over the validity of polling, or more precisely, the perceived overreliance on polling. This discourse is most common among ideologues who fear that politicians and their advisers will happily sell out the cause in an unwholesome pursuit of that soulless tyrant the "median voter," even though that involves the abandonment of principles and constituencies. And it's exacerbated, of course, whenever polls fail
Emails obtained by San José Spotlight show Teresa Alvarado, a regional vice president of the Bay Area's $40 billion power utility, ran meetings three times a week with campaign volunteers to discuss fundraising, endorsements, mail and media strategy for Chavez-Lopez.
