[…] size of that majority has meant that he has already been able to reduce it – by suspending 7 left-wing Labour MPs for having the temerity to vote to end child poverty now! But who is Keir Starmer and what can we expect from his government? Tom Baldwin’s biography is a very sympathetic account […]
[…] with his live performances and his TV shows, Zelensky managed to generate a very unusual level of electoral appeal. As was later demonstrated by postelection analyses, Zelensky’s vote transcended the usual political distributions among different age groups. And yet, more than three-quarters of the Ukrainian electorate admitted they had no idea what Zelensky’s policy […]
[PDF file]: […] and the White Nationalist Agenda Jean Guerrero New York: William Morrow, 2020, $28.99, h/b John Newsinger In the 2020 Presidential election, Donald Trump received the second highest vote in the history of US presidential elections. Incredibly, more than 74 million Americans voted for a crooked, lying, bullying, incompetent, misogynist, racist and authoritarian con-man. He […]
[…] with his live performances and his TV shows, Zelensky managed to generate a very unusual level of electoral appeal. As was later demonstrated by postelection analyses, Zelensky’s vote transcended the usual political distributions among different age groups. And yet, more than three-quarters of the Ukrainian electorate admitted they had no idea what Zelensky’s policy […]
[…] with his live performances and his TV shows, Zelensky managed to generate a very unusual level of electoral appeal. As was later demonstrated by postelection analyses, Zelensky’s vote transcended the usual political distributions among different age groups. And yet, more than three-quarters of the Ukrainian electorate admitted they had no idea what Zelensky’s policy […]
[PDF file]: […] from liberal secularist assault – were to increasingly become the core of Christian Right politics. The Moral Majority claimed to have registered some 3 million Christians to vote in its first year of existence and, at its height, had some 7 million supporters. When Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency against Jimmy Carter in […]
[PDF file]: […] Jim, but not as we want it…… First, the City of London. It was not reformed by the Municipal Reform Act of 1835 and, further, the business vote was abolished in 1969 in all other United Kingdom local authority elections except for the City. A special place indeed. In 2002 16,000 new business voters […]
[PDF file]: […] significant role in a future Labour government, though, he found himself plunged into the whirlpool of London politics, while nationally the war with Argentina rebooted the Conservative vote and saw Thatcher first past the post in June 1983. Opposition Back in the Commons, rather than returning to a ministerial career, Sedgemore found himself in […]
[PDF file]: […] is accepted. It’s totally different from that Little England that Thatcher tried to hold on to.’ I presume these comments were made pre-23 June 2016. The anti-EU vote has much wider ramifications – and not least the politics of those who successfully propelled us to the result. For many who supported the struggle for […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘an answer to prayer’. (p. 15) The result was that Trump received the votes of ‘more than 80 percent of the white born-again Christians’ with the evangelical vote counting ‘for nearly a third of all the votes cast for Trump’ (p. 26). He quotes Pastor Robert Jeffress to the effect that millions of Christian […]
