— DAVID CARR On Election Night, "coattails" can also mean a marketer's trying to get noticed by using election language in ads.
To put that in Presidential election language, what does that mean for hardworking, middle class, average, families who are sitting around the kitchen table playing by the rules?
By Jeffrey Frank June 30 , 2015Seventeen months before the general election, the language from the Presidential candidates, such as Marco Rubio, has been unnervingly free of thought.
Second, it should develop a standardized data system, analogous to its election markup language (EML), to facilitate the exchange of petition data.
The vice president also took the opportunity to refresh controversial claims that China is "meddling" in the U.S. midterm elections, echoing language often used to describe Russia's substantiated election interference efforts.
It was a performance aimed both at an American audience whose skepticism toward China has been compounded by election-year language, and at an audience back home whose cynicism toward its Communist rulers can also run deep.
The ads wouldn't use election-related language (no "vote for so and so"), but they would point out all the flaws and virtues of candidates around key issues.
In the midst of an election season, the language represents a political challenge of sorts to the administration's critics.
Just add your favourite examples below this blogpost, or on subsequent Mind your language election posts over the next few weeks.
Cases with special resonance for Hispanics may not have quite the same profile as cases concerning religion, race and gender, but the Supreme Court will nonetheless face several of them in the years to come, particularly in the areas of immigration, election law and language education in the public schools.
He also had some things to say about the still-unresolved state races in Arizona, its record number of provisional ballots, the misinformation about the date of the election in Spanish-language materials and how it all smelled of voter suppression.
