Sentence examples for electoral implications from inspiring English sources

To Mr. Butler, the electoral implications are obvious.

Few policy decisions are taken without the electoral implications being gamed out.

I wrote earlier about the electoral implications of the defeat of longtime Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana in the Republican primary on Tuesday.

But if you're looking for voting restrictions that afflict minorities in the south and can have major electoral implications, then felon and ex-felon voting laws have a far greater impact than voter identification laws.

But this time, according to a former Iraq adviser to both George W Bush and Obama, the differences between the second and third US wars in Iraq overwhelm their similarities, as do their electoral implications.

Aside from the significance of a senior official's being indicted, the political world in Israel is watching the developments in the Lieberman case with great attention because of its electoral implications.

Best of all for the Democrats, in the eighth district, the Republican candidate, anti-immigrant Randy Graf, is so extreme that the Democrats' Gabrielle Giffords looks an easy victor for the House.The electoral implication is that Arizona's voters as a whole have a more nuanced view of illegal immigration than primary-voting activists.

The idea was that politicians could not be trusted with monetary policy, lest they use their power to boost their electoral chances.The implication was that technocrats were better at running economies than elected officials.

Secondly, the "politics" of policy-making make for an environment where decision-makers are less interested in science, health impact or effectiveness, and more concerned with electoral interests, financial implications, and views of particular communities or groups.

Among sitting MPs who stood for re-election in 2010, the electoral cost of implication in the scandal has so far been estimated at around 1.5percentnt (Curtice et al., 2010; Eggers and Fischer, 2011; Pattie and Johnston, in press).

But it does mean that, from an electoral standpoint, the symbolic implications of the vote outweigh the substantive ones.