Sentence examples for electoral tricks from inspiring English sources

Officials had rarely resorted to subversive electoral tricks.

The folks who gave us the Willie Horton ads, the Swift boat campaign, the purges of black voters in Florida and endless other dirty electoral tricks are at it again.

Besides having to compete without its biggest attraction and counter the usual electoral tricks of incumbent governments, the NLD faces an arithmetical challenge: to win more than half the parliamentary seats, it will need more than two-thirds of those contested.

While dirty electoral tricks may not distinguish between ideologies, voters are being asked to make a choice between left and right, at least in some states.

It will be far more significant for the Liberal Democrats to win without an electoral trick.

Rather than treat the meeting as a step toward peace on this heavily militarized peninsula, the main opposition party, the Grand National Party, has all but called the diplomacy a dirty electoral trick.

It is a safe bet that, as a result of that earlier cheap electoral trick, many of the youngsters on whom Cameron and Osborne should be relying on for the referendum will find that, unlike their grandparents, they have not got around to being eligible to vote on the biggest political issue of their young lives.

The steel decision was calamitous, politically as well as economically, because it projected an image of weakness, indeed cravenness, at a time when Mr Bush enjoyed astronomical approval ratings.A darker interpretation is that Mr Rove's pandering is the easy option: it gives him room to dispense favours for clients and perform electoral conjuring tricks for his boss.

Does Cameron – who blows hot and cold about whether he is or is not a Thatcherite – dare dream of repeating her electoral hat-trick?

But he has delayed making crucial changes in an electoral system that lent itself to dirty tricks.

These tricks are an unfortunate part of the electoral process now, and in a sense, speak to the power Hispanic voters now hold over candidates for national office.