What's the difference between campaigning and electioneering?
Campaigning
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Electioneering
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(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Electioneer
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(1) But perhaps their most provocative piece of electioneering was an A6 election card with a photo of Muslim extremists holding up a placard reading: "Behead those who insult Islam".
(2) His party colleague Gerry Kelly, who bombed the Old Bailey in 1973, accused unionists of electioneering by threatening to pull out of the Northern Ireland government.
(3) In 2012, the station made millions from electioneering candidates who suddenly needed to buy $1,600 spots on old daytime re-runs in the few weeks before the polls opened.
(4) Livingstone, the Labour candidate in the London mayoral election, originally denied he had made the comments at a meeting earlier this month and accused critics of "electioneering".
(5) Labour’s surge to 38% in the poll, its best performance under Corbyn’s leadership, came after weeks of electioneering that had seen the party’s share of the vote slowly grow.
(6) "We are not allowed to do any campaigning or electioneering, and we don't.
(7) But back in Britain it was condemned as a cheap electioneering stunt, as Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary, pointed out that some of the troops had returned already.
(8) It has been an embarrassing exercise in terms of electioneering.” The writer fears that Nigeria’s multi-millionaire tycoons will continue to call the tune.
(9) So he declared “I’m a good Christian” and that if he became president “we’re going to be saying merry Christmas”, but then he couldn’t stop himself from acknowledging the cleverness of his Christian electioneering: “I walked on to a stage with a Bible, everybody likes me better.” Trump brought meta to Burlington, Iowa.
(10) It also targeted so-called "electioneering communications", ads that name a candidate within 30 days of a primary or caucaus or 60 days of a general election.
(11) Back then, before the horror struck, Labour campaigners were enthusiastic over the response to My Nearest Marginal , an electioneering website launched by Momentum, the grassroots group of Jeremy Corbyn supporters.
(12) They learned from their mistakes in 2012.” In 30 years of observing North Carolina politics I’ve never seen the Republicans with such a sophisticated ground game But the advances it made in the mechanics of data-driven electioneering is just one part of a GOP success story that saw the party sweep to victory in eight out of nine key Senate races, regain control of the upper chamber, triumph in crucial gubernatorial contests and expand its control over the House of Representatives.
(13) This statement provoked anger not only among Muslims, who felt they were being used as an electioneering tool, but also Jews whose kosher meat follows the same ritual ways of killing as halal meat.
(14) Dadaab closure: how 600,000 refugees got caught up in Kenya’s electioneering Read more But Ruto said: “Why would we go back on this?
(15) If the allegations involving Russia are true, there are plenty more logical motivations besides evil genius-level electioneering, and the media should probably stop feigning shock that a country would stoop to this level.
(16) Not clear if it's because of child confidentiality or a ban on electioneering – but risk for Labour is wasting a chunk of the PM's time on an event no one will see.
(17) But as well as driving campaign efforts around the country, Momentum may be changing the dynamics of electioneering.
(18) The Supreme Court reversed the lower court's ruling and struck down those provisions of the Act that prohibited all corporations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, and unions from broadcasting "electioneering communications".
(19) The court upheld a number of the act's key provisions, including disclosure requirements on "electioneering communications".
(20) There follows a disingenuous explanation of benefits policy and a fake poll: this form of electioneering called push-polling, much used by Mitt Romney's campaign, purports to poll but simply plants propaganda.