See all translations. uk â /flÉªk/ us â /flÉªk/. âº to move or hit something with a short sudden movement: He carefully flicked the loose hairs from the shoulders of his jacket. She quickly flicked the crumbs off the table. Horses flick their tails to make flies go away. Windscreen wipers flick from side to side.
Even in the supposed liberal bastion of California, it has been rare since the early 1990s for Democratic candidates to oppose the death penalty. Barbara Boxer, a senator mocked by opponents as personifying the left, supports capital punishment, as does fellow Sen. Dianne Feinstein.eriods marked by higher levels of fear about crime have generally coincided with greater support for capital punishment, and vice versa. The high mark for support came in 1994, when 80% of Americans favored the death penalty, according to the Gallup polling organization, which has asked about the issue since 1936.
Sorting Out Fact From Fiction About Hillary's Iraq War Vote. The then Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, in 2008 hammered her for it. 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders repeatedly hammers her for it. Even some have held up Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump opposition to the Iraq war to hammer her for it. The it is then New York Senator Hillary Clinton's vote for the 2002 Iraq War resolution.