Sentences with phrase «democratic electorate»

In September, 34 percent of Democratic primary voters backed Zephyr Teachout, who criticized Cuomo as too conservative for the state's Democratic electorate.

Polls show he remains popular among the broader Democratic electorate in New York but he is deeply disliked by an impassioned cohort of liberal activists.

Unlike Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, no Republican visited a public housing complex, and there was little discussion of making housing more affordable or bolstering infrastructure, bread - and - butter issues for an urban Democratic electorate.

This is particularly true in Westchester county, where the mix of people living in transitional housing in Greenburgh and million - dollar homes in Mount Kisco provides a perfect microcosm of the state's Democratic electorate.

Hillary Clinton was the strong frontrunner, with Bernie Sanders in the Paul Tsongas / Bill Bradley role, appealing to a specific segment of the Democratic electorate but otherwise doomed to defeat.

But Wu, along with gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout, have criticized Hochul's record in both Washington and the Erie County clerk's office, pointing to her stances on immigration, gun control and the Affordable Care Act that aren't in line with a broader Democratic electorate.

De Blasio, though beleaguered by scandals and anemic approval ratings, would prove a daunting opponent in a general election thanks to his sizable war chest, Rolodex of union endorsements and an overwhelmingly Democratic electorate.

Not exact matches

Our survey, conducted April 27 through May 2, assessed the existing primary candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties and explored the issues of greatest impact to small - business owners — a significant force in the U.S. economy as well as an extremely engaged segment of the electorate.

This year's elections will reflect some big demographic changes in the American electorate — and we think those changes will shape the GOP presidential ticket more than the Democratic one.

«For a politician who doesn't want to admit that the electorate sent a message that they don't like politicians, it's far easier to scapegoat it on economic issues than it is to address the fundamental question: that there are voters in this country who no longer think their representatives represent them,» said a Democratic strategist involved in 2016.

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

(In some cases, polls have shown the electorate has more confidence in New Democratic Party leader, Jack Layton, than Dion.)

Because they accounted for 12 % of the electorate in 2008, they're an important part of the Democratic base.

Third, abortion advocates, without any doubt, are attempting to further their agenda by using international meetings that have little if any political oversight by, or democratic accountability to, the electorates of the nations attending those meetings.

He was a governor who, facing divided government and a Democratic - leaning electorate, managed to produce a more or less sustainable budget (overwhelmingly through spending cuts) while maintaining core government services.

The first thing was the alleged coming of the «emerging Democratic majority,» which was supposed to be brought about by demographic change and a larger nonwhite share of the electorate.

Not only did Goldwater lose to Democratic candidate Lyndon Johnson in a landslide, he was so unpopular with the electorate — including a plurality of Republican voters — that he crippled his party's candidates all the way down the ticket.

«What the data show,» writes Brown, «is a Democratic primary electorate disproportionately made up of those either not competing in the economic marketplace or protected from it by unions or government service.»

A democratic government responds to the needs and demands of the present electorate, yet the Congress and the president make decisions that will have an impact on a generation of voters in the future.

The Foreign Affairs Minister urged the electorate to have confidence in the President Mahama - led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government and give the party another term to accomplish the many projects being undertaken in the region.

He is in trouble with Latinos, a growing part of the electorate that is tilting even more Democratic than it was four years ago.

But down the road, the web is going to be intertwined into just about all forms of information exchange, and it's only a matter of time before the Republican electorate is as wired as their Democratic rivals....

Surely a country is only truly democratic if all the laws that it passes either have the support of the majority of the electorate, or are passed by a quorum of elected representatives that can justifiably claim to represent that majority?

The vote was both a milestone in Nixon's nascent campaign to become the Democratic nominee for governor and a confirmation of a deepening philosophical and political fissure in New York's liberal electorate.

«The integrity of our American Democratic process must not be violated by foreign actors to disenfranchise the electorate,» Stewart - Cousins said.

The confident, social democratic, anti-austerity message of Nicola Sturgeon was embraced with open arms by an electorate which felt Labour had become Tory - lite.

The Edo electorate, by voting Godwin Obaseki, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, over Osagie Ize - Iyamu, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seemed to have done just that.

A national assembly comprising a statistically significant sample of the electorate is a crucial initial step toward a democratic constitution because political parties tend to serve as interest organizations for politicians or other groups.

She also asserted that Democrats should go after GOP districts in which Congress members spoke out against Trump and won re-election anyway, and which Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won, claiming that there is an «enlightened electorate» voting in those areas.

The voters that turned out in last year's special election, which was an upset victory for Democrat Christine Pellegrino, were older and more Democratic than the electorate in the district.

I can't predict who will be perceived as the winner of tomorrow's faceoff, but I can project the portions of the electorate that Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine and Republican Gov. Mike Pence each will target.

Others are also in the hunt for potential minor party bids who could cut into the vote totals for Democratic and Republican nominees in a year in which polls show some of the electorate is grumpy with traditional politics.

But if the existence of the report was news to you, here's why it is important for democratic principles: when politicians have the power to tax and they use this power, it changes their relationship with their electorate — the people who are taxed.

Very few voters can make a significant outcome to the electorate, undermining the democratic legitimacy of British government.

Stuart Wilks - Heeg, «A tale of two electorates: why some voters are more equal than others», Democratic Audit General Election Briefing No. 2, 5 May 2010.

A FairVote analysis of the 2013 public advocate runoff also showed that the Democratic primary runoff electorate was older, whiter, and wealthier than Democrats overall, and only reflected a 7 percent turnout.

The National Youth Organizer of the NPP, Sammy Awuku in an interview with Citi News earlier accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of «hijacking» state buses to sabotage their plans of facilitating the transportation of electorates to their respective constituencies.

When the Democratic primary electorate rejected Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, Isay (like Schumer, and other Democratic senators) helped Lieberman beat the Democratic nominee in the general.

Labour's Toby Perkins asks what's democratic about having peers elected for 15 years, knowing that they don't have to appeal to the electorate.

He says numerous polls before the election showed that the electorate favored a Democratic - run Senate.

Labour right - wingers look obsessively to a so - called third way formula, which at least, on its own terms, made sense in the post-cold war 1990s but which is irrelevant to the post-crash 2010s and an angry electorate looking for radical change, and which has taken social - democratic parties to oblivion across continental Europe.

And Wu's Taiwanese - Anglo background may appeal to the Democratic primary electorate, especially with local primary races in New York City featuring Asian - American candidates that could turn out supportive voters.

The constituents of the Democratic and Conservative parties seemingly could not be further apart politically, but a common thread now links the voting pattern in both electorates.

Bruce Gyory, an adviser to three Democratic governors and an adjunct professor of political science at the University at Albany, said the conservative base in New York accounts for between 30 to 35 percent of the electorate, and any successful Republican candidate has to address several gaps to have a shot at victory.

According to the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Koku Anyidoho — Ghana will be in a «mess» if the electorates vote for the NPP and its leader, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo in the November presidential polls.

The National Democratic Congress Parliamentary candidate for Domeabra - Obom, Hon Sophia Ackuaku, has rubbished publication by peacefmonline that she is urging electorates to vote «skirt and blouse»

In 2008, none of the political parties had issued its manifesto for study and scrutiny by the electorates at the apogee of the elections i.e. the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), the Peoples National Convention (PNC) and the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP).

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) will never plunge Ghana into war, the party's national chairman Kofi Portuphy has said and urged the electorate to ditch parties that preach disunity within their own party and tear each other apart.

A portion of a statement issued by the former President read: I find it distasteful that aside making ethnocentric references accusing the NPP Presidential candidate of being tribalistic, she also insinuated that because I was the Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the electorate in the Volta Region should vote for the party on that basis.

If he receives the Democratic nomination, 71 % of the electorate would vote for him when up against Republican Rick Lazio.