Sentences with phrase «for middle class voters»

For middle class voters to be backing the Labour manifesto isn't a total shock - it protected 95 % of people from tax rises whilst spending big on schools and the NHS - but for them to vote for Corbyn is a much bigger deal.

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It's the Conservative response to a broad appeal for those ill - defined «middle class» voters both Liberals and New Democrats covet.

Sanders also appeals to the capacity of middle class voters to exercise their political freedom, calling for them to join him in fundamentally remaking our political economy: If we really want to, we can overthrow the moral limitations of capitalism and usher in a more just future.

It isn't the fault of Republican primary voters that the Huntsman campaign combined seeming contempt for the Republican electorate with a middle - class tax increase and huge tax cuts on high earners.

«President Clinton will highlight the choice voters face in the upcoming midterm elections, and emphasize the need to continue moving the country forward by electing strong Representatives like Hinchey who are fighting for middle class families — not the wealthy special interests.»

As an immediate response to Labour's losing a considerable number of those middle - class voters, Tony Blair and his close aides, such as Peter Mandelson and David Miliband attacked Ed Miliband for ditching their policy of aspiration.

Imagine, for instance, a typical voter profile: in this case, imagine a young female independent who has voted in a given set of elections and lives in a middle class neighborhood.

Kinderhook, N.Y. November 1, 2016... With open enrollment for Obamacare beginning today, voters should know that its rates are skyrocketing for New York's struggling middle class: They'll go up another 16.6 percent on average in New York and upwards of 25 percent elsewhere, yet liberal New York City professor and NY - 19 congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout wants to expand the failing program even more, the campaign of fiscally responsible congressional candidate John Faso today noted.

«The time to go the record is now members of the Senate, the process of purging the Senate of corruption can't start soon enough for the voters of NYS» Mike Flynn «Middle Class Mike»

Approximately 161 Labour - held constituencies voted to Leave the EU, while only 70 voted to Remain, and C1 C2 DE (lower middle - class and working - class) voters all delivered majorities for Leave.

In the tradition of Jacob Javits, Robert Wagner and Herbert Lehman — and in contrast to Charles Schumer, the Senate Democrats» de facto chief national electoral strategist, who has devoted much of his public - facing energy to aggressively nonideological battles for middle - class swing voters — Kirsten Gillibrand is going to be the liberal Senator from New York.

Cuomo said Democrats failed to articulate a vision for the middle class and, from a voter perception standpoint, focused too heavily on the poor.

The Democratic Party failed to retain the presidency and make electoral gains last year because they didn't give voters «anything to vote for» in November and failed to boost middle class issues, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a fundraiser on Monday night.

Many lower middle class voters believe that they work hard and don't take welfare - or are refused it - while others get something for nothing.

In making his pitch for Paid Family Leave and a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage on Long Island today, Cuomo said voter anger in the presidential primaries comes from frustrated middle class voters who are dealing with stagnant wages and rising property taxes.

«White ethnics, middle class voters, independents — the real heart of the Bloomberg and Giuliani days — either didn't vote for him or did because de Blasio's rivals were so uninspiring or they were tired of Bloomberg,» said Dan Gerstein, a political consultant and analyst.

Weakly aligned voters, especially the young to middle - aged, educated, middle - class citizens that dominate online politics, may be looking for something resembling a movement for reform.

«Last night voters selected an outstanding crop of Republican candidates for the State Legislature who will fight for the middle class and get New York's economy growing again.

Trump tried to remind voters of his plan to cut taxes for the middle class during a speech in Detroit, but economists said the few details he offered only made his proposals more confusing.

«New York must continue to lessen the burden of property taxes for all residents, lift middle - class families up out of challenging times, and empower voters to engage their local leaders to make real, positive fiscal change,» Cuomo said.

«We intend on changing that by sending another Republican to Washington to fight for our working class and middle class voters, building on the GOP victories of last year with Congressman Michael Grimm and Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis beating incumbents to take seats in Congress and the NYS Assembly.»

Something that could — as in 1945, 1966 and 1997 — unite working - class and middle - class voters around a vision for society.

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

Crudely put, Britain is increasingly Southern and middle class; for Labour to win they need to appeal to southern, middle class voters as well as their traditional working class supporters.

«Voters in New York's 19th District are fiercely independent — backing President Obama in 2008 and 2012 — and they will back a Democrat who fights for the middle class,» the statement continued.

This would have broken the stranglehold of floating voters in Middle England marginals over the political centre of gravity, and would have rewarded Labour for mobilising support in its working - class heartland seats.

The C2 voters who walked away will bear the brunt of Conservative thrift, the once - Blairite middle classes are contemplating the scrapheap, and Lib Dem supporters are appalled that Nick Clegg has become the Trojan horse for Tory cuts.

His address should be praised for bringing class — always a loaded word in this country — back into mainstream discussion, at a time John Prescott's claim that «we're all middle class now» looks increasingly hollow to a lot of voters.

If the Conservatives need to worry about still being seen as a party that cares only for the rich, Labour need to beware of potential middle class Labour voters seeing the party as one only for the dispossessed and poor.

Of those voters YouGov deems middle - class, 52 % are voting for remain, and just 32 % for leave.

The analysis, for the Fabian Society, shows that Labour lost six votes from lower - income voters for every vote it lost among the professional middle classes.

In contrast, supporters of his brother say David Miliband would attract voters away from the coalition with a platform less alienating for the middle and upper class.

The new bill walks away from Trump's campaign promises not to cut the associated Medicaid scheme for the poor, and of «insurance for everybody»; abandons the Republican Party's explicit promise of relief from steep policy premiums and high deductibles; and breaches its explicit promise that millions would not lose their insurance — all of which, Trump is reportedly being warned by loyalists, would fracture his coalition of working and middle - class voters, many of whom are older and get by on federal aid.