Sentences with phrase «republican electoral coalition»

While it's possible Trump would take equally from Clinton and Kasich, given that Know Nothings have been a more - traditional part of the Republican electoral coalition, my guess is that Trump would take disproportionately from Kasich, and thereby hand the election to Clinton.

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With touching concern for the welfare of the Republican Party, an editorial in the very Democratic New York Times warns that abortion is the issue that «could split the party open» and takes Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition to task for having «overplayed his hand» and endangered the Republicans» electoral chances with his demand for pro-life candidates.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

When Democrats last won an electoral majority in 2012, the IDC entered into a coalition with Republicans and blocked them from exercising it.