Sentences with phrase «against conservative opponents»

Oakeshott warned that 39 out of the Liberal Democrats» 57 MPs had held their seats against Conservative opponents only with the help of significant numbers of Labour voters.

You can't use the hermeneutical diversity canard whenever it suits against a conservative opponent, and then conveniently forget it for yourself.

[226] She barely survived a primary against a conservative opponent, then lost badly in the general election to incumbent Democrat Philip A. Hart.

Not exact matches

Top allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Bannon, the head of the far - right website Breitbart News who pledged to run opponents against McConnell - backed candidates whom Bannon deemed not sufficiently conservative.

Perhaps coincidentally, Flake is doing badly against his Republican primary opponent, even though her behavior is a reminder that the best argument against conservative populism is the people who run as conservative populists.

66 Labour MPs voted against Maastricht, including, in Bryan Gould, the only resignation from either front bench in order to do so, and outnumbering Conservative opponents by three to one.

Suffolk County Conservative Chairman Ed Walsh is calling on Chris Cox to drop his bid for Congress in Long Island's 1st CD and back one of his two primary opponents, Randy Altschuler, reasoning it has become clear Cox «does not have a viable path to victory» against the Democratic incumbent, Rep. Tim Bishop.

GOP US Senate hopeful Bruce Blakeman was in Western NY yesterday, and spent some time during an editorial board meeting at The Buffalo News to attack his primary opponents, casting them as too liberal to run on the Republican and Conservative lines against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Kathy Hochul, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, went on the attack against Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino, saying the GOP opponent and his running mate are too conservative and his portrayal of the state as economically troubled and dysfunctional is too pessimistic.

And he'll probably win a second term in November against a conservative Republican opponent.

This involves separate claims about his failure to declare the expenses of senior Conservative aides who were based full - time the constituency helping to orchestrate the campaign against his opponent, Nigel Farage, then Ukip leader.

(CNN)-- Rep. Travis Childers, D - Mississippi, is locked in a dead heat with Republican opponent Alan Nunnelee in a race that has pitted a self - described incumbent with an «independent voice» against a state senator who is taking him to task for not being fiscally conservative.

Abortion is also a political wedge issue against the Governor's republican opponent Rob Astorino who Cuomo has attempted to portrayed as an «ultra conservative».

That rare Conservative endorsement of a Democratic candidate put Myer over the top against his Republican opponent.

In a swipe at Paul's Republican primary opponent, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, Bunning said Paul is the only conservative running in Kentucky who will take a principled stand against «the liberals and establishment politicians that run Washington» and «who believes in traditional values and the rights of the unborn.»

«We're prepared to fight back and that means against our political opponents in the Conservative Party, and not amongst ourselves.»

The governor, in his final pitch to voters, defined his GOP opponent Astorino as an «ultra conservative» who he says is against many social issues that Democrats are for, including a woman's right to choose abortion.

Poll shows large majority back upper house change but Conservative opponents open up new attack against Lib Dem leader's plans

Before the Heidcamp era, when Dorothy Dederick was chairwoman of the Saugerties Conservative Party, she did her utmost to ensure November Republican election victories by pushing Republican candidates at the Conservative caucus against their Democratic opponents.

There was intrigue about Democrat - endorsed candidate Chris Allen's bold write - in campaign against opponent Angie Minew for her Republican, Conservative and Independence lines.

The two - term Republican from Oneida County began campaigning in early May against his opponent from the right, conservative Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, of New Hartford.

That is certainly true of Canada where Conservatives, for example, recently launched an internet campaign against their opponents» carbon tax.

The true opponents of progress are conservatives who fight tooth and nail against new ideas, only to end up declaring «of course, it was my idea all along».