Sentences with phrase «appealing to voters»

But his prospects would be better served by appealing to voters who are anxious for strong climate action.

And it's appealing to voters because it directly penalizes the polluters.

UtahPolicy.com has learned that some lawmakers are considering legislation to boost school funding next year in an attempt to try and make the Our Schools Now tax hikes less appealing to voters.

For the short term, some districts are turning to other resources — like the business community — or appealing to voters to help them get by.

He knew Labour had a problem appealing to voters who believed Labour was wedded to high taxes, dominated by the unions and weak on defence.

Politicians gathering at the autumn conferences are struggling to find ways of appealing to voters while bearing bad news about the economy.

Teachout garnered 34 % of the Democratic primary vote (181,000 votes) by running on a progressive platform, appealing to voters furious with Governor Cuomo's record.

If Labour doesn't start appealing to voters who value family, tradition, work and country then the party will never — ever — win again.

It should be up to parties to make themselves sufficiently appealing to voters that they want to support them, and many of us would deeply resent being made to fund a political movement we find repugnant (and I'm not even thinking of the ghastly extremist parties!).

So, while these are hypothetical questions that need to be taken with a pinch of salt, it does suggest that appealing to those voters who really are set against Brexit could be a route back for the Lib Dems, especially if they are the lone «anti-Brexit» party.

She also has a history of appealing to voters across the political spectrum, and would be an amazing representative in Congress for this district.»

There's a genuine difference of opinion between the Cuomo and de Blasio administration on charters, but the move also stands to benefit Cuomo politically: Along with his opposition to the pre-K tax hike, it cements the governor's position as a moderate bulwark against the more liberal de Blasio on education, appealing to voters outside the city and preemptively shutting down a potential area of attack by his Republican challenger as he runs for re-election.

By seeking to prevent Momentum from pushing for a more left - wing Labour Party, the moderates want to continue appealing to those voters who are disengaged from the political process yet vote based on a range of real world issues.

Tories involved in the campaign have said that the party HQ told Tory canvassers not to bother appealing to voters between 18 and 24 because they «weren't on the dataset».

And we need to get control over spending and we have to support job creators,» Foley said, appealing to voters who want to see a change in state government.

His point that the party is now unable to claim «we're all in this together» is just another way of saying that the Tories can no longer claim to be appealing to voters outside of their narrow core support.

Ms Baldwin is appealing to voters is to back her as the best way of keeping Gordon Brown out of Downing Street.

We are also appealing to any voters who encountered any barriers to the ballot box, including misinformation and lack of interpretation services, to call - in to a voter hotline we have established and help us document voter suppression complaints.»

The political use of Hindutva has survived several court cases, most notably a major one in 1995 brought by those who felt that its allure was primarily religious in nature and hence violated India's constitution, which prohibits candidates from appealing to voters exclusively on religious grounds.

«While in opposition, Tsipras claimed that inexperience was «a moral advantage,» one quite effective in appealing to voters that were deeply disappointed by the political establishment of the last 40 years,» said Karamouzi.

Being a Washington outsider may, in fact, ultimately be more appealing to voters than a CEO's actual business experience.

Haiti was rocked by Hurricane Matthew in October, just weeks after Trump appealed to voters in Miami.

In an issue that many Americans care about, given the many mass shootings that have occurred in the past few years, Clinton was able to appeal to voters who want to see more serious gun control legislation.

She was of course talking about «The Apprentice,» the NBC reality show hosted by Trump that was a giant hit when it premiered in 2004 and is still very much at the core of his appeal to his voters (though after 14 seasons, he's now off the show for good).

He is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year, and knows he will have to appeal to voters beyond his own party in a race against the incumbent Democrat, Bill Nelson.

The Bush administration imposed tariffs ranging from 8 % to 30 % on a variety of steel products, in part to make good on a campaign promise designed to appeal to voters in the Rust Belt states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Despite Trump's appeal to voters who feel they've been left behind by an economy that has given them limited job prospects, weak job markets have generally favored Democrats in past general elections.

Political leaders have always been keenly aware that religious traditions represented a reservoir of potential support and frequently appealed to voters on the basis of religious values.

The chance to meet the seven candidates and get answers to questions about the proposed district is meant to appeal to voters who have not made up their minds.

Mr Brown appealed to voters to take the long view, predicting people would see the decisions taken on the economy are the right decisions in the long - term.

More recently, Labour MP Andy Burnham characterised the ethos of Britain Stronger In Europe, the official campaign to keep Britain in the EU, as «too much Hampstead and not enough Hull», lamenting the group's inability to appeal to voters in Labour's traditional heartlands.

There are two parts to achieving that, and Dan concentrates on the need for coherent policies that appeal to voters.

For politicians brought up in this culture, it is not surprising that they should appeal to voters in the referendum on that basis: will they be # 500 pa better off or # 1,000 pa worse off if Scotland becomes independent?

The party was renamed the «Reform Party» as a way to broaden its appeal to voters on issues such as term limits and stopping corruption, Astorino has said.

However, in a direct election, every vote would count equally and candidates would have an incentive to appeal to all voters, not just those strategically located in swing states.

Much has been written over recent years about the rise of political marketing and the increasingly calculated way in which politicians craft messages designed to maximise appeal to voters.

A major factor in Jeremy Corbyn's appeal to voters in the recent leadership election — and potentially to the wider electorate as well — was his brave assertion that austerity was the wrong response to recession and was doing absolutely avoidable damage to both economic performance and social cohesion.

On his appointment, Miliband told Livermore explicitly that he did not intend to reshape his political project — but Livermore privately hoped that his new role signalled a willingness by Miliband to change course and «pick up the pace» of the campaign's efforts to appeal to voters.

Lisa Nandy, the MP for Wigan, warned that losing ground in Bolton, Dudley and her own seat of Wigan underlined the fact that Labour's message was failing to appeal to voters in towns where years of job losses had eroded the sense of community.

So Cuomo and de Blasio may have limited appeal to voters, but can be important in delivering a small core of reliable primary voters to Clinton, Bose said.

Farage is likely to make an appeal to voters who feel Labour's leadership have taken them for granted, particularly those with grievances about the impact of immigration on their local area.

For these reasons it is unclear how exactly the Liberal Democrats will craft a distinctive identity likely to appeal to voters and maximise electoral support.

The rhetoric, which President Sarkozy also employed when he was first running four years ago, is partly a result of France's two - part electoral system, which forces candidates to appeal to voters on the extremes of their political wing in the first round before making a pitch for the centre in the second round run - off.

In a clear appeal to voters on the left of the party, Smith said: «New Labour tried so hard to make sure it didn't alienate the powerful that I'm afraid too many people in our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challenge.

They hoped to appeal to voters who might not otherwise support them.

He said an outsider who wants to reform government, and knows what it's like to run a business, could have appeal to voters from all parties, including independents.

At his cabinets, it was absolutely forbidden to discuss in front of Gordon Brown his chronic failure to present a personality or fashion a vision with appeal to voters, his lack of capacity to run an orderly and collegiate government with a coherent long - term strategy and his crippling inability to remedy any of these flaws, whatever help he was offered.

But now some Republicans are raising red flags over DeFrancisco, the Senate's deputy majority leader, saying he will be viewed as an Albany insider who will have little appeal to voters looking to reform a broken state government.

Many voters still recalled that, on the occasion of Obi's re-election in 2010, a frail Ojukwu still made a passionate appeal to the voters, adding that a vote for Obi was a vote for him (Ojukwu).

The Social Democrats were a centrist party and launched an appeal to voters on that basis.