Sentences with phrase «by liberal voters»

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I read a terrific study by Richard Charnin, who is a mathematician, a liberal Democrat, an eccentric but brilliant guy, who concludes on the basis of the exit polls and the actual vote on a precinct - by - precinct basis that the swing can not be that wide without widespread voter fraud.

Past Conservative voters who own small businesses view this proposal as unfair by nearly seven - to - one, and they are joined in this opinion by a plurality of Liberal - voting business owners (43 %), as seen in the following graph:

In a 1992 by - election following the resignation of Airdrie - Three Hills PC MLA Connie Osterman, voters in that riding elected Liberal Don MacDonald by a 24 % margin.

Meanwhile, a poll of Calgary - Centre voters conducted by Forum Research for the Huffington Post showed the Conservatives with 44 % support, the Liberals with 21 %, the New Democrats with 14 % and the Green Party with 12 %.

The media that most persuadable voters consume is largely produced by socially liberal journalists and entertainers.

It is represented in our day by liberal arts colleges, the Masons, Rotary, life insurance, Religion in American Life, the Anti-Defamation League, the League of Women Voters, Reader's Digest, the Jaycees, the Pro-Choice Movement, Robert Schuller, the WCTU, Common Cause, savings banks, the Moral Majority, William Buckley, the Institute for Religion and Democracy - and many preachers of the mainline denominations.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

The Liberal Democrats have been making a concerted effort to oust Kate Hoey out of Vauxhall mainly by alerting voters to the fact that Hoey spent much of the EU referendum hanging out with Nigel Farage.

Some analysts have provided interesting evidence to suggest that online polls could be significantly overstating support for Leave through the way they handle undecided voters and by failing to represent more socially liberal voters who are harder to reach.

Until now, even the most eager, and unemployed, floating voter is unlikely to have seen even one of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders up close and personal, let alone, as they will be in the debates, not speechifying but tested and challenged live by their fiercest rivals.

In an independent Scotland governed by the SNP, Labour voters in Glasgow or Liberal Democrats in the Shetlands could make exactly the same complaint.

Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but

Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but its leaders did as much as David Cameron and George Osborne to brand Labour as spendthrift and irresponsible — Nick Clegg by playing up the comparison between the UK and Greece, David Laws by brandishing the now - notorious note from Liam Byrne.

The answer is for the left to win arguments with real people and stop is time honoured Fabian strategy of, manipulating the system to vastly exaggerate the power held by a small minority whilst simultaneously complaining about their inability to concentrate even more power with Left Liberal courtiers via PR What the left hate and what they can not admit is that their leaders despise the views of many of their voters, perhaps a majority.

By contrast, only about half of moderate or liberal Republicans were likely voters, according to Pew's model.

But thanks to the Conservative - Lib Dem measure to raise fees to # 9000 per year, many erstwhile Liberal Democrat voters feel betrayed by the policy reversal, and students most of all.

The government is struggling to craft a motion that satisfies Liberal Democrat MPs — who in many cases owe their seats to anti-Iraq-war defections from Labour in 2005 — as well as little England Tory backbenchers who, nudged by Ukip's anti-intervention stance yesterday, fear that Nigel Farage speaks for their voters better than Cameron does.

Nick Clegg has urged voters to give the Liberal Democrats another chance, after admitting his party have been tainted by government.

If voters believe Cameron's tendentious claim that his party has moved closer to Clegg's they might find it easier to vote Conservative in seats currently held by the Liberal Democrats.

In other words, he tends to be precisely the left - behind voter who was once solidly Labour but who now feels economically insecure — and abandoned by Labour's middle - class, cosmopolitan and liberal values.

Sure enough, Ferguson won easily in the traditional Liberal Democrat manner by ensuring that anti-Labour voters realised that it was a two horse race and persuading Tory and Lib Dem supporters to back him.

An open letter was published by a group called #LibDems4Change urging fellow party members to elect a new leader «who will get a fair hearing from voters about Liberal Democrat achievements and ambitions for the future».

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.

She also explained that while Nick Clegg took a risk with his reputation in participating in the debates, his initiative for the debates could be explained by the Liberal Democrat's need to appeal to traditional Liberal Democrat voters, who tend to be more pro-European; and many of those voters turned away from the Liberal Democrats when the party entered coalition in 2010.

Lindsay won a three - way race in 1969 against two conservative candidates by cobbling together a coalition of liberal, moderate Jewish and emerging minority voters.

When David Cameron first entered Downing Street in 2010, his position in the Lords was protected by the coalition with the Liberal Democrats — who in practice are now the «swing voters» in the Lords.

Instead, voters preferred the «softer Brexit» proposed by Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, or the «no Brexit» line touted by the Liberal Democrats, still fighting the cause for Remain.

The Labour party believes the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats» proposed introduction of individual voter registration for the 2015 general election is motivated by partisanship.

Voters have rejected AV by an astonishing majority, ending a disastrous 24 hours for the Liberal Democrats.

These are like the protest voters who used to give the Liberal Democrats startling by - election victories.

Known for its left - leaning politics and formidable voter turnout operation, the Working Families Party, founded by a coalition of labor unions and liberal organizations, enjoyed a banner year in the 2009 New York City elections.

Conservative voters also preferred the Liberal Democrats, by 34 per cent to 7 per cent.

«Cheadle, currently held by Liberal Democrats with a majority of just under 4,000, is among seats no longer regarded as likely to fall despite a well - funded, two - year campaign to woo key groups of voters.

Breaking down 2010 Liberal Democrat voters by how much attention they pay to politics though shows a fascinating split: 2010 Lib Dem voters who paid a lot of attention to politics were more likely to switch to Labour; people who voted Lib Dem in 2010 but who paid little attention to politics were more likely to split to the Conservatives.

De Blasio, buoyed by the city's most liberal residents for his opposition to the NYPD's stop - and - frisk practices and from a family - centric ad campaign, has 29 percent support among likely Democratic voters, according to the poll conducted by Penn Schoen Berland.

The episode began during the 2009 elections, after the Working Families Party, backed by labor unions and armed with a formidable voter turnout operation, won a series of surprise victories for liberal candidates.

In Lib Dem target seats Labour voters were far more likely to vote tactically against the Conservatives than against the Liberals by a margin of about 4 - 1.

«The only way for voters to ensure Britain doesn't get a left wing Labour Government propped by the SNP or a right wing Tory government propped up by Ukip and the DUP is to vote Liberal Democrat.

Failing to realise that many fed - up Tory voters were choosing to express their dissatisfaction by backing the Liberals over Labour, Macmillan decided that something had to be done.

Meanwhile the research, which saw 1,864 voters north of the border questioned, put support for the Conservatives on 16 per cent with the Liberal Democrats backed by just 3 per cent.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has earned the dubious honour of being the first major party leader to be yelled at by a voter in the 2017 general election.

Voters in the Derringham ward in west Hull have elected Liberal Democrat Michael Rouse - Deane in a council by - election.

* Reliable evidence about whether Liberal Democrat voters prefer Labour to the Conservatives, and if so by what degree, is hard to come by.

This is driven, of course, by the overwhelming support of young voters, but also by white Catholics, who have grown more open - minded on gay rights as they have become more affluent and educated, and as their children return from college with more liberal attitudes.

The voters» verdict was not as clear as it might have been, but one thing was for sure: they showed their desire for Labour to be ejected from office by sacking the best part of 100 of their MPs (sending fewer Liberal Democrats back to Westminster too).

«This selfless act of releasing her supporters provides voters with the opportunity to unite around a candidate who shares Republican principles and will serve the interests of his constituents in Congress by standing in opposition to the liberal policies of President Obama and Speaker Pelosi,» Steele said in a statement released by the Republican National Committee.

Ahead by single digits in Iowa a day before voters head to the caucuses, Trump continued his attacks on main rival Ted Cruz who has accused Trump of being too liberal on social issues and too cozy with Hillary Clinton because of his «New York values.»

By the end, when it became clear there was no such thing as a «soft» SNP voter, our campaign in Scotland narrowed its focus to an appeal to Conservative and Labour supporters to vote tactically in Liberal Democrat seats to keep the SNP out.

The governor knows many liberal leaders don't like him and is hoping left - leaning voters aren't subsumed by the noise.

With both Labour and Conservatives having far from illustrious recent records on the economy the voters showed their distaste by flirting with the nationalists and the Liberals.