Sentences with phrase «class voters at»

We have bigger concerns than a narrow focus aspirational skilled working class voters at the moment, and anyhow Rentoul's argument assumes that group's attitudes and priorities have not been affected by the recession.

Not exact matches

At the Democratic National Convention that year in Charlotte, N.C., the congresswoman pulled out all the stops, and warned that a Romney presidency would negatively impact middle - class voters, women, minorities and the American dream itself.

Those ridings decided the election, and the NDP needs to look very closely at every aspect of its strategy in connecting with three geographically and culturally distinctive sets of middle class voters.

Republican presidential candidates might be more trusted by more voters at every level of the income distribution if they focused more of their attention on policies directly impact the working and aspiring middle - classes.

As I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion in the state by affirming as a matter of law that human life begins at conception.

At the very least, it does suggest that Republicans» longstanding strategy of building majorities for their anti-tax platform by appealing to working - class voters» Christian morals has lost a lot of its power.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

There are good political and social reasons behind making pre-K available to everyone, including the benefits to all children of socioeconomic integration and the fact that middle - class voters are more likely to be invested in programs that aren't narrowly targeted at the poor.

She challenged analysis that talked up Labour success at the election pointing out that the Conservatives piled on voters in many northern seats that had voted Leave, among older voters and among the working class.

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

UKIP's rise really began at the tail end of Tony Blair's second term, when his Government's aggressive pro-Europeanism, liberal immigration policies and lack of interest in the domestic political priorities of working class voters became too much for some.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

The constitutional bill is firmly anchored in the will of the people because (a) the bill fully reflects the declaration of the 2010 National Assembly at which every Icelander 18 years or older had an equal chance of being invited to take a seat and (b) it was approved by 2/3 of the voters in a national referendum against the wishes of much of the discredited political class.

A Conservative parliamentary candidate has been accused of «sneering» at voters — after he ridiculed a man for visiting Costa Coffee while claiming to be working class.

(The fact that this is often said by people who both regard themselves as working class and voted Conservative at the last election probably says as much about the strength of the Labour brand as it does about the caprice of voters).

But there are plenty of middle class Muslim voters in constituencies north of London who are livid at Cameron's refusal to condemn Israel's actions in Gaza.

Certainly, Labour constituencies see fairly high levels of UKIP support (notably at the recent Heywood & Middleton by - election), suggesting there is credence to the argument that Labour is losing its disaffected traditional and typically working class voters to UKIP.

The former shadow education minister Tristram Hunt had a decidedly mixed 2015, but he recently talked pretty powerfully at the Fabian Society about the politics of inequality, Labour's frayed bond with working - class voters and the necessity of reinventing the party's belief in redistribution.

«The reason why the Democratic Party is losing across the nation and at home is that they are coopted by a small band of misfits who continue to talk to each other in echo chambers and refuse to acknowledge that the party of Roosevelt, Kennedy and Clinton no longer has the ability to communicate with working - class voters,» she said.

In the House magazine interview two months ago, Mr McGinn accused left - wing politicians of «sneering» at the public and warned Mr Corbyn that Labour is losing touch with working class voters.

The initial Labour reaction to the success of UKIP at attracting working class voters in many areas has focussed on the right policy response.

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

At the same time as unemployment benefits were ramped up, Gordon Brown introduced tax credits to buy off middle - class voters.

Voters sprinkled across the vast Adirondacks and environs «are demanding working class representation from someone who has survived a few North Country winters and knows the problems we face every day,» she said, an evident dig at Stefanik's Albany area roots.

Appealing to the north of England, working class voters and ethnic minorities with an aspirational agenda was at the heart of this launch, with a focus on «bread and butter issues such as the cost of living,» as well as ensuring environmental problems aren't merely seen as a concern of the left.

I was there on the ground and was amazed at how much of their vote seemed to be coming from working and lower middle class voters, eurosceptic and socially conservative people, many of whom will have voted Labour at some point in the near past.

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.

Growing and strengthening our middle class is vitally important, and I hope that these same types of agreements can be reached at facilities in other areas of the state after voters approve the casino gambling amendment in November,» said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

And a look at the great mass of lower middle class C1 / C2 voters - who make up half the electorate — strongly suggests this to be the case.

Rather than looking at self - reported levels of turnout in post-election surveys ComRes did regressions on actual levels of turnouts in constituencies by their demographic profiles, finding the usual patterns of higher turnout in seats with more middle class people and older people, lower turnout in seats with more C2DE voters and younger voters.

Relative declines in the preponderance of voters in the C1, C2 and DE social classes meant that AB voters formed a plurality of all voters at the last general election.

«Strategic defectors» are voters who support Ukip at European elections but return to the Conservatives at general elections: they are older, financially comfortable, middle - class men with Conservative sympathies, socially conservative Eurosceptics who are motivated principally by their desire to send a message to the Conservatives.

The fallout from that mistake was clear last week: in the haemorrhage of votes to the Scottish National party, Ukip and the Greens, and the reluctance of many working - class voters to turn out at all.

It's Nice Ed's coming back he was at stoke after all, Ed dropped the triangulation line that Blair liked, funny as he actually appealed to both Daivd Owen, Maurice Glasman and Tony benn in 2010 ′ but the triangulation of middle / working class votes has gone that it's not even Left / Right anymore, and the dozen or so policies that unite ex Labour voters who vote Libdem, and the ones who vote Ukip can be summed up in, ignore Soctland and Northern Ireland politics concentrate on the economy, Defence, freedom of speech and women's rights,

«Voters are dedicating their voices, their volunteer hours and their donations to firing this Tea Party Congress that protects millionaires and special interests at the expense of Medicare and the middle class.»

The comments by Lord Glasman, who devised Ed Miliband's «Blue Labour» initiative aimed at persuading working - class voters to return to the party, provoked an angry Labour backlash.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my namAt the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my namat Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

Ed Miliband doesn't need to set out concrete policies — it would be good if the Labour movement is given a real opportunity now to help draw up that political alternative, but the party desperately needs a narrative and to be seen identifying with working and middle class voters who now find themselves at the sharp end.

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.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the IDC responded, «The reason why the Democratic Party is losing across the nation and at home is that they are coopted by a small band of misfits who continue to talk to each other in echo chambers and refuse to acknowledge that the party of Roosevelt, Kennedy and Clinton no longer has the ability to communicate with working - class voters.

Blue Labour's relationship with working class populism: Blue Labour has the potential to gain support amongst white working class voters who usually stay at home on election day, by articulating populist themes.

If voters in the City of Albany agree, students returning to classes at Albany High in the fall will go back to a building that no longer has a leaky roof.

To those who suggested that Quinn, long the frontrunner in the Democratic mayoral field, stumbled on the homophobia voters reflect once at the ballot box, Menchaca's and Torres» victories demonstrate that LGBT candidates can win in outer borough districts dominated by working class and poor people of color and without large visible gay and lesbian voting blocs.

At the last election, YouGov's eve of vote poll — which successfully predicted Labour and Tory vote share to within 1 % — identified the Tories as the most popular party among working class voters: 32 % of the social demographic C2DE backed the Tories, 31 % Labour and 26 % Lib Dem.

The Labour left is now becoming more and more like Private Eye's swivel eyed Trotskyist Dave Spart hurling abuse at the mostly white working class Labour voters and calling them xenophobic racists amongst other things the latter being the most polite.

«That million joins another six million voters — primarily working - class people — who are so disgusted at the two major parties that they have given up on voting.

The measure's defeat also isn't expected to renew support for previous voter - approved initiatives 728 and 732 — aimed at class - size reductions and cost - of - living pay increases for teachers, respectively — which were suspended by the Legislature last year.

And another: These «e-learning labs,» were opened at the start of this academic year to help school officials get around the state law — approved in a referendum by voters in 2002 — that limits class size.