Sentences with phrase «class voters do»

Not exact matches

Why did working - class voters choose a selfish, thin - skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful megalomaniac for president?

MH: Because they need altogether about $ 5 trillion to create... If they're going to create 500 billionaires to run the country for the next century and to create really a new feudal class they need $ 5 trillion and they don't want the people to know what's occurring because if they did the voters would get so upset they'd create probably a new political party, an alternative.

Titled «Building a Strong Middle Class» the 278 - page document is essentially a sequel to last year's «Growing the Middle Class,» with page after page reminding voters what the government did in its first big - spending, deficit - ballooning budget.

We can dismiss his socialism as an unworkable throwback, but he's doing something our political establishment can't or won't, which is to inspire the political imaginations of middle class voters.

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.

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

He did, however, appeal to many less - educated voters in the white working class who hadn't previously taken much interest in politics.

But the animus analysis reaches the same result, for a class is allegedly picked out and bullied in violation of the equal protection clause; whether the class is entitled to special judicial protection doesn't matter if the legislators or voters can be ascertained to have a suspect motive.

Democratic insiders say Nixon's chances are still slim, but especially so if she doesn't make inroads with crucial black voters, a bloc from which Cuomo has enjoyed healthy support in recent years and with whom progressives like Bernie Sanders failed to garner support with their more class - focused economic populist messages.

(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).

They're trying to sway leadership to leave it alone or limit it to a degree so voters back home — particularly those in the middle class — don't see their overall tax bills increase because of tax reform.

Sarkozy, a fan of George W Bush, reportedly did not choose the name to copy the US, but rather because his pollsters advised him that acronyms had fallen from favour among voters who are increasingly distrustful of the political class.

Established media, state radio and tv and the political class had only a walk - on role in forcing the referendum which they collectively opposed: it was the victory by UKIP in a national election (the 2014) European Elections), social media, youtube and the spreading of the message even when it was kept away from the voters by the elite that did the job.

He has a good record on immigration and you don't get the sense he's likely to emulate Ukip on it in a bid to bandage the flow of white working class voters to the party.

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.

We've got a lot of skilled working class voters and small business, self employed voters and they don't much like David Cameron.

But it does ensure that no particular class of voter gets more representation in the political process than any other.

Many lower middle class voters believe that they work hard and don't take welfare - or are refused it - while others get something for nothing.

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.

Asked about the traditionally poor turnout of voters in the heavily - minority Fillmore District, Mascia says voters are turned off by nothing being done and says he will run a get - out - the vote campaign for his issues on race, class and economic inequities.

It would surely not be too difficult to devise a core voter strategy in Scotland which differentiated Labour from the SNP, which will prevent it appealing to «all classes, all communities, all parts of Scotland» as Alex Salmond rightly says the SNP has done this time — as they have been allowed to by Scottish Labour.

«White ethnics, middle class voters, independents — the real heart of the Bloomberg and Giuliani days — either didn't vote for him or did because de Blasio's rivals were so uninspiring or they were tired of Bloomberg,» said Dan Gerstein, a political consultant and analyst.

I believe this is a change for the worse, and the complaint that «they're all the same» - that we're governed by an identikit political class - has much to do with the decline of the Conservative Party and the rise of UKIP, not to mention the fall in voter turnout.

My guess is that more voters are bothered about Cameron's background than the «class doesn't matter anymore» brigade would suggest, but less than Labour hopes they are.

They warned a packed audience that Labour is in danger of turning its back on its traditional voters and the party has to do more to connect with white working class voters in historically Labour constituencies if it is to have any chance of winning power.

Wilson, who runs a small business in Keene, said Stefanik has done little to benefit the lives of working class voters.

He insisted David Cameron's privileged background was not an insurmountable barrier, pointing out that Harold Macmillan, who married the daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, did more than any other postwar Tory prime minister to appeal to working class voters.

The Tories» efforts to appeal to minority voters do seem to be bearing some fruit, particularly among the more prosperous and middle class minorities, but the advance to date is modest and much work is still needed to «close the gap».

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 name)

Labour doesn't have to «pander» to the views of working class voters, but it does have to represent them.

We do not have to choose between appealing to middle - class and working - class voters.

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.

The voters believe these people take jobs that the indigenous working class would be happy to do (though the evidence for that is scarce), that they make an immediate claim on public services for which they have not made a contribution through their taxes (easier to prove) and that, in some cases, they behave in a way the indigenous population finds culturally offensive.

While the Northam campaign did not authorize the ad, it did dramatize Democratic fears that minority turnout will be lower even as white working - class voters throng to the polls.

However, I should explain that my prediction is led less by any conviction that the milquetoast Academy voters will get the thrilling formal invention and conversational artistry of «The Class» — and believe me, if they do, you'll hear my cheers from across the Atlantic — than by an instinctive suspicion that they will not get the avant - garde visual stylings and bleak anti-narrative of presumed frontrunner «Waltz With Bashir.»

Where do the rank and file voters hear about conservative arguments and alternatives to the group think of CAGW, «social justice,» redistribution of income, class warfare and other propaganda of the left?