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He added: «It angers me that they're playing these games with corporate governance, that they could both represent working class voters in this district.»

Speaking from the Midlands, where the Tories became the biggest party in Walsall and made gains in Dudley, Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said the party has to address issues of concern for white working - class voters in industrial areas who appear to have switched from Ukip to the Tories.

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

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.

Also in the book, Dagenham MP (and Labour policy co-coordinator) Jon Cruddas says Labour's «metropolitan squeamishness» meant it struggled to relate to English working - class voters in the run - up the election.

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

It is safe Labour territory, but even here Ukip is expected to capitalise on strong support among working class voters in the C2DE category to come in second, ahead of the Conservatives.

Magnus Nielsen said the decision to extend the vote to female and middle class voters in the nineteenth century was a mistake that should be reversed.

Not exact matches

Hillary's fiery commencement speech, the first ever by a Wellesley student, won her national attention — a spot in Life Magazine's feature on the class of 1969 and a speaking invitation to the League of Women Voters.

May, however, insisted that the spending plans should focus more on working - class voters who feel they have been left behind by globalisation, and who voted in large numbers to leave the European Union in June.

And given Clinton's weakness in polls among non-college educated, white, working - class voters, that's entirely possible.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

Springer's proponents have highlighted his ability in the era of President Donald Trump to provide his own funding for a campaign and to connect with working - class voters familiar with his television show and history in Ohio politics.

This week Democrats seized on two issues meant to broaden their popularity among working class voters: coal miners» benefits and «Buy America» provisions in an infrastructure bill.

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.

Rather than assuming that all women or African Americans or working - class whites will respond to the same message, they target individual voters with emotionally charged content — in other words, ads designed to tug on emotional biases.

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.

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.

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target middle - class voters.

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

But the most interesting divide is over how Democrats should relate to white working - class voters who supported President Trump in 2016.

In the United States, we have disaffected and disenfranchised working - class voters, which have helped drive the whole political framework more toward a populist sentiment.

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.

Sanders also appeals to the capacity of middle class voters to exercise their political freedom, calling for them to join him in fundamentally remaking our political economy: If we really want to, we can overthrow the moral limitations of capitalism and usher in a more just future.

Then, when no - choice politics blows up in their faces, our political classes whine that the voters ever got a say in the first place.

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.

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.

This means that if a Republican could come up with a message to address the concerns of middle - class voters, «amazingly enough, he'll win a lot more Hispanic votes in the process.

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.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

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).

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.

I think Boesner would run second in voters minds because he's a great kid with a world class shot, he's American, and he will challenge for the RR trophy for some time.

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.

This is worth bearing in mind when you see the countless vox - pop interviews with working class voters who used to support Labour, saying they feel the party's MPs are nothing like them.

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.

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

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.

Voters weren't asked to conceive of the Labour Party as a direct representation of working - class interests in aggregate — politics became about choosing which group of elites offered the best deal to you as an individual.

«President Clinton will highlight the choice voters face in the upcoming midterm elections, and emphasize the need to continue moving the country forward by electing strong Representatives like Hinchey who are fighting for middle class families — not the wealthy special interests.»

There are vast swathes of voters in the UK who are socially conservative but economically left - wing, and expect the state to support them against the middle and upper - classes.

While a majority of AB and C1 (i.e. middle - class) social group voters wish to remain in the EU, a majority of C2 and DE (i.e. working - class) voters want to leave.

In NAACP v. Harris, a class - action, Blacks argued that over 57,000 Black voters were wrongfully purged from Florida's voting lists and that Black communities were provided with defective voting mechanisms.

But we need to see UKIP in their proper context: firstly, they are a minority party and will stay there; secondly, they are growing in working class areas where the Labour Party's cultural shift left have lost longstanding voters.

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.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

Hence much of the changes that many Argentines credit the Kirchners for having brought about (such as family subsidies, higher employment levels and stronger purchasing power despite rising inflation, as well as access to services and products that the poor were suddenly able to access post-2001) are expected to yield wide turnout among Argentina's poorer classes, without the Frente para la Victoria having to worry about registering — and then turning out — those who might be considered marginal voters in the US.

«I feel a strong connection with voters when I talk about how my parents worked hard to lift us to the middle class and instilled hard working values that allowed me to succeed,» Delgado said in a statement.