Sentences with phrase «coalition of voters»

More recent UKIP recruits may have fallen from the decomposition of the Tories, so Farage has moved to keep that coalition of voters on board by reassuring them they can still vote UKIP and get the Conservatives.

The party somehow convinced itself that it had found its own Obama, a supposed visionary who would draw a line under the Blair - Brown era and build a new progressive coalition of voters.

«We didn't get people's trust on the economy, we didn't build a broad enough coalition of voters in different parts of the country and we didn't set out a positive enough alternative for the future... I've argued for quite a long while that we've got to set out something positive and not just be the kind of moaning man in the pub.»

Labour needs to develop a serious, carefully considered electoral strategy that recognises the necessity of appealing to a broad coalition of voters without abandoning core Labour principles and priorities.

The peer writes: «Like a brand - new car that loses a chunk of its value the moment it is driven off the forecourt, the Lib Dems were bound to lose part of their ragbag coalition of voters as soon as they entered government.

Getting the balance right to ensure this uneasy coalition of voters remains intact will not be a simple task.

We believe by offering a progressive economic alternative to austerity, Labour can best reach out to a broad coalition of voters whose living standards have declined under this Coalition government.

Labour built a broad but fragile and contradictory coalition of voters at the election.

If the Conservatives want to govern without needing a coalition of parties, they are going to need a bigger coalition of voters.

In 2011, Scottish Labour suffered a major electoral defeat and the hands of the SNP who mobilised a coalition of voters far in excess of those who back their raison d'être, independence.

The party's organisational focus is important, but to win in 2016 the party also has to win the battle for ideas to mobilise a similar coalition of voters as the SNP achieved in 2011.

The party can now campaign as the most viable local opposition in these seats, looking to win over a broader coalition of voters angry with the government.

What matters to me is not so much the coalition between the parties, but how to create the coalition of voters who will elect a Conservative government with an overall majority.

What was true a year ago is even truer now: what should matter most to Tories is not the coalition between the parties, but the coalition of voters who will decide whether to elect a Conservative government with an overall majority.

Below is the text of my presentation at the Conservative Party Conference this afternoon setting out my latest research in marginal seats and the Tories» challenge in building an election - winning coalition of voters.

Her campaign comes as economic - focused progressives try to build a larger coalition of voters within the party, and as black party activists demand that black voters not be take for granted by the Democratic party.

It looked at how the Conservatives could win an overall majority, and rested on the premise that if the party did not want to govern in coalition, it would need to build a coalition of voters big enough to allow it to rule on its own.

Not exact matches

«I am here to support him, to guarantee the solidity of the coalition and keep our commitments with the voters,» he said.

Advocates hope voters target lawmakers who have pushed for measures that hurt immigrants and replace them with immigrant - friendly policymakers, said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles.

For Democrats, who traditionally rely on young voters as a core part of their coalition, the picture isn't much prettier.

The SPD only agreed to ally with Merkel after promising a list of distinctive policies to secure the approval of party members, many of whom wanted the SPD to regroup in opposition after the last four years in coalition damaged its standing among voters.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

The ruling coalition has lost many fringe voters to the opposition, whose leader Anwar Ibrahim, another protégé - turned - enemy of Mahathir, was jailed last year on charges of sodomy.

The effect of an unstable coalition or of inconclusive coalition talks on voters will have to be watched closely on two fronts.

Greece has been unable to form a coalition government since voters gave support to political parties that want to cancel or renegotiate the terms of a massive financial bailout by international lenders that requires harsh austerity measures.

His behaviour toward Kathleen Wynne, the elected premier of Ontario — whose voter coalition included a million Ontarians who had voted Conservative federally — was boorish.

Recent budget cuts, blamed on a deflating bitumen bubble, also threaten to unravel the coalition of moderate voters who carried her party to victory one year ago.

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

Ralph Reed, the leader of conservative group the Faith & Freedom Coalition, planned a Wednesday morning press conference to release his data about what he called the enduring influence of «values voters.»

The Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Atlanta - based organization Reed launched in 2009 to mobilize voters of faith around the country, is placing more than one million voter guides in 5,300 Ohio churches and plans to complete the effort on the final Sunday before Election Day.

It is too bad for the rest of us as he seems to be the only potential candidate with the chance to form a nominating coalition from social conservative and somewhat conservative voters — and he would be our best chance to get a Republican nominee who is not in the orbit of the lobbying industry.

Though the economy clearly was the defining issue of the election, Obama forged a new coalition by luring millions of religious voters who had avoided Democrats in recent years.

Finally, voters tied firmly to either coalition would then interpret changing economic conditions in light of these prior, cultural, allegiances.

When you read the narrative, what Balmer means by Religious Right is really a coalition of leaders and organizations within the evangelical world who have sought to organize evangelical voters along a particular set of issues.

Not only are the voters» selections being made public for the first time, but the new bowl coalition is using them to determine a number of bowl pairings.

In the first major act of rebellion at the autumn conference voters clearly rejected schools minister Sarah Teather's attempt to water down a motion stating that «conference is concerned by the establishment of academies and free schools under coalition government policy».

These campaign ‐ style battles are being waged through an increasing number of «veiled actors» third ‐ party coalitions with misleading names that ask voters to «Save New York» or fight for «Fiscal Fairness» without revealing the powerful interest groups behind these messages.

The party is hesitant to come out with something that pleases one group and alienates the other as it attempts to hold together a shaky coalition of city - dwelling liberals and comparatively socially conservative, but economically left - leaning, voters who're more likely to reside in smaller towns in Wales, the Midlands and the North.

Of the 634 voters it spoke to who ranked Labour as their first preference, 49 % said they would prefer a minority government, compared to 30 % who wanted to see a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Yet, despite all this, Labour is ahead in the polls and has been for the best part of two years, thanks to the realignment of Lib Dem voters unhappy with the coalition.

The Lib Dem majority in Eastleigh is 3,864, but with the coalition seen as increasingly toxic and Huhne's court case top of voters» minds, the party is likely to face a bloodbath in the Hampshire seat.

Ben Page of Mori said today that two - thirds of LibDem voters (24 %) prefer a LD - Labour to an LD - Tory deal, so that (amounts to roughly 16 % v 8 % of total electorate) gets you close to 45 % who strongly prefer a left coalition.

That's a clear indication of the cancerous results such monies spawn — the, «Perpetuation & Maintenance» of an IDC Coalition, bought into being by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which denied Democrat Voters the «Majority» role in the NYS State Senate for 2 Election cycles now!

He cites a Gallup poll carried out in August 1944 which asked voters whether they believed politicians in the wartime coalition government were acting mainly in the interests of their country, party or themselves.

In the Senate, even he is tainted by the formation of an IDC Coalition, which usurped the voter's wishes as indicated through the ballot box count, to have a Democratic Majority in the house, when Sen. Jeff Klein went rogue and aligned himself with the Republicans in a leadership sharing arrangement that failed to deliver for the Governor this session.

Looking at these results, one could argue that the British voters decided at the very last moment to prevent the formation of another coalition government, assumingly returning to their traditional attitude of regarding coalitions as an exception.

Two - thirds of voters think the coalition's drive to make the rich pay more should be extended to fines for speeding offences.

I look at the particular challenges for Labour in reconnecting to disillusioned liberal - left voters as part of the task of rebuilding the broad electoral coalition which won it three election victories.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

A party that continually loses elections because it's too far removed from the political center or because it appeals to too narrow a range of voters should seek to remedy that by expanding its coalition or moving toward the median voter — perhaps by compromising some of its ideological goals.