Sentences with phrase «conservative policy positions»

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At the same time, Huckabee's support for the FairTax and his identity politics cultural positioning repulses the key «somewhat conservative» voters who value policy prudence and electability.

He has generally failed to articulate a coherence behind his policy positions — and I do believe there is a deep coherence — thereby allowing the media, and many GOP primary voters, to write off this deeply conservative candidate as a «moderate.»

He's still pretty conservative and in a recent analysis, I've applied the model from The Constrained Court to estimate the policy preferences of justices and how they would map onto the vote on the health care legislation (it's all based on a statistical model that links the Court and Congress via positions members of one institution take on votes in the other).

The opposition is 30 points ahead of the Tories on having the best healthcare policies according to Ipsos Mori, with the Conservatives currently on their lowest position since 2004.

Campaigning with conservative and national liberal positions on domestic, social and family policy, they have fared better in regional elections.

And most importantly, she can argue conservative positions without sounding like an ideologue, and is ready to develop and champion viable, sensible urban policies that challenge liberal orthodoxy.

If we take the average position of the general population on a scale ranging from (0) European Unification has gone too far, to (10) European Unification has not gone far enough, we find that the average position of the electorate is closest to the Conservative Party (measured by where survey respondents think the major parties» policies are on the same scale).

As the only non-politician, Wendy Long is best positioned for November to reach women, Republicans, Conservatives, independents, disaffected blue collar democrats and the growing cross section of voters who want a real alternative to the Gillibrand - Obama radical policies of government intrusion.»

If a new leader is elected and a bold radical policy programme is formulated, and integrity among politicians is established the Labour Party will be in a unique and highly rewarding position of taking on and resoundingly defeating the Conservatives.

All this puts the Lib Dems in a very powerful position: their voters are closer in policy terms to Labour voters than Conservatives but they are demonstrably able to do a deal with the latter.

Chris Hewett, a Green Alliance associate and author of the report, said that apart from pledges to increase energy savings, none of these policies had been explicitly outlined by either the Labour government or the Conservatives, who under David Cameron's leadership have worked hard to position themselves as a much greener party.

The chart shows the position of state policies on the political spectrum, in both 1936 and 2014, with more liberal aggregate policies at left, and more conservative aggregate policies at right.

Shanker gained a hearing for his ideas from both liberals and conservatives, not by taking moderate positions that consistently split the difference, but by embracing a coherent philosophy that sometimes led to «liberal» policy conclusions, other times to «conservative» ones.

The key bulwarks against this kind of mission creep are, first, a definitive, public statement from the President - elect on the administration's position on Uncle Sam's role in schools; and, second, absent that, education officials» deep familiarity with today's policy issues and ability to apply conservative principles to them.

To the extent that all of the major parties in the 2006 federal election acknowledged the problem of global warming and were taking steps to address it, though in different ways, (the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Quebecois with the Kyoto accord, and the Conservatives with a Made in Canada approach) it would be difficult to conclude that the audio statements by taking a position on global warming, were targeting one particular party or candidate or a particular party's policy.»

Well, there is one link: the conservative positions on both energy policy and on Europe's recession woes are both completely wrong.

In summary, the Conservatives de-emphasized climate change and greenhouse gas emissions in favour of addressing other forms of air pollution, a position supported by FoS president Douglas Leahey, who wrote approvingly that «the Conservatives understand that Kyoto is a failed policy, and the difference between pollution and CO2.»

(Particularly in that Ontario, the nation's largest province, could potentially have a «Trump turn» with Conservative policy vandal Doug Ford currently in very good position to become the next Premier in the upcoming election.

The resolution begins by saying «it is a conservative principle to protect, conserve, and be good stewards of our environment,» perhaps marking the discomfort that some Republicans feel about their party's positions on environmental policies.

Adler's thumbnails of positions on climate policy and economics voiced by prominent conservatives including Ross Douthat, Charles Krauthammer, Reihan Salam, Greg Mankiw and 11 others make for a fascinating and informative read.

According to A. M. Best, this rating reflects «the group's favorable profitability, conservative leverage position, sound investment portfolio, redundant loss reserving history and highly proactive expansion and management policies.»

With his trademark bushy gray mustache and his take - no - prisoners style, Mr. Bolton positioned himself to the right even of the foreign policy veterans who emerged from President George W. Bush's administration, a hawk among hawks, a hard - liner who thrills conservatives and chills moderates and liberals.

Although they've both staked out relatively conservative economic policies and taken business - friendly technology and environmental positions, their plans set them on considerably different courses.