Sentences with phrase «conservative voting base»

Now, as they prepare for a wide - open primary season, many of the Republicans are searching for ways to explain themselves to a conservative voting base full of hungry tea party activists and climate skeptics who don't take kindly to environmental issues so closely linked with Al Gore.

Seems to me a lot of Canadians gave the federal Conservatives their vote based on the promise to double TFSA limits once the federal books were balanced.

Not exact matches

The fact that you base your vote on faith, tells me you know little to nothing about politics, you are the reason that people make fun of conservatives.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

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).

Most of whose votes were anti Labour / Conservative Politics, so many are based on lies, and there is no line whatsoever to excluding the the voter from the governing process.

Have you seen the size of the Conservative Majority on England There is increasingly only one answer to this its sad but we need an English Parliament and it can vote on the basis its decides suits it.

Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long warned today that Senate Republicans risk eroding their base in New York after allowing a vote on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's gun control legislation that updates the state's assault weapons ban.

But there are a lot of people who are going to vote Conservative based on the bullshit that the Tories are now softer, nicer people.

Again, they are running on the basis of opposition to a major government policy, and will need to demolish a 20,000 vote majority - this time, that of former Conservative MP and Brexiteer Zac Goldsmith.

If people feel so strongly that despite there wish to vote Lib Dem of Green they wish to support the Labour Party on the basis that they hate the Conservatives they are at liberty to do so (too much Liberty which a PR HOL would address).

Though never a real threat to the Socialists» overwhelming hegemony in media and parliament in the 1980s, an isolated Fraga endured and rallied all Spanish regions to build a moderate conservative base, growing from a 7 % to a 27 % of the votes.

The Conservative manifesto also promises to scrap the European Convention on Human Rights, which the party has long opposed on the basis that it restricts national law - making; as seen, for example, in the row over prisoners» voting rights.

It is well known that prior to 1974, class based voting was even stronger than shown in the charts here so 2017 could be the election where Labour which founded to represent the interests of the working class find themselves supplanted in that role by the Conservatives.

Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate will make their Senate endorsement based on the results of the straw poll vote.

Traditionally, the conservative base stays home or votes Independent, allowing the Democrat to win the election: gov. race in 05, Kean in 06» for US Senate & Zimmer in 08» for US Senate are all examples.

Labour and the Conservatives, supported by the London - based media, have long behaved as if they were the only players that counted, even though their share of the vote has declined since 1974 (despite a few spikes upwards in the 1980s) and now stands roughly at 65 %.

However, this central estimate, based on an update survey conducted over the weekend, combines the data from three different turnout scenarios: including all those who currently say they will vote on Thursday (giving a Conservative majority of 70); including all those who say they voted in the EU referendum (a Conservative majority of 48); and assuming turnout matches that of the 2015 election (a Conservative majority of 78)(more...)

«It's a new parliamentary party since the election thank goodness, with lots of new Conservative MPs so we're able to look at this again, not entirely through the prism of the 2013 vote, which was a vote on a slightly different basis and which of course predated the Isil surge across Iraq last year.

The new data is based on an updated survey conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, which found a hardening of the Conservative vote as Tory supporters gave a higher likelihood of turning out to vote than in previous rounds.

The conservative GOP base expects Republican legislators to try every trick in the book to bring a marriage vote to the floor.

Grisanti in 2011 was one of four Republicans in the state Senate to back the legalization of same - sex marriage and, less than two years later, provided a vote in favor of the gun control law known as the SAFE Act, a measure that has stirred anger among the conservative base.

On the basis of Friday's results, the BBC is calculating that Labour would have got a 31 % projected share of the national vote, slightly higher than expected, with the Conservatives on 30 %, the Lib Dems on 15 % and UKIP on 12 %.

In a recent interview, he said the reputation he has for saying «no» is based on voting his conservative beliefs

Among many conservatives a state subsidy is considered a tax on voting because the funding amount is based on the votes a political party receives after a general election.

So the next best thing would be open list or STV (single transferable vote), which are better for democracy as they are candidate - based as opposed to party - based and, as the research demonstrates, better for the Conservative Party.

«The biggest reason we got behind Kathy wasn't necessarily how he voted [on same - sex marriage], was why he voted, and raised all that money from downstate interests,» said Ben Potiker, head of the Upstate Conservative Coalition and a resident of Halfmoon, a suburb that constitutes Marchione's base.

What was discovered of note was that if you changed the voting system to open list, or indeed anything candidate based as a form of voting, UKIP went down six points and the Tories up five — meaning the Conservatives would then leapfrog UKIP into second, just barely behind Labour.

A large section of the Tory party is sick of coalition and some Conservatives would prefer go it alone in a minority government, seeking support for votes on a case - by - case basis and daring the other parties to bring them down.

The Electoral Commission performed a reallocation in keeping with the same procedures they used to allocate 72 MEPs and an extra Conservative MEP was allocated to the West Midlands constituency based on the 2009 vote and was enshrined in the European Union Act 2011 as an amendment of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.

The areas we are missing registers for are disproportionately Conservative (based on the 2015 Election constituency results) which introduces a slight Labour bias to the reported vote amongst those who had their vote validated.

Even if he somehow won the GOP primary, you would see the same result as McCain and Romney where the social conservative base does not come out and vote.

A calm and well - funded Tory campaign, based on reassurance from David Cameron and playing on fears of another five years of Gordon Brown, appears to have firmed up the Conservative vote in the final 48 hours.

But I would argue that Cuomo actually did Skelos a favor by taking this approach with minimum wage, giving the Senate Republicans a path to voting «yes» on something that enjoys widespread public support, but risks further inflaming their already angry conservative base.

The argument of «Labour bias» in the electoral system is based on arithmetic that shows that Labour receives on average fewer votes per MP than Lib Dems or Conservatives.

Palin / Schaffer will have the conservative base ready to get out the vote in Colorodo.

The reason the last three elections were lost was not due to the policies of the Conservative leader (though including some of the policies mentioned above would have helped enormously), but a combination of Blair's spin - based popularity, and electoral unfairness (the Conservatives gained more votes than Labour, at least in England).

The Conservative belief that a referendum on Europe is a vote winner (see Grant Shapps at 2.44 pm, for example) is based on the assumption that people care about the issue.

Labour — downgrading again to 265 - 275, based on the SNPs» continued surge and Conservatives doing better in our seat - voting question as the election draws near and views are localised: SNP 45; Lib Dems 30; Ukip 6; Green 1; Respect 1.

Gibson holds a 52 percent rating from the American Conservative Union based on his 2011 voting record compared with 72 percent for fellow Hudson Valley Republican and Tea Party favorite Nan Hayworth.

How this translates into seats or a coalition is unclear but based on our numbers we'd put the Conservatives ahead of Labour on vote share but the two parties within 10 seats of each other in the new House of Commons.

But they received political blow back, and since then have been reluctant to vote for issues where there's disagreement with their conservative base.

The Upstate Conservative Coalition based in Saratoga Springs planned to protest Boehner's visit to register their disappointment with House Republican votes on trade and other issues.

A projection from Electoral Calculus based on recent polls suggests a Conservative majority of 80 would occur with 41 % of the vote going to the Tories and 27 % to Labour.

Based on the results, the gap in predicted national vote share between the Conservatives and Labour has closed since the council elections last year.

It is also becoming evident, on the basis of votes cast, how skewed the electoral system is: for the Conservatives, 2m more votes than Labour translates into 48 more Tory seats, while Labour's similar 2m vote advantage over the Lib Dems means 200 more seats.

This is based on the principle that you add 5 % to the Conservative vote last time and subtract 5 % from the Labour vote last time, thereby neutralising the previous 10 % majority.

On this basis it can be argued that the BNP cost Labour at least 9 seats in 2010: the seats where Labour lost the seat, and the winning margin was less than the margin of the BNP (votes taken from Labour) over UKiP (votes taken from Con / LD): Amber Valley, Bradford East, Burnley, Corby, Dewsbury, Nuneaton, Sherwood, Thurrock, Warwickshire North (7 Conservative gains, 2 Lib Dem).

Interestingly enough, in contrast, has been noted as the second most conservative city in the United States based on the way they voted.

While conservative Republicans continue to cater to their base, approaching self - parody in the process, registered voters indicated that they're 2.5 times more likely to vote for candidates who support climate action — and three times as likely to vote against someone who opposes it: