Sentences with phrase «cynical electorate»
However, policy as well as politics, especially at a local level, is key to winning over a cynical electorate.
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All of this flows counter to the popular image of a cynical, disengaged electorate.
Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»
No wonder the electorate became cynical and started to back alternative parties and politicians.
He agreed that the cynical rollback of privacy rules via Congressional Review Act in March likely helped galvanize the electorate and perhaps cause a few people to cross party lines in order to better address the concerns of voters.