Sentences with phrase «electoral coalition»

The party must rebuild its broad electoral coalition, which is at risk of fracture on three fronts.

In fact what we have had is a deeply political attempt to paper over the cracks and keep the disintegrating Labour electoral coalition together.

Fringe causes were put before mainstream concerns, with many in the party seriously accepting the flawed logic that stapling together a collection of special interest groups would create a counterweight to Thatcher's electoral coalition of aspirational voters.

The idea of all these initiatives is that it's easier to put Labour's fractured electoral coalition back together through informal co-operation and non-competition rather than aiming for formalised unity at party level.

Indeed, the 48 % has the makings of a winning electoral coalition.

Black votes have been the cogs in the wheel that keeps the Democrats» electoral coalition churning.

Even the makeup of the resulting New Deal electoral coalition is most easily described in religious and cultural terms: an alliance of Catholic and Jewish ethnics, with help from Southern and Black Protestants, and a leavening of urban cosmopolitans.

While it's possible Trump would take equally from Clinton and Kasich, given that Know Nothings have been a more - traditional part of the Republican electoral coalition, my guess is that Trump would take disproportionately from Kasich, and thereby hand the election to Clinton.

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.

But in terms of the Conservative electoral coalition, Brexit has produced a less ambiguous effect: the party has absorbed a large portion of the former UKIP vote, as voters on the authoritarian side of the political spectrum have migrated, or returned, to a Conservative Party that now promises concrete, credible action to regain control of the borders.

The Ukip electoral coalition is familiar from opinion polls over the last few years.

Mr. Lander has since carved out a fairly progressive political brand and might be able to form a formidable electoral coalition in Brooklyn.

Labour's electoral coalition risks fracture on three fronts.

it'd be lovely to have a wider electoral coalition, but we should remember 1984 and how focusing on our core vote lost us a popular mandate to rule

In this view, Humpty - Dumpty can not be put together again: the deep fracturing of New Labour's electoral coalition demands a more fundamental reappraisal.

New Labour were the most impressive electoral coalition this country has seen for a long time.

The traditional labourist message of using state power to seek to protect individuals from the power of capital, and to democratically steer the economy towards meeting the needs of people not of corporations was, and is, an inherently modern one; and a mission around which a progressive electoral coalition could, and can, be built.

A new administration is always an inchoate thing, a reflection of the divergent and conflicting interests that make broad and successful electoral coalitions possible.

The old class and political loyalties that once held Labour's electoral coalition together are increasingly fraying at the seams.

Of course, Dole's tax plan, coupled with an arms - length approach to abortion, was designed to assemble just such a broader electoral coalition.

- What distinctively Labour argument could yet challenge the Conservatives, and seek to reunite Labour's fracturing electoral coalition?

Academicians analyzing the 2000 election were struck by how Bush had integrated the hitherto demanding leaders of the Religious Right into his electoral coalition without provoking negative attention.

Not because they share a gender or even an ideology but because the Scottish Tory leader has experience of building an electoral coalition based not on economic outlook but on being on the winning side of a referendum and attempting to convert that into a lasting electoral coalition.

As it sought to repair the tensions in its electoral coalition using right - wing populism, Labour lost its moral compass.

Reuniting Labour's electoral coalition will not be easy.

When she was first elected back in 2010, the electoral coalition supporting Ms Rousseff had a majority of seats in both the lower house and in the Senate.

The most right - wing Labour government in history destroyed an electoral coalition that had seen Labour win 13.5 million votes in 1997 but lose five million votes whilst in power — overwhelmingly under Tony Blair's leadership.

And Social Liberalism is indispensable for our electoral coalition.

It is only by addressing that failure of representation and rebuilding an electoral coalition of working class and middle class voters that Labour will return to power.

Like George Osborne and the other youthful «modernisers», he grasped what many older Tories simply could not see: that Blair had changed the terms of trade, made «emotional intelligence» a prerequisite of successful leadership, and forged an electoral coalition that saw off four Tory leaders.

Building a reach unparalleled in British politics, bring together an electoral coalition that saw safe Tory seats tumble, leafy Labour marginals strengthen, and winning the 18 - 24 demographic in Scotland away from the SNP and the dead end of nationalist politics.

An electoral alliance may take the form of a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc.