Sentences with phrase «engaged electorate»

And, of course, an engaged electorate is crucial.

Zeichner speaks well of his opponent, even when talking up his own chances: «Incumbency is huge in a place like Cambridge, which has a particularly engaged electorate.

Informed electorate suggests engaged electorate, which should translate into higher participation.

What I do agree with is the need to focus on grassroots conversations, devolved to supporters, to engage the electorate.

The irony for the Conservatives and Labour is that the best way to save the union and engage the electorate may be electoral reform.

Mr. William Adamudzi described the NPP as «sick people who are only campaigning on radio with the hope of winning the elections instead of going round to engage the electorate.

David Cameron wrote to the PM asking him make his view clear on a debate, which the Conservative leader said would «help to energise our democratic process, engage the electorate and restore trust in politics».

Thinking in terms of an unwelcome message, a partially understood problem where very out bad outcomes can not be ruled out, and universally flawed solutions seems to me a grown - up way of engaging the electorate.

Not exact matches

Our survey, conducted April 27 through May 2, assessed the existing primary candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties and explored the issues of greatest impact to small - business owners — a significant force in the U.S. economy as well as an extremely engaged segment of the electorate.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

He does away with the contriving language of political correctness (particularly in regards to Muslims, Mexicans, immigrants, etc.) in an attempt to convince the electorate that he, in fact, «speaks true;» he engages in rhetoric that is, according to Senator Marco Rubio, «language that is deliberately offensive in order to drive media narrative.»

He adds: «There is a disconnect with what is going on in the Labour Party and in the minds of many Labour Party members and in the heads of the electorate who are not engaged in this at all and who are onlookers, often bewildered sometimes bemused and sometimes contemptuous....

Also a former PM, Pawlak has not engaged in any symbolic political acts, as many junior coalition partners often do, even though his party represents a sizable, partisan agrarian electorate.

The parties also have a long - term interest in engaging the voters who are entering the electorate: we may live in an ageing society, but many of the voters who are eligible for the first time in 2015 will be around to vote in the next twelve or fifteen general elections.

«It is obvious that the NPP realizes their flagbearer's limitations with regards to having the sort of grasp of national issues that will position him to convincingly engage in a debate with his opponents in order to allow for the electorate to make informed choices.»

But Labour in the new parliament will also need a deputy leader who can reach those parts of the electorate untouched by the current leadership, and who will also be trusted by our core voters as we engage that new country.

«We do have an energized, engaged, brand new, emerging electorate of energized and engaged young people... people of color, generally anyone disaffected who thought of politics as an option or something that didn't really pertain to them,» he said.

If the collective wisom of the political classes is that they have to kiss Rupert Murdoch's arse, or kow - tow to the Guardian, or act as lickspittles to the vile Daily Mail, that's up to them — and indicates a profound lack of respect on all sides for the voter and an inability to engage in a conversation with the electorate on grown - up terms.

We can change the register, we can change the electoral process but until there is reform of our political parties and our electorates in terms of how they engage in the system we will still have a register that is not credible regardless of how much money you put into the system,» she argued.

Lord Mandelson was today accused by a former cabinet colleague of self - indulgent arrogance and running the party for more than a decade as a tool to engage in egotistical faction fights that only demoralised the party and the electorate.

He is the «change candidate» who has the greatest potential to connect with a wider electorate and especially with those politically engaged young people, internationalist in outlook, who have lost faith in conventional Westminster politics but yearn for a more democratic, fairer and freer Britain.

[60] Attributing the party's losses to its failure to engage with the electorate, she told the programme that Labour needed to speak up for the interests of the Scottish people, and accept more devolved powers for the Scottish Parliament.

Well, fooling people is now a highly paid, highly skilled profession, so maybe you can now at least fool the majority of the electorate for a long enough time to accomplish the goal, whether you are engaged in an illegal war for control of some oil resources, or a global warming denial disinformation campaign, for control of the right to keep burning as much oil as you feel like.

But Cambridge has said it never actually advised the Leave.eu campaign beyond initial discussions, despite Leave.eu's own statements that the firm «will be helping us map the British electorate and what they believe in, enabling us to better engage with voters.»