Sentences with phrase «from liberal voters»
The minority party, with virtually no legislative power to block Trump Cabinet nominees as was illustrated this morning, is under pressure from liberal voters to do whatever they possibly can to stop Trump's nominees from being approved.
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As Clinton gets closer to securing her party's nomination, Democratic voters believe it is important that she throw a bone to her party's base; 52 percent of them said it is important for her to choose a liberal as her running mate, and 41 percent said that it was important for that person to be from outside of Washington, D.C.
From largest to smallest, these groups are the somewhat conservative, moderates and liberals, conservative evangelicals, and economically very conservative secular voters.
The primary liberal them is to rob from the haves and give to Democrat voters.
It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.
On one hand, their districts are closely divided, and they need to display independence from the liberal House Democratic leadership in order to appeal to the centrist, swing voters who will likely make the difference between winning and losing in the 2014 elections.
In my most recently published paper «Post-war voters as fiscal liberals: local elections, spending, and war trauma in contemporary Croatia», co-authored with Professor Josip Glaurdić from the University of Luxemburg, we attempt to provide an answer to these questions in the context of a post-conflict society in which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistribution.
Labour made a net gain of just two from the Conservatives, whilst the Liberal Democrats collapsed in suburban England and their south - western heartlands as the centre - left vote fragmented and centre - right voters moved over to the Tories.
This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.
Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno deemed Giuliani «Judas» for turning his back on the party's nominee, little - known state Sen. George Pataki, who ended up defeating Mario Cuomo in what was widely attributed more to voters» rejection of the liberal incumbent than their desire to see a GOP legislator from Peekskill in the executive mansion.
Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but its leaders did as much as David Cameron and George Osborne to brand Labour as spendthrift and irresponsible — Nick Clegg by playing up the comparison between the UK and Greece, David Laws by brandishing the now - notorious note from Liam Byrne.
«When we emerge victorious from the primary, Ms. Gillibrand will be unable to hide from her record as the Most Liberal Senator in Washington and voters will have a stark choice between a businessman who will address our nation's fiscal crisis and a politically - expedient politician.»
So it is unsurprising that UKIP support in the polls comes much more from former Conservative voters than from Labour or the Liberal Democrats.
The government is struggling to craft a motion that satisfies Liberal Democrat MPs — who in many cases owe their seats to anti-Iraq-war defections from Labour in 2005 — as well as little England Tory backbenchers who, nudged by Ukip's anti-intervention stance yesterday, fear that Nigel Farage speaks for their voters better than Cameron does.
After their rout in the elections and referendum, the Liberal Democrats now talk privately about «identity issues» where they diverge from the Tories, to remind voters they are a separate party, and «unity issues» on which they strongly support their Coalition partner.
It remains to be seen whether voters (perhaps particularly parents and grandparents) will appreciate a fee reduction enough to entice them to vote Labour, or whether accusations of fiscal responsibility from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will prove more damaging.
Figures in the party had comforted themselves with the thought that the coverage surrounding Huhne's conviction would focus voters» minds on expelling the Liberal Democrats from the seat.
An open letter was published by a group called #LibDems4Change urging fellow party members to elect a new leader «who will get a fair hearing from voters about Liberal Democrat achievements and ambitions for the future».
Much of their support is from the Conservative heartlands, and even the vast majority of those workers who intend to vote for them have not defected from Labour: only 17 % of UKIP voters voted Labour in 2010 (the same amount who voted Liberal - Democrat), compared with 45 % who voted for the Conservatives.
Barring a substantial shift in the last few days of campaigning — which seems unlikely given that 91 per cent of Labour voters say they probably will not change their minds — we can expect a swing from the Liberal Democrats to Labour of around 8 per cent since the general election.
She also explained that while Nick Clegg took a risk with his reputation in participating in the debates, his initiative for the debates could be explained by the Liberal Democrat's need to appeal to traditional Liberal Democrat voters, who tend to be more pro-European; and many of those voters turned away from the Liberal Democrats when the party entered coalition in 2010.
There are doubts about the breadth of Corbyn's appeal given his cultural identity as a left - wing metropolitan liberal representing the constituency of Islington North, allegedly «a world away» from the concerns of most uncommitted Labour voters.
Asked how he could possibly ask Labour voters to vote for him when he spent most of the last week encouraging a Labour candidate to stand against him, Mr Davis replied: «I'm asking everybody and we've had support from Tories, of course, Liberal activists, people who say «I've voted Labour all my life» and - most interestingly of all - people who said I've never taken an interest in politics all my life but this has galvanised my interest.»
But ironically, keeping the WFP's ballot status, much less its spot at Row E, appears to be increasingly a concern for party leaders and activists as the governor pushes for voters to back him on the Women's Equality Party line, which is increasingly being seen as a rival for liberals» votes and potential siphon away support from the WFP.
Labour's lead — usually in the double digits — has fallen to five per cent, but the movement comes from voters returning to the Tories or confirming it made them more likely to vote, rather than any influx of Liberal Democrat or Labour voters.
The candidate the Democrats have is Pamela Mackesey, an extremely liberal Democrat from Ithaca, the ivory tower of the 53rd Senate District and one of the areas where the gerrymanderers were able to neutralize a cluster of heavily Democratic voters.
US Hispanic voters showed signs of staying away from Obama due to his race - hence their support for Hilary Clinton in the Democrat contest - and liberal social attitudes.
Reports of Conservative voters jumping ship to join UKIP, follow previous defections including Winston Churchill, elected as a Conservative MP defecting to the Liberal Party and back again, plus the SDP in 1981 mainly formed from the Labour ranks.
Voters were turned away from polling stations in Sheffield Hallam, where Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was standing.
De Blasio, buoyed by the city's most liberal residents for his opposition to the NYPD's stop - and - frisk practices and from a family - centric ad campaign, has 29 percent support among likely Democratic voters, according to the poll conducted by Penn Schoen Berland.
In the tradition of Jacob Javits, Robert Wagner and Herbert Lehman — and in contrast to Charles Schumer, the Senate Democrats» de facto chief national electoral strategist, who has devoted much of his public - facing energy to aggressively nonideological battles for middle - class swing voters — Kirsten Gillibrand is going to be the liberal Senator from New York.
And voters should know that he is far from the liberal crusader some of his critics, then and now, hard - line ideologues themselves, make him out to be.
Today's Siena College poll, however, shows he didn't need to do that: He enjoys a 79 percent favorable rating from liberals on top of a 60 percent overall favorable from voters.
Stocker had some help from the state teachers union, which dumped a ton of cash into an effort to paint Grisanti as too liberal for Republican voters.
Should Texas be thwarted from its conservative path because Austin and San Antonio voters are liberal?
The pressure to speed things up will grow, not least from Liberal Democrat ministers who need to be able to demonstrate tangible success on the environment to their voters.
Conservatives assert such legislation prevents voter fraud and keeps ineligible people from participating, while liberals maintain such legislation disenfranchises poor people, immigrants and minorities, who are less likely to possess a government I.D.
This is driven, of course, by the overwhelming support of young voters, but also by white Catholics, who have grown more open - minded on gay rights as they have become more affluent and educated, and as their children return from college with more liberal attitudes.
The voters» verdict was not as clear as it might have been, but one thing was for sure: they showed their desire for Labour to be ejected from office by sacking the best part of 100 of their MPs (sending fewer Liberal Democrats back to Westminster too).
Indeed, if sufficient voters defect from the Tories to the Liberal Democrats, Labour could win the next election with the same share of the vote as in 1992.
Maybe closer to the election the Liberal Democrats will benefit from voters focusing more on the specific situation in their constituency, with tactical voting and incumbency effects kicking in.
With both Labour and Conservatives having far from illustrious recent records on the economy the voters showed their distaste by flirting with the nationalists and the Liberals.
She was backed by about $ 500,000 in media and direct - mail spending by EMILY's List, while Schatz received about $ 400,000 in air and mail support from the League of Conservation Voters and liberal groups like MoveOn.org.
This, he said, would offer his party a chance to escape from the «Liberal menace» and offer voters an «an aspirational shop window» of what a majority Tory government would offer.
«Every day, liberal Democratic candidates run farther and faster to the extreme left, and away from the common - sense values voters deserve and expect.
Meanwhile, Republicans face broader political headwinds that stem in part from an unpopular GOP president who has galvanized liberal voters in opposition.
He has to have support from all sides of the Conservative party, but he also has to win over disaffected Labour and Liberal voters to take those vital marginals.
It had seemed that the Liberal Democrats recent approach of differentiation from its dominant Conservative coalition partner on some policies, while sticking to the broad government austerity programme — reconciling the «unity / distinctiveness» dilemma — would reap some reward with voters.
She describes herself as a fiscal conservative who is moderate - to - liberal on social issues, she wins consistently in a city where Democrats dominate the voter registration rolls, and for the past two election cycles, she's won endorsement from municipal unions.
The positions of Conservative voters are for all issues roughly equidistant from UKIP on the one hand, and the seven left - liberal parties on the other.