Despite this conjuring
the image of the party leaders cheating at musical chairs, to some extent he's right.
Finally ICM also commissioned a focus group on
the image of the party leaders, asking respondents what cars they associated with the party leaders (which sounds silly, but is actually a good way of looking at a brand image).
Not exact matches
The Liberals have also attempted to counter the
image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative
Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive
leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct
of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister
of foreign affairs.
But it's customary for a president's
party to try and tarnish the
image and deplete the war chests
of potential threats to their
leader's reelection.
In his State
of the State speech, he's jokingly displayed a Photoshopped
image of himself, and the two then - majority
party legislative
leaders — Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos — as ship captains, and, most recently, in sombreros, where the governor called the trio the «three amigos.»
recent sexual harassment allegations, the scarcity
of women or ethnic minority MPs in the
party's front and back benches and the failed attempts to oust Nick Clegg as
party leader are hardly stories that will improve the
image of an already unpopular
party.
What is on ground right now is an attempt by certain individuals to use the
image of the National
leader of the
party to entrench their own personal interest by promoting impositions
of candidates from various local government, wards during the last elections.
The Labour
leader reportedly faces growing disquiet from within his own
party as fresh
images of atrocities by Bashar al - Assad's regime emerge from Syria.
The iron triangle is an attempt to examine the three fundamental underpinnings
of any successful political
party:
leader image, economic competence and
party unity.
So, on the surface, it's going to be hard for David Cameron to shed his «posh»
image with so many
of his new intake MPs sharing the
leader's Eton background — the parliamentary
party has eighteen in all.
just another article that reinforces my view that the
leaders of the
party are really just aqrrogant and insulting fools divorced from people really want and still believe that its all about
image.
Speaking in January, shortly after David Cameron had been elected as
leader of the Conservative
party, Mr Murdoch challenged him to focus less on being
image friendly and more on delivering concrete policy.
And his
image is brought to life when the
Leader of the Labour
Party speaks.
The argument against Corbyn isn't about his personal
image and manner though, it's that he'd put the Labour
party in a ideological and policy position that wouldn't win votes, that the Labour
party itself would risk ripping itself apart under a
leader with little support among the Parliamentary
party and a long history
of rebellion.
In the iron triangle
of political success -
party leader image, economic competence and unity - the Tories are clearly winning on
party leader.
Rather than make themselves a vessel through which Cuomo can position himself as a national progressive
leader, community groups are backing candidates like Nixon, lieutenant governor candidate Jumaane Williams, and a slate
of IDC challengers in September's primary in order to help remake the
party in their
image.
The questions is a bit
of a simplification — firstly saying that one sagely considers the
parties» policies is obviously a more «socially acceptable» answer than saying one votes for the nicest chap, and equally most pollsters (not least MORI themselves) will tell you that there is a third important factor, the overall
image of a
party, which is itself influenced by the
leader's
image and the
party policies.
The latest figures also show the results
of the
party conference season on perceptions
of party image and on the
leaders» job approval ratings.
Comparing the
image of the Conservative
party now with how it was seen back in 2003, it hasn't changed to a great extent — people think it has a better team
of leaders (39 % think so, compared to 22 % back in 2003), is more competent (43 % now compared to 32 % in 2003) and is more united (46 % compared to 32 %), but in things like whether the Conservative
party cares about the problems
of ordinary people, shares peoples values, is honest and trustworthy or understands normal peoples lives, the improvement is far more meagre.