Sentences with phrase «liberal electorate»

New York City Attorney Wendy Long ran as a staunch conservative to win New York's Republican Senate primary and now faces a broader and more liberal electorate as she takes on Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand.

Wendy Long ran as a staunch conservative to win New York's Republican Senate Primary and now faces a broader and more liberal electorate as she takes on Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand.

The vote was both a milestone in Nixon's nascent campaign to become the Democratic nominee for governor and a confirmation of a deepening philosophical and political fissure in New York's liberal electorate.

Not exact matches

Could the real reason be because this is a safe Liberal and National Party electorate?

And both wait to see what, if any actions the federal Liberals take over an oil sands pipeline they've championed and a coast they've vowed to protect, along with electorates in two provinces with profoundly different priorities.

Black criminal behavior is the issue where liberals have failed most spectacularly to fashion a double standard that can simultaneously propitiate their own guilt and satisfy both logic and the limits of the American electorate's tolerance.

If they support implementation of this review, the Liberal Democrat Party will have done a U-turn that the electorate will not be able to forgive and forget.

The government's majority may have been slashed from 84 to 21, but enough Liberal Democrats broke a pledge with the electorate to vote against any increase in tuition fees.

Only ten per cent of the electorate would vote Liberal Democrat if there was an election tomorrow, according to the latest figures.

For instance, the Liberals could put up a left - wing radical as well as a traditional Whig, thus broadening their appeal to the electorate.

Support for the Lib Dems will probably stabillise to the party's core support at around 10 - 15 % of the electorate (about what the old Liberal party used to get before it merged with the SDP)

The Liberal candidate for the new WA seat of Burt is «very, very hopeful» of winning, despite marginal seat polling showing it is the most likely electorate in the state to go to Labor.

Sanders had an advantage over Clinton in Wisconsin because of the overwhelmingly white electorate and pockets of liberal voters in a state that allowed anyone to vote in its primary.

«He's done such a turnaround that i don't know how any Liberal Democrat will now face the electorate.

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.

The seat was taken by Liberal Democrat Stephen Williams with a large majority, thought to have been aided by the large student electorate, hostile to Labour's top - up fees policy.

Tony Blair's manifesto commitment to a referendum on electoral reform gives him an option for hanging onto government office, in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, by introducing PR when Gordon Brown and Frank Field's policies produce the inevitable dénouement with the electorate.

Indeed, we need rather more specific and detailed statements from the Party leadership in order for the electorate to know what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

The fact that the Labour Party got together with the Tories and liberal democrats to lie to the Scottish electorate during indyref and to make promises that wee not kept.

This is all well and good for Cuomo, who, if he runs for president, will have to perform that classic two - step: winning over a liberal base first, a general electorate second.

He continued: «While PR was a perennial fixture of Liberal manifestos, educating the electorate in voting systems was then a subject too complex for an electoral campaign.

This video is designed to remind the electorate that the Liberal Democrats are a different party.

On its face, probably not all that much, since to most of the GOP primary electorate the paper remains a liberal rag that frequently skirts the edge of treason, but with turnout expected to be low, there remain Republicans in wealthy parts of New York City suburbs who aren't paying much attention to the race, and will only decide who to vote for at the last moment, so a nod from the paper of record could prove decisive.

They also know that a vengeful electorate is waiting, eager to exact retribution for the Liberals» broken promises.

Claims by the Secretary of State for Wales that the current devolution settlement does not need major changes are misguided and could help to entrench an unsatisfactory system in place where the courts become the final arbiter of laws rather than the electorate, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.

In terms of ideology, exit polls reveal that the state is just under a third each of self - described liberals and conservatives, with slightly under 40 percent of the total electorate as self - described moderates.

It could be a routine hold for Labour in a constituency they have dominated forever, proving that rumours of the party's demise have been greatly exaggerated; it could be the route to Westminster for Paul Nuttall (for whom this is the fifth attempt to get into the Commons — still short of Nigel Farage's number), heralding the beginning of a big Ukip surge into working - class Labour heartlands; it could end up with a very close three -(or even four -, depending on Liberal Democrat performance) way race that shows the new divides in the electorate in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

The Conservatives» Annabel Goldie and Liberal Democrats» Nicol Stephen also acknowledged so - called Westminster issues would still influence the electorates» views in the Scottish parliament election.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable argues in the wake of the Windrush scandal that the electorate is more colour - blind than Westminster gives it credit for.

Membership of the major parties is at a historic low, with less than 1 % of the electorate a member of the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats or Labour; and even with surges in membership for the Greens and the Scottish National Party, trust in politics in the UK as a whole is at a grim low.

The electorate there is quite volatile, and the latest set - back for the Liberal Party there may only be a temporary phenomenon.

He acknowledged the «cruel punishment» administered to his fellow Liberal Democrats by the electorate and warned that British liberalism is needed to challenge the politics of identity, grievance and fear.

The liberal democratic project is based on the assumption that the electorate are granted the freedom to choose, determine the future of their country and their individual / collective future as well.

In the actual 2015 seats, Conservative MPs in England and Wales represented rather larger constituencies (in terms of the electorate) than did Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs.

When it came to issues, all five leaned leftward, likely in an attempt to appeal to a Democratic primary electorate that seems to be hungry for liberal standard - bearers.

In the 2015 election, 47 % of the electorate voted Labour, while 25 % voted Conservative, 17 % UKIP, 6 % Liberal Democrat and 4 % Green.

The participants were chosen to represent the electorate, and included loyal Labourites, Labour leaners and those who had voted for the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats but would consider switching to Labour if it chose the right leader.

«If liberal Conservative MPs allow ourselves to be drummed out of the Conservative Party, whether by heeding the calls for a new Party or by accepting that our views no longer have a place within our Party, then that would send a terrible signal, not only to the electorate but also to the tens of thousands of Tory members, councillors, donors and supporters who share our views and want us to lead the charge in putting forward a mainstream agenda which appeals to the centre - ground of British politics and, in particular, to younger and future voters.»

The Democrats say what one part of the electorate wants to hear, the Republicans say what another part wants to hear (pro-church, against «liberal» ideas such as evolution and climate change), but finally the difference for ordinary people is marginal.

[18] However, she managed to hold off a strong Liberal Democrat challenge from Sal Brinton; despite a 12 % swing against her, Ward held the seat with a majority of 1,148 votes, approximately 2.3 % of the electorate.

Instead, the shifts we find among Britain's growing minority communities are the same as those found in the wider electorate in England and Wales: incremental Conservative and Labour advance, a collapse in Liberal Democrat voting, and a surge in support for minor party entrants.

While less well off than other outer Melbourne electorates, Calwell still contains significant numbers of young home buyers who reacted badly to Labor's handling of the economy in 1990, and to the Liberal Party's campaign on interest rates in 2004.

Like the previous representative of the district, Republican Michael Grimm, Mr. Donovan portrayed his Democratic opponent as a typical tax - and - spend liberal who would be rejected by the district's more conservative electorate.

Also shown is the proportion of population in each electorate of indigenous origin according to the 2011 Census, and the size of the swing to the Country Liberal Party at the 2008 election.

Polls show the incumbent with anemic approval ratings among the general public, but resoundingly strong support among the liberals and minorities who make up a disproportionate cross-section of the Democratic primary electorate.

«If the Liberal Democrats choose - and of course it's their decision - if they choose to join with the Labour Party then we will probably end up with someone as prime minister who didn't go through the process in the general election of scrutiny by the electorate.

Massachusetts Democrats recently launched a campaign painting Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown as anti-Fenway Park, in an effort to help challenger Elizabeth Warren capture suburban voters and win over an electorate that sees her as an unlikable liberal outsider.

The Liberal Democrats clearly wanted to change the first - past - the - post system radically, but the compromise to hold a referendum on a merely slightly less majoritarian Alternative Vote system was too lukewarm a compromise to ignite anyone's passion, let alone that of the electorate.

There has always been liberal dissatisfaction with Cuomo — the governor casts himself as a Solomonic centrist who can get things done in once - chaotic Albany — which, generically, is worth about a quarter of the electorate.

To Schumer's left and voting «no» stood 16 of his fellow Democrats, including seven potential presidential candidates who may be more mindful of the liberal primary electorate of 2020 than they are of any immediate political threat.