Sentences with phrase «liberal upstaters»

This grouping generally contains a members from New York City as well as a few liberal upstaters.

Not exact matches

The number of upstaters in the majority conference has grown steadily over the years, adding to the diversity of opinions among Assembly Democrats, though they still tend to be dominated by the largely liberal views of the New York City members.

Distrusted by unions for his neoliberal economics, despised by rural Upstaters as a gun controller, a disappointment to liberals because of his budgetary centrism, Cuomo lacks any hard core of support.

I'm pretty sure a good number of upstaters have no idea who Bill de Blasio is, but the «we're your last line of defense against the liberals in NYC» argument is one they've certainly heard before from the Senate GOP.

Democrats, women, liberals, moderates, New York City, black, and Jewish voters and voters over the age of 55 said the incident should lead to stronger gun control laws, while Republicans, men, conservatives, and upstaters said some acts of violence simply can't be prevented.

«The momentum is all in Wu's favor because the turnout will be low and more liberal downstate Democrats are more likely to vote than the conservative upstaters.»