Sentences with phrase «liberal voters in»

Regardless, since New Hampshire has a very popular Democratic governor (70 % in the polls), the Bush regime and the kiss - ass Republicans in Congress have been like maggots under the skin (which is why both Repub reps got zapped - and Sen. Sununu is about to), and the dramatic increase in liberal voters in the southern tier population centers — all makes it more than likely that NH will be going Democratic this year no matter who heads the ticket.

In particular, Ulster County, the location of young and liberal voters in places like New Paltz and Woodstock and the fourth - highest source of Sanders donors per registered Democrat, could produce numbers favorable to the Vermont senator.

It started to become clear some 15 weeks ago, when Teachout declared her candidacy for the Working Families Party nomination, that Cuomo was going to have to reckon with liberal voters in ways he wasn't planning on.

Meanwhile, Republicans face broader political headwinds that stem in part from an unpopular GOP president who has galvanized liberal voters in opposition.

«There's no question that the most liberal voters in New York City are people of color,» said Ken Sherrill, an emeritus professor at Hunter College, reflecting on the numbers.

There are «heartland» and liberal voters in every marginal seat.

There are heartland and liberal voters in every marginal seat: it will take a positive agenda to secure them.

Consider this: - Two of the most important issues for liberal voters in a Democratic state, same - sex marriage and the so - called «millionaires tax,» are resolved heading into an election year.

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.

It can do, but it will alienate more liberal voters in London (without which it can't win in 2015 or 2016).

Not exact matches

A little - noticed difference between the federal Labor and Liberal parties is that the former ties itself in knots over whether or not to dispatch a leader who's on the nose with voters.

An Angus Reid opinion poll released in December found only 25 % of voters supported the Tories, putting them in a tie for second with the Liberals.

Trump does not believe in liberal democracy and his voters do not believe in liberal democracy, and that makes the liberal press part of the opposition.

Although the new Conservatives are stuck in the low - to mid-20 per cent range in national polls, voter discontent and the prospect of a Liberal minority government have made Harper a force to be taken seriously.

In the lead up to the provincial election next May, the Liberal government has begun laying the groundwork for an election platform, announcing new policies in the hopes of wooing voterIn the lead up to the provincial election next May, the Liberal government has begun laying the groundwork for an election platform, announcing new policies in the hopes of wooing voterin the hopes of wooing voters.

Indeed, elections slated for 2018 endanger the Liberal regimes in Quebec and Ontario, and Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley, who has worked closely with Ottawa, must face voters in 2019.

Even around Burnaby, where the pipeline would terminate, Liberals in B.C. believe the Kinder Morgan issue was way down on most voter's list, except for the hard core Green supporters, who were against it, and union voters, who are actually for it.

BC Liberal operative Bonney was hired to be communications director for the government's multiculturalism branch and tasked to carry out the party plan to target ethnic voters in swing ridings for the 2013 election.

If one is even a moderately fiscally conservative Ontario voter, the prospect of spending billions more in an already heavily indebted province, or rewarding the long - governing Liberals with another term is untenable.

Past Conservative voters who own small businesses view this proposal as unfair by nearly seven - to - one, and they are joined in this opinion by a plurality of Liberal - voting business owners (43 %), as seen in the following graph:

In a 1992 by - election following the resignation of Airdrie - Three Hills PC MLA Connie Osterman, voters in that riding elected Liberal Don MacDonald by a 24 % margiIn a 1992 by - election following the resignation of Airdrie - Three Hills PC MLA Connie Osterman, voters in that riding elected Liberal Don MacDonald by a 24 % margiin that riding elected Liberal Don MacDonald by a 24 % margin.

The Airdrie area has typically voted for the PCs, but voters in this region have been known to elect opposition candidates in the past (Western Canadian Concept MLA Gordon Kesler was elected in 1982 and Liberal MLA Don MacDonald was elected in 1992).

Anyway, it'll be on policy choices that the Trudeau Government stands or falls with Canadian voters, regardless of the effort of the Conservatives to make couture an issue, and while there's plenty to criticize in the Liberal policy book, taken as a package Canadians don't yet seem that dissatisfied with what they're getting.

Perhaps the results were a fluke, but they give the federal Liberals a sign that many voters in Alberta's urban centres are becoming more receptive to a moderate non-Conservative alternative in Ottawa.

The historical success of the PC Party in Alberta between 1971 and 2015 was not based on adherence to conservative ideology but on the ability of its leaders to build a big blue tent of conservative, moderate and liberal voters.

The vacuum in the Liberal leadership is good news for the PC Party, Rachel Notley «s New Democrats and the Alberta Party, who will try to offer Liberal voters a new home to park their votes.

In that sense, attacking Schmidt's salary neatly speaks to voter discontent with the Wynne Liberals.

The Liberals were similarly successful in ridings rich with ethnic voters in and around Metro Vancouver.

Harper has spent the last four days campaigning in the voter - dense areas around Toronto and southwestern Ontario, venturing even into safe Conservative seats to try and counter the Liberal threat.

But the plan to work for the campaign doing voter analysis fizzled, in large part because the mostly liberal former Cambridge Analytica employees didn't want to wade back into conservative politics.

A candidate's religion is not supposed to be an issue in politics, but both the media and liberal voters respect that only when the candidate is a Democrat.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

It is represented in our day by liberal arts colleges, the Masons, Rotary, life insurance, Religion in American Life, the Anti-Defamation League, the League of Women Voters, Reader's Digest, the Jaycees, the Pro-Choice Movement, Robert Schuller, the WCTU, Common Cause, savings banks, the Moral Majority, William Buckley, the Institute for Religion and Democracy - and many preachers of the mainline denominations.

So, Perot voters have in common conservative views on the economy and liberal views on social issues.

For instance, in last year's Dutch election 85 % of CD voters described themselves as religious; for the Socialists, Liberals, and Democrats «66, the figures were 55 %, 40 %, and 25 % respectively.

That effectively disenfranchised many voters in the liberal college town Ohio conservatives refer to as «People's Republic of Oberlin.»

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.

I'm not too familiar with specific MPs in other countries, but if you look at US, the only Muslim congressperson (Ellison) is far less religious and far more socially liberal than an average observant Muslim voter would be.

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 redistributioIn 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 redistributioin 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 redistributioin the context of a post-conflict society in which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistributioin which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistribution.

Back then, communism MEANT something — even most liberals saw great evil in Stalin's regime, and scaring voters with the specter of socialism worked because there really WAS a socialist model attempting to compete with capitalism.

Schneiderman has positioned himself as the most liberal candidate in the five - person Democratic AG field, and also the choice of Latino and black voters, which explains his support of Espaillat (although the two have a longstanding relationship; Espaillat backed Schneiderman when former NYC Councilman Guillermo Linares mounted a failed primary challenge to the Manhattan senator in 2002).

The party is hesitant to come out with something that pleases one group and alienates the other as it attempts to hold together a shaky coalition of city - dwelling liberals and comparatively socially conservative, but economically left - leaning, voters who're more likely to reside in smaller towns in Wales, the Midlands and the North.

If only of course the 34th were a «liberal» district as opposed to a relatively conservative district for NYC — maybe you think the other voters of the 34th might want a say in who represents them?

With that in mind, Democrats aren't skimping on the Get Out The Vote operation: the Jones campaign and liberal groups are working desperately to encourage Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic black voters to go to the polls, regardless of past disappointment and present voter suppression.

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.

It essentially became pointless with the introduction of FPTP for all seats, before that many seats used Block Voting and there were alliance slates in places (in some, Liberals, Nat Libs and Cons all put up one candidate each to LAbour's two; evidence was a lot of Lib voters supported Labour with second vote, but Tory and Nat Lib voters split all over the place).

Were an individual Gloucestershire voter given up to seven votes to distribute as s / he saw fit, it is of course impossible to know whether this would lead to seven Conservative MPs returned (as was the case in the 2015 election), or a mixture of parties (in 2005 the seats were split three Conservative, two Labour and two Liberal Democrat).

UKIP's rise really began at the tail end of Tony Blair's second term, when his Government's aggressive pro-Europeanism, liberal immigration policies and lack of interest in the domestic political priorities of working class voters became too much for some.

Until now, even the most eager, and unemployed, floating voter is unlikely to have seen even one of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders up close and personal, let alone, as they will be in the debates, not speechifying but tested and challenged live by their fiercest rivals.