Sentences with phrase «liberal voters who»

«We need to reach out to small «l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard - headed on the economy — more credible on the economy than Labour — but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.

«If (Peebles) can position himself as the person who genuinely cares about the «downtrodden,» that would resonate with the liberal voters who thought that de Blasio was going to be this progressive champion that he's not.»

Some analysts have provided interesting evidence to suggest that online polls could be significantly overstating support for Leave through the way they handle undecided voters and by failing to represent more socially liberal voters who are harder to reach.

We shall see how many liberal voters who were so anti war can stomach voting for this guy then.

Not exact matches

Sanders also prevailed among liberal voters, who made up the majority of the exit - poll respondents.

The competitive contest between Lipinski and Marie Newman, a first - time candidate who won 49.1 % of the primary voters, became a flashpoint for simmering tensions between the national Democratic Party's centrist and liberal wings, drawing months of national attention.

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.

I read a terrific study by Richard Charnin, who is a mathematician, a liberal Democrat, an eccentric but brilliant guy, who concludes on the basis of the exit polls and the actual vote on a precinct - by - precinct basis that the swing can not be that wide without widespread voter fraud.

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.

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:

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.

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 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.

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.

Of the 634 voters it spoke to who ranked Labour as their first preference, 49 % said they would prefer a minority government, compared to 30 % who wanted to see a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

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?

In an interview with The Herald yesterday, the Witney MP acknowledged the Tories had «let down people in Scotland», saying the current choice for voters was between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, who are now running things, or the SNP.

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.

«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.»

Liberal activists who have been critical of Cuomo on education and other issues think an insurgent with greater name recognition could provide a stronger challenge, even though polls say Cuomo is still popular among Democratic voters statewide.

This is particularly exasperating for Liberal Democrat ministers, who need to communicate with their voters, who mostly do not read those two newspapers.

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.

Ot this great amount of liberal Or Respect voters who'll return labour too power, in fact the Libdem supporters now voting Labour would have turned had Balls or David M been leader,

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

In a recent Siena College poll, he held a 58 percent to 27 percent lead among registered Democrats over the activist and actress Cynthia Nixon, who is trying to appeal to more liberal voters.

In other words, he tends to be precisely the left - behind voter who was once solidly Labour but who now feels economically insecure — and abandoned by Labour's middle - class, cosmopolitan and liberal values.

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.

The Schneiderman campaign has been racking up support in the LGBT community and touting that fact as he strives to position himself as the most liberal AG contender in the five - Democrat field, believing it will give him the edge among the left - leaning voters who tend to come out in primaries.

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.

City Council Watch attended a debate in the 6th Council District on Columbus Avenue this week, where we observed about four dozen elderly black and Jewish voters munch on cookies and fruit, and murmur amongst themselves about the slate of candidates who would presume to fill the shoes of the beloved CM Gale Brewer, champion of the liberal middle - class.

When David Cameron first entered Downing Street in 2010, his position in the Lords was protected by the coalition with the Liberal Democrats — who in practice are now the «swing voters» in the Lords.

Unlike last year where the party chairmen could anoint a liberal Republican, this year the voters in NY - 23 will get to vote in a primary to decide who their Republican nominee is.

«This endorsement does a disservice not only to the Conservative Party and its members, but to all the conservative voters who want to elect a genuine conservative candidate,» Straniere said in a statement that linked McMahon with more «liberal» Democrats like Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

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 the narrative that Cuomo faced a liberal backlash on Tuesday is potentially problematic for Astorino, who needs to capture a significant portion of the Democratic and independent voters in November in order tow in.

A third of Liberal Democrat voters, and even one in seven who say they will vote Labour, see him as the best man for the job.

Cuomo, who is seeking a third term, has $ 30.4 million in cash on hand in the bank, an 80 percent approval rating in a recent Siena College poll among self - identified liberal voters and alliances with key labor unions.

These are like the protest voters who used to give the Liberal Democrats startling by - election victories.

Fifty - six percent of voters who identify as liberals and 60 percent of New Yorkers who say they are conservative are against the idea.

Breaking down 2010 Liberal Democrat voters by how much attention they pay to politics though shows a fascinating split: 2010 Lib Dem voters who paid a lot of attention to politics were more likely to switch to Labour; people who voted Lib Dem in 2010 but who paid little attention to politics were more likely to split to the Conservatives.

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.

Four out of 10 people (41 per cent) who voted Conservative at last year's general election back licensed sales of cannabis, only just below the level of support among Labour, Liberal Democrat and Ukip voters.

There liberal minded people voted for us in 1992, There are plenty of labour voters who voted for us in 1992..

The survey found that disenchanted Liberal Democrat voters who flocked to Labour since the general election are highly unlikely to return due to the extent of their disillusionment with the coalition.

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.

Least of all his Liberal Democrat voters who were told in promise after promise that he would never countenance it.

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.