Sentences with phrase «middle class voters»

Many lower middle class voters believe that they work hard and don't take welfare - or are refused it - while others get something for nothing.

That's especially true for white middle class voters.

Working class and middle class voters alike tend to support political parties that support their economic interests.

Is it any surprise that white middle class voters are in rebellion?

Despite the evidence arguing against excessive share repurchases, it appears that the new tax legislation promoted by U.S. congressional Republicans will restart the trend — an effective rebuff to the millions of disaffected middle class voters who elected Trump in the hopes of «draining the swamp» of special interests.

Those ridings decided the election, and the NDP needs to look very closely at every aspect of its strategy in connecting with three geographically and culturally distinctive sets of middle class voters.

Magnus Nielsen said the decision to extend the vote to female and middle class voters in the nineteenth century was a mistake that should be reversed.

Flanagan and the TEAPubs always put the interests of the wealthy ahead of NY middle class voters.

In making his pitch for Paid Family Leave and a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage on Long Island today, Cuomo said voter anger in the presidential primaries comes from frustrated middle class voters who are dealing with stagnant wages and rising property taxes.

Lillian: To what Nickie said about work study: Yes, and also unpopular to many middle class voters.

Schumer, a staunch Clinton supporter, said the winner of the primary will be the candidate who resonates best with middle class voters.

A recent YouGov survey for the Times found that by 32 - 28 %, Britain's middle class voters think immigration has helped the economy grow faster.

• Mayoral control of schools: Though the status quo fought it, mayoral control of schools has proven to be the vital first step towards fixing public schools and, more important, restoring middle class voters» confidence in them.

Ordinary lower middle class voters don't share the same concern that politicians in particular, and Labour politicians particularly, have for the poorest and those on welfare.

«It's a phoney choice, saying Labour leaders have to choose between middle class voters and voters in the industrial north,» she answers.

It is the latest sign that Labour is backing away from the «class war» strategy apparently adopted before Christmas which has alarmed middle class voters.

Crudely put, Britain is increasingly Southern and middle class; for Labour to win they need to appeal to southern, middle class voters as well as their traditional working class supporters.

«Costello's exit should set off alarm bells for vulnerable House Republicans, who will also have to explain to middle class voters why they've given repeated handouts to the rich and biggest corporations, and who will face similarly tough, well - financed challenges from our deep field of impressive candidates,» said Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Evan Lukaske.

I think Broxtowe has always been wealthier than Gedling, so that shows how well the Tories were doing with lower - middle class voters in the 1980s.

If the TEApublican conference led by your boss, Dirty John Flanagan had not blocked a more progressive income tax and the budget enacted the Assembly proposal NY middle class voters would have had a larger income tax cut.

I was there on the ground and was amazed at how much of their vote seemed to be coming from working and lower middle class voters, eurosceptic and socially conservative people, many of whom will have voted Labour at some point in the near past.

Cuomo said voter anger in the presidential primaries comes from frustrated middle class voters who are dealing with stagnant wages and rising property taxes.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

Does the intelligentsia of the Democratic Party let a moment pass without reminding us of the demographic eclipse of white middle class voters?

For middle class voters to be backing the Labour manifesto isn't a total shock - it protected 95 % of people from tax rises whilst spending big on schools and the NHS - but for them to vote for Corbyn is a much bigger deal.

: To what Nickie said about work study: Yes, and also unpopular to many middle class voters.

We can dismiss his socialism as an unworkable throwback, but he's doing something our political establishment can't or won't, which is to inspire the political imaginations of middle class voters.

Sanders also appeals to the capacity of middle class voters to exercise their political freedom, calling for them to join him in fundamentally remaking our political economy: If we really want to, we can overthrow the moral limitations of capitalism and usher in a more just future.

This proposal will also completely disenfranchise the majority of working class and middle class voters, and empower those who will be utterly alienated from the consequences of exploiting them.

«I look forward to working with them through November to build campaigns that give voice to all the middle class voters left behind by this Republican Congress.»

The battle to help tackle cost of living has been joined, with the Lib Dems clearly feeling the need to be seen to give something back to middle class voters who have lost out on cuts to child benefit.

Refuse Ed Balls the Shadow Chancellorship - thus both sending a signal to middle class voters and demonstrating your authority.

«White ethnics, middle class voters, independents — the real heart of the Bloomberg and Giuliani days — either didn't vote for him or did because de Blasio's rivals were so uninspiring or they were tired of Bloomberg,» said Dan Gerstein, a political consultant and analyst.

It is only by addressing that failure of representation and rebuilding an electoral coalition of working class and middle class voters that Labour will return to power.

«We intend on changing that by sending another Republican to Washington to fight for our working class and middle class voters, building on the GOP victories of last year with Congressman Michael Grimm and Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis beating incumbents to take seats in Congress and the NYS Assembly.»

Davis would give a punchy, no - nonsense line of crime and order issues, and also plays well with swing voters and upper working / lower middle class voters.

Ed Miliband doesn't need to set out concrete policies — it would be good if the Labour movement is given a real opportunity now to help draw up that political alternative, but the party desperately needs a narrative and to be seen identifying with working and middle class voters who now find themselves at the sharp end.

He argued that he could build a broad coalition beyond social conservatives, including union workers and middle class voters disaffected by policies of the Obama administration.