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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.

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At the Democratic National Convention that year in Charlotte, N.C., the congresswoman pulled out all the stops, and warned that a Romney presidency would negatively impact middle - class voters, women, minorities and the American dream itself.

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.

Titled «Building a Strong Middle Class» the 278 - page document is essentially a sequel to last year's «Growing the Middle Class,» with page after page reminding voters what the government did in its first big - spending, deficit - ballooning budget.

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target 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.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

This means that if a Republican could come up with a message to address the concerns of middle - class voters, «amazingly enough, he'll win a lot more Hispanic votes in the process.

There are good political and social reasons behind making pre-K available to everyone, including the benefits to all children of socioeconomic integration and the fact that middle - class voters are more likely to be invested in programs that aren't narrowly targeted at the poor.

«President Clinton will highlight the choice voters face in the upcoming midterm elections, and emphasize the need to continue moving the country forward by electing strong Representatives like Hinchey who are fighting for middle class families — not the wealthy special interests.»

There are vast swathes of voters in the UK who are socially conservative but economically left - wing, and expect the state to support them against the middle and upper - classes.

While a majority of AB and C1 (i.e. middle - class) social group voters wish to remain in the EU, a majority of C2 and DE (i.e. working - class) voters want to leave.

«I feel a strong connection with voters when I talk about how my parents worked hard to lift us to the middle class and instilled hard working values that allowed me to succeed,» Delgado said in a statement.

It's undoubtedly a reason why the lower middle class flocked to the Conservatives in 2015 and it's a reason why working class voters are continuing to haemorrhage from the Labour party.

In my experience in focus groups with lower middle class and affluent working class swing voters, people are obsessed about two things: the NHS; and welfarIn my experience in focus groups with lower middle class and affluent working class swing voters, people are obsessed about two things: the NHS; and welfarin focus groups with lower middle class and affluent working class swing voters, people are obsessed about two things: the NHS; and welfare.

Imagine, for instance, a typical voter profile: in this case, imagine a young female independent who has voted in a given set of elections and lives in a middle class neighborhood.

Kinderhook, N.Y. November 1, 2016... With open enrollment for Obamacare beginning today, voters should know that its rates are skyrocketing for New York's struggling middle class: They'll go up another 16.6 percent on average in New York and upwards of 25 percent elsewhere, yet liberal New York City professor and NY - 19 congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout wants to expand the failing program even more, the campaign of fiscally responsible congressional candidate John Faso today noted.

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?).

These voters perceive Labour to be close to benefit claimants, trade unions, and immigrants, but distant from homeowners, the middle class, and people in the south.

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.

But there are plenty of middle class Muslim voters in constituencies north of London who are livid at Cameron's refusal to condemn Israel's actions in Gaza.

Since the middle class comprise the majority of eligible voters, the Democratic Party has been targeting them in its message, while continuing to preserve and enhance the programs that target the poor.

They're trying to sway leadership to leave it alone or limit it to a degree so voters back home — particularly those in the middle class — don't see their overall tax bills increase because of tax reform.

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

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.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

A majority in the Labour movement believe the party lost the election because its traditional core supporters decided not to vote Labour, not because middle class swing voters went to other parties.

In this weekend's poll, the Tories enjoy a seven point lead among middle - class voters, while Labour is nine points ahead among working class voters

On the occasions when Ukip's vote increases dramatically (such as in European elections) their new or temporary voters are more likely to be middle - class, financially secure and from Conservative backgrounds.

«Rep. Maffei is well - positioned to bring his common sense message focused on strengthening the middle class to voters in the 24th Congressional District in the months ahead.»

We now represent a swathe of seats in university towns where middle class Labour voters were won over by our policy on tuition fees and our uncompromising internationalism on Iraq.

Working class (DE) voters in the South are more likely to vote Conservative than middle class (AB) voters in the North (page 5) but there is an important public / private sector split to this.

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 YorIn 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 Yorin 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.

«Rep. Maffei is well - positioned to bring his common sense message focused on strengthening the middle class to voters in the 24th Congressional District in the months ahead,» Miller said.

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.

• 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.

The Democratic Party failed to retain the presidency and make electoral gains last year because they didn't give voters «anything to vote for» in November and failed to boost middle class issues, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a fundraiser on Monday night.

Growing and strengthening our middle class is vitally important, and I hope that these same types of agreements can be reached at facilities in other areas of the state after voters approve the casino gambling amendment in November,» said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The SNP's priority is keeping happy the middle - class voters who handed it its first Scottish Parliamentary election victory in 2007.

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 taxeIn 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 taxein the presidential primaries comes from frustrated middle class voters who are dealing with stagnant wages and rising property taxes.

Some Cabinet ministers fear that Mr Brown is locked into pursuing a «core vote» strategy appealing to Labour's traditional voters in the north and the Midlands, and risks alienating southern middle - class voters who may be more supportive of cuts in public spending.

Rather than looking at self - reported levels of turnout in post-election surveys ComRes did regressions on actual levels of turnouts in constituencies by their demographic profiles, finding the usual patterns of higher turnout in seats with more middle class people and older people, lower turnout in seats with more C2DE voters and younger voters.

The flip side, according to this view, is that Clinton accentuated too many issues that appeal to a narrower band of upper - middle - class college - educated voters, women in particular — things like paid family leave and pay equity.

«The middle class is suffering due to rampant income inequality in this district, and voters should choose who is best suited to be their champion on those critical issues.»

Trump tried to remind voters of his plan to cut taxes for the middle class during a speech in Detroit, but economists said the few details he offered only made his proposals more confusing.

We're going to have to build something genuinely new in the future... We've got to keep our working class voters and support but also reach out to Conservative supporters and middle England.»

«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.»

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.

Something that could — as in 1945, 1966 and 1997 — unite working - class and middle - class voters around a vision for society.

Many of them are working class voters living in the former Labour heartlands of the west central belt: the type of voters that New Labour routinely neglected in its pursuit of middle England.