Sentences with phrase «most liberal voters»

Even most Liberal voters didn't swallow the message the Liberals and Murdoch media have been putting out!

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

The media that most persuadable voters consume is largely produced by socially liberal journalists and entertainers.

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 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).

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.

«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.»

The pledge to scrap tuition fees is the policy that voters are most likely to recall (though it's worth remembering that the Liberal Democrats» similar proposal in 2010 only led to a 1 % increase in vote share).

But thanks to the Conservative - Lib Dem measure to raise fees to # 9000 per year, many erstwhile Liberal Democrat voters feel betrayed by the policy reversal, and students most of all.

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?).

The Liberal Democrats, the most pro-European offering for voters, stands on just nine per cent.

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.

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.

Most of the 2010 Liberal Democrat voters are intending to vote Labour (27 %) in the 2015 general election.

There are doubts about the breadth of Corbyn's appeal given his cultural identity as a left - wing metropolitan liberal representing the constituency of Islington North, allegedly «a world away» from the concerns of most uncommitted Labour voters.

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.»

De Blasio, buoyed by the city's most liberal residents for his opposition to the NYPD's stop - and - frisk practices and from a family - centric ad campaign, has 29 percent support among likely Democratic voters, according to the poll conducted by Penn Schoen Berland.

Certainly for most of the twentieth century the more that certain members of the Labour movement emphasised «socialism», the more likely they were to frighten Liberal voters into the arms of the Conservatives.

This has been to the IDC's benefit: most liberal Democratic voters, particularly in the five boroughs, have been too wrapped up in the national scene to care about their own backyard, and peculiar alliances between beleaguered Republicans and rogue Democrats go unnoticed.

* Instead, keep your eye on Liberal Democrat MPs (most of whom would rather work with you than with the Conservatives) and Liberal Democrat voters (most of whom would rather vote for you than the Conservatives).

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

And as the campaign wore on, he appeared to win back the support of most Labour voters in 2015, plus some Liberal Democrats and Greens.

Less than one voter in three agrees that «by entering the Coalition, the Lib Dems have managed to get real liberal policies put into action» — and most of these are either already Lib Dem supporters or pro-Coalition Tory voters.

The most recent Siena poll has Hawkins at 4 % among New York voters, and 5 % among self - described liberals.

«While our opponents fight to take the most extreme liberal position on the issues, we are taking nothing for granted and have made early investments in our campaign infrastructure to earn the support of every voter,» said Nicholas Weinstein, Reed's campaign manager.

YouGov, which is running a daily opinion poll for the Sun, has been asking voters what would be most likely to put them off voting for the Liberal Democrats.

Of all the three principal parties» voters, Liberal Democrats ones are the most likely to fling up their hands in horror at mention of the Wizard of Oz (or Warlock, if you prefer.)

Among liberal Democratic voters, addressing global warming ranks as the sixth most important priority out of 23 policy issues, the poll found.

For Labor and Greens voters, the most favoured second - choice option was a carbon tax, while no single policy (not even Direct Action) came a close second among Liberal voters.