Sentences with phrase «of liberal voters»

The 50 - by - 30 goal was supported by Democrats (93 %), independents (88 %) and Republicans (84 %), while 96 % of liberal voters were for it (85 % «strongly»), as were 92 % of independents and 81 % of conservatives.

«There are a lot of liberal voters, progressive voters who are unhappy with Cuomo,» he said.

On the EU, for about the 100th time, 63 % of Labour voters voted remain, compared with 64 % of SNP voters and 70 % of Liberal voters.

However, an Essential poll found that only 17 per cent of Liberal voters were concerned about this, compared with 67 per cent of Labor voters.

A Siena College poll this week found 80 percent of liberal voters hold a favorable view of him.

Hillary Clinton on Monday announced her decision to spend the next few years at the helm of Onward Together, a new progressive organization working to build a major national coalition of liberal voters.

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.

Not exact matches

Fifty - four percent of self - identified liberals sided with Sanders, while the smaller group of self - identified moderate Democratic primary voters cast their ballots for Clinton.

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.

The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

His London mayoral election campaign, where he was widely accused of running a racist «dog - whistle» campaign against Sadiq Khan, appeared to have hurt his support among left and liberal - leaning voters.

As Clinton gets closer to securing her party's nomination, Democratic voters believe it is important that she throw a bone to her party's base; 52 percent of them said it is important for her to choose a liberal as her running mate, and 41 percent said that it was important for that person to be from outside of Washington, D.C.

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.

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 voters.

There's a particular set of voters that the NDP didn't connect with and the Liberals did.

Voters decisively rejected the ruling Conservative party and placed the Liberal Party far ahead of the left wing New Democratic Party.

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:

My theory (admittedly based on anecdotes) is that some voters may be getting tired of hearing how good the Liberals say they are — all those boasts about how feminist they are, their brave resistance to racism, about how good and decent they are.

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 % margin.

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.

Meanwhile, a poll of Calgary - Centre voters conducted by Forum Research for the Huffington Post showed the Conservatives with 44 % support, the Liberals with 21 %, the New Democrats with 14 % and the Green Party with 12 %.

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.

Second, it reminds voters of Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne's spectacularly bad decision to privatize Hydro One.

Mulcair's balanced - budget promise sought to reassure NDP - wary voters but also curtailed the party's ambition, while the Liberals peeled off progressive support with its own abandonment of a budget - balance pledge, plus its exciting flash of radicalism — a vague plan to legalize marijuana.

The liberals use it to generate a base of voters.

The true purpose of these nonsensical news - celebs is to agitate the voters into a polarized frenzy of namecalling «liberal» or «right winger».

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.

The decline of the party press and subsequently of political parties themselves as primary means of communication with voters limits the viability of the liberal theory of the press as a pluralistic ideological advocate.

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.

The collectivist liberal campaigns on the proposition that the voters are too imprudent or incompetent to provide for old age, periods of unemployment, sickness, or unwanted requests for sexual liaison.

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.

Some Trump voters turned off the NFL over Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest, and some liberals retreated back into the left - leaning perspectives of prestige cable.

Make no mistake about it: Voters were frustrated because of Iraq, scandals, and political ineffectiveness, but they were not embracing liberals.

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

The technique might have been expected to over-represent liberal or left wing parties because of the prevalence of young, urban voters online, but it appears the use of search data, as opposed to social media, may have limited the impact of demographic imbalances online.

He also has the support of 79 percent of self - identified liberal voters.

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.

A recent YouGov poll broadcast on Newsnight last week, provided compelling evidence of a national and non-partisan dislike of banking, with no variation between Labour, Liberal Democrat and Tory voters.

The Liberal Democrats have been making a concerted effort to oust Kate Hoey out of Vauxhall mainly by alerting voters to the fact that Hoey spent much of the EU referendum hanging out with Nigel Farage.

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.

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?