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.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
Republican presidential candidates might be more trusted by more
voters at every level
of the income distribution if they focused more
of their attention on policies directly impact the working and aspiring
middle -
classes.
Cruz has a chance to unite the Republican «base
of the base» with
voters who might be open to a
middle -
class - focused conservative populism.
It isn't the fault
of Republican primary
voters that the Huntsman campaign combined seeming contempt for the Republican electorate with a
middle -
class tax increase and huge tax cuts on high earners.
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.
We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper,
middle, or working
class; whether
voter or one
of the nearly half
of eligible
voters that sat out this election.
If a businessman can convince
voters that he will direct his talents toward advancing the interests
of the
middle -
class and the struggling, he will find it easier to win the public's trust.
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.
While senior Labour politicians seem to feel comfortable speaking to pro-EU
middle -
class voters who have seen the visible gains
of EU membership, they have little to say to Eurosceptic working -
class voters who have suffered on the other end.
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.
As an immediate response to Labour's losing a considerable number
of those
middle -
class voters, Tony Blair and his close aides, such as Peter Mandelson and David Miliband attacked Ed Miliband for ditching their policy
of aspiration.
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.
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.
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.
By attempting to secure the votes
of forgotten working -
class voters, UKIP risks alienating its core
middle -
class supporters from the south east
of England — who remain attached to the party's libertarian agenda.
«The time to go the record is now members
of the Senate, the process
of purging the Senate
of corruption can't start soon enough for the
voters of NYS» Mike Flynn «
Middle Class Mike»
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.
But
middle -
class voters want to know how the GOP will take care
of them.
Maffei tried to rally
voters on his support
of the
middle class and backing
of women's rights.
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.
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.
Flanagan and the TEAPubs always put the interests
of the wealthy ahead
of NY
middle class voters.
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.
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.
And a look at the great mass
of lower
middle class C1 / C2
voters - who make up half the electorate — strongly suggests this to be the case.
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.
«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.
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.
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.
«Last night
voters selected an outstanding crop
of Republican candidates for the State Legislature who will fight for the
middle class and get New York's economy growing again.
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.
«New York must continue to lessen the burden
of property taxes for all residents, lift
middle -
class families up out
of challenging times, and empower
voters to engage their local leaders to make real, positive fiscal change,» Cuomo said.
«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.
While Labour's
middle -
class vote held up, the historic loss
of 4 million working -
class voters continued
And the evidence we have so far suggests that, while Labour's
middle -
class vote held up or increased last week, the historic loss
of 4 million working -
class voters under New Labour has continued.
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.
It's Nice Ed's coming back he was at stoke after all, Ed dropped the triangulation line that Blair liked, funny as he actually appealed to both Daivd Owen, Maurice Glasman and Tony benn in 2010 ′ but the triangulation
of middle / working
class votes has gone that it's not even Left / Right anymore, and the dozen or so policies that unite ex Labour
voters who vote Libdem, and the ones who vote Ukip can be summed up in, ignore Soctland and Northern Ireland politics concentrate on the economy, Defence, freedom
of speech and women's rights,