Sentences with phrase «of urban voters»

Sure, there are plenty of Republicans who loudly support empowering parents with school choice, but they are still boosted by a party which expresses vocal disdain for the kinds of government supports on which many of these urban voters depend to keep their families intact.

Nandyal has a larger numbers of urban voters (67.2 per cent), and TD leaders.

Arguably the most significant reason Clinton is doing better in 2016 than eight years ago is that she's won the overwhelming support of urban voters this time around.

The combination of urban voters and rural Hispanic and native voters will move it into the D column.

This makes it even harder to compromise, as House Democrats have no knowledge of issues affecting rural white folk and Republicans have no knowledge of urban voters.

Not exact matches

The Wildrose had all sorts of fun pandering to their base, but I suspect it helped solidify urban and center voters seeing the Wildrose as the nut bars they are.

Most of the major civic institutions in American communities today — like the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, the Urban League, the Knights of Columbus, Rotary, Kiwanis, the Lions Club — were created in this period.

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.

Redistricting in the early 1990s was bad enough, with certain Democratic urban legislators teaming up with suburban Republicans to sketch sprawling monsters linking scattered pockets of (presumably) like - minded voters, in the process often creating a slew of safe Republican districts enveloping a handful of others packed to the gills with minority and other reliably Democratic voters.

Only a very small number of districts, mostly urban districts packed with African - American voters, vote Democrat in the south.

In wealthier urban and suburban areas, most voters will be online and a majority will have broadband access, but even in far - flung rural areas or poorer parts of cities email at least is usually available.

Furthermore, the Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Carmichael MP, has warned that there are large numbers of undecided former Labour voters in the «urban post-industrial belt of Scotland».

From the beginning, there has been a politics of division and neglect — dividing rural voters from urban ones or squabbling between northern local authorities, or everyone from the political elite doing their best to either ignore outside voices or proclaim their own powerlessness in the face of Whitehall and Osborne.

Another sign of change in the state, despite the overwhelmingly Republican congressional delegation, is the success that voters in cities and urban areas are having electing more progressive slates of candidates, a show of energy that could continue into the fall.

While Nigel Farage and his lieutenants have invested considerable resources in terms of pavement politics in the working - class midlands and north - east, they still have considerable difficulty attracting the support of younger and urban voters — precisely the electoral tranche Labour is now pursuing.

It's partly because Republicans created boundaries efficiently in redistricting and partly because the most Democratic districts in the country, like those in urban portions of New York or Chicago, are even more Democratic than the reddest districts of the country are Republican, meaning there are fewer Democratic voters remaining to distribute to swing districts.

Political scientists such as Danielle Resnick, Nic Cheeseman and Miles Larmer aver that Sata won by using a combination of populist messages which appealed to cross-ethnic, poor, urban voters with ethnically - motivated support in rural Bemba - speaking areas.

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The referendum result has exacerbated the theme of a developing fissure in Labour's traditional coalition of urban, liberal - minded and professional voters and former industrial working class communities.

At a time when the urban population is growing quickly, the number of registered voters in these areas is not keeping pace.

The Republican National Committee has launched a petition in support of Uber and opposing «taxi unions and liberal government roadblocks,» a new effort to reach young urban voters, report Byron Tau and Kevin Robillard for Politico.

It also highlights the difficulties that the national leadership of the main political parties will face in making a concerted pitch to win over urban voters at the next general elections.

If David Cameron and George Osborne want to succeed in making the Conservative Party credible on the economy — and appealing to urban voters outside the South of England — they must produce a credible policy on cities.

The presence of a northern woman in the cabinet will not be the silver bullet to the issue of Tory unpopularity with urban voters and women, just as Sajid Javid's appointment has not made the Tories more appealing to ethnic minorities.

The party failed to kill off the urban myth that Labour overspending caused the crisis, and gave credibility to Conservative claims about the economy by signing up to austerity - lite; Miliband's personal ratings were never within spitting distance of Cameron's; falling oil prices finally increased real wages; and the SNP «threat» was mercilessly deployed to scare off English voters.

According to findings from the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, of Participatory Budgeting voters surveyed:

According to preliminary findings from the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, of Participatory Budgeting voters surveyed:

Fuel duty's disproportionate impact on rural voters: «The Government understand the challenges faced by people in rural areas in relation to fuel costs, which those of us in city and urban areas perhaps do not face.

The Republicans briefly lost their Senate majority in the 2008 elections when Barack Obama brought out a surge of young and urban voters, but they rebounded in the Obama - backlash election of 2010, just in time for redistricting, and a chance to build a floodwall against New York's rising Democratic tide.

Maryland, one of the nation's most Democratic states, serves as a microcosm of the trends shaping today's Democratic Party: continuing lopsided support in ethnically and racially diverse urban areas, increasing Democratic success among affluent, suburban voters, and a waning of the party's influence in rural areas.

Voters at Nottingham High School, Jamesville - DeWitt High School and Lafayette Fire Station # 1 election districts will use the new technology this year, presenting an array of urban, suburban and rural polling places.

In the most recent elections cycle, the «Preserve» parties have given Rockland voters a chance to vote for candidates favoring controlled growth as opposed to the proliferation of unchecked urban sprawl that one finds in some parts of Ramapo.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

In that election, voters decisively rejected a statewide measure that would have raised a cap on the number of charter schools that was binding only in the state's urban centers.

These black and Latino urban voters will continue to support the lesser - of - two - evils and the Democratic Party doesn't have to have any awkward conversations with the NEA or the AFT.

For example Richard Whitmire attempted to shame suburban voters, tweeting to an approving chorus of progressive reformers: «All comes down to: Will well - off suburbanites deny better schools to urban parents?»

So, the question is, should voters statewide limit the educational choices of parents in low - income, urban communities?

A scholarship tax credit appeals to a diverse coalition of supporters: economically disadvantaged, working - class, and middle - class voters; African American and Hispanic clergy and parents; urban Catholics, Orthodox Jews, and evangelical voters; and a large swath of the labor - union movement (a scholarship tax credit proposal in New York is supported by 30 labor unions).

Some voters will question whether the urban districts deserve anything more than the funding that is due to them based on the number of students they teach.

Writing for the Washington Post, Lindsay Layton reported the NOLA district closed the remaining neighborhood schools as part of a «grand experiment in urban education for the nation,» shifting local control of public schools by voters and their elected representatives to privately operated charter schools.

Washington State voters, with only four * mainly - urban counties around Seattle bucking the tide, appeared to reject * a ballot initiative that would have required labeling for foods with genetically modified ingredients (with a variety of exceptions), according to the state's election Web site.