Sentences with phrase «of voter anger»

Spitzer was ahead of the curve in his embodiment of voter anger, and fighting consumed him.

Some in the WFP, a union - controlled New York City - based party, even fear that with Cuomo at the top of their ticket, they won't get the 50,000 votes needed for legal recognition because of voter anger over the governor's refusal to support Mayor de Blasio's plan to tax high earners to fund universal pre-K.

Paladino rode a wave of voter anger on his way to defeating former Congressman Rick Lazio.

Clinton spoke at Wagner College on Staten Island, the major portion of the conservative - tilting district currently represented by Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon, who's got two GOP primary challengers and is trying to stave off a nationwide tide of voter anger at congressional Democrats.

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo is trying to grab onto the wave of voter anger that has carried his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, through the Republican primary and helped him whittle the AG's double - digit lead to just six percentage points.

Not exact matches

Deprivation angered Greek voters, destroying any possibility of building a broad consensus on sensible economic reforms — such as creating a tax system that would force the some of the world's most notorious tax dodgers to contribute to the running of the government.

With voter anger boiling over ahead of the 2016 election, Former president Bill Clinton explained the advice he gave his wife.

This is his opportunity to remind voters — in a tone of disappointment and regret, not anger and malice — that Mr. Obama's negative attacks will not put anyone back to work, reduce our growing national debt, or get America moving in the right direction.

In the last decade, the Bush Administration, seeking a Trojan Horse to privatize Social Security in the United States, applauded Chile's disastrous privatization of pension accounts (turning many over to US financial institutions) even as that nation's voters rejected the Pinochetistas largely out of anger at the vast pension rip - off by high finance.

I think voters often choose movies that reflect their righteous anger but rarely their seething sense of impotence and futility (Crash, maybe), and I'm not sure that the BAFTA win for Three Billboards — oh, those Americans, isn't that how they solve everything, hitting someone or burning something?

She describes how Indian voters angered by the BJP's pro-rich economic policies and anti-Muslim violence voted it out of power in general elections in 2004.

Voters were angered when the parks board decided a year later to build one of the aquatic centers anyway, on a 6.5 - acre site on Moon Lake Boulevard, near the Poplar Creek Country Club.

Poor Liz as a Leader of the Democ» RAT» ic Senate «CRAZY -RCB- Committee you must realize that your «INSANE» polices of tax and tax, spend and spend are fueling that anger that the voters have.

However, that has not stopped Republicans from trying to capitalize on the anger of Catholic voters.

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

But some experts say the influence of these executives and their efforts to assist their long - time ally have diiminished in an age of social media and voter anger at the status quo.

Today's summit on tax was the culmination of months of campaigning by activists on an issue which has angered voters across the western world.

And that problem goes far deeper than angering the many student voters they relied on to win university seats, including Mr Clegg's own seat of Sheffield Hallam.

The anger from the Sun and that viral video of the crying Tory voter on Question Time showed how politically toxic it could be to cut tax credits for the working poor.

The purge of Democratic voters in Brooklyn has raised anger among many supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who lost the primary here to Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and senator.

Miliband's move reflects a recognition of anger among some voters that some people are getting «something for nothing» out of the welfare system.

«Here, politicians» interests are weak and the link between the reforms and the sources of voters» anger is clear.

The Times itself notes that Paladino is trying to ride a wave of «voter anger as a member of the Tea Party movement.»

Voters in the senatorial district, and even in the other two senatorial districts, preferred Obiano, partly because of his achievements, partly because of incipient anger against the ruling APC, and partly because they rejected Obi and his candidate (for reasons discussed below).

«This plays precisely into the intense and growing anti-government anger and this kind of petty little political game of which voters are sick to death.»

Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary and Labour's election co-ordinator, said the party recognises it has work to do to «tackle the alienation that lies at the root of the anger that so many voters feel».

Mandelson, who writes that Brown suffered «neurosis and pent - up anger» about Tony Blair even after Brown had made it to N0 10, accepted before the election that voters did not want «five more years of him».

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Skelos's approach to deal making with Cuomo, as well as a five - member bloc of Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference, angered grassroots conservative voters in New York, who were especially upset over the gun control legislation passing the chamber.

Donald Trump notched a resounding win in the Nevada caucuses yesterday, channeling the roiling anger of Republican voters against the establishment and sweeping almost every category of the electorate to build his dominance in the delegate count.

The effectiveness of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio as surrogates for their longtime ally, Hillary Clinton, with her presidential campaign has diminished in an age of social media and voter anger at the status quo, though the governor appears to have been more useful to her in the final weeks leading up to Tuesday's primary.

He attributed the loss to voter anger at incumbents and Democrats and to a Republican party enrollment advantage in the district, which consists of the Syracuse suburbs of Clay, Cicero, Manlius, Pompey and LaFayette.

Miller, 44, who once operated a political consulting firm with offices in Albany and Washington, D.C., disagreed his election was the result of general voter anger at incumbents and Democrats.

King said that so far, he doesn't feel a wave of anger at Trump among voters in his congressional district.

Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections.

Two decades of late budgets and decision making by three men in a room on key issues led to voter anger and the defeat of several legislative incumbents.

The GOP this year is banking on a large upstate turn out, counting on anger over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act, as well his the delay on making a decision over hydrofracking, as key issues that will bring voters outside of New York City to the polls.

The furore over expenses, which comes during the middle of the country's worst post-war recession, is expected to see voter anger reflected in upcoming European parliamentary and local elections.

Mr Alexander conceded: «We have work to do... we need to tackle the alienation that lies at the root of the anger that so many voters feel.»

And voters looking for ways to channel their anger after Trump's win, and to cast votes that matter in New York, have «woke» up from indifferent to indignant about Albany's shady ways and particularly the eight so - called Independent Democrats led by Jeff Klein who, along with Simcha Felder, caucus with the Republicans to keep them in control of the Senate even as the state turns ever more blue.

«You see that the Hobby Lobby case is angering women, and you think: «I've got the [Women's Equality Act]-- why don't I put a line out there that brings me salience, and so this issue is paramount in the minds of women voters — Democrats, independents, and highly educated and affluent Republicans who happen to be pro-choice?

David Cameron has made a direct appeal to UKIP voters saying he shares their concerns - but warning that Britain needs the «politics of the answer rather than the politics of anger».

However, GOP insiders say Mangano's on - air support of Cuomo angered many Nassau Republican voters, who called GOP headquarters to express their unhappiness.

Bijoy Datta, the Broome County Republican chairman, thinks «there's a lot of anger especially in the rural parts of the district,» but says the topic hasn't been a «huge issue in terms of debate or news coverage or direct voter contact throughout the campaign.»

Voters will choose between an established Republican, former Representative Rick Lazio, and Carl Paladino, a Buffalo businessman who is riding voter anger as a member of the national Tea Party movement.

There is also anger that Miliband focused too much on policy rather than projecting an empathy with voters» sense of alienation from the political class.

«It is clear his behaviour last night in whipping up a rally of largely non-Labour members and his refusal to accept any blame for the referendum defeat turned off a number of colleagues from the left who were considering abstaining or voting for him,» said the politician, who also argued that there was deep anger about the perception that Corbyn had not tried hard enough to mobilise Labour voters during the referendum campaign.

Ulster County legislators expressed surprise — and in some cases anger — Thursday night at a county - financed mailing to voters which some say improperly advocates the relocation of family court from Kingston to the Town of Ulster.

But the No campaign believes its argument about the cost of the referendum — a sop to the Liberal Democrats as part of the deal to enter coalition with the Conservatives — will anger voters.

The polls found that Clinton often had higher negative ratings with voters than did the more controversial Trump, whose inflammatory pronouncements have often angered and even horrified many of his fellow Republicans.