Sentences with phrase «of voter backlash»

That's the type of wishful thinking and lack of resolve that got us into the budget mess in the first place, Paterson's camp contends, but vulnerable Senate Democrats, especially those in the suburbs with school districts that will be hit hard by the cuts, are wary of a voter backlash.

But as the decades passed, lawmakers increasingly passed bills to raise their salary as far in advance of the next election as possible to reduce the likelihood of voter backlash.

Back in August, we looked at a long series of questions the campaign could answer, ranging from the effectiveness of mobile canvassing to the possibility of a voter backlash against highly targeted advertising.

Not exact matches

In early 2017, global investors were rightly concerned about the potential for a populist backlash by voters in France and how it might affect Europe and the rest of the international economy.

The ambitious plan to create an Australian - owned partner for the Chinese investor Dakang's massive new cattle station business was seen by some as an attempt to help appease demands from the Foreign Investment Review Board, as well as quell some of the political backlash from voters who are against foreign investment.

Asia's third - largest economy is recovering, with factory output surging, but food prices are growing at the fastest pace in 11 years and the government fears a backlash from millions of rural poor who are its main voters.

But the narrative that Cuomo faced a liberal backlash on Tuesday is potentially problematic for Astorino, who needs to capture a significant portion of the Democratic and independent voters in November in order tow in.

The proposal for a constitutional convention faced a steep backlash in Suffolk County with 86.6 percent of voters turning it down.

The Welsh Lib Dem team have been furiously trying to convince voters that the local elections are not a good time to be influenced by events in Westminster, for fear of a backlash over Nick Clegg's support for Tory - led government policies.

In many countries here in Europe raising defense expenditure is one of the few things that governments would love to do, to make good friends with the USA as well as projecting a more powerful image, but they're really afraid of potential voters backlash.

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.

«PMQs: Ed Miliband scores victory against Cameron as he highlights the Government's NHS isolation Main Beware of the backlash from natural Conservative voters»

«Reminds me of Gingrich in «94,» Cuomo said, referring to the voter backlash against Bill Clinton, when Republicans took Congress in a wave of voter dissatisfaction.

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

When you add the divisiveness of the film and its «take on race» backlash (which may or may not invade voters» choices) you have a film that can not win on a preferential ballot.

In the case of «Three Billboards,» it is most likely a variety of factors: The backlash started after many had already seen the film and formed their own opinions; And it's still just a guessing game as to whether hot takes impact what voters think in a statistically significant way.

When it comes to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, a film that has spent award season going through cycles of backlash and backlash - backlash, the voters seem unfazed.

Anti-Trump sentiment, anger, and fear could also push voters towards Get Out, a movie that has no backlash yet, a whisper campaign chasing it town (or so I've heard), but much good sentiment all around for the brilliant work of writer / director Jordan Peele.

That was certainly true in 2010, when a voter backlash against Obamacare triggered a wave of Republican victories, especially at the state level, which in turn set the stage for major progress on education reform priorities in 2011 (rightfully dubbed «the year of school choice» by the Wall Street Journal).

Michelle A. Rhee butted heads frequently during her three - year tenure as schools chancellor of Washington with the president of the local teachers» union, George Parker, and eventually a voter backlash over the city's school reform wars cost both of them their jobs.

And the involvement of wealthy outsiders could create a backlash, Williams of DFER said: «The money could also be what tanks a candidate, if that's what the storyline is with voters.»

The Coalition will win plenty of political traction in backing the SRES — avoiding any backlash from middle - class voters hoping to cash in on the Scheme, adding to a growing suburban - sea of shiny new panels — and the thousands of installers keen to slap them on houses all over the Country (see our post here).

On May 29, 2015, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, attended a Big Green - funded League of Conservation Voters event where he called for using RICO against climate skeptics and fossil fuel companies (see the YouTube here), then in a Washington Post op - ed, «The fossil - fuel industry's campaign to mislead the American people,» prompting a backlash asserting that the charge was false, and defending the right to dissent.

Besides the voter backlash, both sides of politics are pretty against it.

The continued backlash follows a weekend in which Facebook tried to contain the controversy by placing full - page ads in U.S. and British newspapers apologizing for the unauthorized leak of user data to Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that reportedly used the information to try to sway voters.

The continued backlash follows a weekend in which Facebook tried to contain the controversy by placing full - page ads in U.S. and British newspapers apologizing for the unauthorized leak of user data to Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that reportedly used the information to try and sway voters.

The company has faced a backlash after using Facebook to create psychological profiles of voters.