Sentences with phrase «of voters he appeals»

«Also the kind of voters he appeals to — white, working - class, many Catholic voters, not college educated — are just the voters Mitt Romney must have to try to pull the election away from Barack Obama.

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At least part of the reason why Trump was seen as a joke — even after it was obvious that he had a broad level of support — is that most mainstream media outlets underestimated his appeal with U.S. voters.

By contrast, Cuban acknowledged the appeal of Bernie Sanders to younger voters, and indicated to Cosby he would like to have a sit - down with him.

In fact, there are many credible ideas that address voters» most significant concerns and appeal to a broad swath of Democrats, Republicans, and independents.

Not only do the political «left» and «right» have almost contradictory prognoses for the problems of stagnation or slow growth, but they also have to appeal to the almost randomly varying desires and priorities of the voters they represent.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

SCL used the cross-cutting issue of crime to rebrand the client as a strong, no - nonsense man of action, who would appeal to the true values of the voters.»

She was of course talking about «The Apprentice,» the NBC reality show hosted by Trump that was a giant hit when it premiered in 2004 and is still very much at the core of his appeal to his voters (though after 14 seasons, he's now off the show for good).

Another poll, this one of New Hampshire voters, found that failing to protect net metered customers in Nevada would diminish Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval's vice presidential appeal.

All of this is small beer compared to the massive costs of new F - 35 fighter jets alone, estimated at up to $ 30 billion, but for voters still reeling from a recession the Conservatives» offerings may be appealing.

The Bush administration imposed tariffs ranging from 8 % to 30 % on a variety of steel products, in part to make good on a campaign promise designed to appeal to voters in the Rust Belt states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

«While in opposition, Tsipras claimed that inexperience was «a moral advantage,» one quite effective in appealing to voters that were deeply disappointed by the political establishment of the last 40 years,» said Karamouzi.

The tough talk comes amid and, some have argued, because of a close presidential race in which Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney want to appeal to Jewish voters.

Ryan's presence on the ticket also could increase Romney's appeal among the millions of middle - of - the - road Catholic voters who populate key swing states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The decision responded to two appeals brought by Walter Pierce, the governor of Oregon, about the Oregon Compulsory Education Act of 1922, a voter - passed initiative....

The political use of Hindutva has survived several court cases, most notably a major one in 1995 brought by those who felt that its allure was primarily religious in nature and hence violated India's constitution, which prohibits candidates from appealing to voters exclusively on religious grounds.

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.

His appeal is strictly the limbic brain of Iowa voters.

Does such lack of enthusiasm dampen Perry's appeal amongst voters?

Obama is a career politician and like all other career politicians his campaign attempts to portray him as a candidate who appeals to the majority of voters.

For Latino and African American Voters of faith, the traditional appeal to values voting or litmus tests applied to candidates are not the sole means of vetting candidates.

And while more than 90 percent of black voters supported Jackson in recent primaries, Hertzke notes that «many of these same black voters register remarkable sympathy for Robertson...» Robertson's appeal among blacks is correctly attributed to religious and cultural attitudes.

At the very least, it does suggest that Republicans» longstanding strategy of building majorities for their anti-tax platform by appealing to working - class voters» Christian morals has lost a lot of its power.

Political leaders have always been keenly aware that religious traditions represented a reservoir of potential support and frequently appealed to voters on the basis of religious values.

actually, he is worse because he is intentionally downplaying his religious beliefs to appeal to the widest range of voters.

Cruz also followed Huckabee and Santorum in losing New Hampshire because he only appealed to a tiny sliver of that state's non-evangelical voters.

Apparently there were only five voters who submitted blank ballots, and we might simply consider those voters — yes, including ESPN's Howard Bryant — as the lunatic fringe, and write them off; on this issue, there's simply no use appealing to reason, and fortunately there aren't enough of them to make a real difference in the results.

Despite his reputation for spin, Blair's book offers the fullest discussion of what New Labour was trying to do to change Britain, particularly his recognition that the party had to appeal to aspirational voters (a battle that may have to be re-fought within Labour now).

Resign as flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party with immediate effect and pave way for the election of a new unifying, tolerant and peace - loving flagbearer who will be appealing to Ghanaian voters in 2016.

One wonders, when British government development policy comes in for a hammering, whether Murray's attitude is coloured by his frequent unsuccessful appeals to the Department for International Development for funds for various pet projects: a charter plane to bring indelible ink to Ghana to mark the fingers of voters in an election or the reconstruction of a ruined bridge in a remote village.

More recently, Labour MP Andy Burnham characterised the ethos of Britain Stronger In Europe, the official campaign to keep Britain in the EU, as «too much Hampstead and not enough Hull», lamenting the group's inability to appeal to voters in Labour's traditional heartlands.

While the former is tailored to appeal to the traditional Ukip voter, the latter aspires to broaden the appeal of euroscepticism.

The report strengthens the hand of Tory modernising groups like Bright Blue, which want the party to appeal to young and ethnic minority voters.

His large - scale Facebook outreach reached voters in groups large and small in critical areas of the country, and the bulk of the campaign's late funding came through grassroots donors identified and recruited via Facebook ads (even if they often gave the money in response to a subsequent email appeal).

He acknowledges that Corbyn faces a difficult challenge appealing to Labour voters on both sides of the Brexit fence.

The mayor of Bridgeport, Joe Ganim, plans to appeal directly to Democratic voters in Connecticut to gauge whether they are willing to put a convicted felon on the ballot during this summer's primary for governor.

According to its supporters, one of the primary virtues of the electoral college is that winning candidates must obtainconcurrent majorities from around the country to win, rather than appeal to clusters of voters whose votes could be aggregated across states and regions but nevertheless might not represent all strata of society.

He would also discover which of his ministers had the greatest appeal (in every sense) to taxpaying voters.

In other words, by appealing to national pride, he unifies and mobilises the «responsible» voters against the minority of Euro - sceptics (embodied by Beppe Grillo and paradoxically defined as the only populists on the political scene).

New York League of Conservation Voters President Marcia Bystryn sent an Earth Day appeal to supporters this morning featuring Albany's current Public Enenmy No. 1: Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr..

UKIP has won a war and lost a purpose, leaving plenty of voters for the Conservatives to appeal to.

It's true that Labour does plan to make substantial cuts and there is a risk of losing votes to the Greens, although once again Bennett's performance was unimpressive and unlikely to appeal to mainstream voters.

A party that continually loses elections because it's too far removed from the political center or because it appeals to too narrow a range of voters should seek to remedy that by expanding its coalition or moving toward the median voter — perhaps by compromising some of its ideological goals.

For the Liberal Democrats to centralise in pursuit of a message to appeal to the swing voter would be a move in precisely the wrong direction.

Certainly, some voters will have been attracted by particular policy stances, and Nigel Farage is making an effort to appeal on a broader range of issues.

And they need to articulate a clear, radical alternative to Tory Austerity with a vision of a post neo-liberal Britain that appeals to swing voters, but also many of those «don't knows» and stay at -LSB-...]

Much has been written over recent years about the rise of political marketing and the increasingly calculated way in which politicians craft messages designed to maximise appeal to voters.

Labour may be too strongly associated with the status quo to appeal to this type of voter.

In the traditional tongue - in - cheek address to the Washington press corps on Saturday night, the president lampooned the Republican frontrunner's foreign policy and business credentials while also mercilessly mocking the efforts of his fellow Democrat to appeal to younger voters.

In The Lost Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain why the thumping victory the Tories expected never happened: what real voters made of the campaign, why Britain refused Theresa May's appeal for a clear mandate to negotiate Brexit, where the party stands after more than a decade of «modernisation» — and the Tories» mammoth task of building a winning coalition when 13 million votes is not enough for victory.