Sentences with phrase «of winning over voters»

Corbyn also sought to downplay the claim that he is not capable of winning over voters who do not already agree with him — by pointing to his successive victories and growing support base in Islington North and the Labour leadership election result.

So while the new self - effacing Ed is a likeable sort of chap, capable of winning over voters on the streets, the «erk» approach is never going to be enough to get him into Downing Street.

They would stand a better chance of winning over voters who are excessively sensitive about the budget.

Not exact matches

Considering Trump has convinced voters that he's qualified for the position based on his experience as a businessman, an endorsement from Bloomberg, a successful billionaire businessman, could help Clinton win over some voters, especially swing voters and moderate Republicans wary of a Trump presidency.

«The SNS has won over a huge number of Seselj's Radical Party voters.

What's more, his polarizing lack of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door open to his rival Clinton, whose small business platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.

Naming her director was a part of Trump's strategy to win over the African American community in the U.S., especially after recent polls showed he had 0 % approval among black voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania — key states for the Republican nominee.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

This is both awesomely hubristic and «very reckless,» Murphy argues, for a man trying to win over millions of undecided voters.

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

So the policy issues are just a bunch of BS he needs to say to win over subgroups of chumps, suckas, voters.

It was the speech of a guy running for President and who is serious about enacting center - right reforms (and that includes being serious about winning over swing - voters to a responsible center - right agenda.)

Jamelle Bouie has a (gleefully) pessimistic take on the ability of Republicans to win over Latino voters.

The other non-Romney Republican presidential candidates either couldn't or wouldn't make a case against Romneycare that could win over the right - of - center voters that populate Republican primaries and caucuses.

Instead of institution building, conservatives keep pinning their hopes on magic candidates who will give magic speeches to win over the voters we need.

But in November 2004, regardless of claims about voter fraud, Bush actually won the popular vote by over 3.5 million ballots, making his regime and his wars ours.

Just as Ryan keeps insisting, contrary to all evidence and common sense, that people don't care whether you cut their taxes or those of their bosses, he will keep insisting that his unpopular policies will win over Democratic - leaning voters, even as those voters keep voting Democrat.

The problem is that Huckabee's support of a national sales tax (the FairTax) and his habit of engaging in identity politics gestures makes it difficult for him to win over voters outside his evangelical base.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

CNN reports the Barack Obama campaign is preparing rolling out a new line of «faith merchandise» — the latest move in an ambitious effort to win over religious voters.

But the beauty of the BlogPoll is that there are a lot of voters who genuinely care about merit, and, on the merits, Florida may have the nation's best résumé, given that the Gators have a win over the highest - ranked one - loss team and are the only squad with two wins over teams currently ranked in the BlogPoll.

But voters and computers aren't all that impressed with the their schedule, and after a closer - than - expected win over a mediocre Michigan team, there is doubt about whether Ohio State or a one - loss SEC champion would be more deserving of a title shot.

That was a bunch from Grant of Sacramento that got in because the voters were impressed by a pair of wins over state champions from Utah and Idaho.

The Golden Eagles captured road wins against Xavier and Butler over the weekend, but in the eyes of the voters, that wasn't enough to repair the damage done by losing to Creighton at home the week before and on the road against DePaul the week before that.

To win, they need to hold on to their core vote and also win over the kinds of voters they failed to win last time.

At the final moments of the 2016 electioneering campaign when all parties should be deploying their best arsenals to win over undecided voters, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), sensing defeat, has taken political decency a notch lower and sprung up what could best be described as the most ridiculous story in the 2016 electioneering season.

It is not the kind of thing which wins over wavering voters, but it is a sign of an advanced political strategist and gives a good indication of how Balls wants to shape Labour's image when the 2015 general election comes.

They're critical to deciding the next general election - but will any of the political parties actually do what they must to win over young voters?

A group of 63 Conservative MPs launched the Blue Collar Conservatism group today, with the aim of winning over working class voters.

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The broad strategy to win over Yes voters, however, is straightforward: vote Labour if you want to get rid of the Tories.

If Mr Murphy is to achieve his ambition of successfully defending all of his party's citadels, Labour will have to win over voters who at present could not seriously contemplate voting for the party at all.

After all, the party won well over 40 % support at the last election, with a lot of it coming from older and white British voters, from Leavers, and from those with small - c Conservative values and a belief in a smaller, less active state.

Moreover, London has a unique vulnerability, being at the mercy of Bob Crow, and Ken's historical reluctance to go fully into battle with the RMT is not going to win over those outer London voters likely to vote for Boris.

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.

The party can now campaign as the most viable local opposition in these seats, looking to win over a broader coalition of voters angry with the government.

Despite not being victorious, he said Gov. Andrew Cuomo co-opted at least 19 of their positions to win over those Green Party voters.

For the Tories to win the next election outright, they need to claw back voters from Ukip, hope Labour loses their votes back to the Lib Dems, and then somehow win over a whole bunch of other voters they failed to persuade in 2010.

In principle that could reduce the threshold for an efficient win to (1 / n), but I don't know of any author who assumes that amount of control over opposition voters, since Duverger's Law kicks in.

But in Mr. Silver's old Assembly district in Lower Manhattan, voters chose Alice Cancel, a Democrat, who eked out a win over Yuh - Line Niou, a Working Families Party candidate who had pegged Ms. Cancel as a creature of Mr. Silver's machine.

The threshold level of votes had been set at 2.5 % (For the purposes of this example) Points to note include In an FPTP election, Party A, with 335 MPs would have a clear majority over all the other parties combined, and thus would be the single party of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parties.

Ed Miliband needs to use more «direct language» to win over voters, one of his closest frontbench allies has said.

In 2013, incumbent Republican Edward Mangano easily won re-election over his predecessor, Democrat Thomas Suozzi, in an election that brought out about 28 percent of registered Nassau voters.

Labour voters put us over the top in a series of seats won from the Conservatives in 1997 and 2001.

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.

Whilst we do need to win over BME voters — particularly younger voters — we mustn't try to do so by pretending that we agree with the «leaders» of particular communities and imitating Labour's approach.

«My job is to win over the hearts, the minds and the voters of middle New York state,» he said earlier this month.

«If about 600,000 people — just over one per cent of registered voters — had decided differently, IN would have won,» he said later.

In other words over the course of the campaign Corbyn increasingly appealed to voters who had previously been unimpressed, helping them win new support for Labour, dramatically narrowing the gap to the Conservatives.

Polls taken immediately after the Tories returned from Blackpool appeared to show the combination of George Osborne's tax promises and David Cameron's keynote speech had won over voters.