Sentences with phrase «on winning over voters»

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

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.

Two years on from Tony Abbott's decisive win over Labor, voters are puzzled.

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

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

Reagan - era populist conservatives showed that it was possible for the party to move «right» on taxes, welfare, and foreign policy and win over the persuadable voters that the establishment believed could only be won by moving left.

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.

Manziel's task over the his final two games, then, is to put on shows against two top - flight SEC teams, LSU and Missouri, in spectacular wins that give Heisman voters pause.

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.

The latter seeing the need for concessions on some issues in order to win over swing voters and get into power.

If this is not enough to win over undecided voters, the Conservative campaign will also focus on highlighting the personality differences between the two leaders.

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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.

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.

Indeed, even if UKIP just held on its current ex-Tory voters and did not win over any more, David Cameron would be heading for a heavy defeat.

STATEN ISLAND — Mayor Bill de Blasio spent his first day on Staten Island announcing new initiatives for the 123 Precinct, chowing down on cannoli with his pal Borough President James Oddo and riding the ferry to work, but said it's not an effort to win over borough voters.

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.

«I wanted to see if there was unity within the party on how we can speak with a single voice and a single mind to win over these working class voters,» he told me.

Maybe they could focus on how the political stability the Tories promised last May in order to win over Lib Dem voters has since gone up in smoke.

Jeremy Corbyn batted off questions about Trident, his reshuffle and whether he can win over voters in a lengthy interview on the Today programme.

Popular commentary in the past year has focused on the Party's difficulty in winning the support of aspirational C2 voters, as well as the difficulty in winning larger numbers of ethnic minority voters over to the Conservatives.

The report tells Republicans they must «change our tone» on certain social issues to win over younger voters and reach out to gay Americans.

Vince Cable has signalled he will examine radical new taxes on wealth to ease inequality in Britain, as he vowed to win over voters from the «cult» of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.

He has dispensed with a traditional campaign launch at a press conference as the group seeks to focus attention on its website, which aims to win over young wavering voters in the higher income groups who might be put off a campaign to leave.

In a rare TV sit down interview for a documentary film about his late father, Cuomo reflects on his 2010 comeback win, saying he doesn't think he could have been successful if New York voters hadn't gotten over the anger that led them to oust the late ex-Gov.

I have never been a quitter and I am not going to start now,» reads a message on the Facebook page of scandal - soaked Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who received a shellacking last night at the hands of Gustavo Rivera, a relatively unknown candidate who won over voters by not being Pedro Espada.

Tony Blair flagged up to Labour why they're failing to win over voters recently, but he could advise Corbynistas living on a fault line to be mindful of earthquakes and they'd write it off as centrist meddling

John Sweeney, an advisor to Trump's New York campaign, said on Friday he was positive about the real estate magnate's prospects of winning over state voters.

Mr. Spitzer, a better known candidate who spent millions from his personal fortune on television advertising, won over a majority of black and Hispanic New Yorkers, and voters making under $ 50,000 a year.

Democrats nationwide are trying to win over female voters in November by painting their GOP opponents as weak on women's issues.

But the new message — his plan would do more for Upstate than emerging ideas from Assembly and Senate leaders — signals that part of this year's budget negotiations will focus on winning over Upstate voters and taxpayers.

The current Labour leadership is also trying to ward - off the perceived UKIP threat and tighten its grip on the party — rather than making any coherent attempt to win over Conservative voters.

Regardless of how you feel about the Tories» NHS reforms the fact that they've been in power for most of the period since 1948 without ever looking like abolishing it, and in any case are now mostly doing things that the last Labour government also did when in power, means an election pitch which relies on convincing voters that if the Tories remain in office they'll actually destroy the NHS is simply not plausible to the sort of people Labour needs to win over.

Now, seeking to win over moderate Democrats, voters unaffiliated with any party, and as many of the city's 500,000 - plus registered Republicans as possible, Malliotakis has positioned herself as an open - minded, «common sense» candidate who works across the aisle and isn't easily placed on the political spectrum, despite what her legislative record might indicate.

* With over 200 votes counted, the cover of Development's Special Issue on Plant Development has won the voter's favourite cover for 2016!

«It's no wonder, then, that GOP pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson identified education as an issue on which Republicans have the potential to win over young voters in her book, The Selfie Vote,» Jarosz Brady wrote.

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).

Assuming elections are decided by who has the biggest «voter education» budget, Heartland's chances of winning over US voters to their opinion on AGW should be about double those of US IPCC supporters.

Successfully appealed NLRB hearing officer's decision in an election dispute over a determinative challenged ballot, winning a unanimous ruling from Chairman Liebman and Members Becker and Pearce, and clarifying law on voter eligibility of regular part - time employees (355 NLRB No. 181)

According to information posted on CA's website, its client won a landslide victory in the elections, achieving over 90 percent of total seats targeted by CA through in - depth electoral analysis and targeting swing voters.