Sentences with phrase «political popularity»

While athletes fear the Curse of Cameron, London 2012 has seen Boris Johnson reach heroic levels of political popularity.

Labour's focus on campaigning on rail fares, then, is essentially a policy offer based around political popularity which would benefit better - off voters, possibly in marginal constituencies.

Above all, that means accepting that there are no simple, quick, easy shortcuts which secure instant political popularity.

Housing's new found political popularity is probably in no small part due to the rapid creep of the crisis up the income scale.

Joined by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a free college tuition plan, throwing his support behind a position that enjoyed enormous political popularity during the presidential campaign season.

We know this has cost us a little political popularity that we came into the polls with.»

There is a view though within some verticals of the business community is that the border - adjusted system represents a very significant risk (consumer retail most notably) to their businesses / the broad economy as imports become more expensive and will create trade distortions (while the CBO itself says that the border - adjusted system would NOT reduce the trade deficit, which is a driver of its political popularity).

If parental leave is set to change across the country — and its political popularity suggests this to be the case — then we ought to learn from the experience of Quebec and ensure it appeals to the vast majority of families.

Up there with Julius Caesar and Hamlet in the political popularity stakes for cartoonists is Macbeth.

A crackdown on tax evasion is probably only just ahead of a crackdown on avoidance in the political popularity stakes.

Miliband's political popularity had just taken a sharp jab in the ribs.

So Crist's calculations were based not on the political popularity of the issue, but on winning support from a fat cat with plenty of disposable cash.

These were all decisions driven by a desire for political popularity or, at least, a desire to avoid attracting partisan criticism.