Sentences with phrase «rural voters»

Perhaps rural voters don't like tax hikes either.

In all four states, the marriage equality effort did better in urban areas and were less popular among rural voters.

This is why rural voters who operate what they see as legitimate breeding operations feel the act will unfairly punish them.

If these angry rural voters make it out in strong enough numbers, she will pull it off.

Gillibrand told the conference that hitting that economic message and addressing the problems at the root of the issue will help them connect with rural voters in upstate New York, where the economic recovery has lagged behind other parts of the country.

It would be as if we went to a strict popular vote - why then would candidates bother with rural voters when courting their concentrated city cousins has much more result for the effort.

It reports a poll of Countryside Alliance members, but headlines as if it were representative the views of rural voters as a whole.

After attributing their presidential loss in 2000 in part to the assault weapons ban, Democrats shied away from gun control talk in order to avoid alienating rural voters, particularly blue collar white males.

The next three years will see a number of issues relevant to rural voters feature in the public debate, including the re-regulation of the sugar industry and a renewed focus on animal welfare.

This is due to the fact that rural voters tend to be more conservative, and are perhaps, over-represented strictly based on population.

From the beginning, there has been a politics of division and neglect — dividing rural voters from urban ones or squabbling between northern local authorities, or everyone from the political elite doing their best to either ignore outside voices or proclaim their own powerlessness in the face of Whitehall and Osborne.

More damagingly, a focus on noisy animal rights crowds out sensible policy discussion about what rural voters want, which is support and autonomy for their communities.

I think there are plans to split California, Illinois and some other states where large population centers overwhelm rural voters.

Over the last few decades which portions of the average rural voter's disposable income in dollars, (or if there is no change, their quality of life), have consistently improved as a result of Republican policies, relative to Democratic policies?

What will rural voters actually support?

Fuel duty's disproportionate impact on rural voters: «The Government understand the challenges faced by people in rural areas in relation to fuel costs, which those of us in city and urban areas perhaps do not face.

«Ben Nelson's new ad says nothing about the public option, and for good reason — Nelson's efforts to undermine the public option are out of step with the overwhelming majority of Americans, including many rural voters and even Republicans,» Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee said in an email to CNN.

Even so, Kilgore has narrow edges in recent polls, and Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine has not been able to energize rural voters in the same way Warner did in 2001.

Shilling said Democrats must connect with rural voters better and better explain that they've been working on issues important to them, including child care and keeping small businesses going.

Tennessee (D): Rep. Zach Wamp, Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey continue to duke it out on the airwaves with Wamp releasing a series of four region - specific ads and Haslam up with a spot aimed at rural voters.

David «Mudcat» Saunders, who gained political fame helping Democrat Mark Warner reach out to rural voters during Warner's successful 2001 gubernatorial bid, told CNN Friday that trying to blame Deeds is «bulls ** t» when Democrats around the country are «just tired of politics.»

[50] Concern over seeing rural residents left as minorities in districts focused overwhelmingly on urban issues prompted another Democratic lawmaker, Joe Aull, to propose a slight change to Casey's plan to keep rural voters together.

Her report found that rural voters saw Labour as insular and metropolitan, while the party viewed the countryside with «polite indifference».

And given Trump's rural voter base, it's a curious choice on his part.

Rural voters came out big for Trump.

60 % of Republicans and 67 % of rural voters said they support allowing farmers to grow industrial hemp.

Ernst is up 43 points among rural voters; Braley is up 7 points among city dwellers.

At his first news conference following his party's shocking loss at the ballot box last week, President Obama appeared to needle Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign for not paying enough attention to rural voters who eventually handed President - elect Donald Trump the upset victory.

He appeals to rural voters in Pennsylvania, and that would probably translate across the border in to Ohio.

The most common of those questions goes something like this: «How do I create a message that resonates with rural voters?»

I certainly see no advantage in «alienating» the rural voters, but I AM a little tired of how disproportionate their influence is on government decisions.

Ukip now commands support of 13 % of rural voters, in a significant development that will be of deep concern to ministers.

«Democratic leaders don't understand the needs of rural voters,» former Illinois state Sen. John Sullivan said.

Grumpy councillors, rural voters and rioting students have kept our in - depth reporting entertaining in 2010.

Parscale said the Trump campaign used Facebook to reach clusters of rural voters, such as «15 people in the Florida Panhandle that I would never buy a TV commercial for».

Miner and DeFrancisco agreed that the right candidate with a message that resonates with urban, suburban and rural voters could break the trend.