The furore over expenses, which comes during the middle of the country's worst post-war recession, is expected to
see voter anger reflected in upcoming European parliamentary and local elections.
Not exact matches
The Republicans typically do better in nonpresidential election years, but it remains to be
seen whether progressive
anger over Trump translates to higher Democratic
voter turnout.
«You
see that the Hobby Lobby case is
angering women, and you think: «I've got the [Women's Equality Act]-- why don't I put a line out there that brings me salience, and so this issue is paramount in the minds of women
voters — Democrats, independents, and highly educated and affluent Republicans who happen to be pro-choice?
As a policy it tapped into
voter anger at the privatised utilities making abnormal profits, an area on which the Major government was vulnerable, and made the connection to tackling youth unemployment, something to which the Tories were
seen as indifferent.
Unfortunately, too often Democrats, as Harold Myerson explained for the American Prospect, find themselves stuck in an «intellectual and ideological» vacuum, where they have little to offer to
voters angered about
seeing their lot in lives continually worsened.
Based on the level of
anger I heard expressed this morning at the hearing, I don't
see much chance of immediate change in rural attitudes (nor in voting patterns, as rural
voters continue to express their displeasure with the Liberal government).