Even if he somehow won the GOP primary, you would see the same result as McCain and Romney where
the social conservative base does not come out and vote.
He says he doesn't want to out LGBTQ + students, when mere months ago he was saying exactly that to pander to
his social conservative base.
Barring a political earthquake, it is expected the Conservative Party candidate will win the by - election in this sprawling southeast Alberta riding with a large Mormon community and a strong
social conservative base.
Not exact matches
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Mr. Byfield has been campaigning for more than a year and could make gains if he is able to tap into the
base of
social conservative voters in this constituency.
Since the disappearance of the
Social Credit Party in the 1970s, Alberta has seen its share of
conservative fringe parties, usually
based in central or southern rural Alberta — including the Western Canadian Concept, the Representative Party, a short - lived SocCred revival in the mid-1990s and the Alberta First Party.
The two main candidates for the leadership of the party, Jason Kenney and Brian Jean, are openly appealing to the party's
social conservative and rural
base of supporters and have been extremely reluctant to discuss any
social issues.
A salvo from University of Manitoba economists, and PEF members, Ian Hudson and Robert Chernomas,
based on their new book,
Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of
Conservative Economics: The Myth of
Conservative Economics January 2008 «The government can't pick winners, but losers pick government.»
CNN: Anti-Obama mail piece: «We are no longer a Christian nation» Focus on the Family, the Colorado -
based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»
Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)-- Focus on the Family, the Colorado -
based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»
But in today's political landscape,
social conservatives need to reach beyond their
base.
He is immensely likeable, has a lengthy record as a political executive, a preexisting
base among
social conservatives, and an unaffected manner in talking about people who are struggling to get by.
A growing coalition of
conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school -
based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a
social and a health perspective.
And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific»
basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on
social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious
conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.
Franck surveys the many ways in which proponents of gay marriage and other progressive
social causes ignore the arguments made by
conservatives, falling back on the assertion that resistance is
based on «hate.»
Giuliani's efforts to persuade
social conservatives that he's an ally seem to be going pretty well, and terrorism will probably be bigger issues for the GOP
base than
social issues, anyway.
A one - person
social conservative «group»
based in Virginia, which is busy using the ads to pad out its fundraising email list.
They are Islamist in that they support an Islamic state
based on Sharia law, but are (on the whole)
social conservatives not jihadists.
- suburban struggle, will now almost certainly be between DeFrancisco, a
conservative on
social and fiscal issues, and Sen. John Flanagan (Suffolk), a leader of the socially liberal and often - pro-big-spending Long Island delegation and the Nassau County -
based Skelos» preferred successor, Senate insiders said.
This strategy is by now a standard attempt to appeal beyond conventional constituencies: Labour wants to be the party of capitalists as well as workers, the
Conservatives desire
social liberals in addition to their traditional
base, and the Liberal Democrats target people who don't fit in but want to be liked.
The effort, part of a national movement through the Family Policy Alliance and a network of 40 additional state -
based groups, underscores the skepticism some
social conservatives held for Trump's candidacy and lifestyle.
Thatcher tried to increase the
social base for the
Conservatives with privatisation and council house sales designed to widen share and home ownership.
As opposed to liberals,
conservatives generally view the
social world as more competitive, they tend to value group -
based inequality more, and they perceive those outside the group as more threatening.
Ann Hart Coulter (/ ˈ k oʊ l t ər /; born December 8, 1961) is an American
conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist Tom Harris is executive director of the Ottawa -
based International Climate Science Coalition, which challenges the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions
The survey was conducted by the Louis Finkelstein Institute for
Social and Religious Research, a division of Jewish Theological Seminary, an educational and religious center of
Conservative Judaism, in New York City, and HCD Research Inc., a Flemington, N.J. -
based marketing and...
These results may be a function of Alberta's generally more
conservative political and
social values but are more likely a consequence of the geographic separation of parents owing to lengthy periods of site -
based work in the oil patch or the interprovincial relocation of separated parents to take work in the province, making shared custody arrangements difficult if not impossible to implement.
While these claims have no
basis, they spread quickly in
conservative circles on
social media and among popular right - wing commentators.
Twelve of the individuals worked for Internet Research Agency LLC,
based in St. Petersburg, Russia, which was a content mill for
social media postings that largely leaned toward
conservative viewpoints.