Sentences with phrase «social conservative candidates»

George W. Bush won a third of the evangelical vote in Iowa in 2000, splitting that vote with Steve Forbes and more explicitly social conservative candidates like Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes.

Proposing these kinds of radical tax changes also cuts off a social conservative candidate from the «somewhat conservative» voters.

Not exact matches

Not only are Johnson and Weld social liberals and fiscal conservatives, they espouse views traditionally associated with moderate Republican candidates on the economy, such as favoring international trade agreements and reducing the national debt.

After two elections backing social - conservative candidates who could afford little more than gas money, Christian leaders have long been eager to back a horse with the money to win.

Cruz has a real chance to become the first candidate since George W. Bush to consolidate the GOP's social - conservative wing, as well as the first insurgent conservative in a generation with the fundraising firepower to sustain a campaign through a grueling national primary.

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 conserConservative Party candidate will win the by - election in this sprawling southeast Alberta riding with a large Mormon community and a strong social conservativeconservative base.

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.

Add it all up, and McCain looks like a candidate whom social conservatives could support in reasonably good conscience.

It is a mistake to think that the 2012 election results were primarily the result of conservative stances on social issues articulated by the candidates.

But the fiscal conservatives and the strong foreign - policy advocates don't have that power either, and without at least a good percentage of social conservatives to form the third leg of the Reagan coalition, no candidate has much chance of winning the Republican nomination.

Add Mitt Romney to the growing list of probable 2012 GOP presidential candidates speaking at a major social conservative conference early next month here in the nation's capitol.

Perhaps more than any other candidates, Perry and Bachman have staked their campaigns on winning social conservative voters.

In the end, it hasn't been the GOP's most strident culture warriors or shameless religious panderers who have finally endeared themselves to Iowa's social conservative caucus - goers, or who give my generation reason to take a second look at conservative candidates in spite of our flight from the GOP.

It is too bad for the rest of us as he seems to be the only potential candidate with the chance to form a nominating coalition from social conservative and somewhat conservative voters — and he would be our best chance to get a Republican nominee who is not in the orbit of the lobbying industry.

The gathering in Texas was a last ditch attempt to bring social conservatives together behind one candidate.

A majority of primary voters preferred a more conservative candidate to the frontrunner Romney, but social conservatives were splitting their vote among several candidates, allowing Romney to win.

In 2006, they downplayed social issues and even ran some socially conservative candidates.

Religious and social conservatives are not an especially loyal constituency — at least, they are not loyal to candidates.

Joe Hall has 1,200 supporters on the social networking website, compared to just 261 for Conservative candidate Nigel Huddleston and 221 for Labour's Gavin Shuker.

Social conservatives support socially conservative ideology, which means that their votes could potentially go to a candidate with little concern for party enrollment.

Leadership candidate Mr Smith attacked Mr Corbyn for allowing Mrs May to paint the Conservatives as the party of social mobility.

Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker is facing heat from social conservatives within his own party after his running mate, Karyn Polito, endorsed gay marriage this week.

RealClearPolitics.com quoted openly gay Republican U.S. House candidate Carl DeMaio about how he's been received by opposite ends of the political spectrum: «I've found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I'm a Republican who happens to be gay... versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.»

The parties for the 2014 election are the Democrats and Republicans (obviously), as well as the Conservative Party (founded back in the 1960s because the state GOP was seen as too liberal by some), the Independence Party (founded in the 1990s and did best with Ross Perot as its presidential candidate, not to be confused with being an independent voter), the Greens and the Working Families Party (founded in the 1990s to be more social democratic than the Democrats).

Lady Warsi has told the Guardian that she informed Conservative central office that she was being trolled on social media by Mark Clarke, a former party candidate and organiser, but heard nothing back.

Mrs Cameron plans to make a couple of visits on her own a week, often visiting «social action projects» run by Tory candidates, to boost links with communities and show that the Conservatives are not the nasty party any more.

In a piece on her campaign site blog, Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Tiffany Briscoe speaks out against coercive social conservatives.

I am told that the selection of the only declared Conservative candidate, Col Tim Collins, who believes the police should be ratcatchers, not social workers, is not yet a done deal by the Kent Conservatives.

The only clues to the next Conservative intake's views on social issues come from a November 2007 survey of candidates by ConservativeHome.com.

Mr. Halloran thought Mr. Smith, as a leading African - American politician who was also a social conservative, would make an attractive candidate who could «change the face of the Republican Party.»

DeVos and her ilk have succeeded in politicizing the education debate to such an extent that historically nonpartisan contests have seen clear divides between candidates who defend public education (and are often backed by Democrats, progressives and teacher unions) and candidates who align with the DeVos agenda (and who are often backed by Republicans, social conservatives and corporate interests that favor privatization).

I have not seen any suggestion that the existing committees have actually rated a candidate «unqualified» because of his or her overly conservative social, political or legal views.

FYI: These findings are more conservative than the Jobvite study, which found that 93 % of hiring managers will review a candidate's social profile before making a hiring decision.

Or a more conservative number, 60 % of employers are using social networks to research candidates - CareerBuilder.