Sentences with phrase «social conservative caucus»

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.

If Kenney doesn't follow the lead of Brown, his fellow social conservative caucus colleague, it likely signals one of two things: he does want the support of voters for whom parental rights regarding their pre-adolescents and teens are a big issue; or that he's calculated that a softening of his image would show weakness and isn't worth it, because his party has such a comfortable edge over Notley that he can afford to lose voters wary of anything resembling social conservatism.

Not exact matches

«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.

Over the course of the debate, she proved herself to be the only opposition MLA who has been able to throw Mr. Prentice off balance and exposed a huge rift between moderates and social conservatives in the PC caucus.

Vander Plaats is the president and CEO of The Family Leader in Iowa, a Christian organization that holds sway over many Iowa social conservatives — a crucial voting bloc in the state's January 3 caucus.

But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

There was no exit poll for the 1996 Iowa Caucuses (where Buchanan finished a very close second to Midwesterner and party - establishment favorite Bob Dole), but one would expect Buchanan to have shown similar strength there among religious and social conservatives.

In 2016, Ted Cruz was able to repeat the feats of Huckabee and Santorum in tapping Iowa's evangelical social - conservative networks and winning the Iowa Caucuses.