Sentences with phrase «social conservative voters»

The dispute put Quinn in the crosshairs of social conservative voters who tend to support the use of government to reinforce traditional social relations, according to a Pew research report.

They said they cast ballots for former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who has strong support with many social conservative voters.

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

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.

Not exact matches

«Rand is one of the only people who can speak to libertarians, social conservatives, as well as your average mainstream Republican voter.»

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

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.

Having won the leadership with the help of social and religious conservatives, how much does he have to curry favour with a voter segment with no other party to vote for?

Rick Santorum can play to the high - mindedness of the social conservative agenda because in Iowa those voters have two loaves of bread under each arm.

Among the 80 new Republicans headed to the House (includes all non-incumbents), American voters elected an estimated 70 new social conservatives.

Now they blatantly take on the Republican and conservative voters of American with a purely Roman Catholic social agenda?

Though the Supreme Court is far from a consistent proxy issue for social conservatives or religious voters, it does provide a flashpoint for issues of religious liberty, traditional moral values, and abortion - on - demand.

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.»

My guess is that Cain was getting substantial support from «conservative Evangelical,» social issues - first voters.

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.

What Olsen calls conservative evangelicals might be called social conservatism - first voters.

Assuming Huckabee could consolidate the social conservatism - first vote, he would be better off going after the «somewhat conservative» voters.

My guess is that many social conservatism - first voters are initially quite receptive to radical tax changes cooked up by very conservative, secular politicians.

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

Religious conservatives complained about voters» indifference toward abortion and President Clinton's evident character flaws, while religious liberals lamented public apathy toward social injustice and Speaker Gingrich's ethical lapses.

So, Perot voters have in common conservative views on the economy and liberal views on social issues.

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.

Populist and social conservatives can beat the establishment by showing that they are not only more principled than the establishment, but that they are also smarter and more realistic about how to win the persuadable voters who decide elections.

The religious right, or value voters, or social conservatives are not real conservatives.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

Shaven - headed Scouser Nuttall recites the standard Ukip talk of going after Labour voters in Northern England but the social conservative, a supporter of judicial executions and opponent of abortions, will struggle to walk the talk..

Experts on social media were used so that potential Conservative voters could be identified and communicated with on specific issues important to them.

New Year's Day signaled the start of a 2014 re-election campaign for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a downstate Democrat eager to announce shiny new investments in Upstate New York, where conservative voters have soured on his liberal social policies.

The latest polling by YouGov shows that the Conservatives have overtaken Labour among voters on social grades C2DE, broadly considered working... The latest polling by YouGov shows that the Conservatives have overtaken Labour among voters on social grades C2DE, broadly considered working... The latest polling by YouGov shows that the Conservatives have overtaken Labour among voters on social grades C2DE, broadly considered working...

The latest polling by YouGov shows that the Conservatives have overtaken Labour among voters on social grades C2DE, broadly considered working...

Mr Clegg, like his Conservative counterpart, may hint that Britain's social democratic experiment has failed, yet there are still voters keen to see the frontiers of the welfare state advanced.

She argued that Witkos was too conservative on social issues, putting him out of touch with the district's voters.

The deviation between the proportion of BES respondents saying they voted Conservative and the actual proportion of voters who did is highest in strong Conservative areas where we would expect the least social pressure against voting Conservative.

We can examine the Shy Tory theory by considering where there is likely to be social pressure on Conservative voters.

Jag Singh, the founder of MessageSpace, which buys social media, internet and print advertising and provided services to the Conservative campaign, confirmed the Tories spent less money on Facebook ads rallying their own supporters than targeting ads at soft Labour voters.

«Promoting Conservative ideas such as aspiration, free enterprise and social mobility whilst engaging voters of all backgrounds is why Conservative Voice is an important new initiative,» Patel said.

She describes herself as a fiscal conservative who is moderate - to - liberal on social issues, she wins consistently in a city where Democrats dominate the voter registration rolls, and for the past two election cycles, she's won endorsement from municipal unions.

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).

According to the poll, 53 % of all voters statewide support a successful conservative businessman and social conservative who has brought jobs to New York like Myers Mermel to be their next governor.

David Cameron is acting in a «hurtful» way towards traditional Tory voters by imposing social change through «diktat», a former Conservative frontbencher warned as the party embarked on an inquest into its poor showing in the Eastleigh byelection.

Still, Nevada's voters tend to be more conservative on social issues like guns and abortion and the Western appeal of the McCain / Palin ticket should not be overlooked.

He argued that he could build a broad coalition beyond social conservatives, including union workers and middle class voters disaffected by policies of the Obama administration.

The governor, in his final pitch to voters, defined his GOP opponent Astorino as an «ultra conservative» who he says is against many social issues that Democrats are for, including a woman's right to choose abortion.

Gyory says that is because many voters in the nation and New York, while ideologically conservative, can be operationally liberal, when it comes to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.

Wiki: «Blue Labour advocates the belief that working class voters will be won back to Labour through socially conservative ideas on certain social and international issues, such as immigration, crime and the European Union,»

«Blue Labour advocates the belief that working class voters will be won back to Labour through socially conservative ideas on certain social and international issues, such as immigration, crime and the European Union,»

Most of the non-white population in Harrow East are owner - occupier middle class Hindus, which are far more favourable to the Conservatives than the council / social housed Black and Muslim voters in this constituency.

Cameron's repositioning of the party as a compassionate Conservative party, with small government and low tax roots but progressive social attitudes, has resonated with voters.

Four years later, with education near the top of voters» agendas in 2000, social conservatives calculated that they could live with their nominee offering an ambitious federal plan of his own.