Sentences with phrase «swing voters see»

It will be some comfort to the Conservatives that few swing voters see Ed Miliband and Labour as a credible alternative.

Not exact matches

Ryan was seen as enough of a conviction politician for the party's conservatives, but a sufficiently friendly face so as not to scare swing - voters.

Meanwhile, as the Republican party was courting swing voters with strong anti-abortion sympathies, these voters saw in great value in consolidating their political power into support for one party.

The latter seeing the need for concessions on some issues in order to win over swing voters and get into power.

One of the most popular explanations in the immediate aftermath of the election was that we had seen a repeat of the polling failure of 1992 where «shy Tory» voters were believed to have swung the election.

Swing voters were much more likely than Labour supporters to see the deficit as a serious problem that must be dealt with urgently, and that the Coalition's proposed cuts were unavoidable.

Labour supporters see swing voters, whom they must win back if they are going to return to government, as ignorant, credulous and selfish.

While swing voters wanted Labour to acknowledge its mistakes, most in the movement wanted to see the new leader defend the party's record.

The focus on Israel is interesting, as the district is more heavily Asian - American than anything else, but foreign policy - minded Jewish voters are considered an electorally significant swing constituency and the race is likely to see more plenty more events held in front of Jewish congregations like today.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

Voters head to the polls in New York's 20th district today to choose a replacement for appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D), a close race in a swing seat that has seen considerable spending by both national parties and will almost certainly be cast as an early referendum on President Obama's agenda.

Both candidates were seen relatively well by voters, given that the campaign — with lots of negative ads — has been in full swing for weeks now.

In the latest edition of the Ashcroft In America podcast I interview Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe; pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson tells us what the numbers say about the election result; historian Jon Darman considers whether we could be in for a Hillary landslide; and Hispanic voters in Miami and military families in Tampa tell us how they see the presidential and Senate races in the ultimate swing state.

«What we are seeing here is that as voters begin to pay more attention to this race, the momentum is swinging our way and the race is breaking towards the candidate most capable of cleaning up Albany, holding Wall Street accountable, and protecting New York families,» Rice campaign manager Jeffrey Stein said in a statement.

The general ideological proximity of progressive parties doesn't mean they are seen as perfect substitutes by swing voters.

On Newsnight in the days following the election we saw nine swing voters all pick him as the man to reconnect Labour with the British people.

New York has millions of Democratic voters who want to see institutional change, and he's positioned himself as a centrist for so long he has to swing left now.»

«What we are seeing here is that as voters begin to pay more attention to this race, the momentum is swinging our way and the race is breaking towards the candidate most capable of cleaning up Albany, holding Wall Street accountable, and protecting New York families.»

As opposed to 2014, Cox sees a clear path for a Republican victory this year — with the governor's mounting scandals, his second - term swing to the left that has created resentment upstate, and his use of the race as a springboard for a presidential bid, which Cox said would rub voters the wrong way.

A small swing towards Conservatives amongst this group of voters would see the party reclaim the seat.