Sentences with phrase «than conservative states»

Why do liberal states have higher unemployment and higher debts than conservative states?

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Critics also charge that Gillibrand emphasized more centrist positions as a congresswoman from a somewhat conservative district than she does as a senator from a liberal state.

Since Iowa typically picks more conservative candidates than other states, Rubio's 23 percent showing was better than expected.

The economic impact would mean far more to the progressive cities than it would to the socially conservative states.

The Conservatives, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have said Canada is feeling the sting of economic problems around the world, including the crisis in Europe and slower - than - predicted growth in the United States.

Thus, it is no surprise when empirical research shows that Justin Bieber Blog people who are believers give more of their time and resources to the needy than do unbelievers, and people who cherish limited government (conservatives) give more than welfare - state liberals.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

They tend, by and large, to be more conservative than the mainline denominations of the United States.

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents the 1.5 million Conservative Jews in the United States, has just issued a new Torah and commentary, the first for Conservatives in more than 60 years.

Two years ago, then Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb delivered the Conservative Christian Fellowship's Wilberforce Address and claimed that «it is easier for a politician to admit to smoking weed or watching porn, than it is to admit that they might take prayer seriously in their daily life».

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

And nowhere on earth have conservative Christians been closer to controlling foreign policy than here in the United States.

And then he does what all conservatives do, state facts that are unreferenced and unverifiable by talking about supposed studies showing that conservatives give more to charity than liberals anyway, thereby elevating themselves even more above the rest of us in their delusional hierarchy.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Not surprisingly, conservative commentators are having a «nanny state» field day, especially since this news breaks so soon after Bloomberg's proposed ban on sodas sold in large containers (with one wag facetiously worrying about babies requiring more than 16 ounces of formula.)

In those few states where homebirth midwives have been forced to reveal their safety statistics, it is has been found that babies are (by a conservative estimate) 2 - 6 times more likely to die than those born in hospital.

But his attempt to cast himself as in the same boat as marginal Democrats in a Democrat - dominated state is certainly an interesting approach — one some of his more conservative colleagues might look askance at, and the Democrats more than likely won't let go unchallenged.

There is undoubtedly a strand within the conservative tradition that is essentially pragmatic, seeing the job of the ruler as being to guide the ship of state wisely through whatever waters it may pass, rather than setting about, as Cameron himself put it «great schemes to remake the world».

Reform of the constitutional architecture of the UK state over the past two decades has adhered to a conservative orthodoxy based on an enduring belief in the British Political Tradition: the redistribution of power is negotiated between the state and sub-state national and regional elites rather than with the British people.

These days I am amused rather than offended when I come under attack from some Conservative backwoodsmen — one recently identified me as a member of the Socialist Workers Party: that, for advocating policies which would be considered mainstream in successful Scandinavian countries or Germany or France or even, in that socialist paradise, the United States.

The conservative says: «If we destroy the state we get chaos and anarchy that's worse than the bad government that we have in place.»

There is a long - standing trend within the Parliamentary Conservative Party that privately schooled and Oxbridge educated MPs are more likely to be socially liberal and less Eurosceptic than their state - schooled and non-Oxbridge educated colleagues.

It is in this sense that Modern American Conservatism is conservative to Americans: The tenants of the nation was that governments exist by consent of the govern, individualism, and that local governments should have more power to interfere with individuals than state governments, which should have more power than the national government (Jeffersonian Democracy).

It is probably fair to say that libertarianism is a term less familiar to British political culture than to that of the United States, but British conservatives (including members of the Conservative party) often like to claim the mantle of liberalism and individual liberty, usually relating these ideas to the promotion of free enterprise, reduced state intervention in the economy and individual responsibility.

Conservatives, Labour, and Liberal Democrats alike agreed to even stronger devolution than is now the case, with the now - permanent Scottish Parliament being given plenary powers regarding taxation and some important social issues, especially involving the operation of the modern welfare state.

But how would it go down in the new - look cabinet boasting more state educated ministers than any previous Conservative government?

Gibson, who served three terms and is not seeking re-election because of self - imposed term limits, joins more than 60 other local and state leaders, committees and organizations who have endorsed Faso in the race, including state and local GOP and Conservative party leaders, elected officials from the 11 - county district, CNBC television host Larry Kudlow, noted political science professor Dr. Gerald Benjamin and the state Conservative Party, among others.

The more than 150 - member coalition opposing a constitutional convention includes labor unions, and the state's Conservative Party, which often opposes unions.

That after a local Conservative member stated they would sooner have a Lib Dem politician rather than a MP who was a «bloody n...».

State Senator Joe Markley, a conservative Republican from Southington, won the convention endorsement for lieutenant governor on the first ballot with more than...

The Kaminski focus reflects the fact that he is the leader of the group, rather than any member of it; but also, around Jewadbne, I think the particular nature of the language used about needing Jewish apologies first (and here I think I am somewhat generous to the Conservatives: they have stated that they disagree with Kaminski on Jewadbne, but have called it a position of that people of «goodwill» took.

GOP county chairmen just broke from a preconvention meeting with state chairman Ed Cox, who, I hear from sources, said he's looking at creating a third - party line, apparently to compete with the Conservative Party, which backed a slate last week that may look very different than the GOP's.

[108] There is evidence of this commitment to cutting the state in his party's manifesto, with Osborne and the Conservatives seeking to cut the deficit «faster and deeper» than any other main party as well as committing to various tax cuts such as inheritance tax and national insurance.

Cenedella, whose Manhattan - based company employees more than 300 people, has already approached state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long about challenging Gillibrand, who polls show could be vulnerable to a strong challenger.

(CNN)- Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican governor from the blue state of New Jersey, argued Wednesday that he's more conservative than people from the South may think.

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Fellow Conservative John Hayes was just as complimentary, praising the United States» 44th president for his commitment to the «politics of hope» rather than the «dull utilitarianism» commonplace to politics.

Former state Supreme Court and Appellate Division Justice Michael Kavanagh gave Faso his backing, calling the conservative reformer, «a public servant who shares my ideals and the ideals of the district where he has lived for more than three decades.

Writing in a pamphlet published today and quoted by the Observer newspaper, Reeves stated: «For what it is worth, I think the coalition tightened a little more than necessary in the first two years; relied a bit too much on spending cuts rather than tax rises to fill the hole; and above all has taken a myopically conservative approach to borrowing for investment.»

The GOP for decades has dominated in the conservative Lone Star State, but more than 1 million energized Dem voters turned out Tuesday.

Tuesday afternoon the presidential running mates arrived on separate campaign planes in Cuyahoga County, which is considered a Democratic stronghold but there are as many Republicans in the most populous county than other conservative parts of the Buckeye State.

Roughly 152,000 of the state's more than 11.4 million active registered voters are «big - C» Conservative registrants.

«I have more in common with Labour people than I do Conservatives at the moment, which is a very weird state of affairs.

The Financial Times's values are closer to those of a modern Conservative party than to any other - that it is to say, a belief in the market economy, a limited role for the state, low taxation and maximum freedom of choice.

«Labour is more comfortable than the Conservatives with the idea of an activist state: the Conservatives have reason to fear a political contest organised around which party can best promote growth rather than which party can best reduce spending,» Mr McClymont wrote.

But he dismissed recent poll findings that indicated a reduced Conservative lead since Mr Brown's Labour party conference speech and said the unity of the Tory party made it more suited to government than Labour's fractured state.

Grisanti in 2011 was one of four Republicans in the state Senate to back the legalization of same - sex marriage and, less than two years later, provided a vote in favor of the gun control law known as the SAFE Act, a measure that has stirred anger among the conservative base.

In the state Senate, which is controlled by a coalition of Republicans and five independent Democrats, the conservative rating is actually higher than 2013.

«Republicans in New York who voted for the House bill sent a clear message that they'd rather be puppets to ultra conservatives in Washington than protect the nearly 3 million New Yorkers who will lose their health care coverage because of this bill,» the email signed by Cuomo sent by the state Democratic Committee states.