Sentences with phrase «urban voters»

The combination of urban voters and rural Hispanic and native voters will move it into the D column.
For younger and more urban voters, immigration and cultural identity are increasingly becoming irrelevant.
It also highlights the difficulties that the national leadership of the main political parties will face in making a concerted pitch to win over urban voters at the next general elections.
Political scientists such as Danielle Resnick, Nic Cheeseman and Miles Larmer aver that Sata won by using a combination of populist messages which appealed to cross-ethnic, poor, urban voters with ethnically - motivated support in rural Bemba - speaking areas.
Critics have said the coalition was also abandoned by urban voters on complaints of rising corruption and ballooning living costs, despite a series of cash handouts.
The technique might have been expected to over-represent liberal or left wing parties because of the prevalence of young, urban voters online, but it appears the use of search data, as opposed to social media, may have limited the impact of demographic imbalances online.
But what may also rescue Ms. Clinton from an embarrassing setback here is Mr. Sanders» failure to connect with African - Americans and urban voters in general, as well as the dislike higher - income suburban voters could feel towards a proud socialist.
The Republican National Committee has launched a petition in support of Uber and opposing «taxi unions and liberal government roadblocks,» a new effort to reach young urban voters, report Byron Tau and Kevin Robillard for Politico.
If David Cameron and George Osborne want to succeed in making the Conservative Party credible on the economy — and appealing to urban voters outside the South of England — they must produce a credible policy on cities.
He said there were four overlapping groups to which the Tories have failed to appeal: working class voters, northern urban voters, ethnic minority voters and people outside the Tory heartlands.
Labour gained strongly among younger, more affluent urban voters while the Conservatives reached working - class voters who had never supported them before.
These black and Latino urban voters will continue to support the lesser - of - two - evils and the Democratic Party doesn't have to have any awkward conversations with the NEA or the AFT.
They argue that the new districts drawn by the Republican - led General Assembly disfavor urban voters.
Republican Chairman Ed Cox in an interview Wednesday here in Cleveland pointed to Republican Gov. John Kasich's success in the city as a sign the GOP can win urban voters.
This makes it even harder to compromise, as House Democrats have no knowledge of issues affecting rural white folk and Republicans have no knowledge of urban voters.
Urban voters will not back a Wildrose / PC coalition (assuming it gets off the ground) because they're too progressive to regress on social policy.
re: «A fresh articulate leader could revitalize the PCs making the party more attractive to urban voters than the WR»
A fresh articulate leader could revitalize the PCs making the party more attractive to urban voters than the WR.
While Nigel Farage and his lieutenants have invested considerable resources in terms of pavement politics in the working - class midlands and north - east, they still have considerable difficulty attracting the support of younger and urban voters — precisely the electoral tranche Labour is now pursuing.
Urban voters, however, do favour the Lib Dems.
They can't actually bring themselves to say specifically what it is they don't like about metropolitan Tories» bed - fellows (called «urban voters» here in Zone 2) so they take refuge in a cowardly mood music to define their targets.
To bolster its meagre majority, the Conservative leadership needs a policy platform to win over the two groups which it lost most ground to Labour at the general election: young people and urban voters.
The political hue of local administrations, margin of victory and make - up of cabinets, backbenchers and opposition will have a huge impact on the lives of urban voters.
The presence of a northern woman in the cabinet will not be the silver bullet to the issue of Tory unpopularity with urban voters and women, just as Sajid Javid's appointment has not made the Tories more appealing to ethnic minorities.
Arguably the most significant reason Clinton is doing better in 2016 than eight years ago is that she's won the overwhelming support of urban voters this time around.
The Republicans briefly lost their Senate majority in the 2008 elections when Barack Obama brought out a surge of young and urban voters, but they rebounded in the Obama - backlash election of 2010, just in time for redistricting, and a chance to build a floodwall against New York's rising Democratic tide.
'' (The Cuomo campaign) made the political calculation that downstate and urban voters have nowhere to go,» said one disgruntled activist.
Sure, there are plenty of Republicans who loudly support empowering parents with school choice, but they are still boosted by a party which expresses vocal disdain for the kinds of government supports on which many of these urban voters depend to keep their families intact.
But does that mean Trump education policies will crack the code of the Democratic Party alignment between the public school status quo, teachers unions and urban voters?
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