Sentences with phrase «vote loser»

The phrase "vote loser" refers to a person, policy, or action that is likely to cause a political candidate or party to lose support or votes from the public. Full definition
All of the above have consistently been sold as vote losers, if not electoral suicide.
The first group still loves Mr Corbyn, the second group still rejects him and much of the vital third group see him as a principled but wrong - headed vote loser.
I think the days are over, when a governing party puts in a manifesto a known potential net vote loser are over (e.g dementia tax).
But many of the policies in this manifesto — scrapping free school meals for infants, means testing winter fuel payments and removing the triple lock on pensions — could easily be described as vote losers.
That doesn't mean pensions isn't a vote loser.
He has avoided strong attacks on Labour and he has junked some of the Tory policies that he believes were vote losers (the patients» passport and lower taxation).
Over the years, I've heard the green agenda described in a number of ways: vote winner, vote loser; niche interest; minority sport; middle class luxury; Lib Dem obsession, even.
Of course, not all politicians see championing Traveller rights as a vote loser and condemning them as a way to garner local support.
Balls is an obnoxious gob - shite, Cooper is a vote loser every time she opens her mouth.
What a vote loser!
This made me curious: Labour are only polling a couple of points behind the Tories, so is the «Corbyn is a vote loser» line actually true, or does this narrative continue to be a fiction created by centrist and right wing media and politicians to undermine the new Labour leader?
Talk about a vote loser.
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