Sentences with phrase «voter backlash against»

That was certainly true in 2010, when a voter backlash against Obamacare triggered a wave of Republican victories, especially at the state level, which in turn set the stage for major progress on education reform priorities in 2011 (rightfully dubbed «the year of school choice» by the Wall Street Journal).

«Reminds me of Gingrich in «94,» Cuomo said, referring to the voter backlash against Bill Clinton, when Republicans took Congress in a wave of voter dissatisfaction.

Back in August, we looked at a long series of questions the campaign could answer, ranging from the effectiveness of mobile canvassing to the possibility of a voter backlash against highly targeted advertising.

The Republican wave in 2010 was fueled by voter backlash against Obama's policies, headlined by the health care law that quickly became known as «Obamacare.»

Not exact matches

The ambitious plan to create an Australian - owned partner for the Chinese investor Dakang's massive new cattle station business was seen by some as an attempt to help appease demands from the Foreign Investment Review Board, as well as quell some of the political backlash from voters who are against foreign investment.

Former SNP leader Alex Salmond was ousted, as was former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg — perhaps in a delayed backlash by young voters against tuition fees.

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.

It follows the backlash from voters across Europe against plans to cut public spending.

«PMQs: Ed Miliband scores victory against Cameron as he highlights the Government's NHS isolation Main Beware of the backlash from natural Conservative voters»

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

On May 29, 2015, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, attended a Big Green - funded League of Conservation Voters event where he called for using RICO against climate skeptics and fossil fuel companies (see the YouTube here), then in a Washington Post op - ed, «The fossil - fuel industry's campaign to mislead the American people,» prompting a backlash asserting that the charge was false, and defending the right to dissent.

Besides the voter backlash, both sides of politics are pretty against it.