Sentences with phrase «wedge issue»

They can't argue the economy, so what wedge issue do they always turn too?

Many analysts expect climate change to elevate regional tensions over partisan matters — and unleash a new wave of national wedge issues in the process.

I asked Chaltain if he thought public charters could be a productive wedge issue for Republicans.

For Democrats, the anti-Paladino commercial represents a growing conviction that Mr. Paladino must be portrayed as an extremist who shares little in common with mainstream New Yorkers, and even some Republicans, on wedge issues like abortion.

Over the past four years the Wildrose has excelled at using wedge issues like oil and gas royalties and property rights to drive the political agenda in Alberta.

Abortion is also a political wedge issue against the Governor's republican opponent Rob Astorino who Cuomo has attempted to portrayed as an «ultra conservative».

Abortion is also a political wedge issue against the governor's Republican opponent, Rob Astorino, who Cuomo has attempted to portray as an ultra-conservative.

You're completely preoccupied by wedge issue BS, you're not even making sense, and you certainly have zero clue what motivates my disgust with Palin.

Spotting a powerful wedge issue, Justin Trudeau committed to rejecting the Enbridge pipeline and legislating a crude oil tanker ban on British Columbia's North Coast.

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

«Given the strong support of younger Americans for same - sex marriage, it is unlikely this issue will reappear as a major national wedge issue.»

«Catholic voters care more about economic issues that affect their families than they do about socially divisive wedge issues like contraception,» said James Salt, executive director of Catholics United, in the statement.

If EI is brought in for realtors it is only a tax grab — a realtor would never be unemployed and granted benefits.This is another thin wedge issue leading to the CRA and the whole independant contractor status and tax deductions.We would never be eligible for benefits but would have to pay premiums forever.

That measure, overwhelmingly approved, sparked one of the most politically - charged campaigns in California history that was characterized by a painful subtext of wedge issues from race to immigration and poverty.

Rather than talk about his coming fiscal plans — including how he'll push to use a projected $ 6.2 billion surplus — the governor's campaign has leaned on social wedge issues, including abortion.

Skillful use of wedge issues such as abortion could make an electoral difference in that context.

«Both parties will search for new wedge issues, but it will be harder to include drugs among them,» Tree told Business Insider.

That makes support for elite private schools an effective wedge issue that works for parties like Mr. Kenney's UCP — as long as no one figures out the impact of this level of support on public schools.

But if we could just get rid of religion, we'd be rid of the MOST RETARDED wedge issue that has ever entered into the human equation to screw things up.

Their «criminally stupid strategy» of removing central economic distinctions from the table has made them easy prey for their enemies: «[B] y dropping the class language that once distinguished them sharply from Republicans they have left themselves vulnerable to cultural wedge issues like guns and abortion and the rest whose hallucinatory appeal would ordinarily be far overshadowed by material concerns.»

«This is an urgent human rights crisis, and global religious liberty is too important to become a partisan wedge issue.»

If we can be 100 % confident of our statistics, it will be an important wedge issue persuading social liberals to call time on the orange book tendency and get out of the coalition.

As Maggie Haberman has noted, the mosque is a great wedge issue — particularly when it comes to the September primary (remember that Lazio might face a GOP challenge from Carl Paladino, if his petiton drive succeeds, and is facing a Conservative challenge from Ralph Lorigo).

Oxford, England — Rep. Michelle Bachmann and her cohort of right - wing Republicans are using identity, religion, and race as a permanent wedge issue — most recently in their unsubstantiated attack on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's Muslim aide Huma Abedin.

It's also an interesting wedge issue, positioning Sinn Fein as modernisers with a commitment to «equality» against the «reactionary» DUP.

Amedore, who is trying for the second time to unseat Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, who beat him by just 18 votes in 2012, has been steadfast in his anti-abortion stance, despite the fact that women's issues — specifically, the governor's 10 - point Women's Equality Act — has been a key wedge issue in this race.

It's a defense - by - offense move for the Republicans who, rather than holding a traditional focus on pocketbook issues, including taxes, are trying to pre-empt wedge issues used by Democrats.

Parkinson will be running the ground war, while Hill (formerly Cunningham) will play a key role in sharpening the home secretary's strategy and identifying the best wedge issues for the scrap with Leadsom.

California shows single - payer can be an intra-party wedge issue in an environment where some Democrats are trying to pull the party further to the left.

But the political cost of using, say, religion as an electoral wedge issue if the Muslim Bawumia were to emerge as the NPP's flagbearer would be too prohibitive for the NDC itself.

«That's a huge wedge issue,» Steyer said of young voters» concern about climate change.

News media and public education activists tend to overlook these facts, but they represent wedge issues that can split off parent and civic groups from the dominant coalition, with its core union and allied parent constituencies.

Let's not politicize the debate over school reform to find wedge issues or accentuate divisions.

So talking about clean energy and pushing federal clean energy policies, which still has solid support among the rest of the electorate, can only be a political positive, making it a classic wedge issue.

The volume of the Russian operatives» output on social media is of course noteworthy, pointing as it does to the effort they made to exploit wedge issues in the U.S. at a critical time.

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

School choice has become a powerful wedge issue and has brought with it a great irony, as alluded to by Kevin Chavous.

He would be easier to beat than Romney, who is into the economic wedge issues.

One progressive Catholic group made political hay out of Santorum's weak showing among Ohio Catholics, emailing reporters a statement titled «Santorum campaigns on divisive wedge issues, promptly loses Catholic vote.»

As people are increasingly saying, after a longish period of wafer - thin wedge issues, the policy and philosophical differences between Labour and the Conservatives are reasserting themselves, and they were clearly on display here again.

At last, we are getting tired of letting ourselves be divided and conquered by wedge issues!

Wedge issues like abortion will play a key role in the upcoming general elections as Cuomo and state Democrats form a «Women's Equality Party» meant to support the passage of the full agenda.

Uber is «becoming a lightning - rod, wedge issue that candidates have to address,» author Steven Hill told The New York Times in a story in the paper's Friday edition.

The way you work a chisel into small crevices of very large, seamed stone, Stephen Harper has been patiently exerting for years, inserting his wedge issues here and there, giving them twists to see what might pop loose.

Immigration remains a wedge issue for both sides to exploit among their bases into the November 2018 elections.

In Liberal leader Stéphane Dion's «Green Shift» plan, Harper sees a wedge issue that he thinks might deliver him the 28 suburban seats he's had his eye on for more than two years.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.