Sentences with phrase «white working class vote»

«And so it's far easier to win the Midwestern white working class vote when your opponent is private equity - personified Mitt Romney rather than a Jacksonian populist like Donald Trump.»

This is, of course, pure Labour spin, with Blears, under orders, going for the white working class vote.

Not exact matches

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

Henry Olsen has written a fascinating and important article about the voting habits and worldview of the white working - class.

While Trump may increase the white, working class Republican vote, Clinton may struggle to retain Obama's youth and non-white votes.

As I wrote before the election, speaking with Americans gave me the impression that voter turnout could put Trump in the White House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump'sWhite House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump'swhite, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump's way.

If you look at the demographics, at where we need to be at the next election, we need more people in the north voting for us, more of what they call here «blue collar» workers and I call the white working class.

The New York Times notes that upstate figured heavily in Clinton's first U.S. Senate win in 2000 — particularly white, working - class voters who had previously voted Republican — and that she feels personally connected to the region.

He said: «They're talking tough on the issue of immigration because the Labour vote among the white working class has dropped, and not all of them but some are turning to the BNP.»

This narrative becomes a shade more sinister when the dubious category of the «white working class» (apparently neglected more due to its whiteness than its class) is elevated to the status of Labour's «traditional» support — the «core vote» residing in the «heartlands».

If labour lose certain seats we've got because the White working class, self employed man, witha St George's flag outside ina council home votes UKIP are you going to say it doesn't matter as that sort of chav stereotype, is something that we as labour supporters shouldnt want anyway

The backbencher warned against those close to Mr Corbyn who might be assuming the election result was a solid resurgence of the core vote, saying: «Even on polling day there was still a major problem with white working - class voters.

«I've got white working - class constituents who've always voted Labour, but they won't be voting for Miliband but for Ukip, because they feel he couldn't care less about them,» a backbencher said.

I wrote a piece, «Why it is perfectly rational for the ignored white working class to vote BNP», for this site back in July 2008, a year before the BNP's success in the European elections.