Sentences with phrase «winning over voters who»

Corbyn also sought to downplay the claim that he is not capable of winning over voters who do not already agree with him — by pointing to his successive victories and growing support base in Islington North and the Labour leadership election result.

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

They would stand a better chance of winning over voters who are excessively sensitive about the budget.

If Mr Murphy is to achieve his ambition of successfully defending all of his party's citadels, Labour will have to win over voters who at present could not seriously contemplate voting for the party at all.

Mychajliw, meanwhile, believes his work and accomplishment as an opposing - party watchdog to Democratic County Executive Mark Poloncarz, will win over voters who see him as a champion for taxpayers.

Not exact matches

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

It was the speech of a guy running for President and who is serious about enacting center - right reforms (and that includes being serious about winning over swing - voters to a responsible center - right agenda.)

Instead of institution building, conservatives keep pinning their hopes on magic candidates who will give magic speeches to win over the voters we need.

But the beauty of the BlogPoll is that there are a lot of voters who genuinely care about merit, and, on the merits, Florida may have the nation's best résumé, given that the Gators have a win over the highest - ranked one - loss team and are the only squad with two wins over teams currently ranked in the BlogPoll.

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And UKIP seemed to continue to win over the «left behind» voters who would once have been Labour's bedrock.

But Long, who is facing Rep. Bob Turner and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos in a June 26 primary, might have a difficult time winning over the state's Democratic voters who hold a wide enrollment advantage.

In principle that could reduce the threshold for an efficient win to (1 / n), but I don't know of any author who assumes that amount of control over opposition voters, since Duverger's Law kicks in.

But in Mr. Silver's old Assembly district in Lower Manhattan, voters chose Alice Cancel, a Democrat, who eked out a win over Yuh - Line Niou, a Working Families Party candidate who had pegged Ms. Cancel as a creature of Mr. Silver's machine.

After a rough and tumble primary win over political newcomer Rachel Barnhart, Bronson said voters in the 138th Assembly District know who he truly is and know that he's accessible.

In other words over the course of the campaign Corbyn increasingly appealed to voters who had previously been unimpressed, helping them win new support for Labour, dramatically narrowing the gap to the Conservatives.

Better to buy - in less experienced talent, who will owe you some allegiance for their promotion and will necessarily need and want to work harder to control the airwaves and win over voters.

Labour desperately needs to develop its stars of tomorrow — the people who will get great media coverage and win over voters not just in advance of the next election, but in the run up to 2020.

His full findings will be published in a report over the summer, but for now he's clear his party faces a real challenge, «referendum or not», to win round voters who feel Labour no longer understands them.

Conservatives must embrace a more open, liberal outlook in order to win over younger voters who see the party as anathema, says the leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson.

A strategy only of triangulating to win over swing Tory voters may close that gap, but only at the likely expense of further moving Labour away from the millions who are disenchanted by politics as usual.

He has dispensed with a traditional campaign launch at a press conference as the group seeks to focus attention on its website, which aims to win over young wavering voters in the higher income groups who might be put off a campaign to leave.

Moreover, the data suggests that UKIP's core base of disadvantaged voters who are particularly animated over immigration will be central to the party's 2015 campaign, while the main parties might be able to win back the less committed UKIP voters by pitching to their concerns over the economy.

I have never been a quitter and I am not going to start now,» reads a message on the Facebook page of scandal - soaked Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who received a shellacking last night at the hands of Gustavo Rivera, a relatively unknown candidate who won over voters by not being Pedro Espada.

Efford said backbench MPs who once questioned whether Corbyn, the MP for Islington North, could gain support among traditional voters had been won over by his performance.

Mr. Spitzer, a better known candidate who spent millions from his personal fortune on television advertising, won over a majority of black and Hispanic New Yorkers, and voters making under $ 50,000 a year.

Efford said backbench MPs who once questioned whether Corbyn could gain support among traditional voters had been won over by his performance.

They comprised a mixture of people who were disillusioned with Labour over such matters as Iraq and student fees, and tactical voters — passionate anti-Tories who feared that Labour couldn't win locally.

The reality is, their disastrous «centre - ground» positioning over the summer just pissed off Labour voters and at the same time did absolutely nothing to win over people who hated us.

Now, seeking to win over moderate Democrats, voters unaffiliated with any party, and as many of the city's 500,000 - plus registered Republicans as possible, Malliotakis has positioned herself as an open - minded, «common sense» candidate who works across the aisle and isn't easily placed on the political spectrum, despite what her legislative record might indicate.

In an acknowledged bid to win over female voters, President Bush's campaign team is touting his education record with the help of a woman who presumably knows his policies as well as anybody: his wife, Laura.

Assuming elections are decided by who has the biggest «voter education» budget, Heartland's chances of winning over US voters to their opinion on AGW should be about double those of US IPCC supporters.

But it isn't good politics for her to trumpet a liberal transformation of the court when she's trying to win over the median voter, who may well be skeptical of more judicial activism.

But I really believe that if Oklahoma voters end up significantly supporting sentencing reform in their state (especially if Trump wins in OK by, say, a 55/40 vote but then sentencing reform is supported by a 60/40 vote), we all can and should become a lot more optimistic about even federal sentencing reforms over the next decade no matter who is in control in DC.