Sentences with phrase «with middle class voters»

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Those ridings decided the election, and the NDP needs to look very closely at every aspect of its strategy in connecting with three geographically and culturally distinctive sets of middle class voters.

Titled «Building a Strong Middle Class» the 278 - page document is essentially a sequel to last year's «Growing the Middle Class,» with page after page reminding voters what the government did in its first big - spending, deficit - ballooning budget.

From Patten's perspective, Trump's economic message on free trade and on jobs will resonate with all - important middle - class swing state voters.

Cruz has a chance to unite the Republican «base of the base» with voters who might be open to a middle - class - focused conservative populism.

Second, immigration policy, if it is not coupled with a wider agenda, has a chance to hurt the Republicans among middle and working - class voters if they aren't careful.

It isn't the fault of Republican primary voters that the Huntsman campaign combined seeming contempt for the Republican electorate with a middle - class tax increase and huge tax cuts on high earners.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

This means that if a Republican could come up with a message to address the concerns of middle - class voters, «amazingly enough, he'll win a lot more Hispanic votes in the process.

«I feel a strong connection with voters when I talk about how my parents worked hard to lift us to the middle class and instilled hard working values that allowed me to succeed,» Delgado said in a statement.

In my experience in focus groups with lower middle class and affluent working class swing voters, people are obsessed about two things: the NHS; and welfare.

Kinderhook, N.Y. November 1, 2016... With open enrollment for Obamacare beginning today, voters should know that its rates are skyrocketing for New York's struggling middle class: They'll go up another 16.6 percent on average in New York and upwards of 25 percent elsewhere, yet liberal New York City professor and NY - 19 congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout wants to expand the failing program even more, the campaign of fiscally responsible congressional candidate John Faso today noted.

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

«I've been knocking on doors to speak with voters about issues facing middle class families, from creating jobs to improving our transportation and infrastructure.

In making his pitch for Paid Family Leave and a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage on Long Island today, Cuomo said voter anger in the presidential primaries comes from frustrated middle class voters who are dealing with stagnant wages and rising property taxes.

Rather than looking at self - reported levels of turnout in post-election surveys ComRes did regressions on actual levels of turnouts in constituencies by their demographic profiles, finding the usual patterns of higher turnout in seats with more middle class people and older people, lower turnout in seats with more C2DE voters and younger voters.

«Strategic defectors» are voters who support Ukip at European elections but return to the Conservatives at general elections: they are older, financially comfortable, middle - class men with Conservative sympathies, socially conservative Eurosceptics who are motivated principally by their desire to send a message to the Conservatives.

On television, commentators like Peter Kellner and Andrew Marr were quick to advise that Labour return to the «successful» Blairite New Labour formula with a stronger pro-business orientation, a distancing from the unions and working - class voters and an alignment with the (largely mythical) Middle England.

«We intend on changing that by sending another Republican to Washington to fight for our working class and middle class voters, building on the GOP victories of last year with Congressman Michael Grimm and Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis beating incumbents to take seats in Congress and the NYS Assembly.»

Labour's plans to tax non-doms and mansions or freeze energy prices were popular, while middle - class voters were wooed with tuition - fee and small - business tax cuts.

Davis would give a punchy, no - nonsense line of crime and order issues, and also plays well with swing voters and upper working / lower middle class voters.

Ed Miliband doesn't need to set out concrete policies — it would be good if the Labour movement is given a real opportunity now to help draw up that political alternative, but the party desperately needs a narrative and to be seen identifying with working and middle class voters who now find themselves at the sharp end.

In contrast, supporters of his brother say David Miliband would attract voters away from the coalition with a platform less alienating for the middle and upper class.

Moreover, it risks giving a hostage to fortune, with UKIP being the only party willing to criticise the prevailing political consensus, and which has rapidly absorbed working and middle class voters alienated by the Labour and Conservative parties.