Sentences with phrase «with swing voters»

While Bush didn't win the «education vote,» he closed the margin dramatically on this traditionally Democratic issue, especially with swing voters.

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.

Not only is support high among those currently intending to vote for the major parties, support for the green economy with swing voters is consistently higher.

I suspect it may play well with swing voters but upset some of our fringe supporters on the right.

In dozens of conversations with swing voters, there's no evidence of real animosity — unlike in the early 2000s.

Emerging serious divisions within the Labour Party and his strategy of positioning the party on the hard left will not play well with swing voters.

While this meant that the Garrisons and the Sumners were unpopular with swing voters, their more inflammatory form of anti-slavery politics made it easier for somewhat more moderate (in both tone and substance) politicians to campaign on opposition to slavery.

If activists persist in supporting policies on the basis that they are infused with social liberal values and principles, rather than their popularity with the swing voter in the centre ground, then that is oh so endearingly and impractically childlike.

Not exact matches

With a polarized electorate, both parties believe they benefit more by turning out core supporters than from courting a shrinking group of swing voters.

While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.

«Certainly those 10 to 15 percent who have always bought into that (populist rhetoric) think it's great but the rest, the swing voters who may have gone with the populist last year, I think aren't going with them anymore, particularly in Germany,» he added.

Indeed, the Trump transition team released a statement in December that appeared to cast doubt on the CIA's findings that Russia had meddled in the election with the specific purpose of damaging Clinton's candidacy and swinging voters towards Trump.

In order for MAN1 to be successful and impact the results of the 2016 presidential election they needed to locate the key voters that could swing the election and establish creative ways to reach and interact with this audience to move them to action.

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

Simcha Felder says he will stick with New York Republicans, even as voters went to the polls in special elections that could make him the swing vote.

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

He argued against the evils of slavery with eloquence, but his policy agenda was modest and aimed at the swing voters of the Midwest.

Lincoln carefully chose the ground that united swing voters with anti-slavery opinion and tried to build out from there.

Ronald... you are not doing any favors for «Romney / Ryan 2012» by saying something ignorant and then stating your support for them In fact, I think you are motivating the swing voters more than anyone else — no educated person would honestly say they agree with your statements or opinions.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

This strategy would seek to cement a coalition between orthodox conservatives and working - class white swing voters who have never been fully comfortable with conservative small government politics.

Another path is to try to become an American version of the U.K. Independence Party and seek to combine those who oppose the current version of «comprehensive immigration reform» with white swing voters who are alienated from both parties.

They were also blind to the reality that, while people might have been unhappy about elements of Obama's foreign policy and would be willing to trade up to something better, most swing voters would, if faced with a constrained choice, prefer the mistakes of Obama to the mistakes of George W. Bush.

They are more like swing voters who have to be brought along with clear messages — preferably using images as well as words.

Meanwhile, as the Republican party was courting swing voters with strong anti-abortion sympathies, these voters saw in great value in consolidating their political power into support for one party.

With optimized charts and averages, PollTracker 2012 follows important swing states, provides key voter group information (independents, gender breakdown, voter subgroups) and offers specific detailed candidate data.

Here's a quick example of how NOT to do GOTV — a Republican political «operative» (a word that always amuses me) has been flooding swing - state voters» phones with spam texts detailing how horrible Barack Obama is (he's in favor of the «gay agenda,» or so I've heard).

Cuomo leads 87 - 8 among his fellow Democrats while Paladino leads 83 - 13 with his fellow Republicans and 49 - 43 percent among the all - important independent voters, who could end up being a key swing voting bloc.

A recent Siena poll found Hanna trailing Arcuri by just eight percentage points, but 14 points behind him with independent voters, who could prove to be a crucial swing voting bloc.

The priority should be to target swing voters rather than planning alliances with other parties.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

That is exactly the issue at hand with our democracy today: politics concentrates power to a handful of voters in wealthier swing seats, while throwing 22m votes in the electoral scrapheap.

«Imagine, for example, tailored advertisements created for individual «swing voters» (selected automatically through profiling), pointing out a party's positive steps in the policy areas that are most likely to interest them (also selected automatically), omitting those areas where party policy doesn't fit, and couching it in a language appropriate to the individual's ethnic, educational, cultural and linguistic background, illustrated with a few appropriate news TV clips, and playing background music exactly to the individual's taste and voiced over by an actor that profiling reveals that individual likes?

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.

The swing voter with an unusual demographic profile can suddenly be identified.

In an interview with SiriusXM set to air this weekend, the retiring congressman said he will focus on mobilizing voters in swing states, CNN reported.

A Labour official justified floating the plans in the Mail because it was important to speak to key swing voters, but the decision is bound to prove controversial with those who fear Miliband is weakened by sending out mixed messages on migration.

And they need to articulate a clear, radical alternative to Tory Austerity with a vision of a post neo-liberal Britain that appeals to swing voters, but also many of those «don't knows» and stay at -LSB-...]

According to our analysis, the Crosscheck list disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian - American voters — with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races.

«The UK Independence party is to broaden its electoral message beyond its usual campaigns against Europe and immigration with a new tax strategy aimed squarely at swing voters in middle Britain.

And how does its view compare with that of swing voters, who supported Labour in previous elections but did not vote for Gordon Brown?

But they added targeted communication on the issue with white suburban swing voters, who strategists say support measures such as expanded background checks, could help drive turnout with that segment of the electorate.

Both candidates are leading among voters of their respective parties, but Hayworth has a seven - point edge with independents — a key swing segment of the electorate.

Here's a quick example of how NOT to do GOTV — a Republican political «operative» (a word that always amuses me) has been flooding swing - state voters» phones with spam texts detailing how horrible Barack Obama is (he's in favor of the «gay agenda,»...

Swing voters were much more likely than Labour supporters to see the deficit as a serious problem that must be dealt with urgently, and that the Coalition's proposed cuts were unavoidable.

When David Cameron first entered Downing Street in 2010, his position in the Lords was protected by the coalition with the Liberal Democrats — who in practice are now the «swing voters» in the Lords.

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 personally am more frightened by the prospect of a continued Repub majority in Congress as they lurch further and further to the extreme right than I am by the excesses of the Dems, who can always be held in check by the combination of a robust Repub minority, independent swing voters and people who are simply fed up with the size and inefficiency of our government on all levels.»

Holding swing voters will be in vain if Labour has not also got its working class support to the polls, and reconnected with disillusioned left - liberals.

With numerous races in 2015 not being contested and some outcomes predetermined because of major party cross-endorsements, how significant will the drop in voter turnout be, especially among non-party enrolled voters, considered swing voters?