This, at times, puts them at odds with large parts of the middle- and working-class base of the Democratic Party.
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By minimising the gender gap among its working-class base, the National Front could claim the support of over 20% of the overall electorate, according to Ms Mayer.
Formed on a working-class base, Labor claims to be the first party of its kind in the Western world to have won power: in Queensland in 1899 (briefly), then as a national government five years later.
Among the factors working in John Lewis' favour, Mr Bubb notes higher confidence of its middle-class customer base and the stronger recovery in London and the South East where the company has most of its stores.
Mrs Thatcher's three successive election victories so changed the nature of politics that even the Labour Party, traditionally the champion of the working classes, came to adopt a similar view of the world, competing for a tiny number of swing voters while reasoning that its traditional working-class base had nowhere else to go.
At no additional cost to customers, the Modbook Pro will now have an original Modbook Pro Sanshara-class 120GB high-performance SSD as internal storage in its base configuration, nearly doubling the previous specification.
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So the Tories are desperate to shore up their base among middle-class voters: time therefore for a risk.
Our region offers a strong manufacturing and supply chain base, world-class research facilities, a highly-skilled workforce, and economic development organizations that foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
They bring in more middle-class residents, which broadens the tax base and so pays for more improvements: a virtuous cycle.
The most likely result: a recession that would lead to yet higher federal deficits, higher unemployment, a further squeeze on the middle-class and a contraction in the tax base that would threaten to bankrupt public employee pension plans from California to New York.
Yes, Mexico continues to struggle with grave security threats, but it is also fostering a globally competitive marketplace, a growing middle class, and an increasingly influential pro-democracy voter base.
Last year HMS Clyde was the first vessel to emerge from the Hampshire naval base since 1967, when Leander-class frigate HMS Andromeda was completed.
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It emerged in the inter-war years as a split from republican liberalism, and while it became a traditional social democratic party after the fall of the Colonels regime in 1974, its forms of organisation, and mass base among civil servants and small business people, lead some to compare it to Argentine "Peronism" - that is left nationalism with a working class base.
The dual-class share structure at News Corp gives a strong power base to Rupert Murdoch and his close allies.
Additionally, the internal SSD in the Modbook Pro's base configuration goes from a 64GB NisharaTM-class drive to a 120GB SansharaTM-class high- performance drive.
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According to a recent report by the African Development Bank, it is estimated that at least 310 million Africans (about 30% of the population) now fall within the middle-class bracket, which makes for an increased consumer market base demanding to be serviced with new goods, products and services.
While Obama has been solidifying his base of younger, college-educated, higher-paid voters, he has steadily been chipping away Clinton's base of blue-collar, older, working-class voters.
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The former Saks vice chairman, who oversees a sprawling international fashion, retail and real estate empire from his base in Belgium, sails a restored 1933 J-Class called Velsheda.
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WeChat's user base includes much of China's smartphone-owning middle class, a highly attractive target for advertising, but Tencent says it is still improving user experience and has no plans to make money off the service yet.
The other thing that unions did, particularly in the manufacturing sector, was it gave a base for blue-collar workers to get a middle-class wage, which meant that essentially the guys working at the Ford plant could afford to buy a Ford.
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