Their sympathies are divided: they like the Republicans on business and family values, but dislike them on immigration and welfare reform, and split their votes more or less evenly between the two parties.
A realistic assessment of history would not forget how Bill Clinton frustrated his backers by, for example, welfare reform that split his base and the failure to pass health care reform that helped usher in the GOP wave election in 1994.
But that's not all: There was also a feud over funding for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (which later split into the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education) because Congress still couldn't agree on whether and how Medicaid should cover abortion care.
She split her welfare check between Sherrena and New Pitts Mortuary.
For months now, ministers have been split over welfare reform, with the looming prospect of bankruptcy, should costs not be cut.
A regrouping of social democrats on Kadima's left flank, with Meretz and Labour to the fore, is also being mooted.That is the hope of Isaac Herzog, minister of welfare until the recent split, who intends (among several others) to run for the Labour leadership.
The plight of Ana and her children illustrates how systemic failures by immigration and child welfare authorities can traumatically split immigrant families -- now happening in the thousands, according to immigration advocates.
Every poll is supposed to reflect splits in opinion on welfare, economy, ideology, etc.
Split between two bills, the welfare measures, which were first announced in the budget, were introduced to the House of Representatives on Wednesday morning.
For Tories, the most effective wedge issues tend to be welfare and immigration, which rally the right while splitting the left.
