Sentences with phrase «american voting bloc»

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And millions of Americans would not needlessly suffer and die from diseases tht he and Dubya blocked cures for in exchange for bloc voting.

This vote showed clearly that the delegates were voting in blocs: almost no delegates from the Latin American or African divisions voted for the motion.

It's a good indication of just how important the Catholic vote is thought to be this year, with Catholics accounting for 1 in 4 Americans and considered to be the quintessential swing bloc.

American evangelicalism has become this huge voting bloc — for right or wrong — with the potential of swaying entire elections.

The Democratic primary for governor may be less than a week old but the battle between Cuomo and Nixon for the African - American vote is already underway, underscoring the importance of a voting bloc where Nixon's own advisers acknowledge she must make inroads to have any chance at victory.

Williams, who is African - American and the son of Grenadian immigrants, has some advantages with name recognition in New York City, a key voting bloc in the Democratic primary.

In the most recent, a Marist poll released last week, Spitzer led Stringer 48 - 36 among likely voters, and he held impressive leads among African - American and Hispanic voters, crucial voting blocs in the Democratic primary.

Then, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the ensuing decades saw this demographic flip, with Southern whites becoming a core constituency of the Republican Party and the African American community voting as a bloc for Democrats.

The Democratic primary for governor may be less than a week old but the battle between Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Nixon for the African - American vote is already underway, underscoring the importance of a voting bloc where Ms. Nixon's own advisers acknowledge she must make inroads to have any chance at victory.

(That list covers a lot of bases, touching almost every key voting bloc in the highly tribal world of NYC politics — from women and Latinos to African Americans and labor to progressive / liberal Democrats and Jews).

In American politics, voting blocs are most effective within a larger plurality where their bloc vote carries heft (ie, Hasidic communities in Brooklyn and Rockland County).

Nevertheless, many Americans who self - identify as religious and social conservatives, especially those in the subset of white evangelical Protestants (a powerful voting bloc in Republican politics), continue to cling stubbornly to the orthodoxy of climate denial.