Sentences with phrase «democratic bastion»

Georgia, once a Democratic bastion like the rest of the South, has gone heavily for Republicans over the last two decades, in both federal and state races.

The single largest bloc of Democratic votes comes from Tompkins County, a Democratic bastion that includes the city of Ithaca and both Cornell University and Ithaca College.

He said a Senate controlled by Democrats might have voted more like the State Assembly, a longtime Democratic bastion.

Kauffmann explained that demographics are on the governor's side, and without mentioning the enthusiasm gap that presented itself in the recent Democratic primary, said that turning out voters in traditional Democratic bastions was the party's focus.

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Not coincidental is the fact that despite being inhabited by a significant number of Catholics, the Democratic Party has become the bastion of abortion proponents.

The Times is, of course, widely viewed as a liberal bastion and represents the traditional Democratic base that Cuomo has been counting on as in the bag while he moves to the center to court independents and Republicans.

The congressional map of Austin is a particular favorite of mine, since that bastion of Texas liberalism is split among districts that meander all across South and Central Texas in an obvious attempt to dilute Democratic votes.

A firm bastion of support will likely continue to be the «organised people», the participants in social movements such as the participatory democratic councils and the recipients of social programmes.

But it is also this epic but noble battle that Saraki's Senate — the most diminished in the democratic history of Nigeria since 1960 — is trying to constitute a foolish bastion against.

But Nana Akufo - Addo on Wednesday, in a statement signed and issued in Accra, said the result of the election, which had resulted in a change in government after eight years of the Obama - led Democratic government, had strengthened even further the status of the United States of America, as a bastion of democracy in the modern world.

This NY district is a bastion of Democratic control.

This is a hostile neutrality, and an indicator of a larger rift, because teachers unions have traditionally been bastion of support for the Democratic Party.

He maintained that this should not look like a novel idea because «we see it happening everyday around the world in countries that have built strong institutions that are the bastions of their democratic structures.»

The city represents no Conservative bastion, but it's a touchy subject since Democratic incumbent Byron Brown has always sought the line.

Even in overwhelmingly Democratic New York, the last bastion of Republican power in Albany remains the Senate.

The Dukeries coalfields were not historically a bastion of great Labour strength, and they were part of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers during the 1985 Miners strike.

Let history record that the convention hall full of Democratic delegates - bastions of the party that rules all branches of state government - jumped to their feet and applauded.

It comes as no surprise then, that First Lady Michelle Obama selected the designer, a bastion of inclusivity in a typically exclusive industry, to design the dress she wore for her landmark speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The city is home to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and is considered a bastion of Republican ideals in an otherwise Democratic city.