Sentences with phrase «democratic black voters»

With that in mind, Democrats aren't skimping on the Get Out The Vote operation: the Jones campaign and liberal groups are working desperately to encourage Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic black voters to go to the polls, regardless of past disappointment and present voter suppression.

The claim made by black voters in both states is that Republicans packed districts with more reliably Democratic black voters than necessary to elect their preferred candidates, making neighboring districts whiter and more Republican.

Not exact matches

While their contributions as pivotal voters have gone largely unacknowledged, Ohio black voters, in particular, have pulled more than their weight for Democratic victories in one of the most highly contested states in the Electoral College.

Voters in a southeast Texas county elected a black, Democratic woman as sheriff while choosing Republican Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, an unusual result in a year of partisan acrimony.

Trump's recent overtures to African Americans have raised, once again, questions about the relationship between black voters and the Democratic Party.

Black voters rewarded Truman and the Democratic Party that November, providing him with the pivotal votes he needed in a razor - thin victory over Republican Thomas Dewey.

Since then black voters have provided the margin of victory for Democratic presidential candidates over the years — Jimmy Carter in 1976, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

In each case, black voters were urged to turn out in large numbers for the Democratic Party, a party that, in the context of governing, would take them for granted.

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

In 1912 the civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois endorsed Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson for President and asked black voters to get behind Wilson's candidacy.

Clinton's campaign worried about Bernie Sanders» appeal to black voters, a key Democratic constituency that Clinton counted on.

Despite concerns about Clinton and the Democratic Party, black voters have remained loyal.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

After routing Clinton in New Hampshire and finishing a strong second in Iowa, states with nearly all - white populations, Nevada's Democratic caucuses gave Sanders his first chance to prove he can win over black and Hispanic voters and compete nationally as the race moves to states with more diverse populations.

If the GOP refuses to budge on immigration reform they will risk turning the latinos into as reliably Democratic voters as the black community tends to be, and that will effectively kill the GOP in the long run.

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Of great significance was the fact that two black Democratic candidates, David Dinkins in New York City and Douglas Wilder in Virginia, used their support for legalized abortion to persuade white voters that their politics were «moderate» and «mainstream.»

ICYM the second item in my DN column this morning: When he gets done shoring up his support with black voters, Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo may have to do damage control with the gay community.

Schneiderman has positioned himself as the most liberal candidate in the five - person Democratic AG field, and also the choice of Latino and black voters, which explains his support of Espaillat (although the two have a longstanding relationship; Espaillat backed Schneiderman when former NYC Councilman Guillermo Linares mounted a failed primary challenge to the Manhattan senator in 2002).

Cuomo's camp is particularly sensitive to his relationship with black voters following his aborted 2002 challenge to then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall in the Democratic guberantorial primary.

As Cuomo huddled with a group of advisors that included former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (the man he challenged in the 2002 Democratic gubernatorial primary, hurting his relationship with the black community), Manhattan Democratic Chairman / Assemblyman Keith Wright and former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paladino's campaign manager talked to Gerson Borrero about the GOP / Conservative nominee's efforts to woo Latino voters.

The NY Post reports this morning that a group of African - American Democratic leaders, headed by state Party Co-Chair Keith Wright, are mobilizing to try to erode the support among black voters enjoyed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as he heads into the final weeks of his NYC comptroller battle with his primary opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

The German democracy is much less black - and - white than, say, the US one and the large majority of voters value adherence to democratic principles much higher than having their party win at all costs.

Her campaign comes as economic - focused progressives try to build a larger coalition of voters within the party, and as black party activists demand that black voters not be take for granted by the Democratic party.

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.

While overwhelmingly Democratic African - American voters have received considerable attention from Clinton during the campaign, black leaders refused to reciprocate by coming to her defense when she and her husband came under attack, the source charged.

Democratic insiders say Nixon's chances are still slim, but especially so if she doesn't make inroads with crucial black voters, a bloc from which Cuomo has enjoyed healthy support in recent years and with whom progressives like Bernie Sanders failed to garner support with their more class - focused economic populist messages.

Elinor Tatum, publisher and editor - in - chief of The Amsterdam News, (the nation's oldest continuously published black newspaper), has given voice to a concern I've heard a lot of worried murmurs about in Democratic circles: That black voters won't come out to vote for Andrew Cuomo.

Black women voters voted in large numbers for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, for former President Barack Obama in 2012 and for now - Alabama Sen. Doug Jones last year.

Black Democratic voters also favored de Blasio over all other candidates, including Thompson, the only black candidate in the primary, whom only 25 percent of those surveyed said they backed, according to the Black Democratic voters also favored de Blasio over all other candidates, including Thompson, the only black candidate in the primary, whom only 25 percent of those surveyed said they backed, according to the black candidate in the primary, whom only 25 percent of those surveyed said they backed, according to the poll.

Leroy Gadsden, head of the Jamaica NAACP, said the task force's proposal to create an additional Senate seat upstate would violate the civil rights of black downstate voters who are Democratic, because upstate would have an additional elected official, who was likely to be a Republican and white.

It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.

Brythan's answer discusses the shift of black voters from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.

A super PAC supporting state Sen. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday's Democratic congressional primary for retiring Rep. Charles Rangel's seat suggests suppression of white and black voters can help the Dominican - born candidate win.

Johnson said the CBC and black voters should use their leverage as a voting bloc to work with Trump instead of always toeing the Democratic line and being taken for granted by party leaders.

«Black voters matter for Secretary Hillary Clinton in the New York Democratic primary,» said Quinnipiac University Poll Assistant Director Maurice Carroll.

Both Marist polls projected likely Democratic voters who are black would make up 28 percent of the primary; Marist's poll was one percent different, at 27 percent.

They concentrated on splitting black and white voters, with Soros - owned Democratic chairman Howard Dean and Soros - owned Moveon.org working on severing the remaining ties of the Party to labor voters.

With the old Boll Weavil Democrats gone, the current Democratic party has become an unambiguous friend to Black voters.

Spitzer had a commanding lead in that first poll among likely Democratic voters who are black, 63 - 33 percent, while Stringer led among likely Democratic voters who are white, by 56 - 38 percent.

The Democratic party has been guilty many times of assuming Black voters support.

A Twitter account for the Democratic governor's re-election campaign, @QuinnForIL, tweeted out an article last week that compared black voters supporting Quinn's Republican challenger, Bruce Rauner, to Jewish people collaborating with the Nazis during World War II against their own people in hopes of being spared the same fate.

With the Democratic primary less than a week away, Spitzer is hanging on to a 61 — 32 percent lead among black voters, while Stringer carries whites 60 — 36 percent.

The original book, published in the Republican year of 2002, forecast accurately the groups that would make up the Democratic majority coalition that emerged in the 2006 and 2008 elections: blacks, Hispanics, gentry liberals, single women, young voters.

It will be interesting to see what he says about Cuomo's current troubles with black voters and his thoughts on the lack of diversity on the statewide Democratic ticket.

Obama is heading back into the political fray today for rallies where he'll try to turn black voters out for the Democratic candidates in two closely watched governor's races.

But the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, charged with making sure that seat deficit doesn't grow any larger, is hoping to mobilize the same coalition of votes — specifically black voters — who propelled Obama to election and reelection to boost their candidates this fall.

As the Democratic Party under President Lyndon Johnson began to support civil rights, the formerly Solid South, meaning solidly Democratic, became solidly Republican, except in districts with a large number of Black voters.

A Bronx Democratic source said it's not sitting well with his side that the lines of NY - 15 might be manipulated northward to maintain Rangel's so - called «black» district, making up for the steady increase of Hispanic voters in its current confines, while letting Manhattan retain control.

The Maryland Democratic machine still thinks that white suburban voters will never vote for a black candidate in sufficient numbers to win a statewide election.