Sentences with phrase «latino voting blocs»

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But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

And the at - large system in the East Ramapo Central School District denies them that opportunity because what we have there is heavily racially polarized voting in which the white community votes as a bloc, and black and Latino voters vote as a bloc and, because the white community outnumbers them they're able to win elections again and again and again,» Grossman says.

(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).

The mood that will elect the next mayor has yet to cohere, and key blocs of votes — especially Latinos — are up for grabs.

They discuss whether Latinos will prove to be a swing voting bloc in 2012, and whether Herman Cain can sustain his momentum in the Republican presidential race.