Sentences with phrase «white vote for»

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They had to vote for either the Party of Lincoln, which had abandoned African Americans in Reconstruction's demise, or the Democratic Party, which was the party of white supremacy in the one - party South.
The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.
Jacobs: I was talking to Fordham professor John Pfaff recently, and he said that difference in this race is that the traditional base that votes for a DA is white, middle - class, affluent, and not that knowledgeable on the issues.
The rules for this new generation of online, equity crowdfunding got a «yes» vote from Chairman Mary Jo White, Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar and Commissioner Kara M. Stein.
Nearly half of American voters voted for Trump to occupy the White House.
Perkins's remarks reflect a wider trend among white evangelicals (81 percent of whom voted for Trump in the 2016 election): Many choose to disregard Trump's decidedly debauched, decades - old public persona to focus on his anti-LBGTQ and anti-abortion stances.
Several major evangelical figures, including Jerry Falwell Jr., and Franklin Graham, both of whom serve on Donald Trump's unofficial evangelical advisory council, have spoken in support of Moore, and, according to the latest Fox News poll, 65 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama still plan to vote for him.
In 2008, the House voted to issue contempt citations against Mr. Bolten and a former White House counsel for refusing to cooperate in an investigation into the mass firings of federal prosecutors.
«The bill provides much - needed relief from the Dodd - Frank Act for thousands of community banks and credit unions, and will spur lending and economic growth without creating risks to the financial system,» the White House said in a statement after the vote.
For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underwFor instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underwfor Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.
White indicates MLAs who were not present for the vote.
House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee voted to declassify the memo on Monday, giving the White House five days to either release the memo or object, which would have sent the memo back to the House for a full vote on its release.
The presidential vote of confidence for Powell reflects the White House and Treasury's desire for low interest rates to fund the public debt and support high asset prices, as well as the probability that the Senate will quickly confirm the nominee.
So true and yet Billy Greedy Graham is supporting putting a Mormon in the White House — Really Sad... This Christian will NOT be voting Romney — Sorry, my vote is not for sale!!!
Obama is hosting Seder night at the White House in a transparent move to garner Jewish votes for 2012.
You said, «any white person that casts his vote for Oboma is a fool.
Just as some white folks voted for McCain (and will vote for Romney) because he was white.
I'd vote for a Mormon, Catholic, Jew, Muslim, white guy, black guy, woman, gay, midget — anyone who can get results.
If there is a «white» man in this country who could have been expected to vote for President Barack Obama more than the «white» man who is writing this, it is difficult for me to imagine such....
There were forty - eight votes for the Declaration, none against, and eight abstaining (White Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Saudi....
There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.
Majority white men voted and will vote for romney because he is white but you all fail to see and admit that truth.
and that's why minorities should vote for Romney — the great white father will lift them out of poverty — and hire them to shine the shoe of the CEO's of the global corporations who own Mitt and all his teabagging buddies.
This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.
The moral of this story is that evangelicals in Iowa saw all of the white horses running and voted for one.
More than three - quarters of self - identified white evangelicals plan to vote for Donald Trump in the fall (78 %).
«At that time, nearly three - quarters of white evangelical Protestant registered voters said they planned to vote for Romney, including one - quarter who «strongly» supported him.
And white evangelicals plan to overwhelmingly vote for Trump, though only 46 percent say they «strongly support» him:
About 73 percent of white evangelical voters said they would vote for Romney in 2012, while 78 percent stand behind Trump today.
But left with only Trump or Clinton as options, 93 percent of Republican or Republican - leaning white evangelicals said they will vote for Trump.
Let me ask you something Jeremy - I have had people tell me that because I am white, a Christian a veteran and a conservative that I am, a baby killer, a racist (because I didn't vote for Obama) and an anti poor elitist and a homophobe because I am against homosexuality, also that I am a potential serial killer because I believe in the second amendment.
It does not matter in any ultimate sense who controls the House or the Senate, who sits in the White House, or what confected micro-identity votes en masse for which candidate.
As white Christians, my sister who is a minister and my father who is a WWII vet will be voting for Obama because they believe he better represents the values of Christ.
99 % of social conservatives will hold their breaths and vote for the psuedo - conservative (as long as it gets him elected) flip - flopping Mormon since he is white and Republican (at least in name).
Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).
Black americans u r mostly christian, PLEASE read the evil words of radical democrats on here and please vote for HERMAN CAIN, THE WHITE RADIAL DEMS R HATE MONGERING ANTI CHRISTIAN ANIMALS
Not surprising from a church... I'm still voting for Obama as a poor white boy.
With Huckabee on the sidelines, other Republican White House hopefuls will have a better chance of picking up evangelical votes, which accounted for more than half the GOP electorate in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008, according to polling.
Before you vote for Romney, you must Google the White Horse Prophecy.
White evangelical Christians voted for him anyway.
Initial reports suggest that four out of five white evangelical Christians voted for Trump, continuing their pattern of support for the Republican candidate in US presidential elections since the 1980s.
Why don't they play the video of Obama talking about how he dislike white people... Obama is no different than the black panthers... and so many of you fools voted for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thus a combination of factors has united white Protestants in the same coalition, with the former senior partner becoming a junior one in terms of total vote support for the GOP.
Will that nation of yours include Houston with it's gay democratic female mayor and some of the other big cities that voted for Bill White in the last election?
Among white evangelicals who voted in the election, only one - third (31 %) said they were «very satisfied» with the options for president, while 27 percent were «fairly satisfied.»
More than half of white evangelicals (56 %) said they were less likely to vote for someone who had an affair, while 42 percent said they didn't care.
Pew reported that in the 2012 presidential election, 95 percent of black Protestants voted for Obama, compared with 20 percent of white evangelicals.
Fewer white evangelicals now say they would be less likely to vote for a gay or lesbian presidential candidate: 54 percent said this in 2016 vs. 71 percent in 2007.
About 47 percent of white evangelicals were less likely to vote for someone who had served as an elected official in Washington for many years, while 34 percent said it made no difference and 18 percent said such political experience would make their support more likely.
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