Sentences with phrase «against minority candidates»

Clearly, this proposed plan is a «retrogression» as far as the ability of minority voters to overcome white bloc - voting against minority candidates is concerned.

OP did not restrict his questions to a presidential candidacy, and a tendency would just mean that minority candidates are disproportionately likely to go up against minority candidates.

Not exact matches

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appears determined to remain in power, but her resolve is at odds with growing numbers of Democratic candidates who view her as politically toxic and are pledging to vote against her as their leader.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

Faso, a former Assembly minority leader, is competing against five other Republican candidates for the GOP nomination in the 19th congressional district, which is being vacated by Rep. Chris Gibson at the end of the year.

Lindsay won a three - way race in 1969 against two conservative candidates by cobbling together a coalition of liberal, moderate Jewish and emerging minority voters.

Astorino took particular umbrage at Cuomo blasting his stance against the affordable housing settlement, saying it hurt minorities, with the GOP candidate accusing Cuomo of playing «the race card.»

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State.»

The Buffalo businessman said yesterday he'll be joined on the new line by his LG running mate, former NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene, along with Malpass and another GOP US Senate candidate, Gary Bernsten, who is running in a GOP primary against Jay Townsend to take on Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer in the general election.

Former NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene, who was also briefly the 2010 running mate for gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (until he lost the GOP primary to former Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards), circulated petitions to run against Democratic Sen. Joe Addabbo, but then declined the nomination.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that Islamic State violence against Christians, Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East was genocide.

It's hard to imagine Mr. Losquadro, a freshman lawmaker, would be a lock against a viable candidate, as the former Suffolk County legislative minority leader's first two years in office have been underwhelming.

With his megaphone, Sharpton can confer credibility (as he did for Liu, who ran as the «minority» candidate against white councilman David Yassky) or he can contaminate.

Also Thursday, Nassau County Legislative Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams — a potential 4th District candidate — said he'd continue raising money as he explores a Democratic primary bid against Rice.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said that Democrats are trying to be united at every level of government, and do not intend to mount primary challenges against members of the IDC, unlike 2014, when they ran candidates against some IDC members.

They plan to trace the same narrative of an underdog minority up against a richer, white candidate.

Bruce Lunsford: The Democratic candidate who ran against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came close to pulling an upset but ultimately came up six percent short.

McKinney's brand of fiscal conservatism and liberal social policy would make him an appealing candidate in November, the Senate minority leader is struggling against front - runner Foley in their party contest.

Thus for a wide array of managerial tasks — from hiring, firing, and promoting to contracting services and forming partnerships — qualified minority candidates are subtly and unconsciously discriminated against, sometimes simply because they are in the minority: There are not enough of them to counter the propensity for in - group favoritism in the majority.

Against this demographic shift, Garrett said, Republicans can't stay competitive at the presidential level if they don't find a new way to talk about issues that are important to the up - and - coming demographics of the country — minorities, young people, singles — or at least, as Cook suggested, not talk about subjects that distract from their core economic message, like the rape issue that was attributed to the losses of two Republican Senate candidates who were otherwise expected to win.