Sentences with phrase «as black voters»

Last month, when political pollsters at Siena College drew up a likely voter pool for the district, they included nearly as many white voters (24 percent) as black voters (28 percent).

In an effort to appeal beyond the Dominican vote, Alcantra's campaign has been targeting women regardless of their ethnicity or geography in campaign mailers in the district, as well as black voters, according to a person familiar with the campaign's operations.

Not exact matches

Black voters in red states should vote as they usually do for candidates, down the ballot — and leave their choice for President blank.

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.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

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.

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.

Why do they frame this question as though it would make a difference to black voters?

I am white and I supported President Obama in both elections as did many other white voters so it wasen't just the black community that got President Obama elected..

The proportion of black prisoners is extraordinary, and recently with the whole question of Florida, the number of black voters who are actually disenfran chised in a number of ways is quite eloquent, I think, as to what's going on in your country.»

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.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

Their obsession with making history with a black woman as their leader is irrelevant to most voters» lives.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

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).

Yesterday, when Jane Hamsher of firedoglake posted a picture on Huffington Post of Joe Lieberman photoshopped into wearing blackface, she was trying to make a point about what she sees as his hypocritical attempts to reach out to black voters.

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

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.

Black voters are largely choosing between Obama and Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, affectionately known as the «first black president.&rBlack voters are largely choosing between Obama and Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, affectionately known as the «first black president.&rblack president.»

That's why Cynthia Nixon — running as a Bernie-esque progressive against the more centrist Cuomo — is trying to overcome the historic resistance black voters have to white economic progressives, and truly engage black voters.

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.

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.

Aspirational, family - oriented black Caribbeans of Christian faith could be thought of as potential Tory voters in the making.

Mr. Sharpe sued Mr. Parker for $ 10 million, saying he was damaged by a newspaper story in which the senator was quoted as saying that Mr. Sharpe had entered the race at Mr. Dear's behest with the aim of drawing black voters away from Mr. Parker.

The New York Times reported this morning a meeting earlier this year between Cuomo and Stewart - Cousins led to the governor criticizing Senate Democrats for not understanding suburban voters, leading Stewart - Cousins to accuse him of only seeing her as a black woman and not a Westchester lawmaker.

Also note that cell phones have particular high penetration and usage rates in some communities that aren't as likely to be on the traditional internet, making them potentially an ideal tool for reaching groups like urban black and hispanic voters.

Astorino's backing from Diaz Sr. comes as he seeks to reach out to Hispanic and black voters — a formula that's worked for him in his campaigns for county executive in 2009 and 2013.

Strong black voter support for Spitzer — who resigned as governor amid a federal probe of money laundering and prostitution and who once used the State Police to smear a political foe — has mystified many New York Democrats, although Wright said he wasn't surprised.

Stringer himself, described by insiders as «in near panic» over his poor showing with black voters, belatedly responded last week by hiring two well - regarded African - American political operatives: Patrick Jenkins, a longtime confidant of US Rep. Gregory Meeks of Queens; and Kevin Wardally, an associate of the late Bill Lynch and an official at the Cuomo - controlled state Department of Labor.

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.

With the absence of any candidate of color in the AG's race, Schneiderman has been trying to position himself as the clear choice for Latino and black voters, stressing in particular his efforts on behalf of Rockefeller Drug Law reform and sponsorship of a controversial measure that will count prisoners at their last address for the purposes of legislative redistricting and not whever they're incarcerated.

We've got black candidates, we've got Muslim candidates, we've got homosexual candidates and I'm deeply insulted, as would every Ukip voter be, that she's compared us to the BNP.

Clinton is in New York City, where she will deliver a speech on how the country can break down the barriers that hold back African American families as she tries to woo black voters ahead of the South Carolina primary.

All three representatives are also African - American and strongly hinted at a weakness Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent and self - described socialist, has yet to overcome, even as he appears increasingly likely to do damage to Ms. Clinton in New Hampshire and Iowa: black and Latino voters still don't support him or even really know who he is.

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.

But as in previous polls, black, white and Hispanic voters have widely different views of the mayor.

Forty - seven percent of voters polled don't approve of Black's selection to replace Joel Klein as chancellor.

The Manhattan lawmaker has a number of heavyweight labor unions on his side to help get out the vote and has styled himself as the liberal go - to candidate for black, Latino and gay voters.

MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's selection of Cathie Black as the city's schools chancellor is not helping his popularity with voters, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's approval rating has held steady even after a bruising war of words with the city's police unions — bolstered by overwhelming support from black and Latino voters as well as successes on key policy issues, according to a new poll and experts.

He referred to supporters of Espaillat as «outsiders» and claimed that they hoped to «suppress» and «control» black voters and Harlem.

«It is very interesting to me that everything that was great about the bill was introduced but everything that protects minority and black voters was left totally as if this never even happened,» Walker said.

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.

As a result, Powell is spending much of his time wooing the black voters in central Harlem.

Democrats, along with several civil rights groups, attacked the now - adopted district lines as unfairly stacking the deck against Democrats in downstate communities and said they split apart a predominately black and Latino area on Long Island to dilute its mostly Democratic voters into several Republican districts.

A Quinnipiac University poll Wednesday found that 57 % of black voters approve of the job Ms. McCray is doing as first lady, compared with 39 % of white voters.

Presidential candidates have long used the NAN conference as a platform to engage black voters — the 2007 meeting featured six presidential candidates, including Barack Obama.