Sentences with phrase «black candidate»

For one, he's the only black candidate in the race.

The three other black candidates in the race received more than 20 percent.

A gang of gun - toting goons have staged a daring, big - money rip - off at a high - society fund - raiser for the state's first black candidate for governor!

Mr. Thompson recently told Mr. Jeffries that he viewed the congressman as the strongest black candidate who could run against the mayor in 2017 — and one of only two Democrats, along with Scott M. Stringer, the current comptroller, able to mount a real challenge to Mr. de Blasio.

Thirty - one percent of those surveyed went with Weiner — more than twice the 14 percent who said they'd vote for Thompson, the only black candidate in the race.

This year, voters actually chose the largest number of black candidates in Oscar history.

While speaking on the floor, Barron said «it's time for a black speaker» and referred to the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm — the first African - American woman elected to Congress, the first black candidate for a major party nomination and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

She says Brown did not mention a target for getting black candidates into parliament.

Scott - Thurmond runoff in SC - 01: black candidate against son of former leading segregationist.

Kohut, on the other hand, doesn't talk much about the substance of their platforms or campaigns, but suggests that there is actually a well - established phenomenon at play: «Another possible explanation can not be ignored — the longstanding pattern of pre-election polls overstating support for black candidates among white voters, particularly white voters who are poor.»

This so called Christian is the first to openly accept gay marriage as a political stance, which if you want to not believe what the bible says about it then fine, but this wasn't his stance when running in Chicago against a conservative black candidate.

But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

Among the leading tropes about today's Republican Party is that it is so inhospitable to African Americans that no serious black candidate wants to run under its banner — especially...

There hasn't been a major - party black candidate for governor since then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall ran in 2002.

It was only last week that Councilman Robert E. Cornegy Jr. of Brooklyn, the most prominent black candidate for speaker, privately conceded to Mr. Johnson as they met in the modest interior conference room in Mr. Johnson's West Midtown district office.

«The more legitimate black candidates that get in the race, it further strengthening Espaillat's chance,» said Oliva.

In the 1989 race for Mayor of New York, a poll conducted just over a week before the election showed black candidate David Dinkins holding an 18 - point lead over white candidate Rudy Giuliani.

Diane Abbott says that what Clegg is saying about black candidates «not coming forward» sounds like what Labour and the Tories were saying in the 1980s.

In the mayoral primary battle, Weiner has the backing of 31 % of black voters, far ahead of Quinn at 16 %, with Thompson, the only major black candidate in the mayoral field, at 14 %.

We vote for qualified black candidates.

In an effort to exclude black candidates, already excluded by the all - white Democrat Primary of that day from the General Election as well, the Georgia General Assembly in 1943 adopted a 5 % petitioning standard.

There are several other potential black candidates but none have Gibson's name recognition.

But black candidates pass the test at rates lower than candidates of other races or ethnicities.

An analysis done in 2014, the year the test was first administered, found that 64 percent of white candidates passed the test on the first try, while only 46 percent of Hispanic candidates and 41 percent of black candidates did.

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 poll.

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.

Jackson will run along side Ken Cuccinelli and is the first black candidate the party has nominated for statewide office since 1988 according to the Associated Press.

Conventional wisdom, Muzzio has said, is that, as the only black candidate in the race, Thompson has an automatic base of 25 to 30 percent, which at least guarantees that he makes it into a runoff.

Andrew Barovick has finally departed the city's prestigious bar association after making racist tweets against Chris Moss, the GOP's black candidate for lieutenant governor.

If two candidates were black and one was white, they chose a black candidate.

If the Republicans simply put forth a Black candidate next time they will get a majority of minority voters...

The founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People is one of the leading candidates for Senator from Louisiana; in major cities like Chicago and New York, black Americans vote in blocs of 90 and 95 percent for black candidates; racial crimes are common and racial tensions rife in places — for example, liberal college campuses — where they were once virtually nonexistent.

In the 1989 Senate contest between Jesse Helms and Harvey Gantt, for example, a weakened North Carolina Senator faced united opposition from a black candidate who enjoyed the support of a national liberal alliance that pulled out all the stops to defeat him.

I believe some will argue the alliance is just a mere opportunistic move to gain ground with a political party thats so desperate to absorb a black candidate to counter the labels they have earned as a party that does not subscribe to Blacks interest.

As the Obama presidency has unfolded, it seems it has been a mixture of both; nevertheless, the fact that Obama did not run for election as a Black candidate (despite winning over 90 % of the votes of the African American community) but rather ran a strategically race - neutral campaign is a testament to the complicated relationship the United States has with race.

Another black candidate, however, could conceivably achieve the same effect though nobody with credibility has yet surfaced.

Both her work and other early analysis of Obama's success would indicate that many minority politicians are able to move beyond being the «black candidate».

Several people we talked to said another white candidate in the field would hurt both Mr. de Blasio and Ms. Quinn, potentially giving a boost to former Comptroller Bill Thompson, the one black candidate in the Democratic primary, or maybe even Comptroller John Liu, who possesses a base of support in the Asian - American community.

In order to win in London, would a black candidate need to black up or become colourless?

Actually, in a six - way field, a Black candidate would have an excellent chance of winning even without a big budget simply by corralling Black votes.

Another black candidate for speaker, Jumaane D. Williams, has yet to concede the race.

«What's really annoying about Abbott's nomination is that she - and everyone else - keep banging on about how great it is to have a black candidate who's a woman in the running.

So in other words you want to cut out the Black candidate and the Woman candidate and I imagine you don't want the Green Party candidate their too.

The candidates divided up the city, voting bloc by voting bloc: there were two black candidates, three Hispanic candidates, two gay candidates, and four white candidates.

Thompson, the only black candidate in the contest, gained six points since last month's poll.

«If Anthony's ready to jump into the debate, then come on in, the water's fine,» the aide, Jonathan Prince, wrote on Twitter, perhaps suggesting a belief that Mr. Weiner's hypothetical campaign would steal more of the vote from the other Gracie Mansion contenders than Mr. Thompson, who is the only black candidate in the race.