Sentences with phrase «black vote»

His comments come after an Operation Black Vote study found the number of seats where black and Asian votes could swing the election result had increased by 70 % since 2010.

But the story is different at state level, especially if another cause of lost black votes is taken into account.

Once black voting rights were secured and segregation ended the civil rights movement went into sharp decline.

The Blank - Out Campaign would disrupt the idea that democracy rests primarily in putting someone in office, and allow us to reject the game that both political parties play with black votes.

Who knows, they might be able to find another black person and present them as a set to try and get a few black votes.

As recently as 1932, blacks voted overwhelmingly Republican.

The vote was almost evenly split among Protestants in non-mainline churches, which Barna says is a result skewed by the fact that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Gore.

By concentrating black votes in Rangel's district to protect his seat, the likelihood also becomes greater that legislators will end up with a new majority Latino district with a high concentration of Dominicans, whose numbers have grown 40 percent in the city over the past ten years.

In California an overwelming number of Blacks voted for Obama, but yes on Prop 8.

Sherrill believes the political profile de Blasio sketched in his campaign is why he got more LGBT votes than Christine Quinn and as many black votes as Bill Thompson.

Other mischief - makers seemed intent on trying to set off a political conflagration by suggesting that Smith is really a stalking horse for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, to take away black votes from former city Comptroller Bill Thompson.

It's a start, though it's hard to imagine a lot of blacks voting against obama.

The large black vote in the South dramatically shifted towards the Democratic Party.

Overwhelming black vote in California and proposition 8 passed banning gay marriage.

90 % of blacks vote straight Dem and GOP blacks like Rice and Powell crossed over to vote for Obama based on race.

Not all us tea party activists are religious nuts... 90 % of blacks vote democratic and 79 % profess to be religious.

As if the masses didn't put blind faith in Obama???? Most blacks voted for him because he was black.

The GOP spin machine is trying to present this woman as the beginning of a trend of blacks voting GOP; that nonsense.

Does anyone know how blacks voted this election?

In the South, even gradual emancipation could no longer be openly discussed, and in the North black voting was curtailed in almost all the states where it had been permitted.

Although Lyndon Johnson perspicaciously noted, as he signed the Act, that it might give blacks the vote, he also accurately predicted that it would lose the deeply entrenched Democratic south to the Republicans for a generation or more.

Operation Black Vote last week accused Goldsmith of encouraging the «politics of division» in the city.

(Also in the running were former NYC Councilman / current Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky, who was the only white candidate in the race and drew fire by moving into the district to take advantage of the split black vote; former Sen. Carl Andrews, and Owens» son, Chris).

He attributes the Republicans» doubling of their normal share of the Ohio black vote in the 2004 election to the party's ability to reach out to the exact voters likely to respond to targeted messages and to not waste time and money on others.

He has powdered his face to «whiten up» for the Operation Black Vote campaign to warn Britain's ethnic minority communities that not voting will «take the colour out of Britain».

(There are two other candidates — the most viable a charismatic Harlem minister, Michael Walrond, who could siphon black votes from Rangel, or steal from Espaillat voters simply looking for a change.

He ran briefly for Queens Borough President but his tepid campaign was called off early: the rumor was that Queens Dem boss Joe Crowley wanted Comrie to step aside so Melinda Katz could have a clear shot at the post, without having to worry about the large Queens black vote.

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.

«If Baroness Warsi thinks that AV will benefit fascism she has to explain why the BNP wants to stick with what we have and Operation Black Vote supports AV,» Mr Huhne said.

OBV is very quick to mark the selection of a black Labour candidate in a difficult - to - win seat but nearly one week after Kwasi Kwarteng was adopted as the candidate for a safe Tory seat there is no mention on Operation Red Black Vote's site.

Ruben Diaz is not completely off.The black vote is so solidly behind the democrats that it is not even relevant save a couple of ceremonial gestures.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which strengthened black voting rights, increased the position of black office - seekers.

Since 1909, the NAACP has been at the forefront of civil rights struggles in the United States, from ending lynchings to securing Black voting rights and ending school segregation.

A study by Operation Black Vote found there are more ethnic minorities than the majority of the incumbent MP in 168 constituencies — up from 99 in 2010.

80 % of blacks voted for prop. 8 in California banning gay marriage... you may want to hold that thought for a moment.

Black votes in Harlem could be divvied up among Assemblyman Keith Wright, a political establishment favorite, State Senator Bill Perkins, an outsider with his own fans, and Clyde Williams, a well - funded candidate with ties to national Democratic circles.

Yes, except for the fact that a majority of blacks voted against gay marriage in California.

The Fabian Society concludes that there is no need for parties to choose candidates from all - black shortlists, an idea that pressure groups such as Operation Black Vote are pushing and that the Government is considering.

Clinton will win a majority of black votes but the total number cast will likely be less.

Importantly, Sanders was able to close that gap a bit in Michigan, picking up 30 % of the black vote to Clinton's 65 %.

The fact that one political party is the depository of the black vote has troubled black leaders for generations.

But black votes for Obama were inconsequential in preventing Alabama's nine electoral votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama in that state with 60 % of the vote.

In the wake of the closely contested 1948 election, the increased value of the black vote led to policy - focused concessions from Harry Truman and the Democrats.

Black votes have been the cogs in the wheel that keeps the Democrats» electoral coalition churning.

Not only has the Democratic Party captured the black vote, but it appears that the party has captured many civil rights leaders and organizations as well.

When the Republican Party captured the black vote in the early 20th century, enfranchised blacks were growing weary of having to choose between the lesser of two evils.

As NAACP official Henry Lee Moon explained in his 1948 book on the black vote, «the size, the strategic distribution, and the flexibility of the Negro vote lend it an importance which can no longer be overlooked.»

David Axelrod, Obama's top campaign adviser, wrote in his new book that the 2012 Republican nominee attributed his loss solely to the black vote, according to an excerpt obtained by the New York Daily News.