Sentences with phrase «black voters»

Fifty percent of white voters and 52 percent of black voters support him.

In a Q poll this week, 72 percent of black voters said the mayor deserves re-election, compared with 23 percent of whites.

Those groups, such as black voters and woman with college degrees, support gun control.

These organizers would urge black voters not only to participate in the Blank - Out Campaign but also to draw attention to issues that extend beyond the current election cycle.

Some, many Black voters, have an affinity for a Black politician.

Here again, black voters play a critical role.

The Democratic party has been guilty many times of assuming Black voters support.

Also, the turnout projection for black voters went from 35 percent to 27.

But she has raised and spent a small sum of money, and most observers believe she appeals mostly to fellow black voters.

Black voters like any other voters vote their interests.

The complaint notes that his new district would have substantially fewer black voters.

That rating breaks down by 78 — 15 percent among white voters, 51 — 39 percent among black voters and 58 — 26 percent among Hispanic voters.

In 2009, he carried an overwhelming 75 percent of black voters and 55 percent of Hispanic voters.

Seeking to connect with black voters in advance of the New York primary, Clinton touted the need to overhaul the justice system, combat environmental racism and increase financial stability for minorities.

A Quinnipiac poll from January found that 77 percent of black voters approved of the job the mayor was doing versus only 11 percent who didn't.

He does enjoy a high 58 percent favorable rating from black voters in the most recent Quinnipiac University poll, though his numbers among white voters is higher.

That appraisal resonates in Georgia, where black voters turned out in large numbers several years ago to help pass a constitutional amendment confirming state authority to grant charters, but played a crucial role in the November defeat of the constitutional amendment for an Opportunity School District.

Black voters made up about 35 per cent of those casting early and Democrat strategists were hoping for an African - American surge to get them in.

The mayor's change of heart notwithstanding, they say the outreach to African - American urban leaders is politically motivated and will fall short, just as the Republican Party has failed to win over black voters with its choice of issues and leaders for 30 years.

The Electoral Justice Project, a branch of the Movement for Black Lives, has launched a #WakandaTheVote initiative, taking advantage of the record - breaking crowds at Black Panther in order to register black voters for the 2018 elections.

«People wonder why there's a credibility problem with Democrats,» he said, noting that black voter turnout dropped for Hillary Clinton in 2016 from historic levels with President Barack Obama.

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.»

In 1912 the civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois endorsed Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson for President and asked black voters to get behind Wilson's candidacy.

Republican operatives said that the currently push underscores a long - made GOP argument: that Democrats take black voters for granted.

The mayor's rise in popularity was driven primarily by black voters, who gave de Blasio a 66 percent approval rating.

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.

Obama is heading back into the political fray today for rallies where he'll try to turn black voters out for the Democratic candidates in two closely watched governor's races.

And in a bid to laser - target black voters, Mr. Jones's campaign has bought a huge file of cellphone numbers for African - Americans, which it plans to use for a get - out - the - vote appeal via text message, two people familiar with the plan said.

Four months ago, black voters gave de Blasio an approval rating of 77 percent.

That was clearly a huge issue in Washington, D.C., where black voters felt education reform was something being done to them (and by a Korean - American woman, Michelle Rhee) and not being done with them.

Last year, a federal court ruled that the 2013 voting law also discriminated against Black voters, targeting them with «almost surgical precision.»

Hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton's top campaign official show some of the attention her team paid to courting black voters.

Trump's recent overtures to African Americans have raised, once again, questions about the relationship between black voters and the Democratic Party.

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.

But black voters did an even worse job of uniting behind a single electoral avatar — and it cost them control of the seat.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

With that in mind, Democrats aren't skimping on the Get Out The Vote operation: the Jones campaign and liberal groups are working desperately to encourage Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic black voters to go to the polls, regardless of past disappointment and present voter suppression.

That created a competition for votes that, along with the New Deal and tepid Republican support for civil rights, gradually moved black voters into the Democratic column.

Trump did not elaborate on how exactly he thought the election would be rigged, though he did make mention of his displeasure that a federal court had struck down a North Carolina voter ID law that the court said was specifically aimed at disenfranchising black voters.

Sometimes an image tells the story, and in this case, the story is that Voter ID laws are concentrated in formerly Confederate states, places where poll taxes and similar laws once kept black voters out of the political process.

If black voters turn out in record numbers to support Cuomo simply because of Brown, I'll be shocked.

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.

A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll on Tuesday showed Edwards leading Van Hollen 44 percent to 40 percent, with likely black voters favoring Edwards three to one and likely white voters backing Van Hollen by two to one.

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.

«He needs to get the black support and needs to get blacks voters out to the primary.