Sentences with phrase «black voters out»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the Alabama Legislature and the federal court that ruled on the plan had taken a «mechanically numerical» view, instead of trying to figure out what percentage of black voters were needed to elect a candidate of their choice.

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.

In each case, black voters were urged to turn out in large numbers for the Democratic Party, a party that, in the context of governing, would take them for granted.

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.

Sanders» campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, told reporters on Friday night that the campaign had also reached out to black voters in Nevada, who accounted for about 15 percent of the caucus electorate in 2008.

The complaint alleges that out - of - state voters were allowed to vote, and questions the integrity of results from Jefferson County, which is 43 % black and saw a 47 % turnout rate, which Moore called «highly unusual» — i.e. higher than expected.

Black Protestant voters diverge from the much larger group of white evangelicals, who make up one out of five registered voters and one out of three Republicans.

The question is will black voters turn out in relevant numbers now that Obama has disappointed them?

She's just an oddity cashing in on her 15 minuets of fame and being paraded by the GOP tring to reach out to other black voters.

It's a nice idea that latinos and Catholics are getting out the vote to counter racist immigration laws, and black voters are going to recognize the importance of unemployment and foreclosures.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

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.

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.

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.

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

Elinor Tatum, publisher and editor - in - chief of The Amsterdam News, (the nation's oldest continuously published black newspaper), has given voice to a concern I've heard a lot of worried murmurs about in Democratic circles: That black voters won't come out to vote for Andrew Cuomo.

Fulani noted there are «nearly one million independent voters, the majority of whom are Black, Latino and Asian, who are locked out of the decisive first round of voting» because of the closed - primary system in New York that only allows enrolled members to cast ballots in intra - party contests, adding: «That is what some like to call an inconvenient truth.»

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.

Minority lawmakers in both chambers have been speaking out about the Senate's plan, which they say disenfranchises black and Latino voters all over the state, but particularly in NYC, on Long Island and in the Rochester and Buffalo areas.

Even so, the economy determined both elections: in 1992, because voters were scared of the taxes they would have to pay under Labour; in 1997, because the Conservatives never recovered from the humiliation of the pound crashing out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism on Black Wednesday more than four years earlier.

In terms of the shift of black voters, I just wanted to point out that it did not occur in the 1960s.

In the second Quinnipiac poll, on August 14, when Spitzer went out to a big lead, he increased his margin among black voters, but that advantage was magnified by the poll's black - turnout projection, which went up in the second poll, it was 35 percent.

Her base of support was Long Island, the five boroughs, and upstate cities, with female and black and Hispanic voters turning out for her in especially strong numbers.

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.

A Twitter account for the Democratic governor's re-election campaign, @QuinnForIL, tweeted out an article last week that compared black voters supporting Quinn's Republican challenger, Bruce Rauner, to Jewish people collaborating with the Nazis during World War II against their own people in hopes of being spared the same fate.

I wondered why black voters who didn't turn out for the first African - American president in history were going to flood to the polls for Pryor, or how Pryor would do well enough with whites for the party's field program to matter.

He narrowly lost out to Rangel in a racially - charged contest that inflamed divisions between black and Hispanic upper Manhattan voters.

(Washington, DC, February 22, 2018) The satirical tale of one man's encounter to meet his girlfriend's family captured the imagination of filmgoers having the identical effect on voters as Jordan Peele's horror film, Get Out, towered over the competition garnering seven awards, including Outstanding Picture at the 18th Annual Black Reel Awards tonight.

September 30, 2011 • In recent days, President Obama has reached out to black and Latino voters.

But more and more, especially after the WGA victory for «Get Out,» and the excitement surrounding «Black Panther,» voters may be feeling that Jordan Peele delivered the film of the moment.

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.

More importantly, Black voters turned out at levels just a quarter or so below those of last year's general election.