Sentences with phrase «black voters went»

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

Not exact matches

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.

And that means that black women, who were our best voter according to the political people in this campaign, have watched their brothers and their parents, their fathers, and their sons go to jail and get convictions young and be forced into a cycle of poverty.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

With the old Boll Weavil Democrats gone, the current Democratic party has become an unambiguous friend to Black voters.

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.

But the Black recession will not move the Black voters to the GOP; not going to happen.

For Best Original Screenplay, the voters selected Courtney Hunt's «Frozen River,» Mike Leigh's «Happy - Go - Lucky,» Martin McDonagh's «In Bruges,» Dustin Lance Black's «Milk» and Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter's «Wall - E.»

What voters had to say: «From Conrad Black to Rob Ford, he's been the go - to counsel for folks in big trouble for a very long time and never more than today.»