Sentences with phrase «black votes from»

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.

(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.

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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.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

Black migrants from the South fanned out to cities across the Midwest and Northeast — St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York — in states that happened to be rich in electoral votes.

In 1965, Malcolm X implored black voters to abstain from voting altogether if they felt their votes were being cast in vain.

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

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.

He mentioned some of the claims, including one that five busloads of black voters from Mississippi came into the state to vote, which he said was proven false after an investigation.

The Mormon Faith teaches dark skin is a curse from god, blacks will be voting for Obama in record numbers.

This is being used to keep black ppl from voting for Obama.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

the majority of Obama's votes came from white people not black people so your assertion is compelte lie.

Black smoke poured from the chimney fixed to the roof of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday morning, indicating that the cardinals» first two votes of the day were inconclusive.

However evangelicals and southern Baptists WILL vote for Mitt Romney over Obama because although they fear that mormonism is from Satan, Barack Obama is black and must be defeated.

He joined the Black Militant Jerimiah Wright church in Chicago to get a base of vote from its participants.

Americans are slow to adapt and are defly afraid of change, see how the african american community is stiill only allowed to vote under the voting rights act of 1965 (that's right, it still not a law) Why are they not up in arms,,,,, «yet we have a black president... maybe you can take a page from their book (passive aggression).

The majority of Californians, including two - thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.

Black folks please read the evil words towards christians here by radical dems and come home to the party of lincoln who freed ur people from slaves, u can vote for herman cain, hes at the top of all polls now with repubs

The Civil Rights Bill had recently been passed by Congress, and, along with other students from the North, I was in Mississippi helping blacks register to vote.

What would your vote be if a family moved out from the near east side and came forward on the invitational hymn to join this church, and they were black?

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

Note the strong backing for Clinton from blacks and Hispanics, Jews and other Non-Christians (the unanimous Democratic vote here is a statistical artifact).

I have visions now of angry Southerners blocking gay couples from entering the courthouses to marry just as they did with blacks who wanted to vote.

Of Notre Dame's four first - place votes, two come from résumé voters Black Heart Gold Pants and CougCenter; Florida gets its five from Florida State blog Tomahawk Nation, SEC blog Team Speed Kills, Kansas State blog Bring On The Cats, Notre Dame blog One Foot Down, and Matt Hinton of Sunday Morning Quarterback and CBS Sports» Eye on College Football.

There were two big shifts from Democrats to Republicans in black voting.

Coming on the heels of Elinor Tatum's warning in The Amsterdam News that Cuomo is risking losing the black vote come November with his aloofness and coupled with the Paladino campaign's relentless hammering of the AG for ducking debates and the criticism on national TV from his old rival, Eliot Spitzer, this has got to be weighing heavily on Cuomo.

Young people and those from black and minority ethnic communities could miss out on voting for the next government because they are not on the electoral register, according to the Electoral Commission (EC).

In NAACP v. Harris, a class - action, Blacks argued that over 57,000 Black voters were wrongfully purged from Florida's voting lists and that Black communities were provided with defective voting mechanisms.

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.

At the last General Election, more than two thirds of voters from Britain's black and ethnic minority (BME) communities supported Labour; only 16 % voted for us (source: Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDF)-RRB-.

Meanwhile, Cuomo could still draw votes in New York City, especially from black and Latino supporters.

One major change in twentieth - century American voting patterns has been the shift of black Americans from the party of Lincoln to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Both Espaillat and Wright said they want federal officials to monitor the voting in their primary, claiming black and Latino voters may be inappropriately barred from voting.

Black Stone will offer services that range from GOTV (getting out the vote), direct mail, crisis management and a specialization in winning Republican primaries.

Three veteran members of the NYC Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus — Annabel Palma, Fernando Cabrera and Inez Dickens — said they were resigning from the group, citing ongoing conflict over the caucus» voting process for its budget priorities in the upcoming fiscal year.

My response from that is that Diane Abbott is probably the most typical Labourite out of the five, in terms of policy and rhetoric at least, and to suggest that she'd gain votes solely for being a black woman is to give no credit to her or the Labour membership.

Sharpton has fulminated about alleged efforts to obstruct blacks from voting in the past, most recently during the Democratic primary for retiring Congressman Charles Rangel «s seat, which saw Dominican - American State Senator Adriano Espaillat defeat African - American Assemblyman Keith Wright.

Mhairi Black, who becomes the UK's youngest MP at the age of 20, overturned former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander's majority of 16,600 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to win by 5,684 votes - a swing of 27 % from Labour to the SNP.

Assemblyman Keith Wright, who is also running for Rangel's seat, has accused chief rival state Sen. Adriano Espaillat of attempting to suppress the white and black vote after an e-mail from a super PAC surfaced recommending such a tactic.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

That cheap sneer (fruit cakes and closet racists, backed up by his sister - in - law using a quote from Operation Black Vote)-RRB- did UKIP a lot of good.

Mr. Espaillat came just over a 1,000 votes of beating Mr. Rangel two years ago in a vicious primary battle that oftentimes seemed to devolve into a war between the black and Hispanic alliances in the quickly - changing 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem though Washington Heights to the Bronx.

The Rev. Michael Walrond, a black minister with ties to the Rev. Al Sharpton, received 6 % in a recent poll, potentially taking votes from Rangel, who is African - American.

Rep. Charlie Stallworth, a black minister from Bridgeport drafted by Democratic gubernatorial petitioner Guy Smith this week to be his running mate, finished with less than 2 percent of the vote in the lieutenant governor race.

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 consideblack shortlists, an idea that pressure groups such as Operation Black Vote are pushing and that the Government is consideBlack Vote are pushing and that the Government is considering.

In the 2016 New York presidential primary, Hillary Clinton won the greatest portion of New York City's Democratic vote share by a better margin than pundits expected, substantially increasing her votes in predominantly black communities from 2008 and also receiving solid support from a number of traditionally white, liberal areas.

Despite pleas from across the political spectrum, from avowed libertarian Halloran to former Black Panther Charles Barron warning that city shopkeepers would suffer and minority youths were more vulnerable to police scrutiny, some members voting for the bills claimed were «necessary» or «important.»

That along with the results of the General Election where Democrats came out en masse to help me obtain 98 % of the vote sends a strong message that this Black, Puerto Rican with kinky hair, and broken English from Bayamón, Puerto Rico is the one they prefer.

Progressive opposition to Diaz was splintered, with Elvin García, who served as de Blasio's Bronx borough director as well as his LGBTQ liaison, winning support from the Stonewall Democrats, while Amanda Farias, who has worked for Queens City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley, snagged endorsements not only from the Jim Owles Club, but also from Planned Parenthood, Vote Pro Choice, the 504 Democrats, which advocates on disabilities issues, and Black Lives Matter New York.