Sentences with phrase «black votes in»

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.

Anthony Portis, 34, a construction worker, called the senator's visit «a political stunt to gain all the black votes in the neighborhood.»

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

Barack Obama took 96 % of the black vote in 2008, and strong turnout among African - Americans and other minorities will be crucial if he hopes to win a second term, analysts say.

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.

«It appears that what has happened is that they are dividing and... weakening the black vote in the west side of The Bronx,» Anthony Curry, who opposed Gibson in the state primaries, said at a public redistricting hearing in October.

Not exact matches

If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to vote was only a right as of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.

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.

Black voters in red states should vote as they usually do for candidates, down the ballot — and leave their choice for President blank.

Black voters rewarded Truman and the Democratic Party that November, providing him with the pivotal votes he needed in a razor - thin victory over Republican Thomas Dewey.

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.»

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

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

One desperate solution was for blacks to risk voting for the candidate who represented the greater of two evils, in the hope that he would be sympathetic to African Americans because they helped secure the election.

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

Clinton called in to Sharpton's nationally syndicated radio show on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6 to appeal to blacks to turn out to vote during the primaries.

In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treateIn defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treatein how black and white drug offenders are treated.

Perhaps more than any other voting group in America, black Americans know there is a great deal to lose.

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.

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.»

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.

They also offered up some bold names in black entertainment who could stump for votes.

According to estimates by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, black voters contributed roughly 70 % of Obama's share of the vote in the state, both in 2008 and 2012.

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.

The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

In September 2011, the Obama campaign launched Operation Vote, which focused on eight target groups: women, blacks, seniors, Hispanics, Asian - Americans, Jews, gays, and young voters.

'' «You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,» in other words, black people,»» Obama allegedly said after the call, paraphrasing Romney.

This past weekend, Progressive Conservative officials selected Doug Black, Mike Shaikh, and Scott Tannas as their three candidates in this Spring's Senator - in - Waiting vote.

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

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

Selma is set in 1965, at a time when black people in Alabama were actively discriminated against by local officials when they attempted to register to vote.

This Black female Mormon has no authority in her own home nor would she have her own vote if she goes to congress, her White Man Husband will tell her exactly how to vote in congress.

That this was done in the most banal way — such as asking black people to name the 67 high court judges in the state before allowing them to register to vote — makes it all the more shameful.

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

Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

For one I could point out 20 mispelling errors, «Mormonism» not a word, weird huh.I am a Mormon I do support Mitt and I did in 2008, but religion aside Mitt can get it done, and he has in the past!!!! Obama has failed the USA no doubt about that.Mitt's morals, family values is what America is on.Shame on the people who can't move past that, You (not me) voted on a black man for President and not a Mormon, turns out the Mormon Canidiate coud have changed the whole USA around cool huh.

Your god finally changed his mind in the mid 1800's and decided that black men should vote too — but not any women.

He got your mind off the WAR that he started and wasn't going good and said gay marriage was wrong and got all these blacks in churches fallilng for the okie doke and they voted for him and well the rest is history.

Yet blacks will keep voting for Obama despite the fact that they're actually in worse shape now.

I commend the pastor for his moral conviction but the majority of blacks are incapable of voting on any other issue but race... its genetic... Obama could say he is an ax murderer and they still will find a way to justify their vote for him... another words Obama sees the black vote as in the bag and he is right... most of them are incapable of critical thinkng

The board voted unanimously in approval, and black students took turns raising the flag this week.

Remember in 2008 they tried to convence us our naighbors voted for obama cause they felt bad for the black man.

The trend is the same for black Protestants: 76 percent voted in support of a candidate in 2012, compared to 56 percent in 2016.

Nearly all black Protestants (95 %) in 2012 voted for Obama.

Only in our time do we draw electoral district lines so that black representatives may be assured of election without the inconvenience of having to solicit white votes.

Catholics did sometimes vote in blocs when Catholic self - interest was at stake, as Protestants, Jews, blacks or Mormons sometimes have done when their interests were at stake.

Once, the First Secretary of the Regional Communist Party insisted that the «black beetles» vote in town rather than at the monastery as a way of teaching «the atavistic deviant non-working-class element of society» a lesson.

also women in the US weren't allowed to vote until 1920 and blacks, realistically, much later than that.