Sentences with phrase «ethnic voting blocs»

The chairman likes her lawyer / CPA credentials and thinks her dual Polish and African heritage will appeal to a pair of major ethnic voting blocs.

At one time, New York elected officials had to make sure to hit the so - called «three Is» — Israel, Italy and Ireland — to satisfy powerful ethnic voting blocs.

Not exact matches

While it might be crass, (and reduce all us voters to mindless drones incapable of formulating an opinion based on issues) if we look at this race through the assumption that people tend to vote along ethnic lines, then the largest voting bloc in Queens i.e.the Rockaways and Jamaica will vote for City Councilman Leroy Comrie.

The supposed deal is predicated on the assumption that Comrie's religious black base would be inclined to vote for him and Peralta by combining two ethnic based voting blocs and thus increasing their chance for victory in a crowded race.

Parties still treated ethnic minority's as «bloc votes» to be targeted, it added, claiming that «engaging solely with leading figures within traditional clan - type structures or religious institutions can be divisive and risk creating «community gatekeepers» rather than real engagement with voters».

«Party of National Unity (PNU) presidential candidate Kibaki won most of the votes of the Kikuyu / Embu / Meru ethnic bloc and Orange Democratic Movement (DM) presidential candidate Odinga won most of the votes of the Luo and the Kalenjin / Maasai / Turkana / Samburu ethnic bloc.