Sentences with phrase «from black voters»

Despite the Garner case, Mayor Bill de Blasio's approval ratings have held steady at 50 percent, virtually unchanged since June, with continued overwhelming approval ratings from black voters at 65 percent.

He does enjoy a high 58 percent favorable rating from black voters in the most recent Quinnipiac University poll, though his numbers among white voters is higher.

Carroll noted that perhaps the most interesting demographic breakdown in the race was the support Weiner was receiving from black voters.

Not exact matches

Hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton's top campaign official show some of the attention her team paid to courting black voters.

The bulk of black voters remained loyal to the Republican Party, and the endorsement of Wilson from DuBois and other black leaders backfired.

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.

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.

By contrast, roughly two in three black voters said they had heard from the Clinton organization.

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.

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 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.

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«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

Certainly when 46 buses carrying 2,500 black passengers from the Woodlawn Organization arrived at Chicago City Hall for voter registration, you could count on getting the desired unbelief and consternation, including police with machine guns.

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.

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

Of course, Jones has been blitzing the airwaves too, but targeted targeted outreach can deliver specific messages to black Alabamans that might risk blowback from white voters if they were broadcast widely.

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.

He noted a recent study by the Atlanta Journal - Constitution that turnout among black and Hispanic voters in Georgia increased from 2006 to 2010 despite a photo ID requirement.

While overwhelmingly Democratic African - American voters have received considerable attention from Clinton during the campaign, black leaders refused to reciprocate by coming to her defense when she and her husband came under attack, the source charged.

(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.

Democratic insiders say Nixon's chances are still slim, but especially so if she doesn't make inroads with crucial black voters, a bloc from which Cuomo has enjoyed healthy support in recent years and with whom progressives like Bernie Sanders failed to garner support with their more class - focused economic populist messages.

Aside from the fight for the senator's own seat, there's also Rep. Charlie Rangel's fight for his political life, which is expected to energize black voters in the 15th CD; the Rep. Carolyn Maloney - Reshma Saujani primary in the 14th CD (which explains why Maloney endorsed Schneiderman yesterday — there's a 32BJ mailer for them, too); and the Sen. Bill Perkins - Basil Smikle battle in the 30th SD.

Mr. Sharpe sued Mr. Parker for $ 10 million, saying he was damaged by a newspaper story in which the senator was quoted as saying that Mr. Sharpe had entered the race at Mr. Dear's behest with the aim of drawing black voters away from Mr. Parker.

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.

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.

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-.

The number fell from 52 percent to 42 percent, driven by substantial declines among black and Latino voters.

It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.

Brythan's answer discusses the shift of black voters from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.

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.

«A majority of Democrats, independents, voters from every region and race agree that the Attorney General and not local district attorneys should have authority in cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police officers, although Democrats, New York City voters, blacks and Latinos feel most strongly about this,» Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said.

Or maybe «Illegally Influenced» — We currently have at least one state being investigated for removing blacks from the voter registration lists.

In the last two elections, Rangel has also faced challenges from African - American candidates looking to tap into discontent among his core group of black supporters in Central Harlem and white voters moving into the district.

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

The surveys indicate Mr. Schneiderman suffers from a lack of name recognition, though he leads his opponent by 71 points among black voters and 42 points among Latinos.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's approval rating has held steady even after a bruising war of words with the city's police unions — bolstered by overwhelming support from black and Latino voters as well as successes on key policy issues, according to a new poll and experts.

he said, apparently alluding to indignation from the Sanders camp that black voters have favored Ms. Clinton over himself in presidential primaries so far.

«People wonder why there's a credibility problem with Democrats,» he said, noting that black voter turnout dropped for Hillary Clinton in 2016 from historic levels with President Barack Obama.

The percentage of Black voters in the district declined from 32 percent to 25 percent under the new map.

In the horserace question, Weiner dropped seven points among black voters, from 31 % last week to 24 % now.

«His comments about alleged voter fraud coming from Black, Latino Asian and Muslim communities reeks of racism and is factually incorrect,» said Sepulveda.

Mr. Spitzer, a better known candidate who spent millions from his personal fortune on television advertising, won over a majority of black and Hispanic New Yorkers, and voters making under $ 50,000 a year.

He said: «Forcing voters at election time to prove their identity at polling stations by producing official documents would have a disproportionate impact on people from black and ethnic minority communities.

But divisions between the newer Dominican and the older Puerto Rican communities — the latter of which Mr. Rangel has represented for decades — coupled with strong turnout among black voters allowed the incumbent congressman to twice quash challenges from Dominican - born State Senator Adriano Espaillat.

De Blasio leads with support from 52 percent of white voters polled, 90 percent of black voters and 68 percent of Hispanics.

[12] Electoral Commission sources estimated as many as 10 million voters could disappear from the electoral roll under government plans, predominantly poor, young or black, and more liable to vote Labour.

«The Republicans are so far away from understanding the needs of black voters that they think something like this would actually motivate black voters to switch sides, and that's insane, frankly.»