Sentences with phrase «from white 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.

Not exact matches

After attributing their presidential loss in 2000 in part to the assault weapons ban, Democrats shied away from gun control talk in order to avoid alienating rural voters, particularly blue collar white males.

Obama lost big with such rural white voters, but won more votes from woman, minorities and others groups clustered in or near cities.

After Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater, Southern white voters began their long exodus from the Democratic Party and African Americans became, once again, captive to one party.

The proposal from the president, two months after voters booted his party from control of the Senate, reflects the White House's newfound confidence in the economy.

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 gop has alienated so many people from so many walks of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few of you who they have managed to insult this past year.

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

«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.

One irony of recent American politics is that the exodus of wage - earning whites from the Democratic party has tended to make the rump of white Democratic voters more affluent, better educated, and more doctrinaire leftist.

With white voters slipping from 87 % in 1992 to 72 % in 2012, the country is increasingly inundated with minorities whose political wings, with Democrat help, have taken flight to challenge the very people who brought them here.

Another path is to try to become an American version of the U.K. Independence Party and seek to combine those who oppose the current version of «comprehensive immigration reform» with white swing voters who are alienated from both parties.

Early primary polls showed that his supporters were more likely than voters overall to be poor, white, without higher education, and from rural counties or small towns.

The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again&raqwhite supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again&raqWHITE again»).

«Also the kind of voters he appeals to — white, working - class, many Catholic voters, not college educated — are just the voters Mitt Romney must have to try to pull the election away from Barack Obama.

As I wrote before the election, speaking with Americans gave me the impression that voter turnout could put Trump in the White House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump'sWhite House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump'swhite, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump's way.

After all, the party won well over 40 % support at the last election, with a lot of it coming from older and white British voters, from Leavers, and from those with small - c Conservative values and a belief in a smaller, less active state.

But it is home to the largely secret engine of President Obama's re-election campaign, where scores of political strategists, data analysts, corporate marketers and Web producers are sifting through information gleaned from Facebook, voter logs and hundreds of thousands of telephone or in - person conversations to reassemble and re-energize the scattered coalition of supporters who swept Mr. Obama into the White House four years ago.

The recent book Revolt on the Right (co-written by Robert Ford) showed that Ukip draw their support from a very clear demographic: the «left - behind» electorate of older, working - class white voters with few educational qualifications.

This is driven, of course, by the overwhelming support of young voters, but also by white Catholics, who have grown more open - minded on gay rights as they have become more affluent and educated, and as their children return from college with more liberal attitudes.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg enjoyed strong support among white voters and diminished backing from minorities, particularly African - American voters, as he toughened his defense of stop - and - frisk and Ray Kelly, his polarizing police commissioner.

«Obviously, it makes Clinton voters hate him even more, but from a political calculation standpoint, the White House does not and should not care,» Mr. Bolger said.

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.

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.

Correa's support among white voters can be credited to two key endorsements from Orange County's top law - and - order Republicans, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens and District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, who crossed party lines to support Correa.

«Doubtful, but if he does, he will take white voters from his new home borough, Manhattan — not the outer borough base he's alienated with his lewd conduct and sprawling Park ave digs — making it impossible for Quinn to avoid a runoff with de Blasio.»

Most analysts agree that if McMahon holds Oldham as expected (albeit with a majority much reduced from Meacher's 14,738), it will be largely thanks to the 20 % of the constituents who are British Pakistani or British Bangladeshi, traditional Labour voters who are far more likely than their white counterparts to turn out and vote.

If primary voters in Pennsylvania were prepared to reject an incumbent who's been delivering the goods for 30 years and had support from the White House and the entire state Democratic apparatus, how do you think they'll respond to a freshman whose new national party's level of support is considerably less comprehensive?

The former NYPD captain and state senator has stressed in Brooklyn political circles that as an African - American, he could pull minority votes from de Blasio while his police background would draw white voters.

But he nosedived among white voters from 23 % to just 7 %.

At the top of the ticket, the final round of national polls show Hillary Clinton poised to win the White House, netting 46 percent support from likely voters, with Donald J. Trump trailing at 43 percent.

In a normal year, down - ballot candidates in the home state of their party's presidential nominee count on Election Day to provide a big boost from voters energized to send their candidate to the White House.

Speaking from the Midlands, where the Tories became the biggest party in Walsall and made gains in Dudley, Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said the party has to address issues of concern for white working - class voters in industrial areas who appear to have switched from Ukip to the Tories.

The former US Senator from New York and former Secretary of State is also ahead with African American and Latino voters, but Clinton and Sanders are near even with white voters.Greenberg says much will depend on voter turn out on Tuesday.

One of the big questions that emerged from the 2012 White House race is whether down - ballot candidates running on shoestring budgets would ever have access to the same data and technology President Barack Obama used to target voters.

Ohio voters have since the 1982 midterms elected governors from the party that lost the White House two years earlier.

Abrams, an African - American lawyer from Atlanta, says it's a fool's errand for Democrats to keep trying to win elections in Georgia by going after white voters who've abandoned Democrats in recent decades.

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

On Primary Day several voters said they did not vote for White, who had held the Council seat from 1994 - 2002, because he had done very little for the community during the recent economic turbulence.

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

From old rich and white Academy voters to movie - loving seven - year - olds at home, everyone gets a kick out of bloopers.

Beyond that, Tom Wilkinson is the obvious stand - out from the supporting men of «Belle «-- a sympathetic yet conflicted representation of white guilt that many Academy voters can likely identify with.

Amid the agonizing delay in identifying the winner of the 2000 presidential election, one thing seems clear: Whoever the next president is, he will enter the White House without a sure direction from the voters and with a Congress nearly split in two along partisan lines.

Put simply, contrary to the arguments of many White Democrats (as well as pundits such as Jonathan Chait of New York, Frank Bruni of the New York Times and academic Mark Lilla), focusing on the efforts of Black, Latino, immigrant, and low - income communities for economic, social and political equality (which has often been derisively called «identity politics»), is critical to Democrat success in winning elections as well as in winning support from younger voters who are also concerned about these matters.

According to a nationwide FoxNews poll from August 2015, 84 percent of African Americans approve of the job President Obama is doing as president compared to just 32 percent of white voters.

Even if minority voters aren't entirely won over, Dowd said, GOP candidates still benefit from talking up school choice: «It gives the message to moderate white suburban voters that they're tolerant, they're expansive — they care.»

After the White House meeting wraps up, Heather Zichal, the deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate, will be fielding questions from voters.

Stein was the party's nominee in 2012, but this year she hopes to benefit from higher levels of voter discontent in order to lead her to the White House.