Sentences with phrase «inner city votes»

[85] The coalescence of the black community around the anti-charter campaign was reflected in the inner city vote total, with Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester all voting around two to one against question 2.

The coalescence of the black community around the anti-charter campaign was reflected in the inner city vote total, with Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester all voting around two to one against question 2.

Not exact matches

So, even though the popular vote nationwide is pretty close to 50 - 50, locally you have lopsided contests where Trump can get, say, 70 % of the vote from rural areas, while Clinton could get 70 % of the vote from inner cities.

«So there is a very large ethnic vote in this country in our inner cities.

As the campaign for the next London Mayor officially gets under way, election organisers say people from the suburbs are more likely to turn out to vote than those from the inner city.

David Cameron was setting London as his test, and Ken Livingstone had moved into a two - point lead after identifying tube fares, police numbers and living standards as key issues for Londoners, and mobilising the Labour vote from leafy suburbs to the inner - city core.

Inner city London was solid red with Labour votes, surrounded by a thick ring of blue.

They go to a public place in their neighbourhood, and for most of them, especially in inner city constituencies, voting may be their only cause to visit their local school or community centre.

If the Liberal vote does re-bound in 2013, the inner - city seats of Adelaide (ALP 7.5 %) and Hindmarsh (ALP 6.1 %) are the key seats to watch.

The cap on benefits — likely to raise # 300m — is seen as a vote winner but prompted warnings from housing charities of an exodus of the poor from southern inner cities as the 50,000 affected families face benefit cuts worth an average of # 93 a week.

Like the rest on Wall street, He made his first $ 10 Million Dollar's by inside - trading when Solomon Brother's (where he was a partner) was sold to another company (great inside info only reserved for the member's of the inner - circle who have ton's of shares in the company) who sent him packing (in my opinion a ruse (i.e. bonus) to keep the SEC from sticking their nose into the matter) and with that money started his own business & bought his way into City Hall where he now sits on his throne denying benefits to the familie's of those who sacrificed their lives to help other's on 9/11, threaten the political future of community representatives (Councilmember's) who dared to disagree with him or voted against one of his policie's etc., etc..

Common sense alone tells us that marginality should have some effect upon the size of the swing — if there was a 10 % swing at the election, it is unlikely that the Conservatives would actually pick up an extra 10 % of the vote in places like inner - city Glasgow and the Welsh valleys, while there are some home counties constituencies where Labour barely has 10 % to lose.

Even though Scotland and inner city London overwhelmingly backed Remain, major cities like Sunderland, Birmingham, Nottingham and Sheffield all voted to quit the EU.

That basic funding is massively unfair with deprivation and inner - city - challenge obsessions of politicians of all shades pushing funding disproportionately into highly populated areas where they think they can buy most votes.

Obviously Malloy intends on benefiting the inner cities, the major source of his voting power in the state at the detriment of the small towns which didn't elect him.

The NEA recently contacted every U.S. senator, suggesting political retribution if they voted to reauthorize the District of Columbia's successful Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher initiative that helps inner - city children escape failing schools.

This was critical not only in turning a substantial constituency against charters, but also in showing that the Yes campaign's narrative of voting yes to support inner - cities is backward because inner - city voters overwhelmingly opposed question 2.

Greg was voted entrepreneur of the Year by The Renaissance Center For Entrepreneurship and named to the 2015 Inner City 100 list (ICIC) in recognition of Pyramind Inc's rapid growth.

At a recent fund - raiser at the waterfront offices of Sungevity, an Oakland, Calif., solar company, hedge fund managers and other well - heeled investors sipped cocktails and mingled with inner - city activists in the hope of raising $ 1.9 million for a turn - out - the - vote campaign that will is aimed at nine counties with large populations of African - American, Asian and Latino voters.

They would only lose the trendy inner city voters and they are voting Green anyway.

That said I'll be interested to see what sort of ETS Garnaut can come up with to allay all my concerns about the current mythological creature the «inner - city tertiary educated green voting base» have been worshipping for so long.

«There is a potential division in Labor on any emission trading scheme between its inner - city tertiary educated green voting base and its suburban and regional supporters who are employed in manufacturing and mineral industries.