Sentences with phrase «key voting bloc»

The New York Times takes a look at key voting blocs in the five boroughs for which the candidates are battling ahead of Tuesday's primary.
Miliband's aides say that, looking back, he blames the Labour defeat on the SNP, and the failure of the campaign to inspire hope among certain key voting blocs — known, in the argot of pollsters, as Mosaic groups G and H: middle - class families with small children, and young couples trying to settle down.
Pollsters have estimated that lesbians and gay men make up between 5 and 13 percent of the Democratic vote in New York, which makes them a potentially key voting bloc.
They have conducted focus groups in suburban areas of the Midwest, and are studying key voting blocs in California and New York, two states that could in theory furnish half the seats they need to take the House.
Catholics and evangelicals, two key voting blocs, have been buzzing about religious liberty for months, with mega-pastor Rick Warren recently canceling plans for a presidential forum with Obama and Romney and announcing plans for one on religious liberty instead.
-- A presidential election center with swing state averages, breakdowns of key voting blocs, candidate information on President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, along with historical charting of the race.
The fight is on for the hearts and minds of Brooklyn Democrats, who will no doubt be a key voting bloc in the September AG primary.
Republicans and Democrats are split almost evenly in the Senate, but eight Democrats who call themselves the Independent Democratic Conference have made themselves the key voting bloc by choosing, when it suits them, to vote with the Republicans.
Unlike Gibson, who has gone to great lengths to portray himself as a political pragmatist, both Teachout and Faso are strongly associated with the left of center and right of center, respectively, which could make it difficult for them to appear to a key voting bloc: independents.
Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and former Manhattan BP Ruth Messinger are the latest additions to Sen. Eric Schneiderman's growing list of endorsements for his bid to replace Andrew Cuomo as attorney general, targeting a key voting bloc on primary day: Liberal Jewish women (particularly those on the UWS).
Since Gov. Cuomo isn't pitching himself on the Working Families Party line — especially not with women, a key voting bloc — the labor - backed party has tapped an icon in the women's movement to do it for him.
With an eye on his re-election in November, Cuomo delivered a laundry list of initiatives certain to be endorsed by key voting blocs, from tax relief for homeowners and tenants to the legalization of medical marijuana.
Williams, who is African - American and the son of Grenadian immigrants, has some advantages with name recognition in New York City, a key voting bloc in the Democratic primary.
Democrats — including Cuomo — hammered Republicans for refusing to pass the governor's full 10 - point Women's Equality Act due to the presence of a controversial abortion rights plank, and Cuomo even created a new party (the Women's Equality Party) to woo this key voting bloc.
As we've already reported, Democrats are saying that turnout has beat their expectations in the Philadelphia area — a key voting bloc for Democrat Joe Sestak in his Senate bid against Republican Pat Toomey.
Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is leading his Democratic opponent, Anna Throne - Holst by 15 percentage points in NY - 1, thanks in large part to the key voting bloc of independents, according to a new Siena poll.
(That list covers a lot of bases, touching almost every key voting bloc in the highly tribal world of NYC politics — from women and Latinos to African Americans and labor to progressive / liberal Democrats and Jews).
Carrion would be the city's first Hispanic mayor — a fact that is not lost on his GOP boosters, particularly since the party failed so spectacularly last week in capturing the Latino vote in the presidential race and quite clearly needs to make inroads with that key voting bloc ASAP.
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