Sentences with phrase «largest voting blocs»

Organizers of the action cited the rising political power of millennials, expected to be one of the largest voting blocs in Canada by the next federal election, in their reasons for taking action..

«Millennials delivered Trudeau his majority, we want real climate action, and we could be one of the largest voting blocs by 2019, three things that Trudeau needs to remember when deciding on this pipeline,» Sophie Birks, a Climate 101 organizer from Montreal, explained.

Cathy has a great shot at winning; she's been endorsed by the largest voting blocs in Queens (she's been very busy networking) and practically every union in the city.

(CNN)- With former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's announcement this weekend that he won't seek the presidency, one of the largest voting blocs in the Republican Party is now officially up for grabs: evangelical Christians.

Canadian millennials are the drivers of tomorrow and will represent the largest voting bloc in the Canadian 2019 federal election.

BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates has Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.

BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates his Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.

When the demographics of who is voting for Santorum, it's clear it's mainly the Far right anti-Mormons evangelical Born Again, who represent a large voting bloc in the southern Bible belt and Midwest..

The dilemma for Republicans is that the undereducated and scientifically ignorant used to be such a large voting bloc that the GOP came to depend on them, playing to their lack of knowledge to capture their votes, to the point that they now have nobody else to vote for them.

And BO is the leader of the Immoral Majority, the largest voting bloc the US i.e. in 2012, the ~ 78 million voting «mothers and fathers» of aborted womb babies and that is the reason BO will win in 2012 unless the Republicans somehow nominate a «pro-abortion» candidate something very unlikely considering the conservative «pro-life» voting bloc within said party.

The union is trying to repeat that performance in the 107th District, where local members account for almost 5 percent of the registered vote — a large voting bloc for an election where turnout will likely be less than 20 percent of the electorate.

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 State Board of Regents, which is essentially appointed by the Assembly Democrats because they have the largest voting bloc in the legislature, developed a waiver.

With 4,942 members, Democrats represent the city's largest voting bloc, making the winner of next week's contest the odds - on favorite in November when they'll face Republican Ron Polacco in the general election.

Noting that a minimum wage hike would especially impact women (a large voting bloc in Democratic presidential primaries), Mr. Biden said he was on hand today to put the proposed hike in «context,» emphasizing his final goal as vice president is to help lift stagnant wages.

Actors make up the largest voting bloc of the motion picture academy, which is why many prognosticators look to the SAG nominations as one of the best predictors of the Oscars.

This indicates deep support from actors, the largest voting bloc in Hollywood.

The Academy's largest voting bloc is actors, who seem to have a lot of respect what their peers did in Martin McDonagh's vigilante - mother film.

Not exact matches

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

As the official vote count continued on Monday morning, after the ballot on Sunday, it showed the Five Star Movement (M5S) would be the largest single party, but a center - right bloc — which features the anti-immigration Lega party — would gain the most seats.

This is especially true in large countries, such as China and India, where the sheer size of the millennial population is already having a global impact, but also here at home in Canada, where the millennial cohort is becoming an important strategic voting bloc.

But humans will not passively acquiesce to a large new voting bloc.

The Catholic vote is one of the largest swing blocs in the country, voting for the winning presidential candidates from both parties in recent elections.

This is a significantly larger percentage than many of the popularly touted swing voting blocs.

Finally suppose those same people, organized around this shared delusion, formed a voting bloc which exerted political pressure to organize your government and laws in accordance with those of the wizarding world and was large enough and vocal enough that elected officials could not attain office without pandering to it.

It demonstrated that one of the largest and most cohesive voting blocs is married couples with children.

The combined muscle of Bronx and Queens County held the largest bloc of votes.

And the at - large system in the East Ramapo Central School District denies them that opportunity because what we have there is heavily racially polarized voting in which the white community votes as a bloc, and black and Latino voters vote as a bloc and, because the white community outnumbers them they're able to win elections again and again and again,» Grossman says.

And while Weprin has a strong advantage among voters 55 and under, the two candidates are evenly divided among voters 55 and older, a large and influential voting bloc in the district, especially in a special election.

Assembly Democrats constitute the largest bloc of votes, and looking ahead to the general election, Democrats handily outnumber Republicans statewide, making it highly likely that a Democrat will succeed Schneiderman.

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.

Labour has become increasingly reliant upon union sources of funding in recent years, and large public sector unions maintain an influential grip on the party's power structure, including having a third of the bloc - votes for the Labour leadership election currently underway.

The single largest bloc of Democratic votes comes from Tompkins County, a Democratic bastion that includes the city of Ithaca and both Cornell University and Ithaca College.

Because the two houses vote together, the elections are controlled by Assembly Democrats, the largest bloc in the Legislature, and many Senate Republicans don't even show up.

In American politics, voting blocs are most effective within a larger plurality where their bloc vote carries heft (ie, Hasidic communities in Brooklyn and Rockland County).

To those who suggested that Quinn, long the frontrunner in the Democratic mayoral field, stumbled on the homophobia voters reflect once at the ballot box, Menchaca's and Torres» victories demonstrate that LGBT candidates can win in outer borough districts dominated by working class and poor people of color and without large visible gay and lesbian voting blocs.

The SAG does have some crossover with Oscar voters, but that union is so large that only a small slice of its voting bloc is in the Academy.

The largest voting body within the Academy is actors, sure, but the tech branches together are a significant enough bloc that it's pretty tough to win without impressing them even a little.

And the political economy of a large retiree voting bloc that will pay attention with laser focus to this single issue is going to make it tough to fix in a democracy unless we get ahead of it now and tell people in their fifties and younger that these promises can not and will not be kept and to make other arrangements.

Not only does it carry the influence of being the largest association; it also represents one of the most coveted voting blocs in the country: homeowners.