Sentences with phrase «majority white seat»

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But emboldened by a decisive White House win, an expanded majority in the Senate, and at least a few extra seats in the House, they seem less likely to budge on taxes.

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Last November, Pamela Harris became the first African - American to win a majority - white seat in New York City when she captured the Assembly district covering Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and her native Coney Island.

If ethnic minorities had voted for Cameron at the same rate as the white British population in 2010, the Tories would have won 500,000 more votes, 24 more seats from Labour, and a parliamentary majority.

The kerfuffle caused by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs» acknowledgment that there are enough seats in play to flip control of the House this fall has eclipsed another interesting political debate: Could Republicans win the Senate majority too?

For them, the race for the White House is secondary to a special election for Long Island's 9th Senate District seat, which was vacated when former GOP Majority Leader Dean Skelos was convicted of corruption in December.

Basically, without those seats, a new majority can form amongst the white reformers, Chris Owens from Park Slope (black reformer) and a bunch (but not necessarily all) of the Central Brooklyn AAs.

The candidates seated on either side of him ranged from Robert Carroll, the Democratic Party - backed favorite to succeed Brooklyn Assemblyman James Brennan, to Kent Iverson, a white independent hoping to take over Congressman Charles Rangel «s majority - minority district — to Arthur Schwartz, a Sanders campaign lawyer challenging long - sitting Manhattan Assemblywoman Deborah Glick.

John Mann MP has said that Corbyn must answer the, «Bolsover question» of why there were huge swings against Labour in white working class seats and said that Labour simply can not ever win a majority unless their concerns are heeded.

«An African American can come within hundreds of votes of winning a seat in a majority Latino and white district.»

The majority of advance placement course seats are filled by white students whereas minority students often were held in «regular» classes and discouraged from choosing higher level courses or questioned on their placement.

Meanwhile, a shindig for the Jack Shainman Gallery, DJ'd by the singer Solange, actually felt like a party and not an event, probably because there were no VIP seats and no flashy cameras and the majority of the guests weren't white things in discount Jil Sander.