Sentences with phrase «more white voters»

Majority minority districts were a reaction to states spreading out their African - American voters so that there were always more white voters in their voting districts.

Not exact matches

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

Party leaders, black and white, would be served notice that black voters are more than cattle chewing cud, to be herded to the polls every two and four years.

The claim made by black voters in both states is that Republicans packed districts with more reliably Democratic black voters than necessary to elect their preferred candidates, making neighboring districts whiter and more Republican.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

After routing Clinton in New Hampshire and finishing a strong second in Iowa, states with nearly all - white populations, Nevada's Democratic caucuses gave Sanders his first chance to prove he can win over black and Hispanic voters and compete nationally as the race moves to states with more diverse populations.

They think voters are fed up with the chaos in the White House and Trump's behavior, and that will matter more when voters enter the polls than the level of the stock market or how many jobs there are.

Libertarian Gary Johnson's plan for capturing the White House hinges on voters following through on polls suggesting they dislike the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees more than in any election year in history.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 1,655 registered voters released today, more than half of white evangelicals said they weren't satisfied with their ballot options (55 %), reflecting the feeling of Americans at large (58 %).

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.

Meanwhile, more than a quarter of white evangelical voters gave him a failing grade of a D or F. Trump's overall campaign grade is the lowest among any presidential candidate — winning or losing — since Pew began collecting data in 1988.

But white evangelical voters are more or less holding steady.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 63 percent of white evangelicals, 63 percent of Republican - leaning voters, and half of all Americans over 65 believe that Islam encourages violence more than other faiths.

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.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

That's why Cynthia Nixon — running as a Bernie-esque progressive against the more centrist Cuomo — is trying to overcome the historic resistance black voters have to white economic progressives, and truly engage black voters.

Unless Miliband could present the public with a bigger and more inspiring message, Axelrod told him, it would be impossible to regain the support of the white working - class voters who were deserting the Labour party.

«The voters electing their leaders will be more reflective of the city's racial and ethnic makeup because older, whiter and wealthier voters are more dominant in the old - fashioned, delayed runoffs.»

Many ethnic minority voters are worried about immigration, like their white counterparts, but they are much more sensitive to some of the more draconian elements of the system, which have been allowed to run amok as the Tories try to invite Ukip voters back to the party.

African American voters, 53 %, and Latino voters, 46 %, are more likely than white voters, 30 %, to give de Blasio high marks.

Again, African American voters and Latino members of the electorate are more likely to perceive de Blasio positively than white voters.

Fifteen million general election voters do not bother to go to the polling station for the European polls and those who do are typically older, whiter and more eurosceptic than general election voters.

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.

«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.

If Trump is up by more than 15 points, he is likely not only to carry Indiana by double digits, but to do well among white voters overall.

Those same numbers crunched through a model that shows a few more younger voters and more women turning out for the Democrats despite slightly less white turnout for Clinton still pushes her to a four - point lead.

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.

By a slim 45 - 42 percent margin, more voters say they trust the Trump administration to «tell the public the truth» than the reporters who cover the White House.

in the more than a year since he began his White House bid, Trump has not held a single event aimed at black voters in their communities, and has also turned down repeated invitations to address gatherings of black leaders, ignored African - American conservatives in states he needs to win and made numerous inflammatory comments about minorities.

They warned a packed audience that Labour is in danger of turning its back on its traditional voters and the party has to do more to connect with white working class voters in historically Labour constituencies if it is to have any chance of winning power.

Mr. Stringer received strong support among older voters, white voters, voters in Manhattan, college graduates and voters in households earning more than $ 50,000 a year.

Nicoletti had an edge with voters who are male, more conservative, older or white while Perez Williams led among women, liberals, younger voters and black voters.

The best hope for Republicans is for Ms. Harris to flop in the predominately white and more conservative portion of the district in Bay Ridge, as well as struggle with right - leaning Russian - American voters in the Coney Island and Brighton Beach half.

Arizona appeared more promising, officials said, because of its combination of Mormons, Hispanics and Native Americans and because the officials found white voters in Georgia to be more resistant to Mrs. Clinton.

The Labour left is now becoming more and more like Private Eye's swivel eyed Trotskyist Dave Spart hurling abuse at the mostly white working class Labour voters and calling them xenophobic racists amongst other things the latter being the most polite.

The gambit would get you more nominees, but the core problem — that AMPAS voters are overwhelmingly old white men — would remain the same.

Speaking to more than 200 largely undecided voters packed into a technical - college dining room here on Halloween day, Howard Dean explained his strategy for winning the White House.

A higher percentage of white voters backed Emanuel, 35 percent, but more of them still sided with the teachers union, 42 percent.

«This is nothing more than another desperate and cynical attempt by TransCanada to build their dirty pipeline someday if they get a climate denier in the White House in 2017,» said Tiernan Sittenfeld of the League of Conservation Voters.

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