Sentences with phrase «of blacks voted»

The vote was almost evenly split among Protestants in non-mainline churches, which Barna says is a result skewed by the fact that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Gore.

80 % of blacks voted for prop. 8 in California banning gay marriage... you may want to hold that thought for a moment.

Yes, except for the fact that a majority of blacks voted against gay marriage in California.

It's a start, though it's hard to imagine a lot of blacks voting against obama.

90 % of blacks vote straight Dem and GOP blacks like Rice and Powell crossed over to vote for Obama based on race.

Not all us tea party activists are religious nuts... 90 % of blacks vote democratic and 79 % profess to be religious.

Ever since, no Republican presidential nominee has gained more than a small percentage of the black vote.

Barack Obama took 96 % of the black vote in 2008, and strong turnout among African - Americans and other minorities will be crucial if he hopes to win a second term, analysts say.

I'm on the right, and while I certainly don't feel hate towards this woman, it is clear that she is just a token black for Romney to try and get some of the black vote, which he has about 0 % of at the moment.

For the Conservatives that think that Black people voted for Obama just because he was black... if you put that lady on a national stage she wouldn't get 5 % of the black vote.

Those suggestions will cost Obama a big chuck of black votes.

The GOP spin machine is trying to present this woman as the beginning of a trend of blacks voting GOP; that nonsense.

Thats weird, because as I recall in 2008, President Obama had 99 % of the black vote.

Clinton will win a majority of black votes but the total number cast will likely be less.

The stepped - up effort comes in the wake of two polls showing Spitzer with massive leads over Stringer, largely on the strength of the black vote.

Republicans haven't won a majority of the black vote since.

Instead Mr. Wright likely was hurt by a fragmenting of the black vote.

If he pulls 75 to 80 percent of the black vote, as many assume he will, it's difficult to see how Thompson doesn't at least come in second — enough to get into a likely runoff in a multi-candidate race.

A recent Quinnipiac University poll gave de Blasio 16 percent of the black vote.

Not exact matches

If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to vote was only a right as of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.

But black votes for Obama were inconsequential in preventing Alabama's nine electoral votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama in that state with 60 % of the vote.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

One desperate solution was for blacks to risk voting for the candidate who represented the greater of two evils, in the hope that he would be sympathetic to African Americans because they helped secure the election.

Clinton called in to Sharpton's nationally syndicated radio show on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6 to appeal to blacks to turn out to vote during the primaries.

In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treated.

As NAACP official Henry Lee Moon explained in his 1948 book on the black vote, «the size, the strategic distribution, and the flexibility of the Negro vote lend it an importance which can no longer be overlooked.»

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

According to estimates by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, black voters contributed roughly 70 % of Obama's share of the vote in the state, both in 2008 and 2012.

King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.»

'' «You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,» in other words, black people,»» Obama allegedly said after the call, paraphrasing Romney.

The complaint alleges that out - of - state voters were allowed to vote, and questions the integrity of results from Jefferson County, which is 43 % black and saw a 47 % turnout rate, which Moore called «highly unusual» — i.e. higher than expected.

He mentioned some of the claims, including one that five busloads of black voters from Mississippi came into the state to vote, which he said was proven false after an investigation.

Doesn't this prove that blacks are incredibly hypocritical and only vote for Obama because of skin color?

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

Another way of suppressing the black vote.

the majority of Obama's votes came from white people not black people so your assertion is compelte lie.

Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

Black smoke poured from the chimney fixed to the roof of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday morning, indicating that the cardinals» first two votes of the day were inconclusive.

There have been many statments made recently implying that the black community is almost obligated to vote for Obama...??? If he is being voted for because of the color of his skin, we are moving backwards.

I commend the pastor for his moral conviction but the majority of blacks are incapable of voting on any other issue but race... its genetic... Obama could say he is an ax murderer and they still will find a way to justify their vote for him... another words Obama sees the black vote as in the bag and he is right... most of them are incapable of critical thinkng

The trend is the same for black Protestants: 76 percent voted in support of a candidate in 2012, compared to 56 percent in 2016.

Only in our time do we draw electoral district lines so that black representatives may be assured of election without the inconvenience of having to solicit white votes.

Black certainly understood that voting to uphold the law might dampen criticism of his Klan background.

Once, the First Secretary of the Regional Communist Party insisted that the «black beetles» vote in town rather than at the monastery as a way of teaching «the atavistic deviant non-working-class element of society» a lesson.

It implies the rejection of civil rights for blacks, votes for women, the abolition of slavery, the abolition of property requirements for voting; it implies the rejection of the whole historical march against arbitrary difference and power.

I Republicans should start «promoting the vote» like our Democratic state congressman in Alabama who specifically targetted the black vote by buying them cheap bottles of vodka.

He joined the Black Militant Jerimiah Wright church in Chicago to get a base of vote from its participants.