Sentences with phrase «of black voters»

In a Q poll this week, 72 percent of black voters said the mayor deserves re-election, compared with 23 percent of whites.

Fifty percent of white voters and 52 percent of black voters support him.

In terms of the shift of black voters, I just wanted to point out that it did not occur in the 1960s.

In 2009, he carried an overwhelming 75 percent of black voters and 55 percent of Hispanic voters.

The existence of the dossier appears to be confirmation that Labour sympathisers fear Mr Bailey's appeal amongst the large number of black voters in the Hammersmith seat.

Following Hurricane Katrina, Republicans argue, large numbers of black voters in the New Orleans area left the state, never to return.

A Quinnipiac poll from January found that 77 percent of black voters approved of the job the mayor was doing versus only 11 percent who didn't.

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.

Sixty - four percent of black voters say they approve of the job he's doing, and 58 percent say he deserves re-election, according to the poll.

A 2015 BAEO survey of Black voters in the state indicated strong across the board support for choice programs — 78 % supported parental choice, 66 % approved of charter schools and 63 % favored vouchers / scholarships.

The percentage of Black voters in the district declined from 32 percent to 25 percent under the new map.

The proportion of black prisoners is extraordinary, and recently with the whole question of Florida, the number of black voters who are actually disenfran chised in a number of ways is quite eloquent, I think, as to what's going on in your country.»

«Last year, two thirds of black voters and about half of white and Latino voters thought race relations were only fair or poor.

Yet the wholesale acceptance of Black voters for Obama in 2008 may not translate fully into the 2010 election.

But the issue of black voters» relationship to Clinton and the Democratic Party is not without concern.

The bulk of black voters remained loyal to the Republican Party, and the endorsement of Wilson from DuBois and other black leaders backfired.

Turner thinks that these are the conversations that progressive politicians shouldn't be afraid to have with voters and that Nixon's engagement of black voters is something others should model.

Although used to representing a majority - black district in northern Manhattan, Rangel has witnessed the gradual departure of black voters from the area, and his redrawn district is majority - Hispanic.»

His campaign has argued that Clinton has ballooned her lead because of black voters in the South.

Once they had the data showing the majority of voters who did not own a drivers license were black, which is what they were looking for, they passed a voter I.D. law saying you had to have a drivers license to vote, thus disenfranchising thousands of black voters.

Cuomo spent a long time working his way back into the good graces of black voters after he quit the just one week before the primary, and his camp is very sensitive about his relationship with the black community.

Gov. David Paterson today said gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo has «work» to win the hearts of black voters — a key segment of the Democratic base that appears to be suffering from a crisis of confidence in the AG following his shift to the center to woo Republicans and independents.

In a seeming disconnect during his courting of black voters, Trump called for the broad use of the contentious stop - and - frisk policing strategy in America's cities, embracing an aggressive tactic whose legality has been challenged and whose enforcement has been abandoned in New York.

Turnout in the Dominican core of the 31st is likely to be matched by the mostly Jewish West Side and Riverdale portions of the district, with a smattering of black voters mixed in.

A majority of white voters want implementation stopped, a majority of black voters want implementation continued, and Hispanic voters are evenly divided,» Greenberg added.

And because a recent Siena Research Institute poll conducted for Spectrum News shows only 52 percent of black voters with Brown, Schroeder sees an opening.

A Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday morning indicates that 8 in ten voters, including three - quarters of black voters, say a Democratic primary challenge by Cuomo, who is white, of Paterson, who is black, would not be racially divisive.

«The Republicans are so far away from understanding the needs of black voters that they think something like this would actually motivate black voters to switch sides, and that's insane, frankly.»

A new study has found that the premature death of millions of black voters in the US has affected the outcome of several elections.

When King and his group, the Southern Christian Leadership Council, are invited to Selma, Alabama to stage their latest fight, they organize a series of non-violent protests in the hopes that it will force President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) to pass legislation that specifically prohibits the discrimination of black voter registration.

The teachers union received some of its strongest support from African - Americans, with 76 percent of black voters backing the CTU and just 8 percent supporting the mayor.

64 percent of black voters approve of Mr. de Blasio and only 24 percent disapprove, while whites continue to despise him.

And while more than 90 percent of black voters supported Jackson in recent primaries, Hertzke notes that «many of these same black voters register remarkable sympathy for Robertson...» Robertson's appeal among blacks is correctly attributed to religious and cultural attitudes.

But there's a large racial divide, with 53 % of black voters saying Weiner should remain in the race, and 64 % of white voters saying it's time for him to hang it up.

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the Alabama Legislature and the federal court that ruled on the plan had taken a «mechanically numerical» view, instead of trying to figure out what percentage of black voters were needed to elect a candidate of their choice.

Secondly, the redrawing of his district means the Latino population of voters actually outstrips the number of black voters who have been his traditional base.

Brythan's answer discusses the shift of black voters from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.

There was a sharp racial divide, with Mr. Stringer winning about two - thirds of white voters, and Mr. Spitzer winning about two thirds of black voters.

As the Democratic Party under President Lyndon Johnson began to support civil rights, the formerly Solid South, meaning solidly Democratic, became solidly Republican, except in districts with a large number of Black voters.

The latest poll from Quinnipiac University found that 60 percent of black voters approve of the job Mr. de Blasio is doing and just 22 percent disapprove.

I expect that we will hear more about this issue from her and from Bernie Sanders as they seek to win the support of black voters in the Democratic primaries.

Trump responded that he thinks the number of black voters in the Republican party will increase.

To be sure, the passage of the Voting Rights Act increased the numbers of black voters in the South.

In California, 70 % of African - Americans supported Prop 8, the 2008 state gay marriage ban, even though 94 % of black voters in California backed Obama.

But he carried a whopping 93 % of black voters (representing 13 % of the electorate), 71 % of Latinos (representing 10 %), and also 73 % of Asians (3 %).

Cuomo seemed striking «unsettled» by the incident and rushed inside the Dwyer Cultural Center at 123rd Street for a meeting with black officials — including McCall, his 2002 primary opponent; former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson, who is one of three Cuomo campaign co-chairs; and the Rev. Al Sharpton — at which he will be strategizing how to win back the support of black voters and engage his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, on the subject of race.