Sentences with phrase «of voters of color»

In fact, three quarters of voters of color surveyed said that they have become more interested in climate issues over the past several years and are paying closer attention to new information.

Seventy - three percent of voters of color, versus 57 percent of whites, cast their ballots against the industry - backed measure.

Not exact matches

Formal slavery was quickly replaced by a Jim Crow system that was slavery in all but name, and many of its vestiges (mass incarceration of people of color, voter disenfranchisement, and all manner of systemic racism) remain alive and well today.

Results: Question 2 also passed with flying colors, with 54 % of voters saying yes to 46 % saying no.

I've been talking to a lot of the new members asked to join the Academy during its two - year diversity push, and a lot of these ostensibly hipper, younger voters — many of whom are people of color and white women — are happy to tell you they like Three Billboards.

How would you like it if W h i t e voters only voted for a person's color?I saw a talk show interview the other night.One of the top B l a c k leaders said that he voted for Obama based on his color and asked others to do the same.How crazy is that?

He let the Republicans gerrymander their own districts to suppress Democratic voters, especially voters of color.

But city Democrats today argued that the real «rigging» in the works are voter identification and voter intimidation efforts they claimed the GOP has turned against communities of color, the poor and college students.

With the absence of any candidate of color in the AG's race, Schneiderman has been trying to position himself as the clear choice for Latino and black voters, stressing in particular his efforts on behalf of Rockefeller Drug Law reform and sponsorship of a controversial measure that will count prisoners at their last address for the purposes of legislative redistricting and not whever they're incarcerated.

The Sanders campaign in New York City has raised the issues of criminal justice and police reform, concerns that resonate with voters of color who the senator has struggled to gain the support of early on in the campaign.

«There's no question that the most liberal voters in New York City are people of color,» said Ken Sherrill, an emeritus professor at Hunter College, reflecting on the numbers.

Civil rights advocates last week testified during a LATFOR hearing that the lines unfairly divided communities of color in central Nassau County as well as in Brentwood - Islip in Suffolk County, splitting minority voters — who tend to vote for Democrats — among districts now represented by white Republican incumbents.

«Independent expenditures unfairly color the campaign process by dominating the conversation with the point of view of a particular interest... First and foremost, voters need to know who is sponsoring the advertising they receive,» Lerner said.

So, this is a golden opportunity for Nixon to make a point to voters of color that she is walking the walk.

Until the un-informed voter of Milwaukee County stops voting for people based on the color of their skin, will the County turn around and prosper.

Nixon's association with AQE helps her burnish her credentials with voters of color, a constituency that is crucial for a victory in a Democratic gubernatorial primary and that Nixon, as a wealthy white woman, could struggle to attract.

But de Blasio has kept his popularity, especially with voters of color, and used his platform at the helm of America's biggest city to declare war on Trump's agenda.

Clinton is hoping to replicate President Obama's success with women, younger voters, and voters of color.

Westin said Nixon's focused on voters, especially black women and other women of color and that de Blasio will be influenced by «the last four years of how Cuomo has treated him.»

For people of color, who have often been the targets of voter suppression and intimidation, it is especially important that our voting systems are easily accessible.

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.

Despite the mysterious exclusions, despite the perplexing and continually disturbing absence of people of color from the acting nominations, the voters in the specific branches gave indications of taking their jobs seriously, of looking past the obvious films to make their choices.

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

That helps to explain why the Academy voters did far better with their 2017 Oscar nominations than the year before, when their 6,000 members failed to nominate any actors of color at all.

The Academy's recent diversity push added more younger and international members; its 7,000 voters are now 28 percent women and 13 percent people of color.

But when the poll focused in on the voters of color, the proportion that sees the need for deep change rose to 3 out of 4 or a total of 76 percent.

Voters of color in Boston also expressed dissatisfaction with the city's shortest school day of any major city in the country.

Equity and the struggle to end voter disenfranchisement among our students of color and low income populations demands that ALL students receive the same civics education — that was the goal of Civics for All.

According to a press release, «the poll — conducted by Global Strategy Group — revealed that voters, especially those of color, believe strongly in high standards, aligned assessments, and importance of being prepared for college and career.»

Stand qualified Measure 98 for the ballot; built a broad and diverse coalition, including communities of color organizations, labor, and business; and ran a strong campaign that netted the endorsement of nearly every major newspaper and reached voters statewide through TV ads and mail.

That's partly because those voters had more at stake: of the almost 50 percent of Californians who live within six miles of a major greenhouse - gas - emitting industrial facility, most are people of color.

«How voters of color vote on Prop 23 will be the margin of victory or defeat on this,» Roger Kim, executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, an Oakland - based group, said at the event.

They've also worked long and hard to tear down laws and protections that limit corporate control of our elected officials, dumping ever more money in politics, along with campaigns and strategic litigation designed to suppress or disenfranchise key groups of voters, especially low - income and people of color.

Looking ahead to November, this survey suggests that political candidates who advocate for climate action will have an advantage among voters of color.

The survey, which was conducted in nine battleground states and surveyed registered voters of color including African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans, found that many voters of color feel climate disruption is a prominent issue that can not and will not wait for action in the distant future.

If CA had been able to hand the Trump communications team a detailed psychographic assessment of every targeted voter, the practical response would have been a bit like Henry Ford's old comment: «The customer can have any color he wants so long as it's black.»