Sentences with phrase «of white voters say»

With two years to go before the 2017 mayoral election, 61 percent of white voters say he doesn't deserve another term.

Kelly has a sky - high approval rating, with 66 percent of those polled stating they like the job he's doing, though there is a clear divide along race lines, with 78 of white voters saying they approve, versus just 51 percent of black voters.

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.

Not exact matches

Wang said a number of steps must be taken to attempt correction of the miss, including reviewing if pollsters adequately captured hard - to - poll demographics — such as blue - collar white voters — and as beginning to understand how to capture the leanings of undecided voters.

A plurality of voters (43 percent) blamed the white nationalists for the violence, with 36 percent saying the counter-protesters shared the blame and 9 percent saying they were mostly at fault.

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 %).

«At that time, nearly three - quarters of white evangelical Protestant registered voters said they planned to vote for Romney, including one - quarter who «strongly» supported him.

About 73 percent of white evangelical voters said they would vote for Romney in 2012, while 78 percent stand behind Trump today.

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

«It's important to note that white evangelicals, like so many voters this year, had significant reservations about both candidates,» said Amy Black, professor of political science at Wheaton College.

Just as candidate Trump pledged to say «Merry Christmas» in his White House, rather than President Obama's tepid «Happy Holidays,» and just as he promised to choose an anti-Roe justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Trump's «We want God» assured religious voters that he would not apologize for his faith nor deny that it would play a role in his decision - making.

«Religion is a proxy for trustworthiness of a candidate, especially for white evangelical voters,» said Robert P. Jones, a pollster who focuses on religion and values questions.

The German democracy is much less black - and - white than, say, the US one and the large majority of voters value adherence to democratic principles much higher than having their party win at all costs.

Critics say key figures talked up party's chances and failed to address concerns of white working - class voters

But they added targeted communication on the issue with white suburban swing voters, who strategists say support measures such as expanded background checks, could help drive turnout with that segment of the electorate.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump should demonstrate his rejection of the white supremacists» agenda by shutting down his commission on voter fraud, saying the panel's real aim is to «disenfranchise voters.»

Council member James says that Lhota's ad is trying to stir up white voters with memories of the high crime rate under David Dinkins.

Leroy Gadsden, head of the Jamaica NAACP, said the task force's proposal to create an additional Senate seat upstate would violate the civil rights of black downstate voters who are Democratic, because upstate would have an additional elected official, who was likely to be a Republican and white.

But as Matthew Goodwin and Robert Ford, authors of Revolt on the Right: Explaining Public Support for the Radical Right in Britain, say in tomorrow's Guardian the voters with «white faces, blue collars and grey -LSB-...]

And despite his general election loss, Romney still says his best advice for early state voters is to back a candidate with a viable shot of taking the White House.

The challenger came six votes shy of knocking out White in last year's Democratic primary, a feat that Nunes said shows voters want a change in the status quo.

Clinton just edges out Republican rival Donald Trump in a new national poll out today, though most voters say neither of the White House contenders would make a good president.

Let's say someone as a voter is concerned with the level of corruption and lack of transparency in Washington, especially in Congress and White House.

«Similarly, large majorities of Democrats, New York City voters, blacks, Latinos and younger voters want the Feds to bring civil rights charges, while Republicans are opposed, and upstaters, suburbanites, white and older voters are closely divided,» Greenberg said.

Bassetlaw MP John Mann said that white working class voters and trade unionists had already deserted the party for Ukip, because of Labour's support for immigration.

«Now, since that [presidential] election, the Republicans in power in Washington, D.C. — both in Congress and the White House — have done nothing to address the needs of these voters,» Emig said.

Still, the reason why critics are right to say Trump should release his taxes — that voters should be able to gauge his tax bill and charitable donations, and that the returns might expose financial conflicts of interest — apply as much to City Hall as to the White House.

«White ethnics, middle class voters, independents — the real heart of the Bloomberg and Giuliani days — either didn't vote for him or did because de Blasio's rivals were so uninspiring or they were tired of Bloomberg,» said Dan Gerstein, a political consultant and analyst.

«Despite all the hoo - hah in the media about Police Commissioner William Bratton's «Broken Windows» theory of policing, black, white and Hispanic voters approve of Bratton and want their windows fixed,» said Quinnipiac pollster Maurice Carroll.

One of the most unusual primaries in Illinois history comes to an end Tuesday, when voters get their say after active presidential campaigns on both sides, millions of dollars spent on individual legislative races and the White House making an endorsement...

She can win with everything he's got,» said Joe Trippi, who faced a similar problem when he was trying to figure out the math for the 2004 campaign of Howard Dean, another Vermont liberal popular among white progressives, but one who didn't have a primary opponent with the kind of strength among African - Americans and other minority voters that Clinton's shown in 2008 and so far in this race.

White voters say that de Blasio does not deserve reelection by a margin of 61 percent to 29 percent.

Black voters still approve of de Blasio by a lot; white voters don't,» Quinnipiac University Poll Assistant Director Maurice Carroll said in a statement.

«She is viewed unfavorably by at least 60 percent of all Upstate and Downstate suburban voters, as well as among men and white voters,» Greenberg said.

Speaking from the Midlands, where the Tories became the biggest party in Walsall and made gains in Dudley, Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said the party has to address issues of concern for white working - class voters in industrial areas who appear to have switched from Ukip to the Tories.

«Tens of thousands of voters have been contacted districtwide, with an emphasis on veterans, women, labor members, teachers, and college students,» said Abraham White.

«While Brown polls well with black and white voters, Grant only garners the support of five percent of white voters and Schroeder has the same five - percent support with black voters,» Greenberg said.

He is full of hurt about the attacks on Ukip as a racist party and says the message has really hit home with voters in Croydon, perhaps because it is one of the most mixed parts of the country, with the council predicting white people will make up 40 % of the population by 2021.

The former US Senator from New York and former Secretary of State is also ahead with African American and Latino voters, but Clinton and Sanders are near even with white voters.Greenberg says much will depend on voter turn out on Tuesday.

The backbencher warned against those close to Mr Corbyn who might be assuming the election result was a solid resurgence of the core vote, saying: «Even on polling day there was still a major problem with white working - class voters.

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.

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.

It's not surprising that voters, or even some delegates, the most active members of the party, are unfamiliar with the details of regulating greenhouse gases, said Paul Bledsoe, an energy consultant and a former climate aide in the Clinton White House.

Almost 60 percent of those we surveyed say they are «very» or «quite a bit» interested in education issues, as compared to less than 40 percent of African American and white voters.

Louisiana's State Superintendent John White said the report validates the «courage and boldness» of Louisiana policy makers, voters and educators.

«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.

What voters had to say: «She has been a breath of fresh air and has truly reinvigorated a moribund organization dominated for too long by staid, privileged white males.»