Sentences with phrase «register black voters»

The Electoral Justice Project, a branch of the Movement for Black Lives, has launched a #WakandaTheVote initiative to take advantage of the Black Panther crowds to register black voters for the 2018 elections.

Shugerman also notes that in the early 1970s, when Tennessee and Florida became the only Southern states to use merit selection to choose their supreme courts, both states had seen «the most progress in registering black voters.»

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Black Protestant voters diverge from the much larger group of white evangelicals, who make up one out of five registered voters and one out of three Republicans.

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.

A recent Pew survey found that 56 percent of Catholic registered voters and 89 percent of black Protestant registered voters (two - thirds of whom are evangelicals, according to Pew) side with Clinton in the upcoming election.

It is three times the number of black Christians who are registered voters, four times the numbers of non-registered voters, and twelve times the numbers of Jewish voters — and Episcopalian voters.