Sentences with phrase «target black voters»

A federal court struck down North Carolina's voter identification law for precisely that reason, alleging the Republicans who crafted it targeted black voters «with almost surgical precision.»

Not exact matches

In September 2011, the Obama campaign launched Operation Vote, which focused on eight target groups: women, blacks, seniors, Hispanics, Asian - Americans, Jews, gays, and young voters.

Of course, Jones has been blitzing the airwaves too, but targeted targeted outreach can deliver specific messages to black Alabamans that might risk blowback from white voters if they were broadcast widely.

He attributes the Republicans» doubling of their normal share of the Ohio black vote in the 2004 election to the party's ability to reach out to the exact voters likely to respond to targeted messages and to not waste time and money on others.

And it CAN be a good for political organizing, if your targets are in populations with high cell - phone and / or Twitter usage (for instance, younger — and plugged - in — urban black and latino voters).

In an effort to appeal beyond the Dominican vote, Alcantra's campaign has been targeting women regardless of their ethnicity or geography in campaign mailers in the district, as well as black voters, according to a person familiar with the campaign's operations.

Last year, a federal court ruled that the 2013 voting law also discriminated against Black voters, targeting them with «almost surgical precision.»

Depending on which cohort was being targeted, the efforts encouraged pro-Trump voters to intensify political participation, black voters to abandon Hillary Clinton for Trump, and Muslim voters to consider Clinton an Islamophobe.

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.»