Sentences with phrase «voting as a bloc»

This is simple math: Because of its size and willingness to vote as a bloc, the Freedom Caucus will almost certainly provide the margin to crown the next speaker.

And the at - large system in the East Ramapo Central School District denies them that opportunity because what we have there is heavily racially polarized voting in which the white community votes as a bloc, and black and Latino voters vote as a bloc and, because the white community outnumbers them they're able to win elections again and again and again,» Grossman says.

And will specific groups vote as a bloc?

Second, in November Ulrich also said that he expected to vote as a bloc, albeit a small one, with the two other Republicans in the new council.

The progressive caucus, of which both Mr. Williams and Ms.Mark - Viverito are a part, had vowed to vote as a bloc — creating a counter-weight to the county leaders who usually rule the race.

Then, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the ensuing decades saw this demographic flip, with Southern whites becoming a core constituency of the Republican Party and the African American community voting as a bloc for Democrats.

One of the regions slated for casino development includes the Catskills, which has a growing Orthodox community that has voted as a bloc on major issues.

Valesky says he has consistently supported progressive Democratic ideals, like the Dream Act, the Women's Equality Act and campaign finance reform, noting that the Democratic Party does not always vote as a bloc anyway.

Another factor was that DeFrancisco and the Republican leadership thought it was crucial for the Republicans to stick together, to vote as a bloc, on this issue.

Dems will not necessarily vote as a bloc (although the size of Obama's victor margin may change that...)

Trump and his campaign did not treat his remark as a joke; instead, they insisted he was merely urging gun rights supporters to vote as a bloc against Clinton.

The South, voting as a bloc on measures that challenged slaveholding interests and augmented by defections from Free State Senators with Southern sympathies, was able to tally majorities.

The 30 Republicans in the Senate have voted as a bloc against most of the year's budget measures.

But the proposed measure could be a useful tool for gay marriage opponents to use on potential fence - sitters in the Senate Republican conference, which so far has voted as a bloc against expanding the state definition of marriage.

Despite this, 43 countries will sign a declaration urging the UN to adopt a 1.5 °C target, and the V20 — the 20 countries most vulnerable to climate change — are expected to vote as a bloc, urging stronger global aims.

And we can't really expect all employees to vote as a bloc (although the prime role of occupational self - interest certainly promotes such an outcome).

Not exact matches

As the official vote count continued on Monday morning, after the ballot on Sunday, it showed the Five Star Movement (M5S) would be the largest single party, but a center - right bloc — which features the anti-immigration Lega party — would gain the most seats.

With three - quarters of the vote counted, as of 9:00 a.m. local time, the early results showed that no one party or bloc would have a majority of votes enabling it to govern alone.

This is especially true in large countries, such as China and India, where the sheer size of the millennial population is already having a global impact, but also here at home in Canada, where the millennial cohort is becoming an important strategic voting bloc.

Republicans such as Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and James Lankford (Okla.) have said they would not support a tax plan that adds too much to the debt, creating a bloc of votes that would be able to kill the bill if they aren't appeased.

BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates has Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.

BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates his Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.

as you say, «narrow - minded religious zealots» make up as much of the voting bloc as they once or ever did.

We can not be seen as one voting bloc.»

Catholics did sometimes vote in blocs when Catholic self - interest was at stake, as Protestants, Jews, blacks or Mormons sometimes have done when their interests were at stake.

A combination of bad luck, the legal architecture of the nomination process (which makes candidates getting in late difficult - to - impossible - and defines late as December of the year before at the latest), the center - right media environment and the mood of some center - right voting blocs has given us a terrible field and an even worse debate.

In recent decades, white evangelicals — and yes, that's a statistically identifiable voting bloc and I'm using it as such in this article — have been among the most consistent supporters of the Republican Party.

«For example, the gap among voting blocs that gave a B or better to the Republicans versus the Democrats was greater among white evangelicals than all other religious groups and all voters, as reported in these data,» he wrote.

As Wisley noted, «his Protestants are evangelicals» — a crucial voting bloc that helped Trump win in November.

Keller wrote in the New Yorker that pollsters have re-identified the term as they've highlighted a specific voting bloc, with 80 per cent of this group voting for Trump and a similar percentage for Roy Moore last week.

In the German Bundesrat, provinces have 3 to 6 votes that must be casted as a single bloc.

Liz adds: (The fact that she led the change against US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as counsel of the Judicial Confirmation Network particularly worries some GOP chairs who don't want to alienate Hispanic voters — a very important voting bloc, particularly as the Senate majority hangs in the balance).

The labor - backed party has Facebook ads posting today, part of a broader effort aimed at pressuring the eight - member bloc as Democrats hold a numeric majority in the state Senate, but do not have the votes to form a governing coalition.

That's about the same as in March (45 - 41, 14), although the discontent of independents — a crucial swing voting bloc — is waned slightly.

Maragos has been endorsed by the Nassau and Suffolk county GOPs, which account for almost 19 percent of the weighted vote at the convention, assuming all the committee members vote in a bloc, which, as past experience has demonstrated, is not a foregone conclusuion.

Though Rosen's connection is tenuous to the Obama administration, Republicans used the line as a counter punch to the so - called «War on Women» as both parties vie for that voting bloc this year.

The 66 - year - old former city councilman is running against incumbent Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village) in the hopes of preventing a redistricting two years from now that could eliminate the relatively conservative population in the neighborhoods as a voting bloc.

Past elections can illustrate the voting bloc as fickle and unreliable.

Unlike Gibson, who has gone to great lengths to portray himself as a political pragmatist, both Teachout and Faso are strongly associated with the left of center and right of center, respectively, which could make it difficult for them to appear to a key voting bloc: independents.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and former Manhattan BP Ruth Messinger are the latest additions to Sen. Eric Schneiderman's growing list of endorsements for his bid to replace Andrew Cuomo as attorney general, targeting a key voting bloc on primary day: Liberal Jewish women (particularly those on the UWS).

Schneiderman has refused to cede the women's vote — a potentially key bloc in the September primary — to Rice just because of her gender and in spite of the fact that she has been highlighted as a potential ticket - balancer for the (so far) all - white and all - male Democratic statewide ticket.

In fact, the only big voting blocs NOT represented here, as far as I can tell are suburbanites and the LGBT community (not that Cuomo doesn't have support there, too).

We may never know for sure, but what we do know is that while both are running for Queens Borough President, Peralta's supposed «olive branch» was seen as a crass attempt to hold down his losses in one of the highest turnout voting blocs in Queens (second only to David Weprin).

Parties still treated ethnic minority's as «bloc votes» to be targeted, it added, claiming that «engaging solely with leading figures within traditional clan - type structures or religious institutions can be divisive and risk creating «community gatekeepers» rather than real engagement with voters».

This past weekend, 20 members of the Progressive Caucus decided they would vote as a unified bloc on a choice for the next Council speaker, according to a New York Times report.

The European Union is in a «critical situation», the German chancellor has said, as leaders meet in Slovakia to discuss ways to regain trust after the UK's vote to leave the bloc.

Long regarded as a Republican stronghold, the New York State Senate currently includes 30 Republicans, 28 Democrats and five «swing» seats who identify with the Independent Democratic Caucus but typically vote with the Republican bloc.

As outgoing Party Treasurer and a former Deputy General Secretary of Unite the Union, he helped deliver the TU bloc vote on the NEC to oust Rahman as the official Labour candidatAs outgoing Party Treasurer and a former Deputy General Secretary of Unite the Union, he helped deliver the TU bloc vote on the NEC to oust Rahman as the official Labour candidatas the official Labour candidate.

Next week the Labour policy forum will meet to discuss the party's future direction and the unions, holding nearly a quarter of votes, will act as a bloc to push through their changes.

According to PAP, which did not identify its source, the Commission triggered what is formally known as Article 7, a procedure that could eventually lead to Poland losing its voting rights in the bloc.