Sentences with phrase «voting bloc at»

Among those writing letters to hotel management are the eight - member state Senate Independent Democratic Conference, the leader of the mainline Democratic Conference, and the chairman of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, a powerful voting bloc at the Capitol.

Not exact matches

At the same time, any attempt to depress prices would anger anyone who already owns a home, a massive voting bloc, considering ownership rates now approach 70 %.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Democratic primary for governor may be less than a week old but the battle between Cuomo and Nixon for the African - American vote is already underway, underscoring the importance of a voting bloc where Nixon's own advisers acknowledge she must make inroads to have any chance at victory.

At one time, New York elected officials had to make sure to hit the so - called «three Is» — Israel, Italy and Ireland — to satisfy powerful ethnic voting blocs.

Now there could potentially arise a problem where voters who are contributing nothing at all to running the government are such a big voting bloc they can end up voting themselves more and more money to be spend on themselves (or whatever pet projects it is that they support).

Cathy has a great shot at winning; she's been endorsed by the largest voting blocs in Queens (she's been very busy networking) and practically every union in the city.

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.

Traditionally, the kind of progressive movement that's lining up behind Nixon has been critiqued for not giving black voters — a voting bloc vital to winning elections — a seat at the table, and for putting racial justice issues second to those of economic justice.

While it might be crass, (and reduce all us voters to mindless drones incapable of formulating an opinion based on issues) if we look at this race through the assumption that people tend to vote along ethnic lines, then the largest voting bloc in Queens i.e.the Rockaways and Jamaica will vote for City Councilman Leroy Comrie.

Even so, Astorino has been highly successful in a county where his voting bloc is at a decided disadvantage.

The New York Times takes a look at key voting blocs in the five boroughs for which the candidates are battling ahead of Tuesday's primary.

There do not appear to be any «bloc vote» money bundles being funneled to LaCorte or any of the other candidates at this point.

The Democratic primary for governor may be less than a week old but the battle between Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Nixon for the African - American vote is already underway, underscoring the importance of a voting bloc where Ms. Nixon's own advisers acknowledge she must make inroads to have any chance at victory.

Mr. Trump hosted numerous meetings with state Republican leaders at his office in Trump Tower, used his private jet to attend upstate rallies and even tried to secure the support of another voting bloc, the Conservative Party.

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.

Merkel's conservative Christian Union (UDU / CSU) bloc scored 32.9 percent of the votes cast at the election held on September 24, to clinch a record fourth term in office.

Jeff Joireman, associate professor of marketing at Washington State University, demonstrated that «future - oriented» women are the voting bloc most strongly motivated to invest money, time and taxes toward reducing global warming.

At dozens of high schools, staffers from the Broward Supervisor of Elections Office are registering voters this week, providing an early test for the premise that students motivated by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre could become a potent voting bloc.