Sentences with phrase «voting bloc for»

Hispanics are a must - have voting bloc for Obama in almost every battleground his campaign aims to win.

As we've already reported, Democrats are saying that turnout has beat their expectations in the Philadelphia area — a key voting bloc for Democrat Joe Sestak in his Senate bid against Republican Pat Toomey.

Overnight a perceived progressive majority of 16 million has been turned into an 18 million voting bloc for the centre right.

The union is trying to repeat that performance in the 107th District, where local members account for almost 5 percent of the registered vote — a large voting bloc for an election where turnout will likely be less than 20 percent of the electorate.

Not exact matches

And millions of Americans would not needlessly suffer and die from diseases tht he and Dubya blocked cures for in exchange for bloc voting.

This vote showed clearly that the delegates were voting in blocs: almost no delegates from the Latin American or African divisions voted for the motion.

The Catholic vote is one of the largest swing blocs in the country, voting for the winning presidential candidates from both parties in recent elections.

A strategy to limit future low - skill immigration is not in itself a strategy for winning over any particular voting bloc.

(CNN)- With former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's announcement this weekend that he won't seek the presidency, one of the largest voting blocs in the Republican Party is now officially up for grabs: evangelical Christians.

Catholics and evangelicals, two key voting blocs, have been buzzing about religious liberty for months, with mega-pastor Rick Warren recently canceling plans for a presidential forum with Obama and Romney and announcing plans for one on religious liberty instead.

It's a good indication of just how important the Catholic vote is thought to be this year, with Catholics accounting for 1 in 4 Americans and considered to be the quintessential swing bloc.

But for the overall «evangelical vote,» the only clear trend is that it's not a clear - cut voting bloc.

«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.

When the demographics of who is voting for Santorum, it's clear it's mainly the Far right anti-Mormons evangelical Born Again, who represent a large voting bloc in the southern Bible belt and Midwest..

The dilemma for Republicans is that the undereducated and scientifically ignorant used to be such a large voting bloc that the GOP came to depend on them, playing to their lack of knowledge to capture their votes, to the point that they now have nobody else to vote for them.

American evangelicalism has become this huge voting bloc — for right or wrong — with the potential of swaying entire elections.

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.

Weprin is up 56 - 35 with Jewish voters — a hotly - contested voting bloc, thanks in part to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's endorsement of Turner and his desire to make this race into a referendum on President Obama's support — or lack thereof, in Koch's mind — for Israel.

The Center for Disability Rights launched a new website for the New York Disability Vote Network, which aims to build, solidify, and unify a disability voting bloc in the state.

The GOP voted in a bloc against the last extender, which included Gov. David Paterson's controversial state worker furlough plan that has since been blocked by US District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn and is headed for a hearing on May 26.

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.

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 fight is on for the hearts and minds of Brooklyn Democrats, who will no doubt be a key voting bloc in the September AG primary.

The Fidesz parliamentary bloc, which enacted constitutional changes without including or consulting any opposition party, slashed the size of the parliament in half, redrew all of the individual constituencies unilaterally, changed the two - round system to a single first - past - the - post election for individual constituencies, and altered the way votes were aggregated.

The IDC has been a key bloc of votes in the chamber and formed a coalition government with the GOP for two years that gave Klein the title of Senate co-president.

How likely is it that the bloc would vote for a Lesbian Democrat from the West Side of Manhattan, anyway?

Accusing Quinn of «Gestapo - like tactics,» he's galvanizing the Pro-Life movement for a voting bloc against a Quinn term — and some analysts say it could cause Quinn to stumble.

Mr. Brindisi, a well - regarded member of a younger, progressive bloc of Democrats in Albany, noted that he had publicly criticized the Cuomo administration's economic development plans, and had voted against the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control bill that has been a galvanizing issue for the governor's opponents upstate.

This weekend, Shafran will be making his final push to concentrate the Jewish voting bloc by emphasizing his Jewish heritage — sort of ironic for a man who graduated St. Francis Prep and was married in a Catholic church, but I digress.

Socially conservative groups like Slattery's could be the deciding factor in the Democratic primary, much in the same way the socially conservative religious voting bloc came out in force for the election of Congressman Bob Turner in Queens and Brooklyn.

Our voting system was designed for two blocs: a government and an opposition.

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.

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).

The IDC has provided a key bloc of votes for the Senate Republicans, who maintain a majority with the help of Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder, who conferences with the GOP.

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.

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).

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.

The supposed deal is predicated on the assumption that Comrie's religious black base would be inclined to vote for him and Peralta by combining two ethnic based voting blocs and thus increasing their chance for victory in a crowded race.

Rumor has it Tony Avella propped up a lobbyist for the City Council primary to divide the voting blocs in district 19.

Even though it's four lawmakers, the letter is reminder of the power of the so - called «Long Island Nine» a voting bloc of Republican senators from Long Island who often push for education aid and assistance to the school districts of Suffolk and Nassau counties.

So if 20 % of people wants subsidies for peanut farmers, and no political parties advocate that yet, then the one political party that favor it will easily get 20 % votes from the peanuts voting bloc.

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.

With an eye on his re-election in November, Cuomo delivered a laundry list of initiatives certain to be endorsed by key voting blocs, from tax relief for homeowners and tenants to the legalization of medical marijuana.

And yet, with just two weeks before Election Day, a key bloc of voters doesn't know much about the race, its candidates, or even whom they'll vote for.

The leader of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg is a powerbroker in the Hasidic Jewish community who can deliver a huge bloc of votes for his chosen candidate.

Sticking together could help the delegation collect better rewards if they are able to deliver a bloc of votes for one candidate.

ALBANY — A tense standoff, a three - hour delay and backroom wrangling marked an internal Republican struggle before GOP senators decided to vote in a bloc to support a steep minimum wage hike in exchange for a budget that increased school spending and cut income tax rates for many.

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.