Sentences with phrase «voting block out»

Historically, once Reform Party candidates break past the 5 % mark in a statewide race, it indicates that there is a much larger voting block out there that is looking for an alternative to the two major parties.

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Wrong... Mormons» didn't have slaves and because they voted as a block and were antislavery they were forced out of their homes.

If they choose to stay out of the debate and vote since it has nothing to do with their freedoms, then fine, but as soon as you take that step to block someone elses rights, now you are an active bigot showing your true colors.

«Nearly 3 out of 10 are presently undecided, making them the largest block of undecided votes still up for grabs,» stated George Barna.

Then we will have a 99 % voting block that can actually make reform and scare the crud out of the 1 % of greedy who think they can buy their way into anything.

The problem is that there are so many organized tax exempt evangelical churches who will get 100 % of their vote out while the rest of the rational masses are just individuals trying to get through the day and do not vote as an organized block.

Rather than vote for another Republican President to take the country backward again, logic would call for voting for a Democrat Congress so we could actually find out how good a job President Obama could do if Congress didn't block everything.

The Mokena Park District's efforts to block the vote failed this week when Gov. Jim Edgar signed a bill enabling voters in Eagle Ridge Estates, Eagle Ridge Villas and Cambridge Estates, to vote on opting out of the district.

The voting evidence suggests it is the logical one although I guess electoral reform will be the stumbling block - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mpsee.php Still, it would give Labour the chance to demonstrate that the Lib Dems are essentially a party of the centre - right in a way that we are not, to renew our policies, and to reach out to those genuinely progressive MPs who have, by some mischance, ended up in the Lib Dems.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

The legislation would include a provision to allow any city or county with a population greater than 100,000 to block services by voting to «opt out.»

Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman from Texas» 32nd District, has for years blocked bipartisan legislation in the House to protect state - sanctioned medical marijuana vendors from federal crackdown, not letting it out of committee for a floor vote.

The Mayor should also point out how poorly NY State has handled the East Ramapo mess — avoiding taking on the fraudulent practices of a Board of Education that represents a significant voting block.

I knocked on over 5,000 doors and when you have a voting block five times the size of the number that came out, it's sad.»

County lawmakers voted narrowly Monday to be the first in New York to block the sale of tobacco products in any retail stores that also contain licensed pharmacies — a ban that survived the supermarket industry's efforts to stamp it out.

Rather than exercising a block vote, the party vote is shared out equally amongst the representatives of the party in the chamber.

And, they're speaking out against Senator John Bonacic (R - Mount Hope), who they allege has blocked the bill from coming to a vote.

Don't you believe that it is a citizens duty to go out and vote their preference — or are you like the NC, Wisconsin, Texas and Indiana TEApubs that are fighting like crazy to block access to the polls?

Betty Welch of Prospect Heights said she arrived at her local polling station ready to vote, only to find out that her block had been eliminated from the district.

Meanwhile Newell, infuriated by the outcome, pointed out if both counties had voted in a block, he would have secured the nomination.

The foreign secretary hit out at Conservative calls for a referendum, saying eight members of the Tory shadow Cabinet had blocked a public vote in the Maastricht treaty.

A full turn - out of Labour MPs would have prevented the government from blocking efforts at helping child refugees, according to an early analysis of last night's Commons vote.

After initially blocking the amendment, the speaker Michael Martin has put the Liberal Democrat's call for an «in or out» referendum on the EU to a Commons vote.

(c.) There was no block voting, members of affiliated orgs cast their own ballots for whomever they liked, they didn't vote collectively.And at the same time cuts union factional powerbrokers out of the equation.Kim, I'm not convinced this is entirely true.

Everyone who was in line by 8:30 got to vote, and when we left after the caucus (just after 8:30), the line weaved through the building, out the door and down the street for at least a couple of blocks.

With a voting block based on the Awardswatch forum community, the nominations run from eclectic and obscure (check out Best Supporting Actor) to mainstream in some of...

Last year, North Carolina legislators voted to phase out tenure, although that law was later blocked by a state judge.

Decisions are carried out only when everyone agrees not to block or sabotage implementation, as sometimes occurs when a vote is taken.

Essentially, while miners get a block reward for discovering new blocks, a percentage of each block reward will be sent to the so - called treasury to dole out to developers or projects the community chooses to vote for.

The morning after Ted Cruz dropped out of the 2016 presidential race, Senator Kelly Ayotte, who has voted to block patients from care at Planned Parenthood health centers, affirmed her support for Donald Trump as the GOP nominee.

Just days after an unimaginable tragedy at a Colorado Planned Parenthood health center, out - of - touch members of Congress voted to gut the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and block patients from accessing care at Planned Parenthood.

Paul Ryan and his out - of - touch allies — by a narrow vote of 217 to 213 — forced through their disastrous scheme to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and block patients from accessing birth control and cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers.