Sentences with phrase «voting blocs ahead»

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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.

Assembly Democrats constitute the largest bloc of votes, and looking ahead to the general election, Democrats handily outnumber Republicans statewide, making it highly likely that a Democrat will succeed Schneiderman.

Some Democrats head - shakingly acknowledged that Republicans would come out ahead in both districts, including one where incumbent Sen. Michael Venditto trailed by 33 votes when the polls closed, which would give them a 32 - vote bloc in the 63 seat chamber.

MEPs will vote on Tuesday to decide whether to go ahead with plans that supporters say will save the bloc's emissions trading scheme

And the political economy of a large retiree voting bloc that will pay attention with laser focus to this single issue is going to make it tough to fix in a democracy unless we get ahead of it now and tell people in their fifties and younger that these promises can not and will not be kept and to make other arrangements.