Sentences with phrase «voting blocs with»

Since then, this strategy has become a staple of US politics as state legislators redraw voting blocs with tortuous creativity.The two predominant approaches to gerrymandering are often referred to as packing and cracking.

Sharon Belton - Cottman and Theresa Harris - Tigg — who have been part of a voting bloc with Nevergold — will serve as vice presi...

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The March 4 vote produced deadlock, with a conservative bloc including the far - right League and Silvio...

The center - left bloc, including the ruling Democratic Party (PD) which took a drubbing in the vote, was seen with 23 percent of the vote.

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.

(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.

But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

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.

The GOP establishment is terrified that Trump, with his intemperate remarks about Mexican «murderers» and «rapists,» will make Hispanics another monolithically Democratic voting bloc.

Finally suppose those same people, organized around this shared delusion, formed a voting bloc which exerted political pressure to organize your government and laws in accordance with those of the wizarding world and was large enough and vocal enough that elected officials could not attain office without pandering to it.

It demonstrated that one of the largest and most cohesive voting blocs is married couples with children.

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.

Cuomo leads 87 - 8 among his fellow Democrats while Paladino leads 83 - 13 with his fellow Republicans and 49 - 43 percent among the all - important independent voters, who could end up being a key swing voting bloc.

A recent Siena poll found Hanna trailing Arcuri by just eight percentage points, but 14 points behind him with independent voters, who could prove to be a crucial swing voting bloc.

Andrew Cuomo is back on the campaign trail today, with a scheduled book - ended by religion - related stops to woo more of the key traditional Democratic voting blocs.

She is now trailing all of her Republican challengers with that crucial voting bloc.

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.

New York's 213 state legislators are tasked with appointing a new attorney general; Heastie leads a bloc of 104 Democratic votes.

Republicans and Democrats are split almost evenly in the Senate, but eight Democrats who call themselves the Independent Democratic Conference have made themselves the key voting bloc by choosing, when it suits them, to vote with the Republicans.

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.

The focus from liberal advocates has been on the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which remains a key bloc of votes in the Senate chamber and has in the past worked in a majority coalition with Senate Republicans.

DiNapoli's strongest supporter, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is an Orthodox Jew and will do doubt also be doing his part to assist his former conference member with that particular voting bloc.

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.

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.

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».

With a bloc of 22 votes, the Democrats would be able to block a veto override in the Senate, should it come to that.

He also says Clinton might help Obama with key Democratic voting blocs.

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.

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.

Multiple sources told Politicker that Mr. Seddio this morning cut a deal directly with Mr. de Blasio and that his members — combined with support from the progressive bloc — give Ms. Mark - Viverito all the votes she needs.

While Quinn's «fingerprints» are on several bills, the power to coax another colleague to introduce her legislation mitigates any backlash from core voting blocs and curries favor with fellow Council members, according to Quinn's spox.

Williams, who is African - American and the son of Grenadian immigrants, has some advantages with name recognition in New York City, a key voting bloc in the Democratic primary.

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.

Day impressed political insiders when he parlayed discontent with the status quo and resistance to the dominance of the Ramapo «bloc vote» into a convincing win vs. Democrat David Fried for county executive in 2013.

Johnson said the CBC and black voters should use their leverage as a voting bloc to work with Trump instead of always toeing the Democratic line and being taken for granted by party leaders.

The Rockland political class of the latter 20th century and early 21st century grew accustomed to trading patronage jobs and making deals with voting blocs.

Odinga is associated with the Luo voting bloc, which has never produced a head of state.

-- Lack of representation, with existing political leaders catering to special interest groups that can provide bloc votes.

Day aligned with Preserve Ramapo (now Preserve Rockland) and campaigned against the political establishment and specifically against the Ramapo bloc vote.

The Democrats, as you'll recall, didn't cast any votes for Tier VI — with the exception of the four - member IDC, which voted no in a bloc — because they walked out of the chamber to protest the redistricting bill.

With 4,942 members, Democrats represent the city's largest voting bloc, making the winner of next week's contest the odds - on favorite in November when they'll face Republican Ron Polacco in the general election.

A deal on public campaign finance, though, seems mathematically impossible: even if — and it's a big if — Cuomo was able to broker the reunification of the five - member Independent Democratic Conference with the mainstream Democrats in the State Senate, they will together not have a 32 - vote bloc needed to control the chamber.

The Crossbenches rarely vote en bloc (although persuasive crossbenchers can bring with them supporters).

With the state Senate so closely divided, the IDC has become a vital swing bloc of votes for Republicans and Democrats.

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.

On WBEN's Hardline program with Dave Debo, Stokes argues that giving people better ballot access is important, while Hardwick suggested it is a way for Democrats in some states to stockpile votes with organized drives hosted by churches or other narrowly defined voting blocs.