Sentences with phrase «voting states like»

That campaign kick - off started Mr Trump's steady rise to the top of the Republican presidential pack among Republican voters nationally and in key early - voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire.

I'll be interested to see how voting patterns worked in early voting states like mine.

Not exact matches

Teamsters President Jim Hoffa sounded resigned to the right - to - work measure's passage, in a statement released shortly after the vote, but promised a voter backlash like those seen in other Midwest states.

Trump won many votes in industrial states like Michigan and Pennsylvania with a pledge to boost manufacturing and crack down on Chinese trade practices.

Audacity - the fact that Obama wasn't afraid to «redefine his target audience» and go after states like Indiana who this November voted for a Democrat for the first time in 44 years.

It's true that the activist investors on the Exxon vote likely include heavy hitters like financial firms BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (though the specific votes are not made public), which are the company's biggest shareholders, owning more than 18 percent of the stock.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Their votes could be critical in a key state like Florida, where Jews make up 4.6 % of the population.

Numbers can't be established for a «national popular vote» (even one based on a fiction) under a state - by - state system like ours unless all the states have their act together.

On the other hand, it seems like tribalism to vote for someone just because they are from the same religion, or the same state, or even the same party.

Well, it seems to me that a «great deal» of them sure like to, hmmm... «state their opinions» on whose the best candidate, what are the «correct» answers when voting on propositions, etc...

I Republicans should start «promoting the vote» like our Democratic state congressman in Alabama who specifically targetted the black vote by buying them cheap bottles of vodka.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

Sanders also cited the oft - stated civil rights positions of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, who like Douglas was called upon to vote on cases that concerned issues that were personally important to him.

What if Slavery was put on the Ballot for a Vote, state by state would it of passed???? You can vote on civil rights, and the Supreme Court will finally have to legalize it, just like they did when Blacks could not marry out of their race as recent as 1971 in some staVote, state by state would it of passed???? You can vote on civil rights, and the Supreme Court will finally have to legalize it, just like they did when Blacks could not marry out of their race as recent as 1971 in some stavote on civil rights, and the Supreme Court will finally have to legalize it, just like they did when Blacks could not marry out of their race as recent as 1971 in some states.

Sixty percent of Catholics in Wisconsin support the state marriage amendment, much higher than in a state like Virginia (where Catholics voted «no» 48 percent to 52 percent).

Soooo... by that logic Peter all laws barring discrimination or hate crimes should be removed... Let's go back to the time when women and black people can't vote because the ruling party in their state (like mine, Arizona) says their flavor of bigotry is ok.

With an ingredient list like that, it's no wonder they've been voted the # 1 bread in Europe and the United States!

Before diving into the current state of affairs, we'd like to also Congratulate the 2014 Chicago Men's All - Star Team and MVP ** (as voted on by the Players in the Chicago Men's League).

He had helped the Buckeyes win the Big Ten title, but they were denied a trip to the Rose Bowl because Ohio State's faculty council, fearful that the players were becoming too much like «pros,» voted that year to keep them at home.

Just like Kentucky and USC, Marquette will tangle with a team getting votes in their barn when MU visits Wichita State on September 3rd as part of a tournament hosted by the Shockers.

«Each year 12,500 school children from different regions of the United States read newly published children's and young adults» trade books and vote for the ones they like best.

I'd like to see non partisan elections in New York State or instant run - off voting at the general election.

We need voices like Julie Killian's in the State Senate and we encourage voters in the 37th Senate district to vote for Julie Killian on April 24th.»

These range from things like exercising your right to vote, being able to get a job, to marry, to raise your children or even to live free from persecution of the state.

E.g. Michigan was expected to be solidly in Clinton's basket, but in places like Detroit the Clinton vote was less huge than expected, leading to Trump winning that State.

On the «R» side, it's even «worse» (depending on your point of view), with several - mostly lefter - NorthEast state representing - Republicans like Collins who might sometimes be mistaken for Democrats in some of their views / votes.

«We will vote for a president who is humble, handsome, tolerant and peaceful like John Mahama,» he stated.

There's a reasonable case here, particularly in states like Britain or Australia where wage determination and conditions of labour were highly politicised for a long period of time, and the politicisation had deep system wide effects such as the general wage level, return to labour, and a proxy of power stronger than parliamentary votes.

Party leaders even debated holding the vote to decide on their standard bearer on the very first day they gather at the Sheraton in Manhattan — June 1 — with down - ballot races like AG and state comptroller bumped to the second or even third day.

That is, let's say that there was a constitutional amendment in place that, instead of abolishing the electoral college, required that the votes be split in each state (somewhat like ME and NE but simpler.)

By contrast, the unit rule (by which states award all their electoral votes to the plurality winner in the state) that 48 states employ under the electoral college encourages third parties, especially regional candidates like Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968.

You do not know how many more votes would have been cast, and who they would have gone to, in states like California and New York, if people had known that their votes would count in the end result.

Liberals often claim that while there may be other forms of voter fraud in the United States, like voter registration fraud, the only kind of voter fraud that a voter ID law can possibly prevent is in - person voter fraud (where someone shows up at a polling station and votes when they're not legally permitted), and that there have been almost no documented cases of someone committing intentional in - person voter fraud in the United States.

And, these states both tend to vote Democratic and also demonstrably underwrite the low - tax policies of places like Alabama, etc..

Under the banner of «Advancing the Democracy Agenda,» the governor's 14 - point plan lays out a familiar suite of reforms, including ethics proposals that «close the LLC loophole» in political spending, procurement reform that would more closely monitor how state contracts are awarded and voting reforms like same - day voter registration and early voting.

Changes like early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, or same day registration to make it easier for people to vote are commonplace in other states, but are resisted in New York.

Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

We know from states that have already implemented early voting that communities like mine, with a larger percentage of low income individuals, are among those most impacted by early voting.

Like many blue - state Republicans, he voted against it primarily because of the new law's curtailment of the federal exemption for state and local taxes, a change that Cuomo has described in his letter as «an economic missile launched at the heart of the State of New York.&rstate Republicans, he voted against it primarily because of the new law's curtailment of the federal exemption for state and local taxes, a change that Cuomo has described in his letter as «an economic missile launched at the heart of the State of New York.&rstate and local taxes, a change that Cuomo has described in his letter as «an economic missile launched at the heart of the State of New York.&rState of New York.»

While there are two Long Island races still being counted that could change things, it appears that Republicans will continue their hold on the state Senate, putting a dent in de Blasio's hopes for voting reform and other priorities, like a lengthy extension of mayoral control of city schools.

The state's current budget expires on March 31, but given the Easter and Passover holidays, lawmakers have said they would like to wrap up their final votes by Thursday.

«The governor would like nothing better than to see progressives fight amongst themselves,» WFP's state political director Bill Lipton said following the vote.

Our state's lack of early voting, makes it challenging for voters like me, juggling college and work schedules, to cast a ballot.

It's also not a perfect relationship as there are states with high gdp per capita and relatively low vote power like Connecticut as well as states with low gdp per capita and high votes like Arkansas and Idaho, but it is interesting that 4 out of the 5 states with the highest gdp per capita are in the top 6 in terms of value of their vote.

What readily comes to mind at the mention of ROPAA or diaspora voting is enfranchising Ghanaian citizens in United Kingdom, the United States of America and other civilized nations in Europe, not African countries like Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Gambia etc..

«The President should know that there is trouble; if things continue like this, in the next election, nobody will vote for him,» the cleric had stated.

De Blasio, a Democrat running for reelection this year, has called for reforms like early voting and same - day voter registration that have stalled in the state capital.

In January, Cuomo outlined the «Democracy Project» as part of his 2017 State of the State agenda, and included its widely prized measures like early voting, same - day voter registration, and an enhanced form of automatic voter registration in one of his budget bills.

«It splits its ticket like no other town I've ever seen,» he said, noting that in 2016, Amherst cast its presidential vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton while turning to Republican Michael H. Ranzenhofer for state Senate.