Sentences with phrase «white vote»
But chasing the missing white vote, as such, is insufficient.
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In 2016, it seems likely that the polls missed a decrease in the African - American vote and an increase in the working white vote.
The national white vote followed the pattern that Henry Olsen detected in certain coal counties where Romney «won higher margins than John McCain did, on substantially lower turnout.»
(For instance, citations of a Lee Atwater quote about racial «dog whistles» by Republicans to get the Southern white vote, or a Lynden Johnson quote about Democrats using entitlement programs to get the African American vote.)
«These outsiders who were supporting the senator's campaign independent of the senator said that their goal was to suppress African - American and progressive white vote,» King said.
If the Academy really were a more diverse bunch, La La Land might be in more trouble, but if its main complaint is that it is «too white,» then that won't be enough to harm it among a mostly white voting body.
In 2016, the white identitarian Donald Trump won 57 percent of the white vote and... 28 percent of the Hispanic vote.
In 2012, Romney won 59 percent of the white vote and 27 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Any strategy that depends on winning over 60 percent of the white vote in order to squeak out a popular vote victory is fatally flawed.
Romney won the highest share of the white vote of any presidential candidate since George H. W. Bush won 60 percent in 1988.
Romney got about 1.4 million more white votes than McCain, but an even bigger reason for Romney's percentage gain was that Obama received millions fewer white votes in 2012 than in 2008.
Romney won 59 percent of the white vote compared to 55 percent for John McCain in 2008.
Know this... the republicans won over 60 % of the white vote and lost the election... this have never before happened.
Some polls show a tight race with Stringer handily carrying the white vote and also way ahead among blacks.
Behind the scenes, Woolas's advisers circulated emails discussing the «need... to explain to the white community how the Asians will take him out... If we don't get the white vote angry, he's gone.»
Anyone attempting to unseat him would likely need to win more than two - thirds of the white vote and close to half of the black and Latino vote, in a primary where 500,000 or fewer of the city's 4.5 million registered Democrats show up.
[46] A reply from Fitzpatrick said: «If we don't get the white vote angry he's gone.»
It could not be more clear why: Espada hopes to hold on by having Padernacht pull away as much of the white vote in riverdale from Rivera as possible, thus handing Espada a victory.
Iannece got the nod from the Queens Democratic Party, but the two Italian - American candidates split the white vote, allowing Kevin Kim to win the nomination.