Sentences with phrase «white voters»

Broken down by race, 90 percent of black voters, 71 percent of Latino voters and 52 percent of white voters said there was no excuse for the way police acted.

That rating breaks down by 78 — 15 percent among white voters, 51 — 39 percent among black voters and 58 — 26 percent among Hispanic voters.

Exit polls reported that four out of five white voters who self - identified as «evangelical» voted for him.

With two years to go before the 2017 mayoral election, 61 percent of white voters say he doesn't deserve another term.

«There is no better way to pick up blue - collar white voters than with outsourcing, and he walked right into it,» one Democratic operative said.

59 percent of white voters gave him the thumbs down and only 32 percent approve of his performance.

This is politics as personal experience — the absence of which is a luxury most white voters do not even know they enjoy.

The missing white voters were largely secular, working - class and economically stressed.

Second, the pool of white voters interviewed wasn't quite as Republican as the overall white electorate.

Consider this fact: Today's political earthquake is not the result of tensions between white voters and black, brown, or yellow.

There has been little change among white voters, 26 %, who see improvement compared with 29 % last fall.

For instance, 89 percent of white voters supported....

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

With white voters slipping from 87 % in 1992 to 72 % in 2012, the country is increasingly inundated with minorities whose political wings, with Democrat help, have taken flight to challenge the very people who brought them here.

The recent book Revolt on the Right (co-written by Robert Ford) showed that Ukip draw their support from a very clear demographic: the «left - behind» electorate of older, working - class white voters with few educational qualifications.

The poll found that the approval ratings are split among racial and residential lines, with 69 percent of white voters approving of the job the mayor's doing, while only 52 percent of black voters and 56 percent of Hispanic voters responded positively.

This would include the vast majority of those millions who have immigrated to the U.S. in the last thirty years (and their children), the overwhelming majority of the African - American community, and many white voters who are too young to remember the 1980s and whose parents did not socialize them into conservative politics.

Of course, Jones has been blitzing the airwaves too, but targeted targeted outreach can deliver specific messages to black Alabamans that might risk blowback from white voters if they were broadcast widely.

According to the exit polls Romney won white voters by 59 % to 39 % for Obama.

Obama lost big with such rural white voters, but won more votes from woman, minorities and others groups clustered in or near cities.

You: able to offset my key weakness among Southern white voters while also providing welcome government and / or policy experience.

Buoying the mayor's numbers is continued overwhelming support from black and Latino voters, Seventy - eight percent of black voters and 54 percent of Latino voters approve of the job de Blasio is doing, while white voters continue to disapprove of the mayor.

But 59 percent of white voters disapprove of the job de Blasio is doing.

«A revolution started in Virginia from college - educated white voters and an uprising began from people of color — both against Donald Trump,» Jesse Ferguson, a senior spokesperson on Hillary Clinton's campaign, previously told Business Insider.

Only 28 percent of whites approve of de Blasio versus 65 percent who don't, the lowest numbers among white voters since de Blasio took office.

If Trump is up by more than 15 points, he is likely not only to carry Indiana by double digits, but to do well among white voters overall.

While there has been little or no change among white voters on these questions, there has been an increase in African American and Latino voters who have a positive impression of de Blasio in each of these areas.

A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll on Tuesday showed Edwards leading Van Hollen 44 percent to 40 percent, with likely black voters favoring Edwards three to one and likely white voters backing Van Hollen by two to one.

Republicans who have to run statewide here are gritting their teeth because they know that while Trump has brought in the so - called silent majority — mostly disaffected white voters, many of whom lack a college education — his comments about Muslims, Mexicans and women could prompt offsetting damage.

Their object was clear; frighten enough white voters in outer boroughs to vote for Boris Johnson.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn, for instance, shares some of Mr. Weiner's penchant for direct talk and outspokenness, while Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is trying hard to win the outer - borough ethnic white voters that used to be part of Mr. Weiner's base.

Stringer dominates among white voters polled with 60 percent, while Spitzer does equally well among black voters at 61 percent.

I am white and I supported President Obama in both elections as did many other white voters so it wasen't just the black community that got President Obama elected..

After Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater, Southern white voters began their long exodus from the Democratic Party and African Americans became, once again, captive to one party.

Much punditry since the election has located the triumph of Trump in a backlash among poor, white voters against liberal urban elites.

Bouie argues that the median Latino voter is to the left of the median white voter.

Many liberal whites wanted to be rid of the culturally conservative, economically liberal, working - class white voters whom Democrats had courted in the previous decade.

Of great significance was the fact that two black Democratic candidates, David Dinkins in New York City and Douglas Wilder in Virginia, used their support for legalized abortion to persuade white voters that their politics were «moderate» and «mainstream.»

I'm dismayed at how little downright love white voters showed to Latinos, Muslims, the disabled, and others whom Trump mocked and ridiculed.

The point is to march through counties like this, reminding white voters and consumers the country is in turmoil, white supremacy is real, and the events in Charlottesville weren't a one - off.

Democrats COULD have embraced the law and highlighted people who were going to the doctor for the first time in years, many of whom were the lower - income white voters who've been fleeing the party in droves.

Majority minority districts were a reaction to states spreading out their African - American voters so that there were always more white voters in their voting districts.

Dean praised Balter for remaining «unbroken by the party insiders in Washington» and for running «the kind of bold, inclusive populist campaigns that will win in November, welcome in the New American Majority of people of color and progressive white voters, and help transform the country.»

There is little consensus among white voters about Cuomo: 40 % think he is trying to rid Albany of corruption, and 38 % report he is adding to the problem.

Also vying for the seat is Silver's 2008 challenger Paul Newell, who enjoys some name recognition among politically active white voters in the area.

Stacey Abrams, a Democrat running for governor of Georgia, is trying to win a statewide election in the Deep South without relying on conservative - leaning white voters.

In the 1968 election the Republican candidate Richard Nixon adopted the southern strategy and this was to try to appeal to the southern white voters due to the fact that they were disenchanted with the now progressive Democrats.

In the last two elections, Rangel has also faced challenges from African - American candidates looking to tap into discontent among his core group of black supporters in Central Harlem and white voters moving into the district.

and when democrats gerrymander districts to get minorities elected, why did that not disenfranchise white voters living in those districts?