Sentences with phrase «white voters in»

Unlike the mayor's election two years earlier, this one divided sharply along racial lines, with a majority of the predominantly white voters in wards one, two, three, and six favoring the charter amendment.

But Schroeder has triumphed merely by pulling even with Brown among white voters in this late stage of the race.

Arizona appeared more promising, officials said, because of its combination of Mormons, Hispanics and Native Americans and because the officials found white voters in Georgia to be more resistant to Mrs. Clinton.

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

An October Quinnipiac poll found that 74 % of white voters in Queens and 79 % in Staten Island opposed his re-election.

While Mr. Bloomberg remains a figure of controversy within the Democratic base, he commands deep respect in communities where Mr. de Blasio has struggled: among upscale Manhattanites and white voters in general, and with business leaders and philanthropic organizations.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

After attributing their presidential loss in 2000 in part to the assault weapons ban, Democrats shied away from gun control talk in order to avoid alienating rural voters, particularly blue collar white males.

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

«We as Democrats have to have a stronger economic message that appeals to Midwest and white blue - collar voters,» says Democratic pollster Celinda Lake in an email.

Despite nearly equal voter turnout — black turnout was slightly less than white turnout in 2008 but exceeded white turnout in 2012, 66 % to 64 % — the gap between party loyalty and policy output is wide for black voters.

The claim made by black voters in both states is that Republicans packed districts with more reliably Democratic black voters than necessary to elect their preferred candidates, making neighboring districts whiter and more Republican.

China can not claim the moral high ground on trade matters; in fact, there is a strong case to be made that American voters» resentment of China's unfair trade practices is what put Trump in the White House in the first place.

And given Clinton's weakness in polls among non-college educated, white, working - class voters, that's entirely possible.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

Among white voters, roughly three in 10 said they had been targeted by Trump get - out - the - vote efforts; the same share said they had been targeted by Clinton.

The proposal from the president, two months after voters booted his party from control of the Senate, reflects the White House's newfound confidence in the economy.

After routing Clinton in New Hampshire and finishing a strong second in Iowa, states with nearly all - white populations, Nevada's Democratic caucuses gave Sanders his first chance to prove he can win over black and Hispanic voters and compete nationally as the race moves to states with more diverse populations.

The California congresswoman also claimed in July of that year that Romney intentionally drew boos during his address before the NAACP, and suggested that the former governor wanted to use the image of black people heckling him to curry favor with white voters.

And support was tepid even among white voters with no college degree: 42 per cent were in favour, 40 per cent were opposed.

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

But the most interesting divide is over how Democrats should relate to white working - class voters who supported President Trump in 2016.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

They think voters are fed up with the chaos in the White House and Trump's behavior, and that will matter more when voters enter the polls than the level of the stock market or how many jobs there are.

Not just that, but Trump won 81 percent of white born - again and evangelical Christian voters in 2016, and they might not take too well to being inundated with stories about Trump's alleged affair with a porn star.

Libertarian Gary Johnson's plan for capturing the White House hinges on voters following through on polls suggesting they dislike the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees more than in any election year in history.

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..

About 73 percent of white evangelical voters said they would vote for Romney in 2012, while 78 percent stand behind Trump today.

Thing is, white, male, married conservatives over the age of 45 are not a majority in this country, or even a majority of voters.

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

According to Pew, half of white evangelical voters (52 %) think Trump would be a good / great president, while 3 in 10 think he would be a poor / terrible president (29 %).

«A strong values narrative attracted many in 2008, including many religious voters who had long eluded the Democrats,» the Rev. Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical who advises the Obama White House, wrote in an election analysis memo on Wednesday.

He did, however, appeal to many less - educated voters in the white working class who hadn't previously taken much interest in politics.

Rose... I can show you my voter registration card... lifelong Dem... but the idiot in the White House is destroying this country.

While half of white evangelical voters (52 %) think Trump would be a good / great president, 3 in 10 think he would be a poor / terrible president (29 %).

«For example, the gap among voting blocs that gave a B or better to the Republicans versus the Democrats was greater among white evangelicals than all other religious groups and all voters, as reported in these data,» he wrote.

Meanwhile, more than a quarter of white evangelical voters gave him a failing grade of a D or F. Trump's overall campaign grade is the lowest among any presidential candidate — winning or losing — since Pew began collecting data in 1988.

Among white evangelicals voters — one of Trump's strongest demographics — one in five (20 %) graded the president - elect's conduct during the campaign at an A, while a plurality (31 %) gave him a B, according to new Pew Research Center data provided to CT..

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

While the Religious Right had been in cardiac arrest, at the last minute white evangelical voters wheeled in the crash cart and restored its rhythms.

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.

Just as candidate Trump pledged to say «Merry Christmas» in his White House, rather than President Obama's tepid «Happy Holidays,» and just as he promised to choose an anti-Roe justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Trump's «We want God» assured religious voters that he would not apologize for his faith nor deny that it would play a role in his decision - making.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.

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.»

Independent, white, single, woman voter, in the swing state of Nevada, still swinging towards OBAMA!

The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again&raqwhite supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again&raqWHITE again»).

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.