Sentences with phrase «with black votes»

The Blank - Out Campaign would disrupt the idea that democracy rests primarily in putting someone in office, and allow us to reject the game that both political parties play with black votes.

The senate Republicans see no upside with the black vote, thus the proposed map drawn by the NAACP in Westchester - Bronx and Manhattan was ignored.

Not exact matches

But black votes for Obama were inconsequential in preventing Alabama's nine electoral votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama in that state with 60 % of the vote.

Black voters rewarded Truman and the Democratic Party that November, providing him with the pivotal votes he needed in a razor - thin victory over Republican Thomas Dewey.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

He even asked if they are cool with a VP like Palin and guess what, black people still said they would vote for Obama.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

He has, in his lifetime, sided with those who would choose to discriminate and suppress the Black vote during the Nixon administration but I forgave him because what I know more than anything else is that Billy Graham is a MAN.

Black folks please read the evil words towards christians here by radical dems and come home to the party of lincoln who freed ur people from slaves, u can vote for herman cain, hes at the top of all polls now with repubs

The Civil Rights Bill had recently been passed by Congress, and, along with other students from the North, I was in Mississippi helping blacks register to vote.

Not all did so with enthusiasm, and for that matter, Trump received a higher percentage of black and Hispanic votes than did his predecessors, Republican candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain.

«I don't know what kind of a n --- wouldn't vote with a black man running,» he also told the audience in the St. James Baptist Church in Forsyth, Ga., according to the paper.

I have visions now of angry Southerners blocking gay couples from entering the courthouses to marry just as they did with blacks who wanted to vote.

For some strange idiotic reason, people think that the Black vote is one big block vote as they do with the Latino vote.

Pew reported that in the 2012 presidential election, 95 percent of black Protestants voted for Obama, compared with 20 percent of white evangelicals.

Men called bishops in the church of God [have] voted against having any fellowship in the church with black men.»

It was not freedom for workers to organize trade unions, for blacks to vote, for aboriginal peoples to retain their lands, or for women to have equal rights with men.

As a brand we're very proud to be putting a spotlight on these talented and driven business people and we can't wait to see how the public respond with their votes,» said Richard Black, Global Brand Director, Chivas Regal.

The black kit won 30 % of the vote, with 28 % choosing the red one.

Coming on the heels of Elinor Tatum's warning in The Amsterdam News that Cuomo is risking losing the black vote come November with his aloofness and coupled with the Paladino campaign's relentless hammering of the AG for ducking debates and the criticism on national TV from his old rival, Eliot Spitzer, this has got to be weighing heavily on Cuomo.

As the Obama presidency has unfolded, it seems it has been a mixture of both; nevertheless, the fact that Obama did not run for election as a Black candidate (despite winning over 90 % of the votes of the African American community) but rather ran a strategically race - neutral campaign is a testament to the complicated relationship the United States has with race.

With that in mind, Democrats aren't skimping on the Get Out The Vote operation: the Jones campaign and liberal groups are working desperately to encourage Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic black voters to go to the polls, regardless of past disappointment and present voter suppression.

In NAACP v. Harris, a class - action, Blacks argued that over 57,000 Black voters were wrongfully purged from Florida's voting lists and that Black communities were provided with defective voting mechanisms.

Despite the recent attempt by the Cuomo campaign at a rapprochement with the Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent black leader publicly announced over the weekend that he will be voting for NYC Councilman Charles Barron for governor on the Freedom Party line.

The African - American vote has become a major focus during this national election with the presence of the first serious black contender, Barack Obama.

As I have mentioned in previous posts, NY - 4 is much more competitive with the removal of 30,000 black, Hispanic and Asians voting age residents.

He uses her story to dramatise how much America has changed - votes for women and blacks, World War Two, man on the moon, that sort of thing - always cutting in with the phrase «yes we can».

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is planning to campaign with the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner as she and Sanders battle it out for the black vote.

Despite the controversy Mr. Donovan courted in December when a grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer in the death of Garner, a black man, the district attorney is still relatively popular in the borough and with party insiders, sources say.

The stepped - up effort comes in the wake of two polls showing Spitzer with massive leads over Stringer, largely on the strength of the black vote.

Some polls show a tight race with Stringer handily carrying the white vote and also way ahead among blacks.

«If Baroness Warsi thinks that AV will benefit fascism she has to explain why the BNP wants to stick with what we have and Operation Black Vote supports AV,» Mr Huhne said.

Astorino has been trying to duplicate his noteworthy success in attracting minority votes as the Westchester County executive by meeting with influential black ministers in WNY.

In 1936, Roosevelt became the first Democrat to win the black vote (at least since the Civil War), with 71 %.

Broken down by gender, religion and race: women are 53 percent of the gubernatorial electorate, white Catholics are at a 33 - 35 percent share, Jewish voters cast a 12 - 13 percent of the total vote, with minority voters (the aggregate of black, Hispanic, Asian and bi-racial New Yorkers) at between a 27 - 30 percent share in gubernatorial elections.

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.

Chippenham constituency's Wilfred Emmanuel - Jones is quoted in David Matthews» piece:» «The Labour Party has had the black vote for over 50 years and what have they done with it?

After Cuomo picked a white man to be his running mate even with zero blacks running on the Democratic slate this year for any statewide office, Barron felt that the Democrats were taking the black vote for granted and created his own «Freedom Party.»

They also won the seat of former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, overturning a majority of 23,009 to win by a majority of 9,974 votes and saw Mhairi Black, then a 20 - year - old student, defeat Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander with a swing of 26.9 %.

To get traction in vote - rich, predominantly black neighborhoods in central Brooklyn and southeast Queens, Stringer would need to harness dissatisfaction with de Blasio's record on police reform and housing.

But Dustin Reidy, who recently started a voter outreach group called NY 19 Votes, said the district could succeed with someone, man or woman, black or white, «who can really connect with voters by talking about the bottom line — wages, pocketbook issues.»

Former Obama Administration advisor Clyde Williams, like Wright a Harlem resident, finished with more than 10 percent of the vote, worrying Wright supporters that Williams» presence in the race split the vote in the black community.

Cuomo said that nearly three - fourths of parolees in New York are black or Latino, and allowing parolees to vote will help them to reconnect with the community.

But the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, charged with making sure that seat deficit doesn't grow any larger, is hoping to mobilize the same coalition of votes — specifically black voters — who propelled Obama to election and reelection to boost their candidates this fall.

The health care workers» union 1199 SEIU has already hailed the «three really good candidates» in the race: Mr. Rangel, Mr. Espaillat, and another challenger, Pastor Mike Walrond — a black candidate whom many believe could compete with Mr. Rangel for votes.

«The governor has overwhelming support in the African - American community but that doesn't mean he should take any African - American votes for granted,» said Charlie King, an adviser to Mr. Cuomo who has helped with black outreach, «And I know that he won't.»

CHESTERTOWN The Chester Town Board voted unanimously to spend $ 47,700 for a three - year contract with Bioconservation, Inc., for treating for black fly larvae in local waterways.

NYC Votes, the engagement campaign wing of the city's Campaign Finance Board, spearheaded the registration drive in partnership with City Councilmember Helen Rosenthal, the Department of Education (DOE), the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), The Black Institute, and Dominicanos USA.

In an effort to appeal beyond the Dominican vote, Alcantra's campaign has been targeting women regardless of their ethnicity or geography in campaign mailers in the district, as well as black voters, according to a person familiar with the campaign's operations.