She hastened to add that there were hardly enough in the latter group to make up a voting bloc in South Carolina.
Independents make up a significant bloc in this county; 23percentt of voters are not affiliated with either party, while 37.3percentt are registered Democrats and 39percentt Republicans.
Black voters make up a large bloc in the Democratic primary in South Carolina and will be increasingly significant to the Democrats as the US presidential contest moves from Iowa and New Hampshire to states more demographically diverse.
But in calling for the first layoffs since the early 1990's, Mr. Gulotta's administration was taking aim at what has long been considered a political sacred cow -- a 4,100-member Police Department, with 3,100 officers protected by a powerful union and popular with the Republican law-and-order voters who make up a significant bloc here.
A1 Young Liberians Crucial to Vote As democracy slowly spreads in Liberia, young men and women, members of a generation orphaned by conflict and AIDS, hardened by combat and often illiterate, make up a huge bloc of Liberia's voting public, no less than 40percentt.
Those worries are likely to embolden budget hawks — like the Blue Dog Democrats who make up a large bloc of votes within the House Democratic caucus — to push aggressively for tough new versions of the pay-as-you-go rules that imposed tight constraints on spending in the 1990s.
The key test for Clinton Tuesday was whether she could activate the broad coalition of voters who rejected her eight years ago the so-called "Obama coalition" comprised of black and Latino voters who make up a huge bloc of the Democratic primary electorate, especially in the South.
The bureaucracy of 30,000 workers, combined with their family members, make up a big political bloc that resists wage cuts or trimming of inefficient agencies.
With Mr. Erdogan still able to count on the support of religious conservatives, who make up a large voting bloc, few believe that his hold on power is in jeopardy.
He follows a long line of New York mayors who have made occasional trips to Israel in good times and bad, securing ties with Jews, who make up a significant voting bloc in municipal elections.
But developing nations, which make up a substantial voting bloc on the fund's board and double as borrowers, do not want to pay more for their loans or to agree to apply for help less often.
