Sentence examples for native electorate from inspiring English sources
In 1894 Rhodes introduced the Glen Grey Act, which wrested large swaths of land from black people — and tweaked the country's voting laws to disenfranchise much of "native" electorate.
Ultimately the 42-year-old Charlottesville native and former diplomat was not able to expand the electorate enough to offset Northam's advantage with more consistent Democratic voters, including many black Virginians and seniors.
In the decade and a half between Clinton's presidential win in 1992 and Obama's win in 2008, the number of black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American voters soared to nearly one quarter of the nation's electorate.
In the past decade the number of black, Hispanic, Asian and Native-American voters has leaped to nearly one quarter of the nation's electorate.
There were audible guffaws of the "ooooooh... burn" variety off-camera, and Cruz was visibly upset by the charge, leading to an embarrassing and comical "oh I speak Spanish pandejo" retort in the native tongue that was largely laughed off by Rubio, and likely any member of the electorate paying attention to the debate and expecting a modicum of seriousness.
"If you could get people to turn out at a rate that reflects their percentage of the electorate... we'd be neck-and-neck right now," said Julie Martinez Ortega, a San Antonio native and pollster for PowerPAC, one of more than a dozen groups working to turn the state Democratic.
"He parsed the electorate.
How dissatisfied was the electorate?
