Sentence examples for voter block from inspiring English sources

Today's distracted libertarians are tomorrow's dependable voter block.

Sweden pioneered a system in which pensions are linked to contributions.The old are a powerful voter block, feared by politicians.

While that is hardly a vast voter block, other Republicans are also doing the arithmetic, among them Senator Gordon H. Smith of Oregon.

His running-mate Mitt Romney won just 27% of Hispanics, the country's fastest-growing voter block, after talking tough on immigration to win the presidential primary (Mr Romney wanted laws of such ferocity that illegals would "self-deport" in despair).

Amid tough austerity measures, the preservation of free bus travel for dukes as well as dustmen is blatant pandering to a voter block feared by ministers for its healthy sense of entitlement, for having the free time to organise protests and write letters of complaint, and for its higher-than-average propensity to turn out and vote.But Mr Osborne's offence was still cowardice.

Canada border?" have as much to do with immigration politics as they do with the fact that Latinos are no longer that little-known 2.5 million person voter block concentrated largely in California and Texas in 1980.

And in a melting-pot democracy, different communities understandably stick together as voter blocks, at least for a little while.

America's non-white voter blocks have grown and Latinos in particular show an intensifying distaste for Republicans, to the point that just 27% of Hispanics voted for Mr Romney last November.

He seems willing to wager that the breadth of his voter alliance trumps the intensity of a conservative movement that though united as rarely before draws its strength from voter blocks in relative or absolute decline, whether white voters, rural Americans or social conservatives.

Above all, the event offered a snapshot of the voter blocks being targeted by the two candidates a fortnight ahead of election day.Judging by Mr Romney's answers, he is confident that his conservative base is fired up and ready to vote, and so can afford to tack smartly to the centre in search of rustbelt voters worried about jobs lost to China.

(This difference of view has deep roots: several southern European languages talk of "disloyal" competition when English uses the term "unfair").In other debt-ridden Western countries, including much of the euro zone, vested interests and tribal voter blocks are hunkering down to resist reforms and defend dwindling privileges.