Bovay also believed that the name would attract immigrant voters that had recently fled monarchies.
In several large cities, Democrats fraudulently registered thousands of immigrant voters to stuff the ballot box for Polk.
A recent registration drive by the New York Immigration Coalition signed up 225,000 immigrant voters.
Also contributing to Polk's victory was the support of new immigrant voters, who opposed the Whigs' policies.
At the outset, the bargain between the Democratic machine and the immigrant voter could not have been more pragmatic.
He added that the club wanted to register a large number of immigrant voters.
It appealed to working-class and immigrant voters.
She also aggressively courts immigrant voters, filling her weekends with visits to West Indian festivals and interviews on local radio shows.
Conservatives often worry that Democrats will inflate their vote count with fraudulent or illegal immigrant voters.
More than 200,000 new Soviet immigrant voters will clearly have an impact on the nation's politics.