Sentences with phrase «house seat race»

Not exact matches

But political analysts tracking the races say that only a relatively small number of races — fewer than 50 House seats and just a handful of Senate races — are truly competitive.

The Republican frontrunner in the race to fill House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat in Wisconsin's 1st District raised more than $ 250,000 during the first week of his campaign.

Based on past races, that's not even enough to win the average House seat.

Even before The New York Times reported that the White House was considering running Sessions as a write - in candidate, it would've been pretty hard to avoid the elephant in the room: the accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the race to fill Sessions's old seat.

Dems win key race in swing district: «Outspent but not outmaneuvered, Democrat Javier Fernandez took Florida's 114th House district Tuesday, keeping the purple Miami - Dade seat in the fold for the state's surging minority party.

The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles «Lefty» Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that «opinion polls consistently show only about 5 % of blacks have sensible political opinions,» that «if you have ever been robbed by a black teen - aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet - footed they can be,» and that black representative Barbara Jordan is «the archetypical half - educated victimologist» whose «race and sex protect her from criticism.»

The White House didn't want to open up Cotton's Arkansas Senate seat after the GOP's shocking loss in the Alabama Senate race and other special elections.

There are, we know, a number of interesting races going on across the province this election cycle, but one of the more compelling ones is the contest for the seat in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundr...

But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread.

Since retiring, both Bradley (who, last November, was a losing candidate in the race for a seat in the Utah House of Representatives) and Donaldson (who lost Seattle's mayoral race in 2009) have become aspiring politicians, of all things, willing subjects of even more intense public scrutiny.

Every seat in the house was sold for the 500, with an estimated total attendance of 115,000, which would be a record for a stock car race.

New enrollment figures from the state Board of Elections show that in 11 NY House seats, the difference between enrolled Democrats and Republicans is less than 40,000, which means a number of tight congressional races this fall.

Cantor predicted a slew of contested races at the local, state and federal levels in the coming year (recall that all the House and state legislative seats will be up for grabs with new district lines, which further boosts the possibility of competitive contests).

I wrote yesterday about House Speaker John Boehner's diss of Wendy Long when he said there's no «significant» US Senate race in New York — a factor that could hurt down - ballot Republican congressional candidates who are fighting to retain their seats or oust incumbent Democrats.

California Rep. Darrell Issa became the 30th House Republican to announce he won't seek re-election this fall, and the race for his seat remains a toss - up — for now.

The race for the House seat held by Republican incumbent Claudia Tenney is one of a handful of battleground races around the state.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.

Democrats see it as a top - tier pickup opportunity, a rare open - seat House race in a tossup district that President Barack Obama won twice.

He is seen as increasingly vulnerable in this campaign due to the growing Latino majority in his district and his 2010 censure by the House for multiple ethics violations and has attracted four challengers in this race; Mr. Espaillat, former Democratic National, onetime Democratic District Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an independent.

Tenney faces Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi in the central New York House seat that is considered one of the top battleground races this fall.

Republican Rep. John Katko, the Central New York freshman who is fighting to hold onto his seat in one of the most competitive House races in the nation, is out with his fourth TV ad, which questions the ability of his opponent, Colleen Deacon, to act independently of the Democratic conference if she's elected in November.

State Sen. Paul Doyle of Wethersfield is running for attorney general this year, opening up races for local House and Senate seats.

Former White House staffer Elise Stefanik, who is the GOP nominee in the open - seat race for New York's 21st District.

Tea Party candidates were less successful in the 2012 election, winning four of 16 Senate races contested, and losing approximately 20 % of the seats in the House that had been gained in 2010.

Although Mr. Ofosu Ampofo has opted out of the race and replaced with one Lawyer James Enu, the NPP risks losing the seat, if it fails to put its house in order.

Katko's seat has been targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a significant race this fall in a broader effort to regain majority control of the House of Representatives.

Qualifying for the seat wrapped up last week and the field is among the most crowded of any of the state's U.S. House races, according to the Associated Press.

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«This is a tight race and a difficult seat, and we are committed to hanging onto it,» said Matt Thornton, a spokesman for House Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC aiding Brownley's re-election.

Wethersfield state Sen. Paul Doyle has officially entered the race for attorney general, shaking up races in Middletown, Rocky Hill and Wethersfield for Democrats as other officials pursue Senate and House seats.

And four additional female candidates lost open - seat House primary races in Georgia, West Virginia, and California.

Tuesday features intriguing Republican and Democratic primaries at the House and Senate levels across six states, including a still - unpredictable Georgia GOP Senate race and an open - seat Democratic House contest in Philadelphia.

But his decision is likely to make New York's 22nd District one of the most competitive House races in the nation next year for an open seat in a traditionally moderate swing district.

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We will be covering elections in the 435 U.S. House seats as well as the 33 U.S. Senate races.

Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.

-- Sen. Greg Ball reconsiders his decision not to primary Rep. Nan Hayworth in NY - 19 because he has little to lose, given his ability to run for his Senate seat if the House race doesn't go his way.

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New York's 3rd District becomes the seventh Democratic seat on our list of competitive House races, compared to 25 seats on the chart currently held by Republicans.

Drost ran unsuccessfully for state office, losing races for the 60th House District and the 2nd Senate District seats.

The hotly contested governor's race has captured most of the headlines, but the party also will nominate a slate of candidates for other statewide offices, as well as U.S. House and Senate seats.

Republican candidate and state Sen. Tom Campbell announced Wednesday he will drop out of the race to fill North Dakota's House seat and endorsed one of his primary opponent challengers.

The race for eastern Long Island's congressional seat looks a lot like a miniature version of the race for the White House.

This disparity is tied to the Democrats» inefficient distribution of their votes — primarily resulting from the Democratic vote being naturally more concentrated, and in some cases (such as in North Carolina, where Democrats won four of 13 seats while winning the statewide popular vote in House races) due to gerrymandered maps.

A vast majority of the Democrats winning U.S. House seats (almost 90 % of winners, with a number of races yet to be called), including Patrick Murphy (who knocked off incumbent Republican Allen West in FL - 18), Cheri Bustos (who knocked off an incumbent Republican Bobby Schilling in IL - 17), and Sean Patrick Maloney (who knocked off an incumbent Republican Nan Hayworth in NY - 18)

Housing activist Harvey Epstein is also a candidate in the race to fill Kavanagh's empty Assembly seat.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

The poll comes as all three candidates for vying for the open House seat that's being vacated by Republican Rep. Richard Hanna, a moderate lawmaker who has not endorsed in the race.

The incident occurred a day before voters head to the polls in the hotly contested race for the at - large House seat.

The three - way race for the NY - 22 seat of retiring Rep. Richard Hanna has turned into an $ 8.8 million battle, making it one of the most expensive House races in New York, new federal campaign finance records show.