Sentences with phrase «republican landslide»

Yet it was not enough to save Democrats from a Republican landslide.

After claiming that the gay - marriage rights battle would lead to a Republican landslide in Albany next year, the former mayor seems to back off his claims.

Some of this can be pinned on the RockRep stylings of Nixon and Ford, but the catharsis was Carter; and Carter meant a Republican landslide, not on account of the decisive defeat of Freak Power by Orthogonians Everywhere but because the political economy was crumbling and crumbling on a Dem's Beltway - centric watch.

Not exact matches

The Democratic and Republican parties are vying for the Latino vote nationwide following President Obama's landslide victory among Hispanic voters in the 2012 election.

Walker was elected governor in the GOP landslide of 2010, when Republicans also gained control of the Wisconsin state senate and house of representatives.

The Republicans, by choosing Goldwater, turned what would have been a pretty normal reelection into a landslide.

Yes, after Goldwater lost in a landslide in 1964, the Republicans came back strongly to win in 1968.

If Santorium is the Republican candidate, President Obams will win in a landslide, maybe all 50 states.

In Georgia, it's a landslide for Herman right now, who is hugely popular among all the South's Republicans.

The Republican vote — I repeat — will likely be just short of a landslide, just as the Democratic vote was last time.

Not only did Goldwater lose to Democratic candidate Lyndon Johnson in a landslide, he was so unpopular with the electorate — including a plurality of Republican voters — that he crippled his party's candidates all the way down the ticket.

He has made significant statewide and regional television buys, even though his Republican opponent, attorney Wendy Long, perhaps best known for losing in a landslide to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2012, is trailing badly in fundraising and public polls.

In the immediate aftermath of Carl Paladino's surprise landslide win in the Sept. 14 GOP primary, Senate Republicans rushed to embrace him — Minority Leader Dean Skelos was the first out with a congratulatory statement — and insisted his presence at the top of the ticket would help them win back the majority.

Senate Republicans have a track record of winning contested races, having scored a landslide last fall with the seat vacated by GOP former Sen. Tom Libous, who was convicted of lying to the FBI last July.

Rep. Scott Garrett, a staunch conservative from northern New Jersey, faces a fresh challenge from a former speechwriter to Bill Clinton for a seat held by Republicans since Reagan's first landslide.

In December 1972, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a centrist faction within the Democratic Party, was created after the landslide victory of Republican Richard Nixon over anti-war progressive Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.

In their first public break since they made amends after Greenfield's landslide victory over the Hikind - backed / funded / inspired Joe Lazar, Assemblyman Dov Hikind has decided to endorse a Republican challenger to defeat centrist Democratic Congressman Mike McMahon.

With a landslide all but assured, he embarked on a mission to browbeat the state's Republican officeholders into endorsing Trump — or else.

In 2010, despite Cuomo winning by a landslide, Senate Republicans regained it.

Only Republican Stefan I. Mychajliw Jr. could claim a landslide victory, beating Democratic challenger Vanessa Glushefski 55 to 45 percent, or about 21,571 votes.

Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs, whose landslide primary win this week was a big victory for the Senate Republicans and could prove key in their effort to retain control of the chamber in November, is playing it very, very safe.

Mostly on the strength of his support in western New York, Paladino nabbed the Republican nomination in a landslide.

In 2013, Oyster Bay Town Republican Supervisor John Venditto defeated his Democratic opponent in a landslide with 70.4 percent of the vote.

New York last voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 1984, when President Ronald Reagan was re-elected in a landslide.

State Republican Party chairman Ed Cox finally got around to endorsing Trump for president — two days after the real estate magnate won the GOP primary in his home state by a landslide.

[27] On September 12, 2006, in the Republican Primary for New York's 99th District, Ball defeated Stephens in a landslide with 70.4 % (5,165 votes) to 29.6 % (2,176 votes) for Stephens, the lowest vote total for any incumbent running for reelection to the State Assembly that day.

However, in 2005, Democrat Byron Brown was elected the city's first African - American mayor in a landslide (64 % — 27 %) over Republican Kevin Helfer, who ran on a conservative platform.

Cahill has strong support from the Alliance for Quality Education and former Metro - North chairman Joe Lhota, last year's Republican mayoral candidate in New York City, who was handed a landslide defeat by Bill de Blasio.

State Republican Party chairman Ed Cox on Thursday finally got around to endorsing Donald Trump for president — two days after the real estate magnate won the GOP primary in his home state by a landslide.

It would probably take a Republican presidential landslide to swing the House back to the Republicans, and given how Bush is currently doing, that doesn't seem too likely.

RAMAPO — Ramapo Deputy Town Attorney Michael Specht, a Democrat, is the newly elected Ramapo Town Supervisor, winning by a landslide over his Republican challenger Bill Weber on Tuesday.

The 2010 election was such a blowout for Andrew M. Cuomo that incumbent and competitive Republican candidates down ballot — including brilliant state comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, on whose campaign I consulted — were defeated in the landslide.

«On that question, Republicans are going to beat Todd Kaminsky and the New York City Democrats in a landslide.»

In November, then - GOP Rep. Michael Grimm was reelected to the Republican - friendly district in a landslide, even as a 20 - count federal indictment hung over him.

Cuomo had backed his former Motor Vehicles commissioner Barbara Fiala for the seat, which was ultimately won in a landslide by Republican Fred Akshar.

They should take a Republican nomination from a qualified candidate and lose it in a landslide every year until the Republican Party is nothing but a pithy pulp in New York State.

Among his greatest disappointments was the 1994 election, when, caught in a GOP landslide, he narrowly lost his bid for a fourth term as governor to a pedestrian upstate Republican mayor, George Pataki.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) won re-election to his position on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Wendy Long in a landslide.

That's why the borough's voters, who skew Democratic, reelected the Republican Donovan by a landslide in 2007.

Elected in a landslide over Republican Carl Paladino, he made it clear during his first week in office that things would be different at the Capitol.

The agenda he's pushing is exactly the same one that he rode to a landslide victory over firebrand Republican candidate Carl Paladino.

He pulled off an upset by winning the Republican primary over Rick Lazio, but lost in a landslide to Democrat Andrew Cuomo in the general election, 63 % to 33 %.

In addition to New York, where Democrat Chuck Schumer defeated Republican challenger Wendy Long by a landslide, Democrats carried Vermont, Connecticut, Maryland, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii.

Earlier this week he addressed the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee and talked about his landslide defeat in 2006, when he lost his Senate seat to Bob Casey.

The Johnson landslide defeated many conservative Republican congressmen, giving him a majority that could overcome the conservative coalition.

Log Cabin / Gay Republicans: electing Cuccinelli by such a landslide should be evidence that the Republican party couldn't care less about this constituency.

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino made the comments at a news conference in Manhattan, which fell a day after Christie, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, said he doesn't invest in «landslides» or «lost causes.»

While he won election in a landslide in 2010, he lost all of the counties in the western most part of the state, where his Republican opponent, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, prevailed.

Washington — While agreeing that President Reagan's sweeping re-election victory illustrated his broad popularity, Democrats and Republicans disagreed last week on whether the landslide win over Walter F. Mondale constitutes a mandate for the Administration's programs and whether it will help push Mr. Reagan's legislative agenda through the Congress.

And if a Republican were to win in 2016, the electoral map suggests getting even 60 such votes in the Senate — the Republicans will be defending the seats they won in the 2010 landslide — is unlikely.