Sentences with phrase «about midterm»

«Is it about the midterm?»

With a 20 percent approval rating in a recent poll, some Democrats fear Paterson will hurt the ticket in 2010 — when Democrats are nervous about midterm losses in the House and Senate.

For instance, when looking at the internet as a persuasive tool, they say that «e-mail is not close to challenging direct mail and phone calls as ways to reach voters: A Pew Research Center survey last month found that 38 percent of registered voters had received phone calls about the midterm campaigns, while only 15 percent had received e-mail.»

There's much being said and written about the midterm elections (you can thank me later for not [yet, at least] adding my own voice to the cacophony).

He roots for the Maple Leafs and supports the Raptors and recently became an ambassador for the National Bank of Canada, but would just as easily fit in at a California beach playing frisbee while talking to his high school buddies about midterms as he does in a toque or on a tennis court.

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Not exact matches

«Think about being back in school, and studying not only one night for a midterm, but probably starting a couple of weeks ahead,» Twohill says.

In 2007, when others his age were studying for midterms and living on dorm food, David Karp was busy launching Tumblr, an easy - to - use blogging platform that now hosts 17.5 million blogs and receives about 1.5 billion page views per week.

With those midterms approaching, the Trump administration has lately been tamping down talk about ending NAFTA.

Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, in a move that may undercut his party's message about their recent tax overhaul ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, told the Economist magazine there is «no evidence whatsoever» the law significantly helped American workers.

While the GOP strategy is to make the midterm election about the economy, Democrats want to make it about Trump's controversies that have pushed his approval rating back to all - time lows.

-- Republicans fear independent voters» optimism about the economy won't translate to votes for the midterms.

In these hearings, Democrats are expected to grill Mr. Zuckerberg about the privacy scandals, and how the social network is guarding against possible interference in this fall's midterm elections.

Republicans are panicking about the potential for conflict ahead of the 2018 midterm elections and have spent the past few days privately lobbying within the White House.

Democrats have already made it clear buybacks will be a primary attack point as they seek to sway public opinion about the tax law and take back the House and Senate in the midterms.

Partial - birth abortion is forcing a new judicial candor about other abortions as well, at least from the midterm of pregnancy.

But even when I was a student and had midterms to worry about and had to bring my homework or lug my MCAT books back home with me for the holiday, or when I was only going «home» to a temporary home, Thanksgiving was a time of grounding.

Since oatmeal raisin were his favorite too, we'd grab a plate to nibble on while quizzing each other about mechanisms and equations for our next chemistry and physics midterms.

At least... it provided me the push I needed until crunch time... until I was about halfway through the process, and I still had a stack of ten apps on my desk, and midterms were just around the corner.

Gibson has managed to keep his seat, but he remains a top target of the DCCC heading into the 2014 midterm elections, and his opponent, Democratic activist and political newcomer Sean Eldridge, is making the selfsame argument about the GOP congressman — that he leans too far to the right and in doing so is contributing to the dysfunction down in D.C.

Moreover, roughly 92 percent of the requested Republican ballots went to party supporters who voted in the 2010 midterm elections, compared with about 64 percent of Democrats who requested ballots.

A bid for attorney general is a much riskier bet, especially considering state election law is fuzzy about whether a congressional candidate can run for the post this late in the midterm election cycle.

History indicates the party of the president loses about 350 state legislative seats on average in midterm elections.

The quoted analysis is specific to the midterm election of 2014, but we are currently talking about the presidential election of 2016.

Gutierrez's endorsement of Pelosi comes as many in the Democratic caucus are unsure about whether Democratic leadershipshould stay in place if the party should lose in the midterms.

David Plouffe, now an outside adviser to the president, tossed a quick answer over his shoulder when CNN asked him outside of NBC's Washington studios about the tough climate for Democrats running in the midterms elections.

«There were people there who may have a view about her and 2020, but we hosted the fund - raiser because we have admired Kamala for years, and we applaud her efforts to support House and Senate Democratic candidates in the 2018 midterm elections,» Mr. Johnson said.

The proposal to give tax relief worth about # 2,000 for each child aged under five was one of the biggest ideas to emerge from the coalition's midterm review earlier this week.

If he runs about even in Westchester County in a year with midterm level turnout, he's going to win this race by 5 to 10 points.

Many Democrats have expressed trepidation about the lofty expectations that Obama has set and are keenly aware that the party could pay a steep price in the 2010 midterm elections if the promises are not fulfilled.

Todd Gitlin, a sociologist and Columbia University journalism professor who has written extensively about social protest movements, said the «odds are strong» that the groups would persist through the midterm elections, but «after that God only knows.»

The fledgling company courted groups on the right for work on the 2014 midterms with pitches about its «psychographic» profiling, which relied in part on data that appears to have been obtained improperly from tens of millions of American users of Facebook.

2014: Sitting side by side on CNN's «State of the Union» - a rarity these days on political shows, where members of opposing parties often appear during different segments to talk about the same topics - Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, addressed the challenges they both face in the upcoming midterm elections.

At back - to - back press conferences Thursday by the heads of the House Republican and Democratic campaign committees, it was abundantly clear that the two sides are operating under entirely different theories about the 2006 midterm election.

(CNN)- In an election eve interview, Democratic National Committee Chairman and former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine remained upbeat about the Democrats» chances in what pollsters are predicting will be a tough midterm for the party that won big two years ago.

Yes, we know it's way early to be talking about House races — heck the winners in last month's midterms haven't even been sworn into the 110th Congress yet.

The video comes even as some Republicans are grumbling about her role during the midterms, which saw the former Alaska governor back more than 40 House and Senate candidates.

House Democrats are absolutely freaking out about the upcoming midterm elections, a Free Beacon analysis has found.

More from Roll Call Decoder: What You Need to Know About Voter Registration and Turnout This Midterm Season

Reynolds tried to steer away from making specific predictions about how many seats his party would gain or lose come November, promising only that Republicans would retain the majority in the midterm elections.

Approximately 32 percent of Kentuckians voted in the 2010 midterm primary.As of Monday, nearly 25,000 voters had voted in person on machines in county clerks» offices and approximately 12,000 mail - in absentee ballots were sent to voters who had requested them.According to current statistics, Grimes projects turnout for May 22 will be about par with the midterm elections of 2014 and 2010, when 26.8 percent and 32.2 percent of Kentuckians voted, respectively.

Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert, center, spoke with CNN Tuesday about his Democratic successor Speaker Nancy Pelosi, foreground, and the upcoming midterm elections.

They were only used in about one third of ballots cast in the 2010 US federal midterm elections, despite having been available for several election cycles.

Meanwhile, the midterm election that delivered House control to Republicans and gave the GOP a stronger voice in the Senate has created a string of question marks for other nations about the United States» commitment to international climate action.

In December I accepted a Long - Term Sub position for a US History class and between reminding myself of the content, learning about my new students, adjusting to a different kind of learner than I'm used to and working hard to earn their respect I somehow had to figure out what was on their Midterm and make sure they were prepared for it!

Before we get started, make sure to hop on over to Monday's post about studying, especially as midterms roll around!

So, how are tech giants thinking about tackling these issues and making sure the same thing doesn't happen in this year's midterm election?

I certainly worry about moderates of both parties getting wiped out in the 2018 midterms, especially gubernatorial candidates and state legislators.

The finish line remains a long way off in a Congress bitterly divided over issues such as health care, hurtling toward the 2010 midterm elections, and still without a specific proposal from the Obama administration about how it would revise the ESEA, currently called...

But the midterm election results were mostly about the resurgence of white male voters.