Sentences with phrase «advantage in a presidential year»

But Democrats start the open seat race with a narrow advantage in a presidential year when former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is likely to top the ballot.

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Latimer, however, has an eight - to - one cash - on - hand advantage, and it seems unlikely that a seat that has been repeatedly targeted by Republicans over three decades would finally flip in a presidential year.

Dadey said he wants a strong Republican candidate with the ability to hold the seat in a presidential election year, which favors Democrats and their small enrollment advantage in the district.

But Democrats outnumber Republicans by 63,000 in the district, an enrollment advantage that could be difficult to assail in a presidential election year that will boost turnout dramatically.

He says that traditionally, more Democrats that Republicans come out to vote in presidential election years in New York, though he concedes the GOP has some distinct advantages.

Even if all goes as planned for Jacobs, the huge enrollment advantage means the district isn't unwinnable for Democrats in a presidential year.

Democrats believe that with the right candidate and the turnout advantages of a presidential year, Coffman can be beat in 2016.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.