Sentences with phrase «as battleground states»

Jacobson identified the 12 states in the chart below as battleground states for state senate partisan dominance: [11]

Not exact matches

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

But as tallies came in showing an unexpected lead for Republican Donald Trump in key battleground states, the live forecast shifted toward Trump.

The eyes of the country turned to Pennsylvania as it was one of the remaining battleground states, and a must - win for Hillary Clinton after Trump's victories in other battleground states.

The state was listed as «leaning Democrat» in NBC News» final battleground map.

Michigan may suddenly become an early presidential battleground as the state considers holding a primary in mid-January, and Republican Mitt Romney is staking out perhaps some unusual territory (for him, anyway).

Employment has shifted to the coasts, and manufacturing jobs to the South — out of large swaths of key political battleground states, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.

Many of China's other tariff choices are clearly politically motivated as well, like orange juice, much of which comes from the battleground state of Florida.

Political media consumption across Pennsylvania is a reinforcement of the state's role as an unpredictable battleground.

With federal judges in two highly conservative states striking down «defense of marriage» laws as unconstitutional this January, more church - state experts are advising same - sex marriage opponents that the marriage battleground should shift to religious freedom.

But thinking about it, the Obamans have probably bought about as many battleground - state TV commercials as they possibly could by now, so why not try using games to try to break through?

Its state failure, alongside that of Afghanistan, is termed as so consequential that advances made by the Middle East through the Arab Spring will be destroyed and Central Asia will emerge as «the next battleground for Al Qaeda and militant Islam.»

Timing is the critical question: if the Russian ads ran months before Election Day as part of a package of content aimed at traditional U.S. battleground states, they become less of a sign of potential collusion.

The same is apparently true for coveted digital spaces such as the big battleground - state newspaper sites and even Politico.com (I heard Politico's frontpage is already completely unavailable during at least one of the party conventions, and it didn't go cheap).

Phillips represents a battleground Senate district on Long Island and has been a proponent of the gun control legislation that was approved as standalone bill during the passage of the state budget.

As he begins to re-tool for the general election (while still dealing with Santorum et al at the same time), his campaign will need to expand its presence on the ground and build a network of active supporters in all the potential battleground states.

The battleground, as argued, is centred around the role of government and the extent and scope of the state in American society.

In the closing days of two key battleground races on Long Island, Democrats in the state Senate have released mailers depicting incumbent Republican lawmakers as part of an overall corruption epidemic.

I decided to commission my own research to establish the real state of public opinion: the true level of support for the parties, the underlying attributes associated with each, whether the picture in marginal seats really was different to that in Britain as a whole, whether the Conservatives» 164 - seat battleground made sense, and why the candidates I was helping to fund were finding it so hard to build support.

Most eyes are on the 37th Senate District because it's viewed as a pivotal battleground for control of the state Senate.

The battleground for the state senate centers on places like Long Island, where Republican incumbents Carl Marcellino and Kemp Hannon enjoy 1199 support as they try to fend off vigorous Democratic challenges.

Taegan Goddard links to an Obama memo laying out the campaign's case for the power of his grassroots field operation to turn out the vote: «This morning, as our volunteer Neighborhood Team Leaders opened 5,117 get - out - the - vote (GOTV) staging locations in the battleground states that...

It's interesting he refers to Westchester, where the state GOP has taken what limited resources it has to give rising star County Executive Rob Astorino some financial backing while he wages electoral war with local Democrats, as a «battleground.»

«This morning, as our volunteer Neighborhood Team Leaders opened 5,117 get - out - the - vote (GOTV) staging locations in the battleground states that will decide this election, they began to execute the final phase of a ground game unlike any American politics has ever seen.

[4] The Democrats have highlighted Texas as a battleground to wrestle total control from the Republicans, while Ohio is one state where Republicans were trying to obtain total control for redistricting.

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The labor gruop had initially backed several Democrats in key battleground races across the state, including Reps. Tim Bishop and Louise Slaughter, as well as challengers Sean Patrick Maloney, who is challenging Rep. Nan Hayworth and Nate Shinagawa, who faces Rep. Tom Reed.

Daniel Loeb has been a prolific donor not just to Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the years, but has backed a variety of Republican candidates running in battleground state Senate races as well as a GOP - aligned super PAC.

The Boehner visit underscores New York's status as a battleground when it comes to control for the House of Representatives and how the state GOP feels like they can grow their party through local races.

The DCCC, the campaign arm of House Democrats, views New York as one of the key battleground states in its effort to flip enough Republican seats to gain control of the House in the November election.

Those on the shortlist include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of progressives who has emerged as a blistering critic of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump; Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a well - liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a rising star in the Democratic Party.

That leaves state legislative and gubernatorial races as the few battlegrounds where donors could contribute and see an immediate reward after 2018 — an important opportunity for victory for a group of men and women who saw little payoff for their spending last year.

In part due to fights over charter schools, unions have spent significantly more helping Democrats than Republicans in the past couple of Senate elections, the largest partisan battleground in the state, but as recently as 2012, the reverse was true.

Clinton is launching her general election campaign in earnest this week with a speech tomorrow in the battleground state of Ohio and a new TV ad that casts her as a leader who can bring the nation together, while Trump pits people against one another.

Texas could be the next battleground over rights for transgender individuals as the state passes a bill curtailing bathroom usage.

Heading into the final weekend of the campaign, Donald Trump portrayed Hillary Clinton as bogged down in legal troubles while expressing optimism about his standing in a number of battleground states.

Policies important to the citizens of «flyover» states are not as highly prioritized as policies important to «battleground» states when it comes to governing.

As it stands, none of the Republican challengers is likely to get much help from the the national Republican Party, which is prioritizing the more traditional battleground states in its effort to regain control of the Senate.

The new Siena College poll comes as the presidential race has tightened nationally and in some key battleground states less than 60 days before the Nov. 8 election.

That referenced Trump's late - summer troubles — his campaign fortunes are intertwined with the Senate majority as almost 10 states are battlegrounds for both the presidential contest and Senate contests.

The campaign is hiring data managers for several battleground states as well as a dedicated team based in the Chicago office.

It comes as Gipson is running a rematch against Serino for the Hudson Valley seat, one of a handful of battleground districts across the state.

Both races can be seen as bellweather contests for state Senate races next year — Erie and Suffolk counties (and those individual regions of western New York and Long Island) are battlegrounds that could decide control of the chamber.

The DCCC has targeted New York state as a key battleground in 2018 as part of a broader plan to regain majority control of the House.

The New York State Senate was a battleground chamber that Ballotpedia identified as having the opportunity to switch partisan control in 2014.

Obama is visiting the state tomorrow as part of a four - state tour of key battlegrounds this week — but will one visit a month before Election Day be enough to fire up state Democrats?

He can appeal to the politically crucial suburbs that have often served as a battleground area in the state.

Those states, called «bank states» by the committee, serve as temporary way stations for the cash until the battleground states need it.

The Washington Post's tech and politics writer Jose Antonio Vargas has a new piece out framing the state of Virginia as the latest and greatest battleground in the sort of advanced online politics we saw in the»08 presidential race.

In my own corner, sometimes portrayed as an ideological battleground between a grumpy, leftwing secretary of state and true - blue Tory ministers, relations were always businesslike, often cordial.