Sentences with phrase «as swing districts»

Lancman and the New York Democratic Lawyers Council joined together with federal, state and local elected officials to announce a mobilization effort to protect the vote in swing states as well as swing districts within New York State.

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Reports suggest that Romney, Ryan, and key people around them remained confident of victory to the very end, seeing that they were «hitting their numbers» in many districts — only to realize as Election Night unfolded that turnout would exceed their expectations in most swing states, raising the bar for victory and leaving them in the unenviable position of having achieved their tactical goals but lost the strategic battle nonetheless.

As The NYT reported today, the coalition of wealthy business types, which seemed strikingly similar to the Committee to Save New York when it was first announced earlier this year, are mobilizing an effort on removing money from politics with mailers in swing legislative districts.

The Long Island swing district is on Democrats» radar as a top target and has drawn early attention from outside groups, indicative of the likely high level of spending that will pour into the race during the 2016 cycle.

Throne - Holst and Calone mentioned Zeldin's votes against funding for the Department of Homeland Security and student loans and Pell grants as signs that he is out of touch with the district, and Democrats have indicated they will attempt to paint the foreign policy hawk and only Jewish Republican in Congress as too extreme for the moderate swing district.

Even before Donald Trump became the GOP presidential nominee, House Democrats heralded Hillary Clinton's candidacy as the key to winning battleground races in all manner of swing districts.

His district includes must - win counties that swing statewide and presidential elections in Colorado, and as a sitting member of Congress, he would start with money in the bank.

The focus on Israel is interesting, as the district is more heavily Asian - American than anything else, but foreign policy - minded Jewish voters are considered an electorally significant swing constituency and the race is likely to see more plenty more events held in front of Jewish congregations like today.

The district is considered a swing seat as Democratic Rep. Steve Israel is due to retire this year.

As for Katko, Long said the fact that he's from a moderate swing district is not an excuse for refusing to support the GOP's repeal effort.

The swing district, redrawn as a result of a redistricting process that took effect with last year's election, is almost evenly split between Republicans, Democrats and independents, with Democrats having a slight voter - registration edge.

As representative of a swing district with only one more election ahead of him, he is free of the pressure to do favors for party leadership and the fears of being outflanked on his right in a primary.

Victories in these Senate races — including in the critical swing district, the 37th — are good omen as the party tries for state control in 2018.

Still mostly white, largely suburban in layout and feel, the 19th is one of the few political swing districts in the city, where Republicans can run competitive campaigns and win, and where independent - left Democrats such as Tony Avella maintain tremendous electoral popularity.

NYSUT's spending on behalf of mainly Democratic Senate candidates in swing districts comes as supporters of charter schools have spent heavily in independent expenditure efforts of their own.

NFIB is backing Republicans in key Senate swing districts, such as Senator Mark Grisanti who lost the primary to Kevin Stocker.

Republicans in the state Legislature, viewing Buerkle's re-election chances as slim because she was a conservative in a swing district, were willing to sacrifice her job in March 2012 as part of the once - a-decade redistricting process.

Voters head to the polls in New York's 20th district today to choose a replacement for appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D), a close race in a swing seat that has seen considerable spending by both national parties and will almost certainly be cast as an early referendum on President Obama's agenda.

Republicans got their preferred candidate when Lockheed Martin executive Chris Myers beat back a more - serious - than - expected primary challenge earlier this month, but the swing nature of the district (Bush won with 51 percent in 2004, Al Gore carried it with 54 percent in 2000) combined with Adler's demonstrated strengths as a candidate will make this a very tough hold for the GOP.

Democrats are going to come out of the woodwork in droves to vote against her and it could very well swing the Governors race as well as Chief Financial Officer, Attorney General and some close US House races, like districts 9, 13, and 22.

A central part of the Obama campaign's grass - roots strategy is in swing districts such as Jefferson County, Colo., west of Denver.

Donovan, who currently serves as Staten Island district attorney, is the frontrunner to replace Michael Grimm in the swing district, which covers all of Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn.

The spending underscored the importance of the swing district to Democrats and Republicans nationally, as House Democrats look to reclaim the seat they lost to Rep. Lee Zeldin in 2014.

With Blue Dog Democrat Owens retiring, the swing district is up for grabs as the parties bring out their heavy - hitters.

Sinema and others said this is the relations between the two groups haven't been this good since 2006, when DCCC head Rahm Emanuel made a concerted effort to recruit conservative Democrats in swing districts as part of an effort that eventually won the party a House majority.

Swing - district seats held by Republicans such as Reps. Bob Dold (Ill.), Carlos Curbelo (Fla.) and Will Hurd (Texas) would be competitive in any election cycle.

The Cook Political Report Partisan Vote index, which factors in both of those presidential races and other factors, rates 18 of the 61 Obama - Republican districts as Democratic - leaning, while 36 lean toward Republicans and another seven are rated as bona fide swing districts.

Its presidential performance is about the same as the nation as a whole and so it's a classic swing district.

Swing districts often have a roughly equal balance of Democrats and Republicans, leading political strategists to advise moderation as the path to victory.

Katko's latest comments come as Democrats including his opponent in the November election, Colleen Deacon, of Syracuse, try to nationalize congressional races in swing districts by attaching Republicans to Trump's divisive rhetoric.

Snyder joins Reps. Dennis Moore (Kans.), John Tanner (Tenn.), Bart Gordon (Tenn.) and Brian Baird (Wash.) as recent retirees in swing districts.

As has happened on many other occasions, Paul Ryan gave her and others in swing districts permission to vote against it.

As the new school year gets into full swing, there are more than 300 Linked Learning Pathways in more than 55 districts across the country.

Now, with the growth of charter schools, the policy pendulum has started to swing back toward decentralization of districts, giving both traditional public schools as well as public charters more autonomy.

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