Sentences with phrase «comes in a presidential year»

The fact that this special election comes in a presidential year, where voters are twice as likely to visit the polls, makes just about anything possible.

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The comments come after West said earlier this year that he plans to make a presidential run in four years — a promise he reiterated last night.

The move means no Latino will serve in a presidential cabinet for the first time in nearly 30 years and comes at a time when Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the country.

But despite Trump's penchant for comparing himself favorably to past presidents — he claimed he accomplished more in his first year than any president except Franklin D. Roosevelt and told supporters he could be «more presidential than any president» except Abraham Lincoln — Trump isn't at the top of the pile when it comes to the biggest first - year market gains.

It came under criticism last year from Breitbart News — the alt - right media outlet of presidential adviser Steve Bannon — for announcing a layoff of 12,000 U.S. - based workers, even as it was requesting H - 1B visas to bring in foreign professionals.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

And while Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL) have both taken criticism from lawmakers for their role in spreading misinformation during the 2016 presidential election, Amazon's size and questions about whether some of its business practices are anti-competitive and bad for consumers are not likely to go away in years to come.

Caesar Augustus has a political platform you probably won't hear this coming year in our presidential campaign.

While the election campaign that Mr. Gore appeared determined to keep going until the numbers came out right may have exhausted all but the most hard - core political junkies and made the rest of us grateful that there is not another presidential election for four years, we should not too quickly acquiesce in the urgings that we «put it behind us» and «move on.»

The Independent Democratic Conference in the Senate has come under increasing pressure since last year's presidential election to form a new alliance with the mainline Democrats in the chamber.

«We've got a presidential election coming up, and it just seemed a better time than in late September (when his current two - year term officially ends)... You always discuss these things when you're state chair, but listen, my political obituary has been written a lot of times already.

My own panel, «How to Act Like Obama Online When You DO N'T Have a Billion in the Bank» (which will talk about applying Obama 2012 lessons to this year's advocacy and electoral campaigns), is coming together nicely — we just signed up Ethan Roeder, Obama's chief data manager for the presidential race and who's now gone back over to the New Organizing Institute, as a speaker.

It is ode to Obasanjo's essential gracelessness that though MKO's martyrdom ensured his second coming, he not only struggled to completely bury MKO throughout his presidential years (1999 - 2007), he also ogled an illegal third term which ended in a fiasco.

The advocacy comes just ahead of de Blasio's re-election year and is spurred in part, the mayor said, by the enthusiasm stirred up by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who de Blasio did not support in the Democratic presidential primary.

The Republicans started this cycle behind the Democrats in overall online experience (with notable exceptions like Patrick, David All, Matt Turk and Mindy Finn), and if senatorial and congressional races follow the presidential campaigns» current pattern, that imbalance seems likely to persist for years to come.

«I think people are recognizing that the Democrats are coming back, both because of the work we did during this session... and the political imperative that in a presidential year, more Democrats are coming out,» Gianaris said.»

And this year, Democrats will likely enjoy a down - ballot bump that comes in elections that overlap with presidential races.

Jacobs comes from the more moderate branch of the GOP, having worked briefly in the administration of former Gov. George Pataki, who launched a short - lived presidential bid this year and railed against Trump's brand of Republicanism.

Again, days before the 2012 elections, came many headlines in some NPP - friendly newspapers, claiming some research institutions had put Nana Akufo - Addo, ahead of the NDCs Presidential Candidate; John Mahama, who replaced his boss, President John Evans Atta Mills, earlier in that year, following his sudden passing.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

In two short years, another presidential election is around the corner, and more Democrats will likely come out to vote.

Yet his efforts, coming late in the presidential primary season, fall far short of those of his likely general - election opponent, Hillary Clinton, whose extensive operation whipped into action a full year ago.

Over the past two years, nearly all of his campaign funds have come from thousand - dollar - plus contributions, which seems a far cry from the kind of small - donor - driven operation typified by Sen. Bernie Sanders» campaign in the last Democratic presidential primary.

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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.

His move toward launching a campaign comes as Senate Republicans fight to maintain a narrow majority in the chamber ahead of a presidential election year, which typically brings out more Democratic voters in a blue state like New York.

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) hopes a proposed bill allocating $ 70 billion to teachers and first responders around the country will pass with presidential support, although a nearly identical piece of legislation did not gain enough support to even come to a vote in the Democratically led U.S. Senate last year.

McDonnell raked in $ 1.6 million during the most recent six - month reporting period, which lasted from June to December, and most of his money came in after election day, when Barack Obama turned Virginia blue on the presidential level for the first time in 44 years.

As for his presence on YouTube, I'll leave it to you to decide whether his appearance on the Ali G show a few years back, which comes up high in his search results there, will help or hurt his presidential chances, especially with younger voters:

On the Democratic side, two candidates have lined up to lead the state ticket in the coming presidential election year: state Sen. Jeff Kessler, who was replaced by Cole as Senate president when Democrats lost control of the chamber in in 2014, and businessmen Jim Justice.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose upstart presidential campaign toppled Mitt Romney in Iowa and nearly brought down John McCain in South Carolina last year, wants people to know he's every bit as serious as other potential presidential aspirants, and suggested there's a double standard when it comes to how some in his party treat him and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Any newcomer will have to come to terms not only with the most dismal NCI budget scenario in 3 decades but also with stringent new rules on owning pharmaceutical stock; and because this is a presidential appointment, the director might have less than 2 years to serve.

Further action on the House and Senate DHS bills won't come until later this year, and final numbers may not be settled until after the presidential and congressional elections in November.

One of the first telegraph messages came from that year's Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, where the delegates had picked Senator Silas Wright as their vice presidential nominee.

As the presidential election mercifully moves toward its conclusion, there are important education policy questions that will need to be answered in the coming years.

School reform has come a long way in the ten years since presidential candidate George W. Bush began to talk of leaving no child behind.

We've come a long way since that frigid February night in Iowa when Republicans and Democrats gathered at churches and in school gymnasiums to cast the first votes in this year's presidential election.

(FTSE Russell Index IDEA Blog: Mar 31, 2017) After rising 14.2 % from the U.S. presidential election through year end, domestic small cap stocks (Russell 2000 Index) came back to earth in the first quarter of 2017.

Although the fund owns companies across the health care sector, including insurers and equipment makers, a pharmaceutical - heavy portfolio — about 60 % of Health Care's assets are invested in pharmaceutical and biotech firms — held the fund back over the past year as those stocks came under fire during the recent U.S. presidential campaign.

In January this year, authorities even arrested a North Dakota man who said he came to Washington to kidnap one of the Presidential dogs.

His most recent presidential financial disclosure, filed in 2015, showed that a sizeable portion of his wealth in recent years has come from energy investments and consulting work for a Texas equipment firm that provides heavy machinery for oil exploration work.

A number of Republican presidential hopefuls have, like Pawlenty, backed away from climate concern in the past year as skepticism has come into vogue in the Tea Party camp.

Another benefit of the presidential decree is that international cryptocurrency companies are also allowed to operate in the country, without taxes also for the coming five years.

Thrust into the spotlight by last year's US presidential election, the launch comes at a time when voters across the world have been awash in divisive information - dissemination practices as diverse as trolling, clickbait articles and spam.

Last year, gender roles came up in the public sphere due to the presidential election, particularly in response to Donald Trump's surreptitiously recorded remarks about women with the television host Billy Bush.