Sentences with phrase «coming presidential election year»

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.

Not exact matches

Facebook has come under intense pressure to tackle the spread of false stories, which came to prominence during the U.S. presidential election last year when many inaccurate posts were widely shared on it and other social media services.

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.

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.»

When thinking about abortion and this year's presidential election, a few questions come to mind.

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.

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.

General election matching funds, which could mean several million dollars for the Green Party come the year 2016, can only be achieved by our presidential ticket winning 5 % of the vote this November.

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

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.

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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.

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.

King gives an example of a group of students a few years ago who were working to replicate a paper about presidential election campaign strategies by a respected social scientist — King declined to name names — and after following the paper's methods section to the letter came up with vastly different results.

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.

It would seem to be a savvy move, especially since America is headed for plenty of debates next year, with a presidential election coming up.

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.

Voting for mascots teaches about elections, inspires fun Three schools have used a powerful process that mirrors the presidential electoral process to choose candidates and vote for a school mascot — a representative symbol that will encourage, inspire, and sometimes entertain them for years to come.

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.

Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian who describes herself as a conservative, gained national attention last year when then - GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich rejected a chapter she had written on man - made global warming from his book on environmental issues, which is set to come out after the November elections.

While the data came before the presidential elections, from 2014, according to New York Times and the Observer of London investigation, it served as the foundation of Cambridge Analytica's work with Trump two years later.

I only have one point on this, which is that — I believe it was almost a year ago, right before the French presidential election, Facebook came out and said they banned like 30,000 fake accounts or bot accounts, that they were afraid could try and sway that election.

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.

Well, at least he's come a long way from saying that it's a «crazy idea» to think that Russian - sponsored fake news on Facebook may have influenced the presidential election two years ago.

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.