Sentences with phrase «congressional election calendar»

After state legislators failed for two years to comply with a federal law requiring that military voters stationed overseas get their ballots 45 days prior to the general election, a federal judge set the beginning of the congressional election calendar at March 20.

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Because of the truncated election calendar, the minimum threshold is 938 signatures of registered Democratic voters residing in the congressional district.

These topics span a wide range — everything from the Fed to the U.S. dollar (or other currencies) to housing starts to Treasury rates to budget deficits to Congressional legislation to elections to the calendar («sell in May and go away» etc.) to manufacturing data to foreign stock market performance to scandals (Bernie Madoff was a popular one) to tragedies (Japan's nuclear mess - up, Hurricane Katrina) to technical stock indicators (MACD, Stochastics, Bollinger Bands and RS) to earnings reports from bellwether companies to opinions of other people (especially analysts who set price targets).

Think about the acrimony of the health - care debate, add in legions of well - funded and politically powerful lobbies each protecting their industries» most prized tax - code subsidies — real estate high on the list — plus a short legislative calendar left this year, and you are easily into next year, which happens to be a congressional election year, when all bets are off.