Sentences with phrase «contested gubernatorial race»
I can't remember an election cycle with this many seriously contested gubernatorial races... kinda fun for political junkies.
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Today's Q poll finds GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino has dramatically reduced the double - digit lead long enjoyed by his Democratic opponent, AG Andrew Cuomo, coming within just six percentage points of the once - comfortable frontrunner and turning this contest into a real horse race.
«It would have been a different race for sure,» Lazio said when I asked him if he wished he had stuck it out in the gubernatorial contest.
Wharton noted that he was speaking at an upcoming conference about Connecticut's gubernatorial race and was expected to break down the contest in about five or 10 minutes.
Unlike Connecticut's two previous gubernatorial contests there has been a lack of public polling about this year's race.
Obama will begin the Western campaign swing on October 20 in Portland, Oregon, to help support Democrat John Kitzhaber in the hotly contested, open - seat gubernatorial race.
Headlining the initiative is the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a venture led by former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and backed by President Barack Obama that — in addition to gearing up for legal battles and gubernatorial contests — will also focus prominently on state legislative races.
According to Election Oracle, the statewide race that has witnessed the most online conversation on gay marriage in recent weeks, for example, is Maine's gubernatorial contest.
* It's another night of high - stakes debates, with candidates facing off in the Ohio and Connecticut Senate races and in the California, Colorado, Minnesota and Hawaii gubernatorial contests.
So it is, with the retirement of Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, that the contest shapes up between former gubernatorial candidate, Democrat Zephyr Teachout and former state assemblyman (and also one time candidate for State Attorney General) Republican John Faso, both of whom lost those races to Andrew Cuomo.
Republicans retorted that their candidate, dairy magnate and two - time gubernatorial primary loser Jim Oberweis, was fatally flawed — so the race could not be used as a barometer for other contests.
(CNN)- Today, gubernatorial contests in Virginia and New Jersey and the race for mayor in New York will be settled.
Incumbents on both sides of the aisle prevailed in their contested races, as Tuesday's Illinois primaries set the stage for competitive House and gubernatorial races this fall that could be key to Democratic comeback efforts in 2018.
As for Trump, Long said the demand of the mega-builder star of TV's «Apprentice» that Astorino drop out of the gubernatorial contest before he would agree to be the Republican candidate convinced him Trump isn't serious about the race.
Spending in the hotly contested gubernatorial primary has passed $ 20 million and is Tuesday's marquee race.
There are important races for gubernatorial nominations in California, Iowa and Alabama, a contested Senate primary in Montana and a number of competitive House primary battles.
Republicans have had a dismal track record in Colorado over the past decade, losing three U.S. Senate races, two presidential contests and one gubernatorial election.
But the large slate of elections this year, including gubernatorial contests in 36 states and legislative races in 46, could tamp down many lawmakers» enthusiasm for bold policy proposals, Mr. Anderson said.