Sentences with phrase «difference in a close race»

In a year with a bad map and low presidential approval, Democratic campaigns desperately need the money, and as we've seen, they're spending it on the kinds of activities that might make a difference in close races.

The Building Trades endorsed Republican Mark Grisanti in 2010, which very well could've been the difference in a close race.

This bump is frequently large enough to make a difference in close races.

Not exact matches

«The combination of these efforts will make all the difference in what will be sure to be a close race.»

For politicians and campaign operatives across the state, that race was a close - to - home indicator of what could happen in a special election, where turnout is abysmally low and a gap in enthusiasm among voters could make all the difference when the votes are tallied.

Obviously this tactic is about as niche an approach as you're going to see, but particularly in a close race that hasn't received much publicity, a handful of last - minute converts might make all the difference.

Minority voters could be the difference in what has become a very close race, and Spitzer has carefully targeted his get - out - the - vote efforts to turn out voters most likely to support him.

A running mate might make a difference in a very close race, just maybe, said Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.

But in close legislative races — at least one of which on Long Island remains an open question — these changes could potentially make a big difference.

Why waste your money when you can have more of an impact in close races that you can make a difference in?»

FEW things are more likely to have us all frothing at the mouth than discussions about differences between the sexes — a close companion to race, IQ and climate change in the too - hot - to - talk - about stakes.

A closer investigation of the impact of training by race / ethnicity may provide insight into differences in R01 award probability and perhaps provide a policy lever for diversifying the scientific workforce.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

've told the xbutts time and time again that the right tools to make full use of the CELL do nt exsits, or are in development, the CELL is «VERY NEW» so to have tools that can make a game have 4 player split screen running at 60 fps with REALY good graphics in NATIVE 1080p is hard, you see PS3 developers have to «WORK» to get good results, but the 360 developers «SLEEP ON THE JOB» hence why GeOW2 looks exactly like GeOW1, and to someone on top, the difference between 60 and 30 fps is quite big, at 30 fps evrything runs like a normale game, but at 60 fps everything becomes very fluent in its motions and everything seems to jump out at you (kindda hard to explain), and alot of you xbutts are bashing MotorStorm2 when no racing game on the crap box even comes close to GT5P, letalon its 1080p 60 fps

There are no difficulty levels, although the track design and requirement of precise cornering in order to retain momentum is all that is needed for very close wheel - to - wheel racing were a single mistake when approaching a corner can be the difference between first and anywhere from second to fourth, while the balanced gameplay actually makes the close racing entertaining instead of frustrating even when there is an unbelievably narrow margin between winning and being a runner - up.

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.