Sentences with phrase «election years when»

Hannon is running for re-election in a Nassau County Senate district Democrats have long coveted, especially in presidential election years when his margins of victory are often smaller than in non-presidential cycles.

There have been election years when candidates were assassinated prior to election day, and years when they were killed not long after inauguration.

In an election year when reality seems as remote as a Pluto flyby; a year already marked by bombastic promises of walls, jobs, «a future to believe in» and free stuff for everybody, maybe we should take a quick break from the narcoleptic snooze imposed on us by the mass media.

Following an election year when evangelicals were divided between their support for Trump, the mean rating for evangelicals remained at 61 while the mean rating for Buddhists, Mormons and Hindus shifted from relatively neutral to warmer ratings.

Washington (CNN)-- Mitt Romney's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate promises to cast a spotlight on American Catholicism in an election year when the tradition has already been a major focus.

«Even in an election year when the temptation is to open the spending gate, our spending is on track,» he said.

I really can not believe how dumb Dean Skelos is to pass such a bill in election year when many senate districts held by Republicans are open or highly competitive and on the brinks of falling.

The near - defeat of the microstamping bill yesterday may very well signal the end of the long — and lucrative - relationship between Mayor Bloomberg and the Senate Republicans in a crucial election year when the minority can ill - afford to lose the billionaire mayor's financial support.

I just think the decisions are too tough to make in an election year when voters are all ready to vote out any incumbant.

The tax cuts fortify Cuomo's right flank in an election year when Republican hopeful Rob Astorino has been claiming New York's tax climate is discouraging business.

Say what you will about county legislators lobbying for a pay hike, at least they raised the issue in an election year when voters can get at them.

Sen. Annette Taddeo «s victory in a special election for Miami - Dade County's Senate District 40... is being taken as a sign by Democrats that they can compete in a non-presidential election year when Democratic turnout has historically lagged.

The nomination, while unofficial until the state committee votes June 5, effectively puts Cuomo's choices in charge of the state party in an election year when Democrats are trying to win back control of the New York State Senate.

«Why take that risk in an election year when you can do it the year after?»

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — When House Speaker Paul Ryan told his colleagues on Wednesday that he would retire at the end of the year, he signaled what many Republicans are already thinking: Midterm elections will be rough for the GOP if it wants to keep its majority.

The proposal died when an election was called last year.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Barack Obama said Saturday that the country is «a better place today» than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as «one indicator of how attitudes have changed.»

Indeed, over the period of time when Italy was in recession, the country's political scene has been nothing short of a mess, having gone from the scandal - hit tenure of billionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, to a technocratic government and two general elections in the space of a year.

Earlier this year, the committee's Republican majority attracted significant scrutiny when it released a controversial memo alleging that the FBI and the Justice Department abused their surveillance authority when it monitored Page ahead of the election.

Several women came forward before the election accusing Moore of sexual misconduct with them when they were teenagers as young as 14 years old and he was in his 30s.

Several more states could join the party next year, when the presidential election will increase turnout among younger, pot - friendly voters.

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.

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

For Trump and the Republican Party, that could be a devastating development in a midterm election year, when the party is largely pinning its hopes of keeping control of Congress on economic success and Americans seeing a benefit from the tax overhaul the president signed in December.

So we won't know the real story behind the provincial decision on Kinder Morgan until April next year, when the parties file donation reports with Elections BC.

People who expect the stock market to fall over the next year now outnumber people who predict the opposite, for the first time since the US elections in November 2016, when the stock market extended what became known as the Trump rally.

Finally, we consider when you were born and your desired election year to adjust how much social security benefit you will actually receive

«B.C. kids deserve a quality education all the time, not just every four years when an election is looming.

«The premier said the right things when she promised 500 new addiction treatment spaces in the 2013 election campaign, but now we know that not only has she missed her own deadline, but she has actually reduced addiction treatment spaces for youth over the past three years while the overdose epidemic was growing,» said Horgan.

Rosenstein was asked about investigations that go on for months or even years; if there is a precedent on how long an investigation should last and when would the American people get to know the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election that has been underway since May of 2017.

That's more than 6,000 points higher than it was when markets closed on Election Day 2016, at 18,332, and still 4,000 points higher from when it first hit the 20,000 - point mark in January 2017 just over a year ago.

Although Mr. Dent did not win the by - election, the strong showing for the NDP foreshadowed that party's first federal electoral win in Alberta two year's later when Ross Harvey was elected in Edmonton - East.

There has been a seismic shift in our politics in this province since last year when the Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the general election and Albertans elected their first new government in 44 years.

When the NRA holds its annual meeting this weekend in Dallas, the gathering will provide a window into the organization's message and strategy ahead of this year's midterm elections.

The election, when she mattered, was almost 4 years ago!

Thus the antecedent field of the Reform Bill passage is about two years long, or from the accession of the Duke of Wellington as prime minister in the Spring of 1828 (when the issue of Reform was first broached) to the first meeting of parliament after the elections of summer, 1830, when Reform became the focus of political conflict.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

During my year in Italy when the blood failed to liquefy, the priest announced that this sign indicated God's displeasure over the large communist vote the public opinion polls were predicting for the upcoming national parliamentary elections.

That's especially true in an election year, when the huge Catholic vote is seen as perhaps the key swing vote in the nation.

Next is the simple question, and that is if Obama had Bin Laden sitting in a freezer for a couple years and then decided to thaw him out for political gain why do so now when doing so right before the next Presidental election would have ensured his re-election?

So far, I've been encouraged by the civility and thoughtfulness of the conversation... especially considering the fact that we're at the start of an election year, when emotions tend to run high.

President Obama and the Republicans did not agree on very much over the last two years, but on the question of what this election was all about there was not an inch of daylight between them — at least when the campaign began.

Strider, who helped spearhead Democratic faith outreach in 2006 and 2008 - when he directed that work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign - said the party put substantially fewer resources and effort into faith - based strategy work this year than in any election since 2004.

First, the conventional wisdom on the role of economic factors in elections is overstated; even in a year when such short - term factors were particularly strong, they operated within the context of long - term cultural alignments.

There has been no shortage of good copy for newspapers this year, but back in the early summer, somewhere between the General Election, and before terrorist horrors in Tunisia, there was a brief few days when not much seemed to be happening.

Were you this upset when the media reported on Jerimiah Wright before the election last year?

It's been the kind of election year that will leave everyone sighing with resounding relief when it's all over on the morning of November 7.

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

But when the heart of the act was tested (financing)... the government drew up a blank... No way Obama calls it a tax before an election year... but its quite evident that it is... Secondly, you think that adding another tax on people that cant even afford to pay it will help??? Where is the money coming from??? Yea I thought so...