Sentences with phrase «enrolled as a democrat»

Ironically, with the exception of Senators Smith, Kennedy, Breslin, Joe Addabbo, and Suzi Oppenheimer, every senator enrolled as a Democrat voted more consistently with the IDC head, Sen. Jeff Klein, Sampson.

But Paterson today argues that not too much should be read into the Teachout - Wu campaign's marshaling the Cuomo dissenters enrolled as Democrats who were interested enough in the less - than -10-percent turnout primary to vote.

At the same time, there does not appear to be much appetite to allow voters to switch enrollment from a blank to membership in order to participate in primary, nor has there been much of an effort in previous years to open the state's primaries to those voters not enrolled as Democrats or Republicans.

The state Board of Election's chief enforcement counsel, Risa Sugarman, has probed the Independence Party / IDC arrangement, questioning its legality since IDC members are enrolled as Democrats, not members of the Independence Party.

Not exact matches

There are more than twice as many enrolled Democrats in the state than Republicans, who last won a statewide race in 2002.

As of November, the district had 61,972 actively enrolled Democrats, 63,038 Republicans, and 45,480 who were not enrolled in a political party.

Fuschillo's district — the 8th — has been Democrat dominated for some time (84,158 enrolled Democrats to 77,444 Republicans with 49,552 blanks as of November).

Democrats have 21 times as many enrolled voters as the GOP.

The Republican Party has struggled to be competitive in recent years, and in a state where they have less than half the enrolled voters as Democrats do, that is unlikely to change soon.

As the Times noted, though enrolled Democrats outnumber Republicans in New York City by more than six to one, no Democrat has won the mayoralty since David Dinkins in 1989.

Much of Sanders» organizing efforts last year focused on enrolling independents and young first - time voters as Democrats.

Also attending is Bo Dietl, who wanted to run as Democrat but is enrolled in neither party after a paperwork error.