The phrase
"enrollment disadvantage" refers to being in a less favorable position when it comes to joining or being accepted into a school, course, or program. It means that someone may have certain factors or challenges that make it harder for them to enroll compared to others.
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Any Republican running for Erie County Executive would have to overcome a 130,000
voter enrollment disadvantage and this year, a popular incumbent.
Granted, the downstate races and its TV market tends to be far more expensive than the rest of the state and the Senate GOP has the cash edge to counter
its enrollment disadvantage.
That enrollment disadvantage could be enough for some GOP candidates to pass on the race.
But a GOTV effort is important none the less, especially with such
an enrollment disadvantage.
In 2015, though at
an enrollment disadvantage, 140 more Republicans came out to vote than Democrats.
The map gives them an edge, despite
an enrollment disadvantage of 84,055 - 49,222: GOP and Conservative candidates received 58 percent of the vote in 2012 and 67 percent in 2014.
2) A new county executive for the first time in 20 years and Ed Day rearranges political chessboard — It's the end of the C. Scott Vanderhoef era and a «New Day» for Rockland, as GOPer Ed Day beat
the enrollment disadvantage (over 2 - 1 Democrats to Republicans in Rockland) and won the county executive election.
He acknowledged he starts with a 20,000
enrollment disadvantage.
«Given
the enrollment disadvantage our state faces, I don't see ultimately the electoral votes being a possibility for Donald Trump.»
«DACC is there to help people who are in districts where there is
an enrollment disadvantage.