Sentences with phrase «especially in a presidential year»

Democrats are pleased Nelson's finally getting in the House race, especially in a presidential year when the party is hoping to expand its down - ballot battlefield.

«Especially in a presidential year.»

And typically the candidates at the top of the ticket fuel turnout — especially in a presidential year.

Not exact matches

Living and working near Washington, D.C., it's difficult to tune out the noise of politics, especially in a presidential election year.

The greater danger for Francis may be that all sides in the country's tensions may want to spin his message their way, especially with one eye on presidential elections in Brazil scheduled for next year.

This year's presidential election in the United States presents Christian voters with an especially difficult choice.

«He's slow and steady, but that approach can win the race, especially in a high - turnout presidential year where demographics and registration are on his side.»

Hannon has long been a top target for Democrats, especially in a presidential election year.

This is a lesson Democratic candidates for state Senate have learned the hard way in recent years (including presidential years), especially in their attempts to wrestle control of seats in Long Island.

In recent years especially, down - ballot races have often been less about the individual performance of the candidates or their campaigns and more a reflection of a national environment driven by the presidential race.

This year, Democrats expect to make further inroads on Long Island, especially in Nassau County, where polls have shown Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to be struggling.

ABUJA — AHEAD of the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, slated for March this year, strong indications have emerged that the alleged endorsement of Governor Ibrahim Dankwabo of Gombe State as the Presidential candidate of the party was at the moment causing strong division in the party, especially in the North East geo - political zone of the country.

Cronin is facing Republican incumbent Kemp Hannon, whose seat Democrats have targeted in recent years, especially during presidential election cycles when his margins of victory have generally been lower than in gubernatorial years.

The Hudson Valley Senate district has long been eyed by Democrats as a possible pickup opportunity, especially given the presidential election year in which down - ballot Democratic candidates tend to do better.

While opposition forces, led by labor unions, have already begun to spend sizeable sums of money to encourage a «no» vote, it is unclear how rising populist sentiments indicated in last year's presidential election — especially through the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — may factor in.

Since 1975, that total has only been exceeded four times — in 2006, when an outgoing Gov. George Pataki vetoed hundreds of bills in an apparent attempt to bolster his conservative credentials in advance of a potential 2008 presidential campaign, and three of the four years when the state was governed by Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, and tensions between the Legislature and executive were especially high.

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.

As for his presence on YouTube, I'll leave it to you to decide whether his appearance on the Ali G show a few years back, which comes up high in his search results there, will help or hurt his presidential chances, especially with younger voters:

This year, the stakes are especially high for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney because no Republican has ever won the White House without a victory in Ohio.

Reading the tea leaves of presidential appointments is always a fun spectator sport in the swamp that is Washington, DC, but more so this year, with a President - Elect whose campaign was light on policy details, and especially on education, where Donald Trump uttered hardly more than a slogan or two.

The presidential cycle has become such an accepted indicator that the Canadian research department of the giant Swiss bank UBS has begun advising clients to tilt towards stocks — especially cyclical stocks such as metals, minerals, oil and gas — in year three of the cycle.

Pictures of Mehretu raised up on cherry - pickers accompanied the work's creation in the months after last year's presidential election, and the whole endeavor had an air of mystery about it then, especially for New Yorkers who never got to see the paintings before they shipped away so far from home.

«As ratings for TV programming continue to decline, advertiser spending will also continue to see declines, especially in years that do not boast major events such as presidential elections and Olympic games.»

And it's still true today, especially in a presidential election year.