Sentences with phrase «flip in a presidential year»

Latimer, however, has an eight - to - one cash - on - hand advantage, and it seems unlikely that a seat that has been repeatedly targeted by Republicans over three decades would finally flip in a presidential year.

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But Democrats in the Senate typically make gains in a presidential election years, and they are playing offense in districts on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley (Republicans want to flip a western New York seat as well as a district in Westchester County).

While the 1st Congressional District has traditionally been flipped in mid-term election years, the current political climate makes it difficult to predict whether it could turn Democrat again without the boost in voter turnout typically seen in a presidential election year, when the party benefits from increased participation by minority and female voters.

Since the 1952 election, the 1st District seat has flipped just three times in a presidential year, but each time it turned over in favor of the party that won the presidency.

«But heading into a presidential election year in his district — which has flipped back and forth between the two parties in the 2010 and 2014 GOP waves — the seat is prime for a flip again this cycle,» Rothenberg and Gonzales wrote.