Sentences with phrase «given voter enrollment»
Even if lawmakers redraw their own boundaries (which, given voter enrollment, will have to look pretty crazy in order to stack the deck for Republican senators), a presidential election year will makes their majority tenuous.
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Given the city's overwhelming Democratic voter enrollment edge, Brown is headed toward an all - but - certain victory in the November election, which will make him just the second mayor in Buffalo history to win a fourth four - year term.
Senate Democrats believe an independent redistricting process gives them a major advantage in reclaiming control of the upper chamber, given their large voter enrollment in the state.
Senate Republicans arguably have the most to lose with a non-independent process, while Senate Democrats hope their overwhelming voter enrollment in New York will give them an edge with non-gerrymandered lines.
Given the fact that two potential candidates on the right and a Democrat with more ballot lines than her opponents and a Democratic voter enrollment edges makes this a winnable race for Smyth, the more McLaughlin pokes Cuomo, perhaps the more inclined the governor might be to help.
The Common Cause proposal would directly task LATFOR with drawing districts for the Senate, Assembly and Congress that consider «communities of interest,» such as ethnic neighborhoods of similar towns, and forbid it from considering addresses of incumbents or the partisan enrollment of voters in a given area.
Given the Republican enrollment disadvantage, there has to be some way for the Republican to compete financially if he or she is going to break through with voters.»