Sentences with phrase «gubernatorial contest»

Wealthy businessman Rick Scott (R) will be the next governor of Florida after state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink (D) conceded this morning, handing Republicans a victory in one of the marquee gubernatorial contests in the country.

A story was told of how in Anambra state, some youths in their resolve to stop a particular candidate from winning the recent gubernatorial contest, decided not to participate in the electoral exercise.

The two wealthy candidates running outside the duopoly in the Massachusetts gubernatorial contest this autumn have failed to catch fire, according to a Boston Globe survey released Friday.

Unlike Connecticut's two previous gubernatorial contests there has been a lack of public polling about this year's race.

An internal poll released late yesterday suggests that independent candidate Eliot Cutler might be picking up momentum in his bid to unseat Republican Gov. Paul LePage in Maine's three - cornered gubernatorial contest.

In prior gubernatorial contests Working Families has waited until after the Democratic primary to endorse a candidate, but that is not a steadfast rule and the party could become a factor in the crowded field of Democrats vying to succeed Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

* It's another night of high - stakes debates, with candidates facing off in the Ohio and Connecticut Senate races and in the California, Colorado, Minnesota and Hawaii gubernatorial contests.

With the political season gearing up, the disparity between the high - profile gubernatorial contest, which features more than a dozen Republican candidates, and the lonely slog of the congressional aspirants couldn't be starker.

Along the way, Oshiomhole caused Mr. Anenih to lose elections even in his own local government area, which was unthinkable before those contests, and three straight gubernatorial contests.

Navy veteran Mary Buzuma is polling the difference between Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and Democratic challenger Mark Schauer, a former congressman and ex-Minority Leader of the State Senate, in Michigan's tightly - contested gubernatorial contest.

One of the nation's most - watched gubernatorial contests is still too close to call, with incumbent Republican Rick Scott barely leading Democrat Charlie Crist.

In the Republican gubernatorial contest, the poll indicates business man Rick Scott leading Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum 43 to 32 percent among likely GOP primary voters, with more than one in five undecided.

As of last Thursday, Republican Thomas H. Kean apparently had won a narrow victory over Democratic candidate James J. Florio in the New Jersey gubernatorial contest.

The outcomes of the three dozen gubernatorial contests Nov. 7 put a majority of the states» highest offices, 28, in Democratic hands for the first time since the banner Republican year of 1994.

But the large slate of elections this year, including gubernatorial contests in 36 states and legislative races in 46, could tamp down many lawmakers» enthusiasm for bold policy proposals, Mr. Anderson said.

(CNN)- Today, gubernatorial contests in Virginia and New Jersey and the race for mayor in New York will be settled.

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo continues to draw strong support from New York voters in the state's gubernatorial contest - even though he's yet to officially declare his candidacy.

«It would have been a different race for sure,» Lazio said when I asked him if he wished he had stuck it out in the gubernatorial contest.

The newly - recharged New York State Democratic Party is seizing on the news, first reported by POLITICO, that NYS GOP Chairman Ed Cox was discussing a fourth entrant into the gubernatorial contest and melding it with Vito Fossella's bizarre nomination to a seat he's not (yet, if ever) running for.

Headlining the initiative is the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a venture led by former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and backed by President Barack Obama that — in addition to gearing up for legal battles and gubernatorial contests — will also focus prominently on state legislative races.

He said the probes into Cuomo and de Blasio should help the Republicans in the 2017 mayoral elections and the 2018 gubernatorial contest.

The perceptions of where the votes come from in gubernatorial contests is far removed from the reality.

According to Election Oracle, the statewide race that has witnessed the most online conversation on gay marriage in recent weeks, for example, is Maine's gubernatorial contest.

Dr Fayemi, in the letter which he personally signed also disclosed that his public declaration for the gubernatorial contest would come up at a rally in Ado - Ekiti on Saturday.

(CNN)- Democrats hold leads of at least 20 points in New York State's gubernatorial contest and the two races for the U.S. Senate, according to a new poll.

Ducey holds a small advantage in the statewide race (The Rothenberg Political Report / Roll Call rates the race Leans Republican), and one GOP operative told CQ Roll Call the gubernatorial contest is «giving a real life to our candidates.»

He wants the Green Party to keep not only its ballot status, but potentially even poll in double digits for the first time in a gubernatorial contest.

: Green benefits mightily from Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker's decision to drop from the gubernatorial contest last week.

As for Trump, Long said the demand of the mega-builder star of TV's «Apprentice» that Astorino drop out of the gubernatorial contest before he would agree to be the Republican candidate convinced him Trump isn't serious about the race.

(CNN)- Voters head to the polls in West Virginia on Tuesday in a gubernatorial contest in which national Republicans are trying to tie the Democratic governor to President Barack Obama.

The gubernatorial contest in 2014 is expected to be crowded and unpredictable.

But the Siena College Research Institute poll released Monday also indicates that seven out of 10 New York state voters would vote for someone other than Paterson in next year's gubernatorial contest.

Almost all of his rivals have dropped out of the gubernatorial contest and endorsed him.

(CNN)- The race for Florida's open Senate seat may appear all but decided, however the Sunshine State's gubernatorial contest is anything but a runaway.

These include congressional races, gubernatorial contests, state school chief races, state school board elections, and state ballot measures.

Debate over education has not been entirely absent from the nation's two gubernatorial contests to be decided Nov. 7.

It will be the chief rival to the Republicans and Democrats in the state's gubernatorial contest this year.