Sentences with phrase «gubernatorial contests»

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.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

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

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.

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

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.

«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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adebayo said «All Progressives Congress is a coalition of different political groups and interests and this is the first time there will be a serious gubernatorial contest under the platfor;, the second term of Ogbeni Aregbesola came at the formative stage of the party hence every interested individual should be allowed to put whatever ideas they have for the growths of the State on the table and allow the party to decide who flies its flags according to the laid down rules of the party's constitution; the zoning should be outrightly jettisoned as it is alien to our party's constitution».

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.

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.

Education Minnesota, it's worth noting, endorsed Dayton during last year's gubernatorial contest — but he wasn't their first choice.

Not exact matches

Virginia and New Jersey will hold gubernatorial elections later this year, and all 435 seats in the House and 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in the 2018 midterm elections.

The late senator contested the April 11, 2015 gubernatorial election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Today's Q poll finds GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino has dramatically reduced the double - digit lead long enjoyed by his Democratic opponent, AG Andrew Cuomo, coming within just six percentage points of the once - comfortable frontrunner and turning this contest into a real horse race.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco.

While in Washington, D.C. today, gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon encouraged the Democratic Party's progressive wing not to «settle» for a Democratic candidate but to fight for the right candidate, in an echo of a battle being seen in the party's primary contests across the country.

ALBANY — Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination.

«As you are aware, we conducted about 35 primaries for the 35 political parties that are contesting for the November 18 gubernatorial election in the state.

Wharton noted that he was speaking at an upcoming conference about Connecticut's gubernatorial race and was expected to break down the contest in about five or 10 minutes.

ALBANY — Cynthia Nixon said Monday she is likely to try to secure a spot on the Democratic gubernatorial primary ballot by gathering petition signatures rather than contesting Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at the party primary next month.

«We note that 2016 is a particularly appropriate year to fund much - needed election administration reforms, with important election contests at the presidential, gubernatorial, congressional level and legislative levels,» they wrote.

Having challenged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a 2014 gubernatorial primary, Teachout came into the Democratic contest in the 19th District with more money and name recognition than her primary opponent, Will Yandik.

A contested gubernatorial election is supposed to be decided by a joint session of the General Assembly, according to statutory law.

«With the candidates now set, the Republican gubernatorial primary will be a brutal contest between the worst of Washington and the worst of Tallahassee.

Saturday voters in the state head to the polls to cast ballots, and the hottest contest appears to be the Democratic gubernatorial battle.

Earlier this month Paladino, a Buffalo businessman and developer, defeated Lazio 62 to 38 percent in New York's primary contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

Obama will begin the Western campaign swing on October 20 in Portland, Oregon, to help support Democrat John Kitzhaber in the hotly contested, open - seat gubernatorial race.

The PDP cleared seven aspirants for today's exercise, but was silent on the reason for not including the governor among those to contest for the party's gubernatorial ticket prompting Syla to approach the courts.

Mimiko, who is a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state and who picked his political son, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, to contest against Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the November 26, 2016, gubernatorial election was said to have been determining, who and who should be in the new governor's cabinet.

Low turnout was expected for a contest held on a Wednesday, and that came less than three weeks before the state holds a gubernatorial election.

I can't remember an election cycle with this many seriously contested gubernatorial races... kinda fun for political junkies.

Last week's unexpected exit of Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb from the Republican gubernatorial field has muddied, not clarified, the contest for the right to take on Gov. Andrew Cuomo in November.

Ads like that could cut through the clutter of the high - profile Democratic gubernatorial primary largely overshadowing this down - ballot contest.