Sentences with phrase «heavily in a presidential year»
(Of course, Obama will undoubtedly help people like Sen. Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota and Sen. Debbie Stabenow in Michigan — two states with strong Democratic bases that will turn out more heavily in a presidential year than they would in a midterm election.)
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The Republicans, who for the last few years have been leaning heavily to the right, lost the second presidential election in a row, and for their own interests they should rethink this strategy.
Nobody expects the shockingly good GOP performance in this heavily Democratic state in 2014 to carry over to a presidential year.
Down - ballot races across the country have been heavily overshadowed this year by the presidential race, which has consumed news coverage and attention spans nationally and in individual battleground states.
Murphy also argues the Democratic effort to grab control of the Senate will be helped by the fact the Dems are no longer in debt and that 2016 is a presidential year, which traditionally boosts turnout in the heavily blue state.