Sentences with phrase «historic election»

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

In 2008, on the cusp of Barack Obama's historic election victory, Matt Damon headed to West Palm Beach in Florida to campaign for the Democratic nominee.

State Republican Party chairman Ed Cox slammed the Siena poll as flawed for oversampling New York City voters and under - sampling upstate voters compared to historic Election Day voting patterns, thus inflating Cuomo's popularity.

However, as Tip O'Neill once said «all politics is local,» and this year we are pleased to be honoring Congressman Bob Turner, whose historic election demonstrated the resurgence of the GOP in New York City.»

I myself worked on Tony Blair's historic election campaign of 1997, joining the «Projection Taskforce» — which presented the public image of the party — as its administrator, exactly twelve months before the election itself.

There are images of the apartheid authors and their version of history through their heroes, and more recent commemoratives marking historic elections, AIDS awareness and Robben Island.»

His Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) trounced the Liberal Democratic Party in a historic election on Aug. 30, shattering the latter's virtually unbroken reign since 1955.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Barack Obama said Saturday that the country is «a better place today» than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as «one indicator of how attitudes have changed.»

Comedian Samantha Bee articulated the on a November 7 episode of Full Frontal: «None of us have gotten to savour this historic election like we should.

Considering there doesn't appear to be any correlation between amount of sleep lost and political leaning of a state, it could have been a mixture of both excitement and stress, or simply the desire to watch the outcome of a historic election.

A historic election has redrawn long cherished political positions, and investors are facing an unusual combination of deficit - financed stimulus, delivered through the mechanisms of higher government spending and lower corporate and marginal tax rates.

NDP will be quite happy being courted for their support by the winners of this historic election.

So much can happen in one hundred days and so much of it is thanks to your tireless support over the course of a historic election.

Here's my gut on the next morning of this historic election: Obama will try to govern from the center left for the first two years, not making the mistake that...

I thought it was relevant to post here today on the eve of this historic election.

It's been almost 20 years since Tammy Baldwin's historic election, yet just one woman has followed her through the LGBTQ glass ceiling.

The lack of vulnerable Democrats — and the resiliency of many Republican incumbents in the face of an unpopular presidential nominee — could amount to a historic election in the House, but not in the way one might think.

Ramos is a labor leader, an advocate for women, a community organizer, she's fought for immigration reform and LGBT rights, and she's even worked on historic elections, but for whatever reason, Ramos is running without party support.

Dear Xxx — Two years ago, you stood with me to win an historic election against one of the most corrupt politicians the New York State has ever seen.

A former military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari swept to a historic election victory in March 2015 when he became the first opposition candidate to win a Nigerian presidential poll.

It's also an historic election for the Board, which will have a majority of women for the first time ever — nine out of 17 — and will become the only county legislature in New York State in which women currently comprise a majority.

He has said nothing about the historic election of the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital city, with the largest personal mandate of any UK politician in history.

«Kathy kicked off this historic election cycle with her special election victory last May, and we are proud to endorse such an effective leader again today.

The release of results in the first round of voting from Egypt's historic election are being postponed, the country's military rulers said Thursday.

City Councilmen Danny Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) and Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) are still riding high months after their historic election as the first two openly gay men to serve Queens on the Council, but this week they will be riding even higher.

After an historic election, the Conservatives wound up with just 318 seats - not enough to meet the 326 required to govern.

Perhaps it is important that we aver our mind to the historic election petition of 2013, which was not referred to the constitutional committee then headed by Hon. Ayikoi Otoo and the verifiable fact that none of the members of the constitutional committee, not even the Chairman, were on the Party's legal team at the Supreme Court.

Rockland County and America has gone through yet another historic election.

NEW YORK CITY — Slow - moving lines continued to cause extensive delays hours after polls opened to voters Tuesday morning in a historic election that could see the first woman elected president.

Despite the historic election of the Assembly's first African - American speaker, he was viewed with suspicion by critics of the capitol's checkered history of corruption.

It is unfortunate and irresponsible for someone to criticize the Party, it's chairman or its staff so close to what will be an historic election for the Republican Party and the future of New York.»

BY MICHAEL CAHILL Obama gets four more years; Democrats win GOP seats in Rockland, in 2012 you can go ahead and paint the county blue Rockland County and America has gone through yet another historic election.

Nine million people tuned in to watch the historic election debate between the three party leaders.

The Editor of pr0 - NDC newspaper, the Informer, Andy Kankam, has said that some persons who were around former President John Mahama while in power, are responsible for his historic election defeat.

Breslin talks about the historic election which saw Democrats gain a majority in the state Senate for the first time in over forty years.

Both supporters and detractors of Ganim said 2015 was a historic election — and one that received national attention because of Ganim's record as a convicted felon and Connecticut's reputation for corrupt elected officials.

An ambitious chancellor plotting with cabinet colleagues to unseat a sitting prime minister who was responsible for an historic election victory.

Mark - Viverito nodded to her historic election as the first Latino Speaker of the council, adding that she hoped «that as young Latinas and Latinos are witnessing this moment, they are able to dream that much bigger and are inspired to work that much harder, because we have broken through one more barrier.»

The Scottish Conservative leader — emboldened by her historic election gains — had earlier called on colleagues to «look again» at their Brexit strategy.

It's 1 month before Myanmar's historic election, and with us in the back is a young doctor with «NLD,» the initials of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party, the National League for Democracy, shaved into his close - cropped hair.

How lucky are we to be alive during this historic election (Hamilton reference, anyone?)?

Licking the wounds from the loss of such an historic election, it may be the only way Hollywood knows how to respond.

Chelsey M. Kueffer, who teaches at an International Baccalaureate school in Shanghai, wrote, «This is a historic election not only for Americans, but for everyone — we plan to be participants.»

Before the historic election of 2016, everyone thought rates in the low - to mid-3s would be around forever.