Sentences with phrase «last election season»

A total of 11 Massachusetts cities put the issue of increasing property taxes for this program on the ballot last election season, and seven of them passed it.

Not exact matches

This looks similar to last fall's pattern going into the election season, which turned out to be a positive set - up for a strong finish into year - end.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

Today we return to our interview series, which in light of election season, has been politically - focused for the last few weeks.

The things that made last year's election season feel so interminable haven't disappeared with the inauguration.

While ratings are down overall, other factors — news coverage of the election cycle last year and of hurricane devastation early this season, viewers cutting the cord, and excessive commercials and game delays — are also key reasons for the decline.

As we approach the last several weeks of this election season, I want to take a moment to check in with you and make sure you know that we see you, we support you, and PALS is a safe place for you.

The Reform Party, a ballot line formed last year by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, filed its first campaign finance report since it was rechristened this election season, showing a single, massive donation from a limited liability company.

During an election marked by turmoil over term limits and a tempestuous Democratic primary season, Queens Republicans last week gained two seats in the City Council and solidified their hold over a third in a borough where the GOP is heavily outnumbered.

Organizing 2.0: Last season, I heard that the DCCC was placing interns who had tech / data skills into campaigns in the summer before the general election.

When I wrote for Total Politics in the aftermath of the last General Election, my main criticism of the Conservative Party's campaign was its failure to hire an experienced, seasoned campaigner to run it.

Each election season brings a flurry of last - minute mailers.

Catsimatidis donated heavily to both Trump and to Hillary Clinton during last year's election season.

Other nations have their election campaign seasons lasting 1 to 3 months, instead of the formal nearly year - long process for Presidential campaigns.

According to New York election law, registered voters missed the last chance to change their party affiliation for the entire 2016 primary season — presidential on April 19, congressional on June 28, state and local on Sept. 13 — more than five months ago.

His elevation last May following the arrest of Senate GOP leader Dean Skelos came with the support of upstate members and others who will be watching him in the post for the first time — and hoping that his resiliency helps them as they come into a key election season.

The timing of his last - minute decision — six weeks after Anthony Weiner's success at launching a viable campaign — means that throughout the election season Spitzer's sins will be measured against those of the disgraced former congressman.

States like New York that have a propensity to solidly vote for one party usually don't get much attention during the election season: New York has voted Democrat in the last seven presidential elections.

Last year's Student Association election season was unprecedented in its number of write - in candidates, but this year's election — which features no write - in candidates — was also an outlier due to it having a candidate pair with no SA experience.

But after Democrats failed to retake the State Senate last year, and after the 2014 election season was over, with Cuomo victorious, the governor and his lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul both declared the abortion plank of the act officially dormant, if not dead.

But its very welcome, it will cause worry and concern in the PLP and this will feed into the public narrative of a government in serious trouble and decline If this type of Conservative poll lead continues with the Labour party continuing to drop under the 30 % barrier, I would expect it to have a similar destabilising effect on the Labour party comparable to the run up to the Conference season last year when we were facing an Autumn election with Labour riding high in the polls.

For that reason, Nassau voters have an important choice in Tuesday's off - year election, between a seasoned prosecutor who has been Nassau's acting D.A. for the last 10 months and a legal lightweight deeply embedded in the county's powerful Republican machine.

During election season, staying relevant is a challenge, especially with the Republican National Convention last week, and the Democratic National Convention this week.

A native of Kentucky, which has been a reliable Republican stronghold in the last three presidential elections, Collins often misses home — except during election season.

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As election season gets under way, Tea Party favourites such as Joe Miller, who caused the biggest upset of the primaries when he defeated the Republican incumbent Lisa Murkowski in Alaska last month, have been upfront about their doubts on climate science.

In last week's blog, I bemoaned the fact that we had made little progress this election season in raising... read more