Sentences with phrase «last midterm election»

Florida Power & Light (FPL) and Duke Energy are getting an early jump on 2018 political spending compared to the last midterm election, according to records from the Florida Department of Elections.

The proposals, dubbed «A Better Deal,» are in large part a response to Hillary Clinton's demoralizing loss to Donald Trump last year and the loss of the Democratic majority in the Senate in the last midterm election, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

During the last midterm election in 2014, digital advertising accounted for less than 1 % of political spending in federal, state and local elections, according to advertising tracking firm Borrell Associates.

During the last midterm election in 2014, digital advertising accounted for less than 1 % of political spending in federal, states and local elections, according to advertising tracking firm Borrell Associates.

-- «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.»

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The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

(Please also see last week's Market Commentary report titled «Midterm Election Year: What is Normal?»

The Democrats will lose control of the Senate in January because of heavy losses in midterm elections last month and will go deeper into a House minority than at any time since 1928.

Facebook executives last week detailed new initiatives to tighten election security ahead of the midterm elections.

Last fall, Democrats lost control of the Senate and fell further into the minority in the House, but pinned much of the blame on low turnout in the midterm elections.

This allows New York to redeem itself from the ignominious status of place dead last in turnout nationwide this year and in the nation with fewer voters going to the polls than in any midterm election for at least three decades.

We also examine if the very public response of Parkland students (and other American teens) will have a long - lasting impact and whether any of this will affect the outcome of the 2018 midterm elections.

And as the midterm elections unfolded, it started to feel like the last big game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos.

After getting squeezed last year by an array of campaign committees, party committees and disparate super PACs, many of them are still sitting on their checkbooks — a worrisome sign for the party with the 2014 midterm elections fast approaching.

(CNN)-- Sharron Angle, the Tea Party - backed underdog who in last year's midterm election came close to defeating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, may be setting her sights on another high profile political job.

(CNN)- Sharron Angle, the long - shot Tea Party - backed candidate who almost defeated Senate Majority Leady Harry Reid in last year's midterm elections, is hitting the road this week and it looks like another election may be on her mind.

De Blasio's decision to host a fundraiser for Bryce, a candidate in a district far from New York, comes as de Blasio seeks to fulfill a pledge he made after Donald Trump was elected president last year to involve himself in this year's midterm elections.

But the measure, widely expected to be one of the last big policy fights before this year's midterm elections, has Republicans and Democrats on track to clash.

The 2010 midterm elections drew residents from every corner of Queens to vote in races that ousted its last remaining Republican in Albany and changed the face of politics in a borough where Republicans and Tea Party members made little headway despite a national groundswell of support for more conservative politicians.

Miner, whose final term as mayor ends this week, told Syracuse.com last month that she was considering whether to run for Congress against Katko in the midterm election.

Republicans often seem comfortable shrugging off the climate issue, noting that GOP candidates cruised to victory in the midterm elections last year despite heavy spending by outside groups like Tom Steyer's NextGen Climate, which depicted some GOP candidates as «deniers.»

More broadly, the agreement follows a disastrous midterm election for Democrats last week, revealing divisions between the party's legislative branch and Obama.

Uranus will return to Aries one last time from November 6, 2018, until March 6, 2019 — the exact day that midterm elections begin in the United States.

At SPN's annual conference in Cleveland last year, held two months before the midterm elections, the think tank network adopted a new push for education reform, specifically embracing online technology and expanding vouchers.

Before last year's midterms, an overwhelming majority of education experts polled by the consulting firm Whiteboard Advisors said replacing No Child Left Behind would have to wait until well after the 2016 elections — if it ever happened at all.

As a result of last week's midterm elections, the 114th Congress will usher in a slate of new members including 11 senators and 58 House members.

After last November's midterm elections, he coordinated a satellite - broadcast, planetary art show titled 350 EARTH.

One of the last lines of defense for Obama's six - year blockade of the Keystone XL pipeline will come and go with the midterm elections, as TransCanada explores other options for the transport of their vast surplus of oil.

The refrain became a stock response for politicians not wanting to alienate any part of their voter base in last year's midterm elections.

After the Republicans re-took the House in last month's midterm elections, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio was elected speaker - designate.

The run - up to last week's midterm election saw some of the most negative campaigning in recent memory, generating countless defamation lawsuits against politicians for attack ads.

Last week, NAR President Steve Brown hosted the midterm election preview webcast, «Getting Out The REALTOR ® Vote.»