Sentences with phrase «margins in presidential election years»

They will represent districts Democrats carried with big margins in presidential election years — seats the newly minted Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luján will probably want back.

Killian, a former Rye City Councilwoman, ran two years ago for this same senate seat, losing to Latimer by a 56 % -44 % margin in a presidential election year.

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After a run of presidential elections in which Democrats took the state by massive margins and some snooze-fest off - year contests, the Empire State is sure to make a difference in determining the balance of Congress.

Cronin is facing Republican incumbent Kemp Hannon, whose seat Democrats have targeted in recent years, especially during presidential election cycles when his margins of victory have generally been lower than in gubernatorial years.

Hannon is running for re-election in a Nassau County Senate district Democrats have long coveted, especially in presidential election years when his margins of victory are often smaller than in non-presidential cycles.

The NPP flagbearer urged residents of Kramoase to vote massively for the NPP in this year's elections, and increase the 80.83 % margin of victory chalked by the party in the 2012 presidential election.

He's won every Senate race he's been in since he was first elected in 1998 by a comfortable margin, though he's never had a major party challenger in a presidential election year, when Democrats typically perform better.