Sentences with phrase «midterm cycle»

Without a presidential race dominating the airwaves, House and Senate races will be on the receiving end of an unprecedented deluge of political spending this midterm cycle.

As a result, campaigns, party committees and super PACs are adjusting tactics to enter the fray earlier than every in a midterm cycle.

But while Democrats were quick to tout their victories in three special elections before the 2010 midterm cycle, they went on to lose control of the House.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has reserved $ 43.5 million in television airtime in dozens of targeted House districts this fall — a signal the party is attempting to play defense and offense in a challenging midterm cycle.

Democrats must pick up a net of 17 seats to win control of the House — already a difficult challenge in a midterm cycle.

Continuing on the topic of jobs, raising the minimum wage beyond the $ 7.25 federal hourly rate is a key ballot initiative for this midterm cycle in several red states including Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Not exact matches

If small business owners want to protect their interests, they and their advocates will need to work hard to combat his efforts as the midterm election cycle gets started.

Billionaire Tom Steyer, one of the leading Democratic donors in the 2018 election cycle, has plenty of praise for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., but he stopped short of publicly supporting her to lead the party in Congress after this year's midterm elections.

With the Dow deep in the red and volatility spiking, «sell in May» and «avoid the midterm election cycle» sound like timely advice.

Partly as a result, spending by organizations that do not disclose their donors has increased from less than $ 5.2 million in 2006 to well over $ 300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle and more than $ 174 million in the 2014 midterms.

In the prior 27 midterm periods, the S&P 500 has rallied 12 % on average during the 10 months following the election; the return jumps to 22 % when the Fed is in the middle of a tightening cycle.

Through his campaign account and his political action committee, the Kerry campaign operation generated more than $ 10 million for various party committees and 179 candidates for the U.S. House, Senate, state and local offices in 42 states focusing on the midterm elections during the 2006 election cycle.

A bid for attorney general is a much riskier bet, especially considering state election law is fuzzy about whether a congressional candidate can run for the post this late in the midterm election cycle.

It comes as Republicans prepare to head into a potentially challenging midterm 2018 congressional election cycle.

Since 1902, the president's party has been on the losing end of the battle for legislative seats in 27 of 29 midterm election cycles.

Republicans set out this cycle to defeat Brownley in her Ventura County district, viewing her first re-election battle in a midterm as an opportune time to take her down.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

But that's symbolic of the 2014 midterm election cycle in which numerous Democratic opportunities that look good on paper just haven't materialized.

Primary season for the midterms begins in earnest in May, when voters head to the polls for some of this cycle's marquee House and Senate contests.

«It's clear that there's more energy at the grass - roots level than I've seen in my lifetime, any election cycle — midterm or presidential,» said strategist Joe Trippi, who managed the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign that's widely seen as the first such bid to begin harnessing online fundraising tools.

If either of the seats is a Republican pickup, it would make New York the state with the biggest GOP midterm gains this cycle, for a total of six.

With one hasty and excruciatingly narrow vote, House Republicans have all but guaranteed that health care will be one of the most pivotal issues shaping the next two election cycles - including congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative races in the 2018 midterms and President Donald Trump's...

They were only used in about one third of ballots cast in the 2010 US federal midterm elections, despite having been available for several election cycles.

This cycle was interrupted only by the midterm and final examinations.

It's too early to predict just how significant a role the convergence of students enraged by a plague of school shootings and teachers enraged by that and a lot of other things will play in the election cycle that culminates in November's midterm congressional contests.

The best time in the four year presidential cycle to be in stocks is just after the midterm elections.

We'll likely talk more about this over the next month, but the six month period leading up to the Congressional midterm elections are typically the most volatile of each four - year election cycle.

Across election cycles and legislative battles, as one side gains a perceived advantage; the other side predictably attempts to catch up in terms of spending and polarizing rhetoric.21 In the months leading up to the 2014 midterm elections, liberals led by Steyer have given more to Super Pacs than conservatives, a reversal from the 2012 election cycle.22

A new video short produced by Republic Report's Lee Fang shows just how off - side Republican candidates are in this midterm election cycle when it comes to the overwhelming scientific evidence that human behaviour is to blame for the current climate and atmospheric disruption we are experiencing.

Throughout the 2010 midterm election cycle — and well before — most politicians dared not even utter the word climate change.

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