Sentences with phrase «off year elections»

It is also harder to get people to vote in off year elections but not for those with some skin in the game like the union.

Unions often take advantage of off year elections and voter apathy and fatigue.

Under Cuomo's plan, the early voting would begin in the off year elections of 2019, where the races are local and turn out is lower, in order to work any kinks in in the new system.

The Repubs will do OK in the off year election, but in the next 20 years, they could get really weak.

Guest blog by Karel Minor While it seems like the focus in the effort to combat animal cruelty would be at the State legislative level, local elections give animal advocates a chance to make a difference in this off year election.

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years left at the top before another election could knock him off.

Lilly's political spending was $ 548,100 for 2017, up 12 percent from 2015, the previous off - election year, the data show.

The fiscal cliff, off which U.S. taxpayers may have to leap on Jan. 1, 2013, if the Bush tax cuts expire, is seen as being the inevitable consequence of Washington lawmakers» infighting unless President Obama and Congress honestly confront this deadline in an election year.

Deals in the aerospace and defense industry have slowed this year after the election of President Donald Trump sent asset prices soaring, making many buyers hold off on deals.

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a new set of changes to help users find and change their privacy settings, as well as download and delete whatever data has been collected through Facebook's network of social media services.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

The Treasury yield curve has been steepening since the election, with 10 - year yields hitting one - year highs in recent days amid a bond sell - off.

In previous midterm election years, the S&P 500 Index has experienced a sell - off early in the year — and on average, ends the first three quarters flat to slightly lower (as of this writing, the S&P 500 Index price is nearly unchanged year to date).

UC Irvine (UCI) reportedly offered admission to David Hogg, but the Parkland activist has decided to take a year off from college to focus on the 2018 midterm elections.

In terms of a global picture, the EU is even further along than the US by 20 or 30 years, where you wont find a single advanced northern European nation that would for ANYONE that goes on about «God» (unlike the US, which seems to require it during elections)... you'd get laughed off the election circuit.

«The timing of publication, in an election year, naturally feeds suspicion of a plot by the newspaper or unidentified saboteurs to kill [Adams] off.

While the Obama administration finds its own signature health care legislation so complicated to administer that it is now putting off implementation of the large - employer insurance mandate until 2015 (i.e., after the congressional midterm elections), it is forging ahead with its oppressive HHS contraception - sterilization - abortifacient mandate, despite repeated condemnations of it from countless religious leaders for nearly two years now.

The Century interpreted the results of the off - year elections of 1934 as giving Roosevelt a clear - cut mandate that said, «Go left, Mr. President, go left»; it asserted that «many features of the 1934 election suggest that a union of forces for a vigorous offensive in support of an avowedly radical program is not impossible» (November 14, 1934).

In an off - year election with few overarching issues and weakened parties that could not get out the vote effectively, highly partisan and active minorities were able to get their candidates elected.

I'm choosing to avoid the whole idea that the Family Circle Magazine in election year 2000 held a cookie bake - off between the presidential candidates» wives, Tipper Gore and Laura Bush suggested a certain wifely stereotype, like that's all that they're good for.

However, it looks like Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are both in danger of falling off this year by failing to secure five percent of the vote, and neither Roger Clemens nor Barry Bonds looks as if they've made any progress towards election.

Today is an election day, one of those so - called off - year, non-partisan election days.

In an off - year election, Democrats desperately needed their base voters to show up... people who'd voted for Barack Obama twice.

That last line is key: as has been noted again and again, Democrats tend to stay home in off - year elections, while the Republican base is rarin'to vote down anyone associated with our Kenyan Socialist overlord.

It's been nearly a month since the general election season officially kicked off and so, far at least, there has been little airing from either candidate as to what they would do for the next four years.

Ironically, considering that 2016 is an election year, NONE of my time has gone to candidates, though I've chatted off and on with various groups interested in making things happen on the electoral front.

Diaz fired off a letter to Hispanic ministers today emphasizing the importance of this year's election to «Christians and God - fearing people to keep our family, moral and traditional values that our ancestors left us and that the Bible teaches us.»

It would not be out of the realm of possibility for Senate Republicans to back a deal for a less - generous increase in order to get the issue off the table in an election year, like they did for same - sex marriage.

I had taken a day off work to go campaigning on the day of the local and European elections this year.

But the income surcharge needs to be signed off on by Albany, and Republican Senate lawmakers have indicated little willingness to take up the tax hike, especially in an election year.

It's an election year for all 212 (plus one added seat should the Senate redistricting plan be allowed) and an off - cycle year for the governor.

«When you have an off - year election, and it's an off - year election where you don't have the County Executive's race on the ballot in Erie County, turnout is always a challenge,» said Republican Analyst Vic Martucci.

Some have just been overcome by the prospect of this year's elections — a senior Liberal Democrat in Leicester (there were four elections there) accosted my colleague Gary O'Donoghue on the campaign trail and pronounced: «If you write your name across my chest, I'll never wash it off.»

The only holiday we're talking about is the day of the actual election, but counting primaries and run - offs there could be more days throughout the year that require voter participation.

All that speculation about whether an early election might be in the offing has been replaced by the tedium of a five - year government - with all the related frustrations as it winds up.

But the junior senator was not eager to tee off on her two fellow Democrats who are mounting political comebacks in the New York City elections this fall after being felled by sex scandals in recent years.

The day kicked off with a Times report by Nick Confessore about how the infighting caused in no small part by Cox's insistence on pushing Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy for governor has cast a pall on what is supposed to be a banner election year for the GOP.

President Trump declined to commit to being interviewed by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating whether his campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election, backing off his statement last year that he would be willing to talk to Mueller under oath.

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

But she noted that in an off - year election, about half of votes are cast outside the five boroughs.

«It all has to do with who actually comes out to vote, so this is an off - year election, and my definition of upstate is the MTA Line is sort of the end of what I would call downstate, so Poughkeepsie, in my view, is the definition.

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This off - off - year election cycle presents the perfect opportunity to pilot such a program in at least VA and NJ, and in doing so, train the first set of new digital organizers with whom to rebuild the bench.

it wasn't until the last few weeks leading up to the election that pundits started taking S.J Jung as serious competition for the 15 - year incumbent, still it wasn't any dirt off of Stavisky's shoulder.

While Cuomo's praise for Republican initiatives may help the party as it attempts to fend off Democratic efforts to win the Senate, it's not certain how big an issue drug abuse will be in a busy presidential election year.

They saw Michael Howard knocked off course by UKIP's success in 2004 but they also saw that it did not translate into anything at the following year's General Election.

It's an off year for state wide races, and most local municipal elections do not generate high turn outs, although there are mayoral races in Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and Syracuse this year.

It's an election year for all 212 members of the legislature, and unions often provide support for field campaigns in the form of volunteers to staff phone banks and to drop off campaign literature door to door.

While a final decision on whether to renew Trident has been put off until 2016, the issue promises to resurface periodically between then and now — not least of all in next year's general election campaign and this year's referendum on Scottish independence.

But will it be enough to overcome a bad map, an off - year election and an unpopular president?