Sentences with phrase «old election returns»

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If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremiOld Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremiold political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

In 2010, Monserrate tried to return to the Senate by running in a March special election for his old seat.

(It was attached to Sen. Marty Golden's bill allowing NYC to return to the old lever machines for the upcoming citywide elections).

Their aim has been to prepare the ground for a backbench debate on Thursday in which MPs will hold a symbolic vote on returning to the old days when Prime Ministers had full discretion to call elections as they saw fit.

After the general election, Theresa May's communications director returned to her old PR and lobbying agency iNHouse Communications to «streamline the business» - and to schmooze clients at parties.

Given that the economy eclipses every other issue in every issue tracker you care to name, the 2015 election message will surely be that a vote for Miliband would be a return to the «bad old days of spend, spend, spend».

Only around half of them rule out returning to their old party before the election, as do only six in ten Lib Dem defectors to Labour.

«Strategic defectors» are voters who support Ukip at European elections but return to the Conservatives at general elections: they are older, financially comfortable, middle - class men with Conservative sympathies, socially conservative Eurosceptics who are motivated principally by their desire to send a message to the Conservatives.

(CNN)- Eager to prevent an embarrassing loss of his old Senate seat, President Obama is heading to Chicago Thursday for two fundraisers on behalf of Democratic Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias, and CNN has learned Obama will be returning home yet again in the final days of the midterm election to try and help Giannoulias win a race that could determine who controls the chamber next year.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Congressman Charles Rangel «s job in Washington, confirmed over the weekend that he is interested in returning to Albany — by running for the position of Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the City Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens left her local post to assume Wright's old role in the State Legislature.

Soundview - Parkchester - Castle Hill: District 18 In the South Bronx's District 18, Ruben Diaz, Sr., who represented the district on the Council for a year prior to his 2002 election to the Senate, won a return to his old seat.