Sentences with phrase «only in presidential years»

A large number voters turn out only in Presidential years, further distorting the results.

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That was also the only negative year for the S&P in the third year of a presidential term.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

Having founded his party, En Marche, only around a year before the presidential election, it currently has no members in the National Assembly.

The year - over-year rate of growth in the US True Money Supply (TMS) was around 11.5 % in October of 2016 (the month before the US Presidential election) and is now only 2.4 %, which is near a 20 - year low.

He was not only one of the most famous Catholic Senators of the past 20 years but he is currently the only Catholic candidate in the GOP presidential race.

In contrast with previous presidential elections, where evangelical Christians were among the most engaged, this year, only 20 percent said they were following news about the campaign very closely.

Even in a presidential year, only about fifty to sixty percent of eligible voters vote.

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

Only three years ago, pundits and political scientists saw the 2008 American presidential election as the beginning of a new era in Washington: the rise of President Obama and a strong Democratic majority in both houses of Congress meant that after eight years away from Pennsylvania Avenue, liberals could again implement political programmes and reforms free from Republican meddling.

Over the last 40 years or so, only a little over half of the voting age population participated in presidential elections.

It is ode to Obasanjo's essential gracelessness that though MKO's martyrdom ensured his second coming, he not only struggled to completely bury MKO throughout his presidential years (1999 - 2007), he also ogled an illegal third term which ended in a fiasco.

More than two years ago, Barak fan Joe Anthony started a MySpace page in honor of the then - Senator, only to see its friend list balloon to over 160,000 in the frenzy of attention paid to the presidential race over the past few months.

New Yorkers have always known their city is the center of the universe, so it seems only fair that New York ought to play such an unusually outsized role in this year's presidential race.

Wrong: the long months of politicking in a presidential election year can actually give advocacy organizations great opportunities to boost the prominence of their issues — BUT only if they're ready.

Georgia is one of only two states in which no petition concerning presidential ballot access has succeeded during the last twelve years.

The vote test for a party to remain ballot - qualified is 2 %, but in presidential years, the only office that counts is the U.S. House race, and the Country Party did not poll as much as 2 % for that office.

It was only this week that the agency settled a federal lawsuit over its mismanagement of last year's presidential primary that resulted in a wrongful purge of 117,000 voters.

The only independent presidential petition submitted in North Dakota this year is the Jill Stein petition, and the Secretary of State has already determined that it is a valid petition.

In fact, whatever else he may achieve in his pursuit of the presidency, the former Louisiana congressman and governor may be remembered as the last presidential candidate to ever receive federal matching funds; the very fact that he is the only candidate seeking and collecting those funds this year prima facie evidence that the public financing system for presidential elections is already functionally deaIn fact, whatever else he may achieve in his pursuit of the presidency, the former Louisiana congressman and governor may be remembered as the last presidential candidate to ever receive federal matching funds; the very fact that he is the only candidate seeking and collecting those funds this year prima facie evidence that the public financing system for presidential elections is already functionally deain his pursuit of the presidency, the former Louisiana congressman and governor may be remembered as the last presidential candidate to ever receive federal matching funds; the very fact that he is the only candidate seeking and collecting those funds this year prima facie evidence that the public financing system for presidential elections is already functionally dead.

(c) False information in registering or voting; penalties Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $ 10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both: Provided, however, That this provision shall be applicable only to general, special, or primary elections held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting or electing any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the United States Senate, Member of the United States House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, or Resident Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

And has Alhaji Banda ever afforded himself the time and opportunity to critically analyze and examine why, for instance, the distinguished and immortalized Mr. B. J. «Joe» da Rocha woefully failed in his yeomanly and very mature and civilized attempt to prevent Mr. Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, former President John Agyekum - Kufuor's widely alleged favorite presidential candidate, from very publicly and undiplomatically deserting the New Patriotic Party in 2008, with only some 4 months before that historic year's general election?

«We need a candidate who can win not only in 2014, but keep the seat two years later in a presidential election year.»

Since 1975, that total has only been exceeded four times — in 2006, when an outgoing Gov. George Pataki vetoed hundreds of bills in an apparent attempt to bolster his conservative credentials in advance of a potential 2008 presidential campaign, and three of the four years when the state was governed by Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, and tensions between the Legislature and executive were especially high.

The only presidential campaign - derived organization so far with real independent influence started with Howard Dean: Democracy for America directly descends from the citizen - driven movement that tried to put him in the White House twelve years ago.

Of those three offices, only the first is up in presidential years.

In this year's California presidential primary held on June 7, the Republican Party chose to run a closed primary, excluding NPP voters and allowing only registered Republicans to vote.

Having carried 49.99 percent of the vote in a presidential year, he has not only the name recognition, the most valuable of political commodities, but the means.

The next year, 36 percent of Nassau Democrats participated in the still - close presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, while only 19 percent of Republicans showed up to vote in a race in which John McCain had a somewhat clearer lead in a race that was more subdued than the Democrats».

«Democrats understood that the only real issue in last year's presidential elections was the Supreme Court,» Rascoe roared to cheers from the faithful.

Most election years, science plays only a small role in presidential politics.

Any newcomer will have to come to terms not only with the most dismal NCI budget scenario in 3 decades but also with stringent new rules on owning pharmaceutical stock; and because this is a presidential appointment, the director might have less than 2 years to serve.

Given that we will live with the consequences of this presidential elections for the next four years, we should pay close attention not only to the information presented by the candidates, but also the manner in which they present that information.

After students have chosen, point out that the only requirements a presidential candidate must have are that he or she is at least 35 years old, is a natural - born citizen of the United States or was a citizen at the time the Constitution was written, and has lived in the United States at least 14 years.

It's also crucial to understand that US estate tax laws have changed several times in recent years (most recently in December 2010) and will likely change again after the presidential election next year: the current law is only valid until the end of 2012.

These changes are only for 2016 Presidential Declared Disasters but they can affect your tax returns in other years.

The Post noted that members of the CHC are only a small part of the larger network of tax - exempt nonprofit groups «linked by ideology and funding, that supported Trump while disparaging Democrat Hillary Clinton in last year's presidential campaign.»

We find ourselves in an exciting year in 2016 here in America: not only do we get to pay taxes like we do every year, but it's a presidential election year!

Original Source This year's historic presidential campaign has evoked feelings of change and new possibilities, as our country explores the roles of gender and race not only in politics, but in society.