Sentences with phrase «percent in presidential years»

«This groundbreaking proposal will almost certainly bolster Oregon's best - in - the nation turnout rates that exceed 80 percent in presidential years and provide a clear roadmap for states like ours that have much room for improvement,» Miner said.

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In years following a presidential election, the Dow Jones industrial average has been up 11 times with an average gain of 0.7 percent, the almanac said, citing 17 years.

The most convincing evidence about presidential election years for Evans is that in 18 of the last 22, the S&P 500 indexhas had a positive return for the year and has posted an average return of 11 percent in those years.

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders's (I - VT) Social Security benefit expansions, as one example, would cost 1.3 to 1.4 percent of payroll once fully phased in, the equivalent of at least $ 1.2 trillion over ten years.

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.

Gun owners» fear of a Clinton presidency may have helped spur a spike in pistol permits issued in the Empire State in 2016, increasing 34 percent from the 2012 presidential election year and rivaling numbers last seen when the SAFE Act passed four years ago.

«You have to do much more work to figure out who to target in a 45 percent turnout election» than in a presidential year, said Jeremy Bird, Obama's 2012 national field director.

The impact of the referendum could be significant because voting in years without a presidential or governor's race is low, hovering around the 20 percent mark.

But 56 percent of them said that he would not make a good presidential candidate in four years, and 54 percent think he would make a poor president.

Obiang, who seized power in a military coup in 1979 and was re-elected again in April with 93.7 percent of the vote, promoted the 47 - year - old second vice-president by a presidential decree read on state television.

Shortly before last night's presidential debate, the Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery Operations released a progress report in which it says that 7,173 applicants — or 84 percent — have seen a check or construction and that by the end of the year, more than 90 percent of program participants will have received checks or commenced construction.

Indeed, voter turnout of 38 percent in the town was considered unusually high for a year that didn't include Congressional or presidential elections.

The incumbent received 54 percent of the vote in the last presidential election year.

The Independence Party in the past two elections has meant about 4,900 votes in the First District — less than 2 percent of the vote in a presidential year.

Two years ago, Latimer defeated Killian for the same State Senate seat by a 55 to 45 percent margin, in a presidential year where Hillary Clinton trounced Donald Trump for president in Westchester by a 65 to 31 percent margin, with 4 percent to the minor party candidates.

But 56 percent said he would not make a good presidential candidate in four years, and 54 percent think he would make a poor president.

Mr. Zeldin first opposed Mr. Bishop in 2008, when he received just 41 percent of the vote in a presidential year that saw Democrats take back the White House.

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».

The group points to President Barack Obama's performance in the 24th Congressional District — he won the district in 2012 with 57 percent of the vote — as they make the case that Katko can be defeated in 2016, a presidential election year.

Four years ago in the last presidential election, the line brought in 11,561 votes, or 3.97 percent.

But, Edwards, who was, interestingly enough, pushed as a vice presidential candidate by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) last year, has held the seat — winning 52 percent in 2002, 51 percent in 2004, 58 percent in 2006 and 53 percent in 2008.

After pulling 33 percent in the Democratic primary against a sitting governor just two years ago, Teachout seems a good bet to get the House nomination now — and a real threat to win even a Republican - leaning district in a presidential election year.

He pointed to Ned Lamont's Democratic primary victory over US Senator Joe Liberman in 2006 — just six years after Lieberman, who began the race with at 65 - to - 19 percent edge over Lamont, was their party's vice presidential nominee.

Twenty - eight years later, in the closest presidential race in modern history, youth turnout, having fallen steadily over the years, reached a new low of 36 percent.

The Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois called for a mandatory national cap on carbon emissions, as well as an investment of $ 150 billion over 10 years to develop new energy resources, in order to reduce the country's appetite for foreign oil by 35 percent by 2030.

The magnitude of the public outcry and the amount of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even in the context of the scope of the incident which is said to have seen Cambridge Analytica harvest data of some 50 million Facebook users while informing less than one - percent of them of that activity several years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, an accusation made by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.

Right after the Presidential election in November, the yield on 10 - year U.S. Treasury bonds rose to a high of around 2.5 percent, up from roughly 1.75 percent in October.

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After the last presidential election in 2008, foreclosure filings had increased 81 percent over the previous year and home sales were down nearly 42 percent from record highs in 2005.