A 20
point election loss is usually referred to as a wipeout.
Not exact matches
National data
pointed to continued strength in the Spanish economy but a
loss of momentum in France, as French consumers reined in their spending, probably due to political uncertainty in the run - up to the country's presidential
election.
Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special
election defeats: In one of the Democratic
losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage
points, compared with a 22 -
point GOP victory margin in an
election for the same seat just three months earlier.
Though the WFP was not without its low
points in 2011: the shuttering of its controversial for - profit arm Data and Field Services on Oct. 26 and the
loss of WFP - endorsed candidate David Weprin in the NY - 9 special
election.
The SNP are likely to
point to the mid-term timing of the by -
election to explain the
loss, but privately officials will recognise that it does not stand the party in good stead ahead of next year's referendum.
Hynes announced last week that he will contest the general
election on the Republican and Conservative lines, despite suffering a ten -
point loss to former federal prosecutor Ken Thompson in last month's Democratic primary.
In the 2014 race for governor, when Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic incumbent, was leading by 37
points over his Republican rival Rob Astorino with nearly four months till
Election Day, the Republican Governors Association wrote off the
loss.
Probably the key
point here is that the
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losses, other than capital gain distributions.