Sentences with phrase «presidential election year»

Those political forces represented nearly half of the French electorate in the first round of presidential elections a year ago.

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

Conservatives won key presidential elections year after year as both sides sought to bring their people to the annual conventions.

In the last presidential election year, climate change was almost a bipartisan issue.

He says that traditionally, more Democrats that Republicans come out to vote in presidential election years in New York, though he concedes the GOP has some distinct advantages.

Republicans have steadily lost seats during presidential election years, when more Democratic voters come out to vote and aid candidates down the line.

Maryland elects governors in the midterm elections, that is, even years that are not presidential election years.

Hannon is running for re-election in a Nassau County Senate district Democrats have long coveted, especially in presidential election years when his margins of victory are often smaller than in non-presidential cycles.

Democrats who run down - ballot in presidential election years tend to receive more votes from the coattails of the presidential candidate.

It was a contentious presidential election year between the incumbent George H.W. Bush and his opponent Bill Clinton.

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.

On the Democratic side, two candidates have lined up to lead the state ticket in the coming presidential election year: state Sen. Jeff Kessler, who was replaced by Cole as Senate president when Democrats lost control of the chamber in in 2014, and businessmen Jim Justice.

Presidential election years bring out the Nostradamus in all of us.

Southern Baptist conservatives won key presidential elections year after year, and after a final conservative presidential victory in 1989 in New Orleans, moderates gave up the battle and began taking steps toward forming their own moderate organizations, such as the Cooperative Fellowship.

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.

In a high - profile presidential election year.

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Mahoney currently serving as chair of the state Thruway Authority, a position to which she was nominated by Cuomo in 2015 and is slated to hold through Jan. 1, 2020, (which also just so happens to be the next presidential election year).

Presidential election years already tend to be difficult for the GOP in New York.

Texas parties remain ballot - qualified in presidential election years if they poll at least 5 % for any partisan statewide race.

The State Senate is nearly evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, and a non presidential election year in New York often favors the GOP, so there's no telling what the ultimate outcome could be on Election Day.

Nevertheless, it's fresh fodder for Democrats, who continue to hold out hope that they'll be able unseat Hannon in the upcoming presidential election year, when the party typically does better in down - ballot races.

While presidential election year voters tend to vote in favor of spending measures, some within the district are concerned that seeing two tax increases on the ballot will lead voters to choose one or the other, while both are sorely needed.

In this unprecedented presidential election year, the Sculptors Guild collective chose the theme «American Twist.»

With the US presidential election a year away, The Earth Times considers the environment debate.

In those years, markets decline 4 percent on average, compared to being up 7 percent in other presidential election years.

Flanagan declined to criticize Trump or suggest his candidacy could hurt Republicans running in down ballot races in New York, a heavily Democratic state that tends to bring out more Democrats during presidential election years.

The East Timorese also participated in two rounds of presidential elections this year, which resulted in the replacement of Jose Ramos - Horta with former military leader Taur Matan Ruak.

Tennessee elects governors in the midterm elections, that is, even years that are not presidential election years.

If recent history is any guide, Senate Democrats have always picked up seats in Presidential election years.

And both are engaged in rematches against opponents who performed well in the last presidential election year.

Election Day is here at last and polling places across upstate New York are prepared to be busy, because presidential election years tend to boost turnout.

This is some kind of large systematic error, far larger than typically occurs in a presidential election year,» Wang said.

We're in a presidential election year, and there's no telling how that'll play out.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.

But even if his biases grate, there's still plenty here worth considering as the U.S. enters a presidential election year.

The Bud Light campaign, which leaned on a political theme in a presidential election year, in particular won high praise from the Wall Street Journal and other key publications.

Stovall said in a presidential election year, like 2016, the market is usually higher — up 6.1 percent of the time with an average 76 percent history of an advance.

Gaining traction for the bill during a presidential election year, when Congress traditionally slows to a crawl, will be Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster's challenge, but the Pennsylvania Republican holds out hope after devoting more than a year to building support among stakeholders.

... we are likely to follow the historical patterns of a rising stock market in the second half of a Presidential election year.

On the political front, most Fed watchers naively ignored that 2016 was a presidential election year.

Mexico has made clear that it will not take kindly to such maneuvers, especially during a presidential election year.

In this presidential election year, a plurality of the French have broadly nativist, traditional, and nationalist views.

The issue has become a political flashpoint in a presidential election year, and the lawsuit by attorneys general from Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Florida and Texas was certain to keep it prominent.

Living and working near Washington, D.C., it's difficult to tune out the noise of politics, especially in a presidential election year.

Brown is now an incumbent rather than an insurgent since it is a presidential election year, he has to win over a lot of voters who are going to be voting for Obama.

If these people actually believe a presidential election a year - and - a-half from now will significantly alter how the country is run, they have almost surely wasted their money.

Every presidential election year we have our own political convention to determine democratically what will be right and wrong for the next four years.

Since it was a presidential election year, I decided to focus my social psychology course on the psychology of political attitudes: how they are formed, how they are maintained, and how they can predict voting behavior.

«I didn't try out for the Olympics,» says politically minded Albert in the firm, conservative tones of a man who believes in first things first, «because they came in a presidential election year.»