Sentences with phrase «presidential election years when»

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.

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Several more states could join the party next year, when the presidential election will increase turnout among younger, pot - friendly voters.

Facebook has come under intense pressure to tackle the spread of false stories, which came to prominence during the U.S. presidential election last year when many inaccurate posts were widely shared on it and other social media services.

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

Rosenstein was asked about investigations that go on for months or even years; if there is a precedent on how long an investigation should last and when would the American people get to know the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election that has been underway since May of 2017.

Washington (CNN)-- Mitt Romney's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate promises to cast a spotlight on American Catholicism in an election year when the tradition has already been a major focus.

Strider, who helped spearhead Democratic faith outreach in 2006 and 2008 - when he directed that work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign - said the party put substantially fewer resources and effort into faith - based strategy work this year than in any election since 2004.

When thinking about abortion and this year's presidential election, a few questions come to mind.

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.

«We've got a presidential election coming up, and it just seemed a better time than in late September (when his current two - year term officially ends)... You always discuss these things when you're state chair, but listen, my political obituary has been written a lot of times already.

Cabrera's run is not insignificant in a year when Senate Democrats are banking on the presidential election to help them seize the majority from Senate Republicans.

Cronin is facing Republican incumbent Kemp Hannon, whose seat Democrats have targeted in recent years, especially during presidential election cycles when his margins of victory have generally been lower than in gubernatorial years.

If Hillary Clinton still harbors presidential ambitions for 2020, when she would be 73 - years - old, it appears the two - time presidential election loser would have Huma Abedin right by her side.

But under this deal being floated, in exchange for allowing Klein to retain most or all of the power he currently enjoys, the Senate Republicans would gain the insurance of having the five - member IDC to fall back on two years from now, when a presidential election is expected to cause an uptick in Democratic turnout and potentially put the GOP back into a numerical minority.

At the same time, there would be a handshake agreement that the coalition continue through 2016, a presidential election year, and when Democrats are expected to make gains in New York.

As Squadron mentioned, Democrats are looking to 2016, when a presidential election year with the potential of Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket will deliver them large gains in the Senate.

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.

His administration will also work to ameliorate the BOE's cybersecurity and invest $ 500,000 a year to ensure that when New Yorkers vote, they can «trust their vote will be counted» — a measure he says is necessary in light of Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Dadey has said he also prefers a candidate who would have strong appeal in a presidential election year, when Democrats have turned out in larger numbers in Central New York.

But a typical minor party has a very tough time polling 5 % in a presidential election year, when nothing statewide is up in Nebraska except President and, sometimes, U.S. Senate.

He also defeated her in a close race two years ago when she was the incumbent and her was the upstart challenger, bouyed by a boost in turnout in a presidential election year.

Unions backing out of the party over the last several years, a development that was seen when the party backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

He's won every Senate race he's been in since he was first elected in 1998 by a comfortable margin, though he's never had a major party challenger in a presidential election year, when Democrats typically perform better.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER In a year when the Human Rights Campaign argues, «The Trump - Pence ticket is the gravest threat the LGBTQ community has ever faced in a presidential election,» even the Log Cabin Republicans, who for decades have struggled to make lemonade out of the lemons in front of them, declared the platform adopted at -LSB-...]

McDonnell raked in $ 1.6 million during the most recent six - month reporting period, which lasted from June to December, and most of his money came in after election day, when Barack Obama turned Virginia blue on the presidential level for the first time in 44 years.

While the 1st Congressional District has traditionally been flipped in mid-term election years, the current political climate makes it difficult to predict whether it could turn Democrat again without the boost in voter turnout typically seen in a presidential election year, when the party benefits from increased participation by minority and female voters.

Katko is also the first Republican to win the 24th District seat in a presidential election year since 2004, when Walsh won his ninth term.

«Nothing that happens on Tuesday is a reflection of what's likely to happen a year from now in a presidential election year, high turnout year, when there are real campaigns going on across the state in a variety of districts between the Democrats and Republicans for control of the Senate.

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.

When I was in my last year of high school, there was a very famous presidential election and an equally famous court case to resolve the outcome, Bush v. Gore.

When looking at the presidential election, supporters of Hillary Clinton must admit that her defeat at the hands of Trump resulted in part from being ineffective campaigner who could not reach either hardcore progressives who had flocked to Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential nomination campaign, or inspire the six million Americans who had previously returned incumbent Barack Obama to the White House four years ago.

We've come a long way since that frigid February night in Iowa when Republicans and Democrats gathered at churches and in school gymnasiums to cast the first votes in this year's presidential election.

Updated, 11:50 p.m. David Roberts at Vox today put the Nature Climate Change paper in political context when he wrote: «The U.S. presidential election will matter for 10,000 years.»

Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian who describes herself as a conservative, gained national attention last year when then - GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich rejected a chapter she had written on man - made global warming from his book on environmental issues, which is set to come out after the November elections.

The provision for retirement at 75 in Canada's Constitution Act, 1867 (s. 99 (2) looks prescient, though one can see that with the fixed US election cycle, institutionalizing such a system in the US would be fraught with peril — anyone whose birthyear fell on a presidential election year would be less likely to be appointed than someone in the following year, but for those into the issue, here are the leads: TERM LIMITS FOR THE SUPREME COURT: Life Tenure Reconsidered, WHEN SUPREME COURT JUSTICES REFUSE TO RETIRE: Why We Need More Media Coverage, And A Constitutional Amendment and Politicized Departure from the United States Supreme Court

That caused it to hesitate when fighting fake news before the 2016 Presidential election... and then spend the next two years dealing with the backlash for allowing misinformation to run rampant.

Thrust into the spotlight by last year's US presidential election, the launch comes at a time when voters across the world have been awash in divisive information - dissemination practices as diverse as trolling, clickbait articles and spam.