Sentences with phrase «presidential year»

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

Even in their best - shot presidential years, 1980 - 1988, they won very little and are not poised to win much more.

They're hoping to use the massive presidential year election turnout to deliver enough votes to beat him.

It is fairly easy for a party to meet the test in presidential years, when there are six statewide partisan races on the ballot in most years.

Heading into the 2016 presidential year when Democratic turnout is traditionally high, Gianaris is optimistic the Dems can pick up enough seats on Long Island to put them in a position to grab at least partial control of the chamber.

He saw his defeat at the hands of no - name Frank Skartados in 2008 as a fluke, one of those weird things that happens in presidential years where thousands of previously unregistered voters take to the polls.

But party operatives are more wary about 2016, when presidential year turnout likely will boost Democrats up and down the ballot.

Voter registration jumped form 92,205 in 2007 to 100,880 the following presidential year.

«Anybody that thinks the presidential race may be a disadvantage for a Republican in this coming presidential year, 2016 I really think they need to rethink the dynamics,» Assini said.

That's the way it has always worked here after DA races were reassigned to presidential years back in 1992.

Also a good point about higher turnout in presidential years favoring Democrats.

This is a lesson Democratic candidates for state Senate have learned the hard way in recent years (including presidential years), especially in their attempts to wrestle control of seats in Long Island.

In many past presidential years, the nomination was decided before the candidates came to New York.

Democrats have long argued presidential years, with their higher turnout, work to their benefit.

The lower the overall gubernatorial vote, the closer the conservative share gets to one - third of the total (most gubernatorial years), whereas, the higher the vote total, when driven by millennials, the liberal share hits a full third (most presidential years).

Or, the superlative competence of the Jonathan presidential years?

«I know this has been a tough presidential year, but this campaign was really brutal on a lot of voters,» Tenney said.

The result seemed to be a consequence of mid-term turnout (vs. presidential year) and the Republican wave.

Nov. 21, Warren County Republican Election Commissioner Mary Beth Casey reported to county supervisors that although there was a substantial influx of voter registrations prior to both the primary and general elections, the turnout of voters on Nov. 8 was fairly typical for presidential year.

«He's slow and steady, but that approach can win the race, especially in a high - turnout presidential year where demographics and registration are on his side.»

The Republican State Leadership Committee targeted the Senate in light of Virginia, as committee president Matt Walter stated,» [becoming] an increasingly important battleground state in presidential years.»

These are the districts that always were going to be competitive, and where presidential year turnout usually gives Democrats an advantage.

Her Presidential Year will also see the launch of CIHT's new manifesto in the autumn, which will set out a clear vision for our priorities for future transport policy.

Stefan Mychajliw was elected our Erie County Comptroller in 2012 so a Republican can win countywide in a Presidential year.»

2012 is a presidential year and the ECONOMY is the primary issue, not a law that the Governor stated benefits only 100,000 people at the most.

I can't imagine those Republicans will be very happy to welcome a lot of new Democrats into their respective districts in a presidential year.

«Some are afraid of the Presidential year.

At the Archives Nationales in Paris I worked on the correspondence received by de Gaulle during his presidential years — an average of 100,000 letters a year, which provide fascinating insights into the way ordinary French men and women viewed him.

«After a campaign in which we faced extraordinary challenges and yet still managed to grow our majority in a Presidential year, I couldn't be more proud to lead this outstanding group of lawmakers.»

Of course, IBB clambered on the back of Obasanjo's «press release», excoriating PMB, strafing both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the doomed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which, by the way, he thoroughly ruined during his presidential years.

While turnout among Democrat voters in the City of Rochester was high in the presidential year, it was Slaughter's win in the Republican - dominated suburbs that was truly remarkable.

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.

There has been much speculation about what happens in 2016, a presidential year with former New York State Senator Hillary Clinton potentially at the top of the ticket for Democrats.

The Democrat will be a credible nominee and gets the chance to run in a presidential year this time, when Democratic turnout should be better.

Democrats are pleased Nelson's finally getting in the House race, especially in a presidential year when the party is hoping to expand its down - ballot battlefield.

«The numbers favor Democrats in this open - seat during a Presidential year.»

But regional politics, individual special election results and whether a general election takes place in a gubernatorial or presidential year all can affect the vote totals.

Elected during the Republican wave in 2010, he is on the ballot this time in a mostly blue state during a presidential year.

When Democratic Rep. Steve Israel announced his retirement earlier this year, he said he wanted to leave Congress during a presidential year to give Democrats a greater shot at holding his seat.

Long will be taking on Schumer in a presidential year in which two New Yorkers, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, may well face off.

He will likely struggle in a presidential year, when more minority and younger voters are likely to turn out to vote for Democratic candidates.

Senators in Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico and South Carolina serve four - year terms, which all come up in presidential years, so they are not running this year either.

«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.

In 2012, Democrats gained additional seats in a presidential year where their candidate won.

Other Republicans are saying that Trump's candidacy is generating a lot of excitement among GOP voters, which will be good for the party in terms of combatting the higher - than - expected turnout among Democrats that tends to occur in presidential years.

«In a presidential year, it is competitive.

Even though Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney had a close call in 2014 in the 18th District, GOP strategists aren't optimistic about defeating him in 2016, particularly in a presidential year.

On February 27, the Oklahoma Senate unanimously passed SB 668, which eases ballot access for newly - qualifying parties in midterm years, but does not reduce the number of signatures in presidential years.