Sentences with phrase «swing district»
A "swing district" refers to an electoral constituency or area where the voters are evenly divided between different political parties. It is considered a competitive or unpredictable district because there is a chance for either party to win during an election. Full definition
In the past, though, it used to be about lawmakers in swing districts who might face election challenges.
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He talks about the dwindling number of swing districts.
Instead, they've concentrated their resources on the relatively few swing districts where control of the chamber seemed to be at stake.
The target list identified 20 legislators from swing districts who had voted for health - care reform and who were up for election.
Except for a few swing districts we pretty much know which party will win.
Its goal is to harness Democratic energy from deep blue districts like ours to help get out the vote in truly swing districts around the country.
«The ad buy is not targeted to a region in which there are close swing districts, nor does it mention any Republican by name,» the letter states.
Its presidential performance is about the same as the nation as a whole and so it's a classic swing district.
One of only a few true swing districts nationally, the 19th district race has garnered national attention.
That could hurt incumbents or maybe it helps those in swing districts.
The idea is to shift votes from the heavily Democratic city to swing districts where they could have more impact.
The district, which is marginally Republican on paper, has changed hands repeatedly in recent years and is one of the nation's closest swing districts.
More importantly, the money can be spread out to Flanagan's conference members and Republican candidates running in key swing districts in order to bolster Republican chances of keeping their narrow majority intact.
House Republicans are running web banner ads criticizing 20 House Democrats who represent swing districts for not stopping what they call «Obama's sequester.»
Bharara at the same time is reportedly investigating the political activities of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and his use of county committees to help Democratic candidates running in key swing districts for the state Senate.
The authors also suggest that bad actors could use AI to create «automated, hyper - personalized disinformation campaigns,» in which «Individuals are targeted in swing districts with personalized messages in order to affect their voting behavior.»
But his decision is likely to make New York's 22nd District one of the most competitive House races in the nation next year for an open seat in a traditionally moderate swing district.
«The DCCC is increasingly hurting Democratic chances to win swing districts by actively recruiting anti-choice, corporate Democrats who act like Republicans,» PCCC's Stephanie Taylor said in a statement obtained by CapTon.
Lancman and the New York Democratic Lawyers Council joined together with federal, state and local elected officials to announce a mobilization effort to protect the vote in swing states as well as swing districts within New York State.
The hope for mainline conference Democrats is Trump's potentially poor showing in New York could make down - ballot races more favorable to them, especially in key swing districts on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley.
«If Democrats in swing districts like the 21st District of New York are heading for the hills, the chances of Nancy Pelosi becoming Speaker of the House have been downgraded again,» he said.
It's another example of a member of the GOP conference running in a battleground race in either an upstate or suburban swing district linking a Democratic challenger to the liberal New York City mayor.
Cuomo would later endorse Democrats running in key Senate swing districts in 2014 and 2016.
The investigation stemmed into de Blasio's efforts to help elect Democrats to the state Senate in 2014 using county Democratic committees to aid candidates running in key swing districts outside of New York City including the Hudson Valley and in Monroe County.
Cantor is scheduled to campaign in the Long Island swing district on Saturday on behalf of State Senator Lee Zeldin, who is running to unseat incumbent Democrat Tim Bishop.
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All told, five Republicans in the last week have said they will not seek re-election, opening up political battlegrounds in potential swing districts from Suffolk County to Syracuse.
In 1992, there were 103 members of the House of Representatives elected from what might be called swing districts: those in which the margin in the presidential race was within five percentage points of the national result.
The PAC, Maggie's List, did not detail in a news release how much money will be injected into these races, all of which are considered competitive swing districts.
Demographic shifts can make safe districts become swing districts.
Rep. John Katko, a Republican from a top - tier battleground swing district in central New York, was one of two GOP lawmakers from New York's delegation to vote against the measure.
Faced by such opposition, as well as a revolt by a good share of the Republicans in Congress, Boehner could do nothing other than go back to the drawing board, even if his new, tougher line places at risk a number of Republican representatives in critical swing districts.
NYSUT's spending on behalf of mainly Democratic Senate candidates in swing districts comes as supporters of charter schools have spent heavily in independent expenditure efforts of their own.
A pro-charter school independent expenditure committee is spending a combined $ 504,310 in TV and radio ads to oppose to Democratic Senate candidates running in key swing districts next month, according to Board of Elections records.
While the numbers are not in Deacon's favor, she is running in one of the few remaining swing districts in the country, said Christopher Faricy, a Syracuse University political science professor.
Many on the left believed that she could pull out a win for liberal populists in New York's 19th District, one of the country's rare swing districts.
Senate Republicans hold a narrow majority in the chamber, while Democrats expect to do well in suburban and upstate swing districts with Hillary Clinton atop the party's ticket this year.
Many districts are not swing districts.
While there are arguments to be made about the large party registration edge Democrats carry in the 12th and the fact that the special will coincide with statewide primaries where Democrats have far more competitive races than Republicans, the fact is that this is just the sort of culturally conservative swing district that the GOP must prove it can win to take back the House this fall.
With 2018 midterm elections approaching, Downtown for Democracy hosted a Take Back The House event for Swing Left to raise awareness about voting in the upcoming elections in Florida's 27th Congressional District (FL - 27) and other swing districts around the country.
Swing Left is targeting 64 House seats and has activated local, self - organized teams across the country to begin canvassing their respective swing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside the targeted districts.
«That's why swing districts are more fun,» Hickey added.
«If there's a big Democratic wave building against Republicans, as most analysts seem to think, Peter King will be one of the last Republicans in an arguably swing district to be washed away,» said Lawrence Levy, executive dean at the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.
-- interested in challenging freshman Republican Rep. John Faso, whose swing district is one of the Democrats» top targets in the upcoming midterm elections.
After two consecutive cycles of trying and failing to oust Republican Rep. Mike Coffman from his Colorado swing district, Democrats are searching for the right candidate to take him out once and for all.
Today's endorsement in a battleground swing district proves to the Democratic faithful in New York state that Cuomo is not just a member of their party, but the leader of it, backing an incumbent lawmaker who made a tough but valuable vote at a critical time in the campaign.
«There are three progressive Democrats in swing districts elected with the help of Obama's 2012 wave,» Lipton wrote.