Sentences with phrase «test in presidential years»

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.

Not exact matches

The vote test for a party to remain ballot - qualified is 2 %, but in presidential years, the only office that counts is the U.S. House race, and the Country Party did not poll as much as 2 % for that office.

Crain's predicts that New York City will become «a test case for what independent expenditures can do in municipal elections,» and city voters can expect to «experience some of what their counterparts in presidential swing states did last year.»

Nevertheless, Democrats view Cuomo's potential involvement in the race as a test to see whether he will aid their cause in 2016, a presidential election year.

There are three main seasonal and cyclical patterns that have stood the test of time and consistently provide me with an edge in managing my portfolios: the four - year Presidential Election / Stock Market Cycle, the Best Six Months Switching Strategy and January's basket of indicators and trading strategies.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.