Sentences with phrase «tight election»

A look at the fundraising practices of candidates from both sides of the aisle involved in tight elections across the state generally reveals large donations from party campaign committees.

Until 2015 all the current polls tell us is simply that this is going to be a very tight election.

According to the Committee, the government's request was necessitated by the «tight election calendar» which made it difficult to come out with an Appropriation Act before the end of 2016.

An indifferent media and tight election threaten its progress, but there are some decent policies under the hood

Considering that digital organizing has been widely touted as one of the Democratic Party's most distinct competitive edges (especially in tight elections), we have to ask why.

Up in Courtenay - Comox we are well aware that it was a tight election.

Sopel, currently gearing up for one of the tightest election nights in US history, said: «Has there even been a crazier, more bizarre, unsettling and fascinating time to be in this country that we think we know so well?

Christie isn't urging people in New Jersey to get to the polls in a tight election, he is promoting his own interview with Charlie Rose on CBS in which he denies all the sworn testimony about him in open court during the Brideggate trial which links him to the lane closures the touched off the scandal.

Following the tightest election in decades both Labor and the Liberal - Nationals are still short of the 76 seats required for an overall majority.

I'm no stranger to tight elections.

«The Independence line can make a difference in a tight election, and the trend nationally as well as in Ballston is for more people to enroll as Independents or in no party at all.

Gardiner residents turned out in droves for what will prove to be a tight election for the two Town Board seats, as well as the town justice position.

In a tight election, it could make all the difference between victory and defeat.

Gardiner residents turned out in droves for what will prove to be a tight election for the two Town Board

Smith estimated that this kind of intense field is worth between three and four points in a tight election.

With a hostile media and a tight election, there is a definite limit to what the party can achieve.

With a tight election on the line, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton will meet in just hours to face off at their first presidential debate, a battle 18 months in the making that is emerging as the most hotly anticipated moment in modern US political history.

He lost two very close races to Dante Bartolomeo before winning again last year in another tight election.

The Committee noted that the government's request became necessary due to the tight election calendar which made it difficult to come out with an Appropriation Act before the end...

This confluence of elections means that unaffiliated and minor - party voters, who can make the difference in a tight election and seem to back McGrath by a substantial margin, will likely stay at home in larger numbers relative to Democrats and Republicans than they would in an election held in November.

When political managers and spin doctors are fighting one of the tightest elections in living memory they will often go to the point of absurdity to ensure television pictures tell the message they want.

ALBANY — At one of his final campaign rallies, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday endorsed a Democratic State Senator in a tight election, refused to back another and then said Republicans in the upper chamber might stall his plans to enact a progressive agenda.

And throughout the country, school levies were passed and even candidates like Florida's Gov. Rick Scott, who won in a tight election, ran on funding schools, not on his record.

What's more, it remains unclear whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has any intention of bringing patent reform up for debate during a tight election year if a compromise ever gets through the Judiciary panel.