Sentences with phrase «tight races with»

Republican support for Green Party candidates in tight races with Democrats is nothing new, especially when there was meddling in the 2000 race by GOP operatives to push Ralph Nader on to the ballot.

That's a pretty strong statement, especially since Florida poll averages have consistently shown a tight race with Clinton slightly ahead at the moment.

The CNBC All - America Survey shows a tight race with 25 percent of voters undecided, including 14 percent who right now choose «neither» candidate.

He barely came out ahead in a tight race with Deez Nuts.

The Giants are locked in a tight race with the Dodgers in the NL West.

Hochul is in a tight race with her Republican opponent, former Erie County Executive Chris Collins, in NY - 27, which was redrawn during redistricting to become New York's most GOP - dominated district.

A special election being held next could add Chris McGrath, but he is locked in a tight race with Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky for the district formerly led by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Cruz squared off last week in a GOP presidential debate against New York businessman Donald Trump, who the Texas senator is in an increasingly tight race with for the first - in - the - nation voting in Iowa on Feb. 1.

Rob Simmons: $ 1,000 The Republican incumbent from Connecticut's Second District is in a tight race with Joseph Courtney.

Some polls show a tight race with Stringer handily carrying the white vote and also way ahead among blacks.

For example, while the Q poll and SurveyUSA showed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a surprisingly tight race with her GOP / Conservative challenger, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, Siena found DioGuardi has failed to gain any post-primary momentum and trails her by 26 percentage points (57 - 31 with 12 percent undecided).

Polling again shows the candidates are in a tight race with two weeks to go before the Nov. 4 election.

First up: Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who's in a tight race with Spitzer for comptroller.

Cuomo has endorsed one member of the Senate Democratic conference, Senator Joseph Addabbo of Queens, who also provided a needed yes vote on gay marriage, and who is locked in a tight race with Republican Eric Ulrich.

Weprin is in a tight race with Republican Bob Turner, -LSB-...]

But his support could help turn out the vote for Maffei, who is locked in a tight race with Buerkle, R - Onondaga Hill.

Still, there were some signs that Democrats might manage to pick up a seat in Buffalo, where Marc C. Panepinto, a personal injury lawyer, was leading in a tight race with the incumbent, Senator Mark J. Grisanti, who is running on the Independence Party line, and Kevin T. Stocker, a lawyer who won the Republican primary in September.

remained locked in a tight race with Timothy Lawliss (R), with just 1,415 votes separating the two out of a total 357,363 cast.

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is in a tight race with City Council Chairman Vincent Gray for the Democratic primary, set for Tuesday.

AD46 Assembly District 46 is represented by Assemblymember Pamela Harris, who won a special election last year and is in a tight race with challenger Kate Cucco to represent residents of southern Brooklyn including Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, and Coney Island.

As regular readers will recall, previous polling of the seat has shown a much tighter race with Lord Ashcroft's last poll in Hallam showing Labour ahead by one.

Like New York, Long Island has been an exceptional market in terms of occupancy, averaging 96.7 % since January 2015 and recently has been in a tight race with Minneapolis - St.

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In the tight three - way race of this year's federal election, the focus has shifted from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the polls in the most reliable fashion.

Finally, non-executive chairman was our tightest race, with Jim Skinner, Jim Sinegal, and Sam Palmisano in a battle for first the entire time.

LAS VEGAS / COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb 20 (Reuters)-- Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were locked in a tight race in Nevada on Saturday, with early results showing Clinton with a slight edge over Sanders with 27 percent of precincts reporting.

Singh's decisive victory shocked observers who expected a much tighter race along with several rounds of voting.

Last year several teams took penalties for using too many components, something that looks even more likely this year with the tighter restrictions and an extra race.

The title race is tighter than a gnat's chuff and with Leicester City and Tottenham already above us, even though the spuds are only in second place due to their better goal difference, we really can not afford to give any ground in the next round of games.

They will probably have to get past Arsenal as well if they want to finish ahead of the Citizens, but with the race so tight it is certainly looking possible.

So with both clubs embroiled with Leicester and Man City in a very real and tight race for the Premier League title, this is being billed as one of the biggest clashes with the spuds ever.

Chelsea need to know they are beatable, otherwise they will romp away with the league, which is not as good as a tight title race.

Anyhow — more quality in the top 4 would probably mean a tighter race and I imagine our best chance of winning will be in tight race as we are unlikely to walk away with it any time soon.

So Arsenal are still the side that he would prefer to win this tight race for the EPL trophy and although the England international midfielder is set to spend the whole season with the Cherries, at least, he will soon get the chance to help the Gunners in our attempt to catch and overhaul the teams above us in the table.

In 1971, when former Chicago Cubs outfielder George Altman was locked in a tight race for the Pacific League batting title with Lotte Orions teammate Shinichi Eto, opponents blatantly pitched around Altman while throwing strikes to Eto.

This season looks like being a tighter title race than usual with as many as six different clubs having the potential to win it, so doing well against those mai8n rivals could be vital.

I think it was Brian Clough that once said that in a tight race, the team with the best keeper wins and led Nottingham Forest to the title with Peter Shilton in goal.

Carolina's victory allowed the team to stay ahead in a tight wild card race and pull even with the Saints for the NFC South lead.

If we focus too much on the FA cup, with a Champions League double - header with Monaco coming up and with the race for the top four of the Premier League looking tighter than ever, it might cost us.

Arsenal were chasing a goal against Fulham to keep them in the title race, and having already scored a wonderful solo effort, he managed to beat it with this brilliant skill and improvisation to finish from a tight angle.

The Indians lost against the Mariners but the Astros won so the race for best record in the American League remains tight, with Houston only 1.5 games back.

Both Busch and Gronkowski are Monster Energy endorsers, and with the Daytona 500 representing the energy drink company's first race as entitlement sponsor for NASCAR's top division, the Cup Series, Monster executives brought the New England Patriots tight end to Daytona as part of its marketing activation.

Five of the eight divisions have a leader with a lead of at least three games, with the tight race between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings in the NFC North serving as the only other exception.

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The American League wild - card race was tighter than Spandex, with five teams separated by only three games: Texas, New York, Seattle, Milwaukee and Kansas City.

The NFC wild card race is tight and there are already three teams with at least eight wins that aren't holding a division lead.

The National League has a bit of a tighter race, with the surprisingly good DBacks» leader, Paul Goldschmidt, at the top of the list at +150.

They are still good to go in terms of the Playoff race as they are currently in 8th in the Standings but with a couple Games left and the Standings so tight they could definitely gain some ground over the last few weeks of the season..

The race for the other Top Four spots in now getting closer with just 4 points separating Man United, Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool, Arsenal and Burnley, but after Arsenal's tight game at the Etihad and the demolition of Tottenham the Gunners look well placed to go on another winning run to try and close the gap with Pep Guardiola's side.

It was all about «digging deep» and getting that all important 3 crucial points, making sure we keep it tight with man city in the title race!

The playoff race in each conference is pretty tight, with many of the top teams bunched together on both sides of the country.