Sentences with phrase «up in presidential years»

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

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Facebook has faced criticism that it did not do enough to prevent false information being republished on its platform during last year's U.S presidential campaign, and in response has set up measures to try to tackle the problem.

In years following a presidential election, the Dow Jones industrial average has been up 11 times with an average gain of 0.7 percent, the almanac said, citing 17 years.

The formula of the speech was largely in keeping with the one favoured by many of his predecessors, despite speculation Macron would seek to shake up France's New Year presidential rite of passage too.

The GOP took back the Senate and strengthened its hold in the House of Representatives, setting up two years of divided government leading up to the 2016 Presidential elections.

An investor selecting a portfolio according to the percentage of contributions given to the winner in a presidential election would have earned significant abnormal returns of up to 6.6 % per year during the first year after an election.

Southern Baptist conservatives won key presidential elections year after year, and after a final conservative presidential victory in 1989 in New Orleans, moderates gave up the battle and began taking steps toward forming their own moderate organizations, such as the Cooperative Fellowship.

Now it's in the news again, ever since Michele Bachmann dusted up Texas governor Rick Perry during a presidential candidate debate for issuing an executive order to require vaccination of all 11 - and 12 - year - old girls in Texas.

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

If recent history is any guide, Senate Democrats have always picked up seats in Presidential election years.

Why because I mean of course in life you want to over periods of time take up other challenges so ten years on the job, I thought would have been enough for me to take up another challenge... so my first choice would not have been to be Minister for Information and Presidential Spokesperson,» he stated.

«We've got a presidential election coming up, and it just seemed a better time than in late September (when his current two - year term officially ends)... You always discuss these things when you're state chair, but listen, my political obituary has been written a lot of times already.

My own panel, «How to Act Like Obama Online When You DO N'T Have a Billion in the Bank» (which will talk about applying Obama 2012 lessons to this year's advocacy and electoral campaigns), is coming together nicely — we just signed up Ethan Roeder, Obama's chief data manager for the presidential race and who's now gone back over to the New Organizing Institute, as a speaker.

The GOP is gearing up to defend it in a presidential election year that could include former Empire State Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at the top of the ticket.

The advocacy comes just ahead of de Blasio's re-election year and is spurred in part, the mayor said, by the enthusiasm stirred up by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who de Blasio did not support in the Democratic presidential primary.

Stone's long - awaited appearance before the committee is shaping up to be a combative confrontation with Democratic committee members who have publicly accused him of being a key player in Russian efforts to meddle in last year's presidential election.

He's up for reelection next year and laying the markers for a possible presidential run in 2020.

It was a presidential year in a Democrat - dominated state, after all, which traditionally bumps up turnout and benefits Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.

The governor, who is in his second term, is up for re-election next year and is believed to be eyeing a 2020 presidential run.

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.

Cuomo this year has been a vocal supporter for Hillary Clinton, knocking Sanders's record on gun control into the lead up of the state's presidential primary in April.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year's presidential race, because he has been galled by Donald Trump's dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clinton's stumbles and the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side.

One of those factors will likely be what his run would mean for his fellow Senate Republicans, who are gearing up for a re-match with the Democrats for control of the chamber in what's shaping up to be a challenging year, thanks to the twin corruption convictions of two former top conference leaders — ex-Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous and ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos — as well as a presidential election that will likely boost Democratic turnout in this Democrat - dominated state.

She said Democrats always pick up seats in a presidential election year, but this time, the choices are even more sharply defined.

So every four years I end up lamenting that my vote does not matter in the nomination phase of the presidential contest.

But a typical minor party has a very tough time polling 5 % in a presidential election year, when nothing statewide is up in Nebraska except President and, sometimes, U.S. Senate.

Edelen, who Lexington Herald - Leader political writer Sam Youngman said was perhaps Democrats» biggest rising star in the state, was regarded as a potential challenger to Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul, who is up for re-election next year.

De Blasio said yesterday that 2014 is merely «step one» in the Democrats» drive to re-take the Senate, and the real action is going to take place in 2016 — a presidential year that will drive up Democratic turnout.

«If the Mahama boys think they have what it takes to engage in intellectual discourse, they should step up and tell us why the party should bring Mahama back after his four - year vice presidential reins and another four years as President.

As a result, the Democrats are defending some vulnerable members in a state where they expected to pick up seats (and still might, given the presidential election year dynamic).

Central regional secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has recorded 148,000 members in a mop - up registration exercise which begun in August 16 this year to allow every card bearing member of the party to exercise his or her franchise in the November 7 presidential and parliamentary primaries.

«If Nuhu Ribadu is yet to face the reality that EFCC is a Federal Government agency and not a personal estate of anybody eight years after, I find it compelling to remind him, otherwise one day he would wake up to blame me for his defeat in the 2011 presidential election and even his pathetic outing in the 2015 governorship election in Adamawa state despite the slush funds deployed to ensure his victory at the polls.»

New York State Senate Democrats have picked up seats in every presidential year in the past two decades.

Nevertheless, the failure of Democrats to win a clear numerical majority in a presidential election year is a blow to the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference, whose leader Jeff Klein was widely expected to wake up as the Senate's kingmaker on Wednesday morning.

If Tkaczyk keeps up this kind of constituent work, she may become more than a one - term wonder elected in a presidential year against an oft - inept opponent.

The next year, 36 percent of Nassau Democrats participated in the still - close presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, while only 19 percent of Republicans showed up to vote in a race in which John McCain had a somewhat clearer lead in a race that was more subdued than the Democrats».

That ruling sets up the possibility of three primary dates this year: one for Congressional elections, one for state elections and a third for the presidential primary in April.

In a presidential election year, in a state that Hillary Clinton won by more than 20 points, with the long - awaited support of Cuomo, the State Senate Democratic Conference managed to pick up a grand total of one seat — and that was thanks to a last minute assist from the Justice DepartmenIn a presidential election year, in a state that Hillary Clinton won by more than 20 points, with the long - awaited support of Cuomo, the State Senate Democratic Conference managed to pick up a grand total of one seat — and that was thanks to a last minute assist from the Justice Departmenin a state that Hillary Clinton won by more than 20 points, with the long - awaited support of Cuomo, the State Senate Democratic Conference managed to pick up a grand total of one seat — and that was thanks to a last minute assist from the Justice Department.

As for his presence on YouTube, I'll leave it to you to decide whether his appearance on the Ali G show a few years back, which comes up high in his search results there, will help or hurt his presidential chances, especially with younger voters:

On the Democratic side, two candidates have lined up to lead the state ticket in the coming presidential election year: state Sen. Jeff Kessler, who was replaced by Cole as Senate president when Democrats lost control of the chamber in in 2014, and businessmen Jim Justice.

Why because I mean of course in life you want to over periods of time take up other challenges so ten years on the job, I thought would have been enough for me to take up another challenge... so my first choice would not have been to be Minister for Information and Presidential Spokesperson.»

Up until the Presidential elections were conducted last year, he led and held together the south - western wing of the APC with an iron fist and he was the undisputed leader of the APC in that zone.

In a generic mid-term match - up of Yesteryear (as opposed to a presidential year) she wins Rockland by roughly 10,000 votes.

And in a presidential election year, Democrats are likely to pick up seats in November, although they will still need to woo the five - member Independent Democratic Conference to join them to have a majority.

Discover caught up with Baltimore on his final presidential vacation at his second home near Missoula, Montana, where his plans to fly - fish were interrupted by our questions about the future of AIDS prevention, the usefulness of stem cell research, and what really happened in the most famous fraud scandal prior to this year's South Korean stem cell debacle.

As the Arab Spring played out over the past year and a half — as Egypt's first free presidential ballots were totaled up in late May, and Morsi faced off against a former general, Ahmed Shafik, in June — social media gave a platform to the competing voices and points of view silenced for decades under the jackboots of various Arab regimes.

January 27, 2016 • New York Times political reporter Trip Gabriel has spent the past year in Iowa, covering the political operations, speeches and rallies leading up to the first vote of the presidential campaign.

Though timed closely to this year's presidential election both in theaters and on home video, The Campaign should hold up just fine for the indefinite future.

Back in 2012, HBO and director Jay Roach offered up a four - years - later post-mortem on the 2008 presidential election — and specifically the effects that dark horse vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin wrecked upon it — in the form of the TV movie Game Change.

On the television side, a handful of performers and TV shows picked up double wins including Transparent (LGBTQ Show of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actor for Jeffrey Tambor), The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for TV Drama of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actress for Sarah Paulson and Kate McKinnon earned two wins; one for her melancholy musical performance of «Hallelujah» on Saturday Night Live the week of the Presidential election and as the Wilde Artist of the Year (in a tie with Hamilton «s Lin - Manuel Miranda).