Sentences with phrase «vote margin on»
While all Republican Senators voted against the Dream Act, the vote margin on Monday was razor - thin, 30 - 29.
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A Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday — conducted by telephone, and with a plus - or - minus 3.5 % margin of error — found that 51 % of registered voters said they would vote for or lean toward a Democratic candidate if the 2018 elections were held today, compared to just 36 % who said they would vote or lean Republican.
The hard - charging former CIA director was confirmed on a 57 - 42 vote — one of the slimmest margins for the job in recent history.
On Thursday, 2 November 2017, the MPC of the Bank of England voted by a margin of 7 - 2 to raise the bank rate by 25 - basis...
However, such esoteric hipster knowledge (esoteric, if only because it played on inside knowledge that was common knowledge and what everyone knew merely 15 years ago or so) comes across as mere pandering to an electorate of Gen Xers who in their indecisiveness are at best a vote on the margins — at least in terms of their actual numbers.
It should be mentioned that the 2008 General Conference sustained United Methodist membership in RCRC by a margin of only 32 votes out of a total of 800 cast; this is the narrowest vote, to date, on United Methodist membership in RCRC.)
With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.
The national white vote followed the pattern that Henry Olsen detected in certain coal counties where Romney «won higher margins than John McCain did, on substantially lower turnout.»
«With the revisions, the lower cost and the close margin, I felt it was worth one more effort to see if voters would approve a lower dollar amount this time around,» said park board President Maryfran Leno, who voted in favor of putting it back on the ballot.
In 2012, President Mahama made 5.4 million votes, but this number dropped to 4.7 million in 2016 to clinch him a 44.4 per cent margin in the overall votes cast at the presidential polls on December 7.
Some mechanisms help on the margin, but each with its draw backs, like representative Democracy, small government, pre requisite for voting, electoral college, separation of power, or even the right to bear arm,...
In fact, we're proud that votes on the WFP ballot line are often the margin of victory for progressive Democrats running in New York Congressional races.»
The Broadway Democrats, a party club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, voted last night by a wide margin to endorse insurgent gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon against her primary target, incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
In the wake of an appellate court decision, Spa City's charter change advocates are once again trying to get their hands on electronic images of ballots cast in November's charter referendum that was defeated by a narrow 10 - vote margin.
[83] On 5 July, Labour MPs voted overwhelmingly by a margin of 196 to 41 to back the rule change, paving the way for NEC and conference approval, which was secured in September 2011.
«Demented fury» is not the kind of language I would use but if Wales and Scotland does vote «Yes» by a large enough margin to overwhelm an English «no» it would certainly vindicate those MPs who said that the referendum should not take place on the same day as the elections to Holyrood and the Cardiff Assembly.
A defiant Corbyn has vowed to fight on despite an overwhelming vote of no confidence by his own MPs, who declared their wish to see him gone by a margin of more than four to one.
Although Mr. Losquadro's margin of victory grew in subsequent weeks, on Election Night the two were separated by only 40 votes.
In the 2012 election, for example, Democrats nationally won 1.4 million more votes than Republicans in US House races, but Republicans won control of the House by a 234 - 201 margin — a lopsided result that some blame on redistricting.
Although revisiting the voting machine memory sticks resulted in a slight expansion of Mr. Storobin's 120 - vote lead on Election Night last Tuesday to 143, reconciling the differing reports this afternoon gave Mr. Fidler an additional 25 votes on his margin.
The memo cites enthusiasm from the kind of voters who show up on what is expected to be the lowest turnout election day in this busy year of mega-voting: «We're winning voters who say they voted for Donald Trump by a 2 - 1 margin, and these are likely to be the most excited voters on election day.»
By a wide margin, 57 - 25 percent, likely voters say they will vote «no» on the Constitutional Convention proposal on next week's ballot.
The senate bill passed May 23 by a 42 - 18 margin, which improved on last year's vote of 32 - 26.
Congressman Peter King — a Republican — is serving his 14th term in the U.S. House of Representatives — last re-elected with 62.1 % of the vote ---- the highest margin of any Congressional candidate on Long Island.
Based on Matt Doheny's real - world business experience, one member of the board changed his vote to Doheny, but wanted it clarified it was only by the slightest of margins.
Having lost one election this week, by a margin that would have been suspect in most countries on earth, Argentina has now won another, by fewer votes, but to greater effect.
Empire State Democrats fared just fine in the top - of - the - ticket races: Democratic Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer coasted with more than 60 percent of the vote, and despite the national media attention lavished on upstart Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino, Democrat Andrew Cuomo sailed to victory by a margin of 27 points.
In a crucial difference with the version of the legislation that failed to win sufficient Republican support earlier this year, the current incarnation allows states to individually decide which pre-existing conditions insurers must cover and removes caps on how much the afflicted can be charged, and includes an age tax that allows insurance companies to charge higher premiums to individuals between the ages of 50 and 64 — allowing it to win votes from the previously recalcitrant Tea Party - aligned Freedom Caucus and pass by a margin of 217 in favor to 213 against.
The latest Populus poll is only the third national voting intention survey from the firm to be published since the general election and gives a slightly different picture although well within the margin or error on all three party shares.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - City Councilor Jake Barrett held on by a 38 - vote margin to win re-election to his 1st Council District seat representing Syracuse's North Side, elections commissioners said today.
The New York State Senate on Aug. 6 passed legislation on school governance, voting by a 47 - 8 margin to renew mayoral control.
Her son also said her vote margin was the widest in history, which he attributes to her performance on the bench.
What They've Done: Seven sit on the Energy and Commerce Committee, where Democrats have a margin of thirteen votes.
Coming off Mitt Romney's almost - six - million - vote loss in the presidential election in 2012, which resulted in an electoral - college margin of 332 - 206 (270 are needed to win), Republican national chairman Reince Priebus put together a committee of five persons to examine, explain and address the party's losses on the national level.
Gildernew's claim to the seat rested on a majority of four votes in 2010 — one of the lowest winning margins in post-war UK electoral history.
In the 2012 elections, the NDC won the constituency with a ten thousand vote margin, but that has dwindled to two thousand after the by - election held in the area on...
Storobin emerged with a 120 - vote lead on election night, but his margin of victory shrank to just three votes after the Board of Elections counted half of the more than 700 absentee ballots and affidavits.
(It appears that Rep. Charles B. Rangel held on against Sen. Adriano D. Espaillat by a margin of about 1,800 votes.
The 1994 elections were a breakthrough for the Conservative Party as we provided the margin of victory for Governor George E. Pataki with the 326,605 votes cast on our line.
«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.
The margin in favor of Mr. Kaminsky, an assemblyman and former federal prosecutor, over Republican Christopher T. McGrath, a personal injury lawyer, stood at 780 votes out of some 68,000 cast by Nassau County residents on the South Shore.
The NYCO measure was approved by voters statewide 53 - 47 percent — a vote that Protect the Adirondacks noted was the narrowest margin in a half - century on a question involving the forest preserve.
The overwhelmingly Democratic Council voted in favor of each bill in the act by an overwhelming margin, with the measure on public urination scraping closest: 39 in favor, 10 against.
The Gardiner Democrats reported the same 20 - vote margin in the incumbent's favor on their website and Facebook page.
Six months ago, on Election Day, the Democratic comptroller won 163,577 more votes statewide than the Democratic governor — and a wider victory margin against his opponent.
It was only the second national referendum ever to be held within the United Kingdom and the result of the referendum was a decisive rejection of the adoption of the alternative vote by a margin of 67.9 percent to 32.1 percent of voters on a national turnout of 42 %.
Cuomo, who hopes to win by a crushing margin against his little - known opponent, is leaning on a get - out - the - vote operation built around SEIU 1199, the health care union, and the Hotel Trades Council.
The Scottish parliament has voted against Theresa May's Brexit legislation by a large margin, putting the UK on the brink of a major constitutional dispute.
But after Espaillat won the Bronx on Tuesday by 853 votes — roughly three quarters of his margin of victory — we have to wonder if Wright's got buyer's remorse.
The clemency came on Clinton's last day in office, after the Hasidic town had overwhelmingly voted for Hillary for Senate — by a margin of 1,400 to 12.