Sentences with phrase «wave election»

The Republican wave election of 2010 also wiped out many moderate Democrats outside urban and coastal blue bastions.

Pelosi expressed confidence that Democrats are in for a monumental wave election after solid Republican control of government for the past two years.

Democrats will need viable challengers to take advantage of a possible wave election and many face crowded primaries for these seats.

Will a Democratic wave election spell doom even for popular, reform - seeking Republicans in deep blue states, namely Charlie Baker (Massachusetts), Larry Hogan (Maryland), and Bruce Rauner (Illinois)?

They've talked about wave elections, millennial voters, the state of the Republican Party, independent expenditures and specific states.

And given the right - leaning makeup of House districts, Democrats would need a massive wave election to seize control there.

Tidal wave election coming.

As the new Congress settles in after the so - called wave election sent a strong message to Washington, it remains to be seen just what the message was.

State assemblyman Kevin Cahill, a Democrat, is a ten - time winner for the office — he did lose once, back in the Republican wave election of 1994, but recouped in 1998 after sitting out two terms, to roll up nine straight.

Clinton's campaign is planning its most ambitious push yet into traditionally right - leaning states, a new offensive aimed at extending her growing advantage over Trump while bolstering down - ballot Democrats in what party leaders increasingly view as a possible wave election.

It's been Republican almost forever: the GOP won borough council seats despite national Democratic wave elections, 1964 and 1974.

Court rulings around the nation have also reduced the effects of partisan gerrymandering, leaving the G.O.P. potentially more vulnerable to the effects of a wave election.

And, Salsa in its DLCCWeb incarnation signed up hundreds of Democratic campaigns in the 2010 cycle, a year in which Dems got creamed despite any technological advantages they possessed (i.e., even a good CRM won't help if you're swamped by a wave election).

McAuliffe and Cuccinelli's particular fight will be over in two months, but 2014 looks right now to be a similar struggle, i.e. more like a typical low - turnout mid-term than 2010's wave election.

Who wins Westchester County Exec George Latimer's open seat in the 37th District could also be a bellwether for races around the state, indicating whether Democrats can ride «a wave election» in November, according to political observers.

Empirically, this happens fairly often after wave elections (two Democratic senators switched to the GOP after the 1994 Republican wave, and Republican Arlen Specter switched to the Democratic Party after 2008).

The 2010 Republican wave election was an exception as Senate Republicans won a 21 - seat majority, their largest ever in the chamber.

* It was a wave election.

She's been the Democratic leader ever since, rising to the Speaker position following the 2006 wave elections that swept the Democrats into the House majority after 12 years in the wilderness.

Washington political analyst Charlie Cook is predicting a «wave election» fueled by the healthcare vote that could give Democrats control of the House next year.

If not, the Republican TV onslaught seeking to link Democratic incumbents and challengers to the party's unpopular policies in Washington will assert itself and make a wave election not just a possibility but a likelihood.

Martins said after the convention that he was not worried about a «wave election,» where candidates untouched by scandal would be unable to counter a public sentiment that the county's entire power structure needs to shift.

Boehner, who earlier this year predicted there was a one - in - three chance Republicans would lose control of the House, dismissed a suggestion his party would be swept out in a wave election.

A wave election will put relatively new incumbents at the most risk, including Republicans like Reps. Lee Zeldin, Elise Stefanik, Dan Donovan and John Katko who have each voted with Trump between 89 and 96 percent of the time.

In the 2010 wave election, Republicans took control of the House after picking up 63 seats from Democrats — the largest seat change for a mid-term election since 1938.

From the outset, Democrats needed a very big - wave election to get to the 30 seats they need to win back control of the House.

«Right now, this does not have the makings of a wave election.»

Lamb's win in Pennsylvania on Tuesday is the latest sign that Democrats could benefit from a wave election in November.

Bill Lipton, executive director of the far - left Working Families Party, said Cuomo has offered «insufficient engagement» in the past, and said that the coming «wave election» shouldn't be wasted.

Foster is the apparent victim of a wave election swamping many Democrats who won competitive seats in the last two elections.

And these are precisely the sorts of Republicans likely to succumb to a wave election, representing, as they do, swingy suburban districts chock full of GOP voters who are fed up with Donald Trump.

If that feels unfair, don't forget the Republican wave election of 2010, which ushered in the Year of School Choice.

In Washington, a wave election will return control of the Senate to the Democrats, which could make it harder for charter school advocates to fight to increase essential charter start - up funds.

Opposition to the president in Orange County has boosted hopes of a wave election this fall.