Sentences with phrase «wide margins»

Potential Democratic rivals face uphill contest against Mayor Bloomberg: In match - ups for mayor, Michael Bloomberg leads each of his potential Democratic contenders by wide margins among New York City's registered voters.

Cuomo would defeat DeFrancisco and Molinaro by wide margins in New York City and its suburbs while finishing in a dead heat with the two Republicans in Upstate New York, the poll found.

BROOKLYN, NY — In the end, there were few surprises during Tuesday's electoral primaries in Brooklyn, with most races won by wide margins, and incumbents beating back challengers with ease.

Downballot, the gulf coast has been pretty good for Republicans as well, with Brown - Waite winning by wide margins and Republicans doing well in state legislative races north of Pinellas and Hillsborough County.

Democrats Gregory Meeks of Queens; Nydia Velazquez of Brooklyn; Jerrod Nadler and Carolyn Maloney of Manhattan; and Jose Serrano of the Bronx kept their seats by wide margins in contested primaries.

Both represented districts that had voted for President Obama by wide margins: In the recall, Angela Morse ran 15 points behind the president, while John Morse (pictured) ran 12 points behind him.

Andrew Cuomo leads his potential 2018 election opponents by wide margins, even though his favorability rating matches an all - time low in his nearly eight years as New York governor, a new poll shows.

Jim Battista, a political science professor at the University at Buffalo, said because Katko did not win his last two elections by very wide margins, 2018 is going to be a challenging year for the Republican.

In a recent Newsday / News 12 / Siena College poll, Mr. Trump leads his GOP rivals on Long Island by wide margins, and is ahead of Ms. Clinton, 41 percent to 38 percent, in a general election contest.

Democrats won the governor's mansion in both states by wide margins.

Both are leading by wide margins in the polls against their opponents so I rest my case.

Political insiders were stunned by the Times» rough treatment of the governor, who is leading every public poll by wide margins.

Hanna, a first - term congressman from the Oneida County village of Barneveld, defeated Kicinski by wide margins in the district's two largest counties, Oneida and Broome, according to unofficial election returns.

Trump and Clinton are leading their rival candidates by wide margins in South Carolina, according to the CBS News Battleground Tracker poll.

Those darn Republicans seem to know what they're doing to get reelected by such wide margins, election after election.

The 191 - page plan (again with very wide margins) is mostly a series of broad proposals — cutting spending through a property tax cap and local government consolidation, vetoing state tax increases -LRB-!)

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He would have lost the race otherwise by wide margins.

Sanders — who enjoys the most positive favorable rating of any presidential candidate in the field, according to the poll — tops all three Republicans by wide margins: 57 % to 40 % against Cruz, 55 % to 43 % against Trump, and 53 % to 45 % against Rubio.

The schism between Boughton and the immigrant community has largely healed and he continues to be re-elected by wide margins in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans.

Last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg won his controversial bid for a third term by a surprisingly slim margin.Part of the reason for his win may be that in southeast Queens, his Democratic rival, city Comptroller William Thompson, bested Bloomberg by wide margins in several state Assembly districts, city Board of Elections statistics show.

At the Capitol, many «routine» bills pass without debate and by wide margins.

Mr. Goodman, who is 34 and runs a corporate advisory firm focused on aerospace and defense industries, takes the helm of the Republican Committee after a disappointing campaign in which its candidates for supervisor and town board were defeated by wide margins and just two of its nine candidates for town trustee prevailed in the November election.

The three senators, Adriano Espaillat, Toby Ann Stavisky and Neil Breslin, won by wide margins.

Other Brooklyn Congressional winners with wide margins included Hakeem S. Jeffries over Alan Bellone in the 8th Congressional District; Yvette D. Clarke over Daniel J. Cavanagh in the 9th Congressional District; and Jerrold L. Nadler over Ross Brady in the 10th Congressional District.

The Governor's favorability rating was steady, but his job performance and re-elect ratings slipped a little, according to Siena, which says voters prefer Cuomo by wide margins over a potential Democratic challenger, Cynthia Nixon, and either of the leading Republican challengers.

The most recent polling for Gillibrand's own race has her leading opponent Wendy Long by wide margins — 64 to 27 percent, says a September Quinnipiac poll — and so the New York senator has sufficient leeway to throw her time and resources behind other campaigns, an unusual luxury for a politician and a traditional path for New York figures to a measure of national power.

Local environmentalists are thanking voters for their overwhelming approval of the Community Preservation Fund, a proposition that was approved Tuesday by wide margins in each of the five East End towns.

The World Bank report noted that the resulting forecasts form basis for budget planning, adding that «these forecasts are frequently inaccurate, often by wide margins; ideally, oil - revenue projections should err on the side underestimation, as overestimating future revenues can disrupt investment execution and undermine debt sustainability.»

He leaves wide margins for notes.

As a result, many of the value models I run are trailing the market by wide margins.

The fast - growing stocks, listed here, however, beat the market by wide margins.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, when projections of the budgetary balance were off by wide margins, the credibility of the Department of Finance's forecasting abilities came under attack from both inside and outside the government.

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

Data suggests the hourglass may be nearing empty: A January 2016 Pew Research Center survey found that just 5 % of U.S. adults who had learned about the presidential election in the past week named print newspapers as their «most helpful» source — trailing nearly every other category by wide margins.

Nonetheless all the directors were reelected by wide margins at the company's annual meeting last year, reflecting how Redstone controls a supermajority of the company's Class A voting shares through his holding company, National Amusements.

TaskUs won by a wide margin — with 27 percent of the votes!

McConnell began by getting members up to speed on the substance of health care reform, a subject that historically favored Democrats by a wide margin.

His new company's most popular sneaker line by a wide margin is that of LeBron James.

He won by 342 votes to 198 with 2 abstentions in the lower house, a much wider margin than in Wednesday's vote in the Senate, where he remains vulnerable to further defections by allies like one that forced him to resign temporarily last week.

This is the most expensive safety razor on our guide by a wide margin, but the first time you use it, you'll know why.

Why does this elite B - school outpace rivals Harvard and Stanford by such a wide margin?

While it's difficult to gauge relative cloud size given all the claims and counterclaims, it's generally accepted that Amazon (amzn) Web Services still leads the pack by a wide margin.

According to testing by LaptopMag.com, the Spectre outperforms the 2 - in - 1 category average in graphics performance by a wide margin.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

It just can't lag by a wide margin.»

Clinton lost the 2008 primary contest there to then - candidate Barack Obama by a wide margin.

Using those 16 companies as a representative sample for the entire Fortune 500 cohort would result in a pretty wide margin of error: 24.3 %.

Tesla shares soared Wednesday after the company posted its second profitable quarter ever and beat analyst expectations for the third quarter by a wide margin.

The PS4 has been outselling its main rival from Microsoft around the world — in some cases, as in Spain, it's been by a wide margin.