Sentences with phrase «win upstate votes»

However, Democrats have been steadily gaining throughout the state, and Sen. Chuck Schumer, for example, is proof that a statewide pol with a distinctly downstate sensibility can win upstate votes if he puts his mind to it.

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«Getting out the vote in this area for the lieutenant governor will be very important for her and will add to her winning margin,» said Joe Morelle, a key Cuomo ally upstate, the Democratic Assembly majority leader and Monroe County Democratic chairman.

The chairman said he believes Cuomo was able to win re-election two years ago because his opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, only got 18 percent of the vote in New York City, though he carried almost all of upstate.

H / T to Maggie Haberman, who notes GOTV has taken on a whole new meaning for the Democrats since Carl Paladino won the GOP gubernatorial primary last week — particularly when it comes to upstate, where the Buffalo businessman dominated on Sept. 14, winning some 90 percent of the vote on his home turf, Erie County.

The Republican has predicted he can win enough voters upstate and in the suburbs to overcome the heavy Democratic vote in New York City.

Lipton, who grew up upstate, wrote: «Jen Metzger, who lost to a Republican the last time around, handily won her race for Council by hundreds of votes yesterday, showing what a difference the WFP can make.

Nojay won with about 58 percent of the vote... and he says he'll go into the general election campaign with the same message he used in the primary, and that's to be a voice for upstate New York.

Governor Cuomo won the Democratic primary, but more than one third of Democrats who participated voted against him, and he lost more than half of the counties upstate, where fracking is a controversial issue.

The two essentially split the Republican vote in the upstate district, leading to a surprise Owens win.

The New York Times notes that upstate figured heavily in Clinton's first U.S. Senate win in 2000 — particularly white, working - class voters who had previously voted Republican — and that she feels personally connected to the region.

Flanagan won the majority leader post in a narrow vote and he did receive backing from six upstate Republicans, including western New York Sen. Cathy Young.

After losing to Rep. Jim Walsh (R) by just over 3,000 votes in 2006, former congressional aide Dan Maffei (D) is the odds - on favorite to win the upstate New York seat in the fall.

Cuomo won the 2014 Democratic primary with about 56 percent of the upstate vote and 68 percent of the Big Apple.

While Clinton won out over Trump in Onondaga County in the primary elections, upstate and central New York had a more mixed voting record, according to Politico, with the rural areas providing much of the Republican support.

In 2014 many fracking opponents voted for Zephyr Teachout against Governor Cuomo in the Democratic primary, and Teachout won several upstate counties where fracking had been proposed.

And like most upstate counties, Trump won Oneida County in the 2016 presidential election, receiving nearly 57 percent of the votes.

The vote is a major win for Gov. Andrew Cuomo who proposed casinos as a way to reverse the long distressed upstate economy.