Sentences with phrase «years of troubled democratic»

Chairman Ed Cox has run the state party since 2009, and despite a Democratic enrollment advantage, has overseen some key victories: the Republican takeover of the state Senate after two years of troubled Democratic rule, and several Congressional seat pickups during the 2010 midterms.

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Last week, many Republicans said their special election victory in a heavily Jewish New York congressional district that had been occupied by a Democrat for nearly 90 years was a sign of trouble between Obama and American Jews, among the most reliably Democratic voters in the nation.

My source insisted this move was not an indication that Thompson is in trouble, but rather a sign that he has the favor of Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, who is inclined to heed the requests of nervous incumbents — and they're all nervous this year, regardless of political affiliation — to build and preserve loyalty.

He is in trouble with Latinos, a growing part of the electorate that is tilting even more Democratic than it was four years ago.

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.

Voters say they prefer Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives over Republicans by the widest margin in over a decade, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll — a fresh sign of trouble for the GOP majority one year before the midterm elections.