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The Courier
April 28, 2018
Andy Harris, who represents Maryland's 1st District, got $2,000 for his campaign from Jordan. ... Rod Blum, who represents Iowa's 1st District, received $4,000 from Jordan's war chest for his campaign. ... Since he first got elected to the 4th District seat in 2006, re-election bids have been a breeze for him.
Blog for Iowa (blog)
March 21, 2018
Today, CIRCLE is releasing the top 10 congressional districts where young people might have an especially high electoral influence. Later this month will release the top ten Senate and Governor races. Here's why these ten districts ranked so highly: Iowa 1st (Cedar Rapids) – Iowa's 1st district has 20ÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
March 18, 2018
Jeff Fortenberry in Nebraska's 1st Congressional District have the same item atop their agendas — health care. Personal ... [More: Republican senators from Nebraska and Iowa hail tax overhaul]. They both ... Neither has raised more than a tiny fraction of the incumbent's $1.8 million campaign war chest.
New York Magazine
November 17, 2017
The 2017 elections gave Democrats a sizable confidence boost. The party won both governors' races, a lot of state legislative seats and local elections, on top of exceeding past performances regularly in the year's special elections. Add to that a blockbuster fundraising season, which has seen almost threeÃÂ ...
Cresco Times Plain Dealer
October 5, 2017
Also present at the event were George Ramsey III, candidate for U.S. Congress, 1st District, former Iowa Senator Bill Heckroth speaking on behalf of his son, Thomas Heckroth, and Mark Galinsky, Iowa outreach director for the Delaney for President Campaign, speaking for John Delaney. Howard CountyÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
August 19, 2017
DUBUQUE, Iowa — If Democrats are planning to ride an anti-Trump wave to a takeover of the House in 2018, they can't just rely on seats where voters ... "It's going to be seats like (Iowa's 1st district) that are very important to winning a House majority,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the politicsÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
July 8, 2017
Among the Democrats, Omaha nonprofit executive Kara Eastman has raised more than $30,000 since kicking off her congressional campaign in late May. And former ... It also highlights how much money is flowing into campaigns today and just how competitive the 2nd District is expected to be, he said.
Cresco Times Plain Dealer
October 5, 2017
Also present at the event were George Ramsey III, candidate for U.S. Congress, 1st District, former Iowa Senator Bill Heckroth speaking on behalf of his son, Thomas Heckroth, and Mark Galinsky, Iowa outreach director for the Delaney for President Campaign, speaking for John Delaney. Howard CountyÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
August 19, 2017
DUBUQUE, Iowa — If Democrats are planning to ride an anti-Trump wave to a takeover of the House in 2018, they can't just rely on seats where voters ... "It's going to be seats like (Iowa's 1st district) that are very important to winning a House majority,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the politicsÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
July 8, 2017
Among the Democrats, Omaha nonprofit executive Kara Eastman has raised more than $30,000 since kicking off her congressional campaign in late May. And former ... It also highlights how much money is flowing into campaigns today and just how competitive the 2nd District is expected to be, he said.
U.S. News & World Report
June 16, 2017
He lost the 2006 governor's race to Democratic incumbent Kathleen Sebelius. He also ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in the 1st Congressional District of central and western Kansas in 2010. Barnett is joining a hotly contested race to replace term-limited GOP Gov. Sam Brownback.
Omaha World-Herald
June 6, 2017
“The pros outweigh the cons,” he said. And he suggested that Ashford's change of heart is simply a way for Ashford to position himself for a Democratic primary. It's true that Eastman, who has already announced her campaign for the seat, doesn't mince words about the need to address climate change.
Center for Responsive Politics
April 18, 2017
For comparison, that's about as much as was spent in 2016 on the election in California's deep-red 1st Congressional District or on Arkansas' never-competitive ... Iowa 2nd ($20 in outside spending): Underfunded Republican Christopher Peters came within 7.4 percentage points of ousting Iowa's onlyÃÂ ...
La Crosse Tribune
April 12, 2017
Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District is now considered the most evenly split in the nation, according to the Cook Political Report. ... found Wisconsin's 3rd and Minnesota's 1st congressional districts are now considered to be among the 10 most Republican-leaning areas with Democratic representatives.
NPR
October 24, 2016
But, in context, those numbers were +15 and +13 for Democrats in 2006 and 2008, respectively, when they made big gains. .... Iowa's 1st District, Republican Rod Blum: Freshman Blum did himself no favors when he aligned himself with conservatives in the House who worked to take down John Boehner,ÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
March 11, 2017
Meredith Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said that the question of how winnable a race is is often among the top concerns.
Oregon Catalyst
March 7, 2017
There are two major problems with the National Popular Vote compact, besides its questionable legality, the first is that it takes the choice of candidate away from Oregon Voters and gives it to voters in other states.
Politico
March 1, 2017
PBMs have also helped Medicare Part D keep premiums stable since 2006. Learn more about .... FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK is launching a two-week $450,000 digital ad campaign focused on conservative Republican lawmakers in 21 ...
Iowa Public Radio
February 21, 2017
And what they heard all too frequently from the Clinton campaign was, 'Vote for me because he's crazy.' I will stipulate to the accuracy of ... "When I was elected in 2006, my district had the lowest turnout in the state of Minnesota. Now it's the ...
Daily Kos
February 3, 2017
So we don't have a lot of data yet that supports a "Trump backlash" thesis; in fact, this Iowa state House special election is the first anywhere since the inauguration, so our sample size is as small as can be. But it's certainly not a bad start, and ...
Roll Call
February 1, 2017
Voters in just 35 congressional districts, or 8 percent of the total, elected a House member from one party while preferring the presidential candidate of the other party - the second election in a row where the share of ticket-splitting seats was in ...
amNY
January 23, 2017
Wilson, the first female military veteran to be elected to Congress, represented New Mexico from 1998 to 2009. She graduated from the U.S.
FiveThirtyEight
January 19, 2017
The same national trends that allowed Obama to win two terms - and Clinton to win the popular vote in 2016 - hurt Democrats in statehouses, governor's mansions and congressional districts. Obama was in many ways the embodiment of a series of ...
Daily Kos
January 18, 2017
Note that is the first cycle where Florida used its new court-drawn congressional map after the state's previous Republican-drawn map was struck down for violating the state's voter-approved law against political gerrymandering.
NBCNews.com
January 17, 2017
Scorned by the same voters who once embraced the New Deal, built the Great Society, and put their hope in the nation's first black president, Democrats are now locked out of power in Washington and out of two-thirds of state legislative chambers across ...
Nadig Newspapers
January 11, 2017
To be sure, Dold postured and voted outside the Republican box on abortion, gun control, gay rights and repealing "Obamacare," noisily opposed the Iran nuclear deal, and in 2016 made the repudiation of Donald Trump the centerpiece of his campaign. He ...
WQAD.com
January 11, 2017
Tillerson served as the chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil from 2006 until his retirement on December 31, 2016. His business ties with ... He's currently serving as a U.S. Representative for Montana's at-large congressional district. He played ... She made ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
January 9, 2017
In the West, forecasters said flooding from the storm moving onshore and a second predicted bout of heavy rain Tuesday could cause flooding in northern California and Nevada similar to problems in 2005 and 2006 that sent 5 feet of water into warehouses ...
Reno Gazette Journal
January 8, 2017
Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, at the well and some staffers. ..... Reid served as gaming commission chairman until 1981 and returned to elected politics in 1982 in Nevada's new 1st Congressional District, winning both that year and in 1984. In 1986, he ..... Sig ...
Nadig Newspapers
December 16, 2016
The Republican man won in the following districts: Colorado's 4th, Maine's 2nd, Iowa's 1st and 3rd, New York's 1st, 19th and 24th, Kansas' 3rd, Michigan's 7th and 8th, Minnesota's 2nd, Pennsylvania's 16th and Wisconsin's 6th. That's 12, or 80 percent ...
Vermont Public Radio
December 15, 2016
Each congressional district has about 3/4 of a million representatives far cry from the 50,000 in the earlier days of the country.
ValueWalk
November 18, 2016
One reason polling may have been misleading, or at least misled many of us in the psephology racket, is that this is the first presidential election since random sample polling began in 1935 in which most voters had negative feelings toward both major ...
South Washington County Bulletin
November 17, 2016
With the presidency turning red and both bodies of Congress under Republican Party control, the former talk show host dubbed "Minnesota's Mr. Right" hopes to make progress on conservative initiatives in Washington.
Scarlet and Black
November 12, 2016
Thousands of political races across the country were decided Tuesday night, ranging from President of the United States to County Sheriff.
Daily Excelsior
November 9, 2016
In a result that stunned the world, rank outsider Donald Trump was today elected the President crushing strongly-favoured Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, raising questions over US' equations with other countries given his hardline stand on tackling ...
WSAV-TV
November 8, 2016
The announcement of Ryan and Trump's first joint appearance of the campaign on Oct. 8 in Wisconsin _ just four weeks before the election _ was simply the latest reminder.
Scarlet and Black
November 8, 2016
This election cycle, The S&B is endorsing three women who we believe will bring progressive Iowa values to Washington: Monica Vernon to represent the Iowa 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and Patty Judge to represent Iowa ...
Rappler
November 7, 2016
Will Hillary Clinton be the first female president of the United States? ... I'm not confident about the outcome in Indiana, Iowa, and North Carolina - where the contest is very close - but have made a prediction nonetheless. ... But like Joe Heck in ...
NBCNews.com
November 7, 2016
On the eve of Election Day, the Republican Party appears likely to keep control of the House of Representative regardless of what happens in the presidential race or the battle for control of the Senate.
Hartford Courant
November 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump distilled the styles they've showcased for more than a year into a final blitz of intense campaigning as they wrapped up their pitches for the White House.
Quad-Cities Online
November 4, 2016
Dr. Christopher Peters, Republican candidate for U.S. 2nd Congressional District talks to the gathering at the "Get out the Vote" rally held at the Scott County Republican office in Davenport on Friday.
Huffington Post
November 3, 2016
With an assist from the Trump campaign, the alt-right's fusion of musty racist dogma and millennial troll power has given it a political influence far beyond that of tobacco-stained Klansmen and swastika-bedecked skinheads.
Money Magazine
November 3, 2016
In 2006, Hawaii voters elected Sen. Hirono to represent the 2nd Congressional District. She was sworn in as ... In his re-election campaign for 2016, Boozman raised nearly $570,000 in three months, reported the Associated Press in October. Sen. John ...
Los Angeles Times
October 31, 2016
The fight for the House is much more of a longshot for Democrats, but any plausible scenario for the party includes winning the congressional district in San Antonio held by Rep. Will Hurd, who, after some equivocation, has strongly denounced his party ...
Daily Kos
October 13, 2016
(Strangely enough, both September 2008 and September 2012 also had a couple weeks of dark journeys into the Democrats' souls, after the Republican convention bounce in '08 and after the first debate in '12. ... And you can't just apply uniform swing to ...
Little Village
October 12, 2016
Democrat incumbent Dave Loebsack faced off against Republican challenger Christopher Peters during a public forum on Monday in the race for Iowa's second district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The two occasionally agreed on issues such asÃÂ ...
AOL News
October 9, 2016
The former congresswoman and Trump supporter was a call-in guest on CNN; after she was asked about the controversy surrounding the Republican candidate, she responded, "The Clinton campaign had to change the conversation because she had a lot ofÃÂ ...
nwitimes.com
October 4, 2016
Mike Pence waits to speak with a television reporter after defeating Democrat Barry Welsh for Indiana's 6th Congressional district in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael ..... First lady Michelle Obama, left, and Gov. Mike Pence, R ...
Washington Examiner (blog)
September 25, 2016
They have rallied behind their nominee, and the party's elected officials from President Obama all the way down to local officeholders are hitting the campaign trail on her behalf. With Election Day now just weeks away, Clinton isn't 50 points ahead.
Florida Politics (blog)
September 22, 2016
In addition to the campaign contributions that Young has received from Mosaic and the Florida Phosphate Council, the group also refers in its press release to a fundraiser in South Tampa co-hosted by Mosaic's Vice President of Public Affairs December ...
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