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Newburgh Gazette
March 11, 2018
In the March 2006 Texas primaries, turnout was significantly lower in both parties than 2018 primary turnout. Ryan's seat was moved from "safe" to "likely Republican". "So this year, the election may be a good opportunity to make it seem a little bit more purple, but Texas overall, is a conservative state", Dr.
The New Yorker
March 8, 2018
In the days before Tuesday's primary elections in Texas, the race for the Republican nomination for judge (in effect, the chief executive) of Bastrop ... He had been active in local politics for a decade—he had once been a county commissioner, and his wife holds an elected office, too—and in his campaign he liked to criticizeÃâà...
El Paso Times
March 7, 2018
Former El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar easily won the Democratic nomination in the race for the 16th Congressional District seat Tuesday, avoiding a primary runoff on her way to becoming Texas' first Latina in Congress. Even before all the election day ballots were counted, Escobar had receivedÃâà...
CNN
March 7, 2018
Peter Roskam, who came into Congress during the Democratic wave of 2006, may face a tight race in his Clinton-won district of Chicago's west suburbs. A loss for Rep. ... Bob Casey could face a tough re-election if Republicans raise enough money and run a strong campaign in the commonwealth.
New York Magazine
March 7, 2018
And in 2017's other big Democratic upset, the special Senate election in Alabama, Republicans were yoked to a wildly controversial candidate who hated ... election in Pennsylvania Trump Country a week from today, after party-affiliated groups spent more than $9 million on a race that should be a “gimme.
CNN
March 7, 2018
(CNN) Democrats were hoping to make a statement in the Texas primary, but Tuesday night's turnout numbers make it pretty clear that Texas is still a ... both the US House and Senate, but Republicans easily won the major statewide races in Texas, including the governorship and a US Senate election.
Center for Public Integrity
March 6, 2018
Now, this month kicks off the 2018 election season, with Texas and Illinois primaries, plus more than a dozen filing deadlines when candidates must ..... Whitmer previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and as state senator from 2006 to 2015, where she led her party.
CNN
March 6, 2018
Until we get more surveys in the race, it's a little difficult to assess what exactly the polling is saying. Just remember that the January to June polling average before the election in Senate races from 2006 to 2014 had an average error of 6.8 percentage points, and a 14 point lead translates into winning 95%Ãâà...
Pew Research Center
March 2, 2018
More members of the U.S. House of Representatives are choosing not to seek re-election to that body than at any time in the past quarter-century ... Of the 53 representatives who've chosen not to seek re-election to the House this November, 20 are running for other offices instead – 11 for the U.S. Senate,Ãâà...
The Texas Monitor
March 1, 2018
Uresti, D-San Antonio, could exercise his right under Texas law to keep his Senate seat until the appeals of his convictions are exhausted, a process that ... Flores, who helped Uresti run his successful 1997 campaign for the House told the San Antonio Express News last week, “We teach them ethics here.
Reason (blog)
March 1, 2018
Reason: In the past, certainly 2006 and 2013, which were the big previous run-ups to an attempt at a comprehensive immigration reform—and who knows if .... I presume, without having done the research, that this will be the most expensive Senate race in 2018, just because Texas is big and it's a big prize,Ãâà...
Texas Tribune
February 28, 2018
On the campaign trail, Trump said he envisioned a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf Coast, but has since backtracked slightly and conceded some areas of the border are not suited for a wall. Some Texas Republicans, including U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and U.S. Rep Will Hurd of Helotes, have offeredÃâà...
The Hill
February 28, 2018
More Democratic voters than Republicans have cast ballots ahead of next month's primary elections in Texas, in what some party officials interpret as a ... and the last midterm year in which Democratic early voting beat Republican early voting, 2006, Democrats won back two U.S. House seats in Texas.
Texas Public Radio
February 28, 2018
When he ran for the Senate in 2006, he told Tennesseans that he couldn't imagine serving for more than two terms because he has always been drawn to ... campaign made clear she wasn't going anywhere even if the incumbent did decide to run again — and argued that efforts to push her out of the raceÃâà...
Politico
February 23, 2018
Even if 2018 is a wave election for Democrats, Republicans could still come out holding on to Nevada's governor's mansion, where Sandoval remains ... Still, a Democratic victory is far from certain, and former Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz and 2006 Senate nominee Ned Lamont are competing in aÃâà...
Mother Jones
February 21, 2018
The 2018 election officially began on Tuesday with the first day of early voting ahead of Texas' March 6th primaries. Evidently, a lot of ... That makes some sense—there's an expensive state house of representatives race in the county and an open Republican-leaning congressional district. But what's moreÃâà...
New York Times
February 19, 2018
Mr. Cruz is seen as safer than, say, Dean Heller, Nevada's Republican senator, or the seats in Arizona and Tennessee that are being vacated by incumbents. .... The number of college-educated residents in the state increased by 20 percent from 2006 to 2016, according to Lloyd Potter, the Texas stateÃâà...
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