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Athens NEWS
March 1, 2018
Since their first-ever runs for U.S. House of Representative seats in 2008 and 2010, respectively, Ohio U.S. Reps. Steve Stivers and Bill Johnson ... Stivers has received about $51,000 from various gun-rights groups since his first run for Ohio's 15th Congressional District seat in 2008. In total, he's receivedÃâà...
Vox
March 1, 2018
Now Levi Sanders, Bernie's son by his ex-girlfriend Susan Campbell Mott, has entered the congressional race for New Hampshire's First District. The seat, which is being vacated by incumbent Democrat Carol Shea-Porter and is rated as a “toss-up” by most House election observers, was already attractingÃâà...
Toledo Blade
March 1, 2018
And he would tie Ohio law to as yet undeveloped federal position on the sale of bump stocks that can make semi-automatic weapons fire almost as quickly as ... Although endorsed by the National Rifle Association during his 2014 re-election, Mr. Kasich has not always been embraced by the gun lobby.
Roll Call
February 28, 2018
From 1950 on, the average loss of seats for the party holding the presidency in a nonpresidential congressional election is 24. ... In the last six off-year elections (1994 through 2014), seven, or 58 percent, of the 12 legislative bodies up (House and Senate) flipped control from one party to the other. In theÃâà...
New York Times
February 28, 2018
And in Ohio, the moderate Democratic candidate for governor, feeling heat from his left, is embracing a more stringent gun-violence platform than his past .... After the party's losses in the 2010 and 2014 elections, only a small group of Democrats from rural, solidly Republican areas remain in Congress.
Cincinnati.com
February 26, 2018
It's complicated: The last time Cordray ran for statewide office, his failed re-election bid for attorney general in 2010, Cordray joined the slim ranks of Democrats with "A" ratings from the NRA. Cordray's attorney general office had fought in court for Ohio's right to prevent cities from enacting their own gunÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
February 15, 2018
First, the president's party almost always loses seats in Congress in midterm elections, and second, the fate of the president's party is directly tied to his or her approval ... In 2010, the Democrats lost six seats in the Senate and suffered a 63-seat loss in the House when that chamber flipped to the GOP.
Cincinnati.com
February 6, 2018
It's a deal that Democrats in the Ohio House killed in 2009, certain that they would be in a better position after the 2010 elections. They were wrong and Republicans swept the statewide races. Drawing congressional districts to favor one party over the other – known as gerrymandering – has led toÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
December 31, 1999
Gerrymandering concerns extend beyond PA as legislatures debate how to make elections fair ... Democrats have a voter registration edge over Republicans in the state, yet Republicans legislators drew congressional districts in a way that gave them a 10-3 edge in U.S. House seats. Across the countryÃâà...
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