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In both 2008 and 2010, Ellensburg was just slightly more Republican than the statewide average, making it one of the most Democratic cities in Eastern Washington.
There are also some changes in the average ideological slant of endorsements: while in the 40s and in the 50s there was a clear advantage to Republican candidates, this advantage continuously eroded in subsequent decades, to the extent that in the 90s the authors find a slight Democratic lead in the average endorsement choice.
These topics are classified as Democratic ones, because Gallup polls show that on average U. S. citizens think that Democratic candidates would be better at handling problems related to them.
In the 12 months previous to its 2009 declaration, the group indicates that Democratic Left had an average " Total Paid Distribution " of 5707 copies.
Trotsky argued that the united front could have great appeal to workers who wished to fight fascism: “ The programme of action must be strictly practical, strictly objective, to the point, without any of those artificial ‘ claims ’, without any reservations, so that every average Social Democratic worker can say to himself: what the Communists propose is completely indispensable for the struggle against fascism.
Since 1997, the liberal advocacy group Americans for Democratic Action has given him an average vote rating of 98. 5 percent, whereas its conservative counterpart, the American Conservative Union, has given him an average vote rating of 2. 5 percent.
On July 17, 1999, Forbes switched to the Democratic Party after chastising national Republicans for being " tone deaf " to the needs of average Americans.
In the legislative election held on 9 April 2009, support for the Democratic Party was higher than the party's national average in the following provinces:
Likewise, a CPVI score of D + 3 shows that a generic Democratic candidate would be expected to receive 3 percentage points more votes than the national average.
The final 3 polling average showed the Democratic leading 49 % to 42 %.
Democratic presidents had an average of about double that rate, and Republicans had even higher rates ( Burns and Taylor 389 ).
The average unemployment rate of Democratic presidents, excluding Clinton, is currently about 4. 3 % while the average unemployment rate for Republican presidents is currently at about 6. 1 % ( Burns and Taylor 390 ).
Political opponents of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, notably the contenders for the Democratic mayoral nomination, used the Stadium issue as a symbol that he was a billionaire who was out of touch with the needs of average New Yorkers.
An emerging trend is a higher vote than the regional average for the Christian Democratic Party and Family First.
The average farmer fares even worse, but might benefit from the appreciation of his land holdings as well as the powerful political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party.

average and politician
" Somehow, his brashness and arrogance over the years, traits that would have destroyed the average politician, have only seemed to endear him to his core constituency: minorities, organized labor, Cajuns and lower-income voters.
" In sum, Time said that " Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: A good practical politician, a legislator above the average.
Examples of people taking only an average worker's wage are Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the PCS union, Socialist Party politician Joe Higgins, former MP Dave Nellist in the UK, John Marek, Forward Wales ' Welsh Assembly member for Wrexham, and Sinn Féin politicians in Ireland.

average and especially
In recent usage, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term " climate change " often refers only to changes in modern climate, including the rise in average surface temperature known as global warming.
Amounts are copious along the north coast, especially in the Mosquitia, where the average rainfall is.
In certain situations, especially many situations involving rates and ratios, the harmonic mean provides the truest average.
Despite accounting for 50-60 % of overall plantings in Bordeaux, the grape tends to account for an average of 25 % of the blends — especially in the Bordeaux wine regions of Graves and Médoc.
They were cheaper than hard drives ( blank media especially so: though each had a cost of $ 150 to Canon, Jobs ' typically forthright negotiations saw Canon agree to a retail of only $ 50 apiece ) but slower ( with an average seek time of 96 ms ).
Young Deerhounds can sometimes, depending on the individual, be quite destructive especially when they are not given sufficient exercise ; however, the average adult Deerhound may want to spend most of the day stretched out on the floor or a couch sleeping.
The Institute of Medicine ( U. S .) recommends that, on average, men consume 3. 0 liters and women 2. 2 liters ; pregnant women should increase intake to 2. 4 liters ( 10 cups ) and breastfeeding women should get 3 liters ( 12 cups ), since an especially large amount of fluid is lost during nursing.
For this reason, if the outer surface of the apparatus were to consist of layers of a very infusible hard substance with layers of a poor heat conductor between, the surface would not be eroded to any considerable extent, especially as the velocity of the apparatus would not be nearly so great as that of the average meteor.
While the Tudor era presents an abundance of material on the women of the nobility — especially royal wives and queens — historians have recovered scant documentation about the average lives of women.
At six feet, two inches ( 1. 88 m ) tall and 210 pounds ( 95 kg ; 15 stone ), Forrest was physically imposing and intimidating, especially compared to the average height of men at the time.
Most of the genetic makeup of the average Malagasy, however, reflects an almost equal blend of Austronesian and Bantu influences ( especially on coastal regions ).
Crime statistics are lower than the national average but cost of living, especially housing, is considerably higher.
In his school years, he had average grades, but was described as a bright and hardworking student who had a strong desire to learn and spend hours on his studies, especially mathematics.
Epitomes of a kind are still produced today, when dealing with a corpus of literature, especially those classical works which are often considered dense and unwieldy, and unlikely to be read by the average person, in order to make them more accessible: some of these are more along the lines of abridgments, such as many which have been written of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a work of eight large volumes ( some 3600 pages ), often published as one volume of about 1200 pages.
Additionally, the geographic location of the city, with respect to the principal storm tracks, is especially favorable, as it is south of the average path of storms originating in the higher latitudes, and north of the usual tracks of hurricanes and other major tropical storms.
Additionally, the geographic location of the city, with respect to the principal storm tracks, is especially favorable, as it is south of the average path of storms originating in the higher latitudes, and north of the usual tracks of hurricanes and other major tropical storms.
Temperatures, especially extreme temperatures are not uncommon in this temperate climate, are much less moderate than on the Pacific Ocean side of the Alaska Peninsula ; however, average temperatures in winter are still milder than a number of cities in the contiguous United States, such as Fargo, North Dakota.
It should also be noted that with an average July high of 109 ° F ( 43 ° C ), temperatures exceeding 115 ° F ( 46 ° C ) are common for the area, especially for that particular month.
Living conditions were usually much better than in an average taiga camp, especially bearing in mind the absence of hard labor.
In this case, the subset of students scoring above average would be composed of those who were skilled and had not especially bad luck, together with those who were unskilled, but were extremely lucky.
The Lappet-faced Vulture is a huge species, ranking as the longest and largest winged vulture in its range behind the closely related Cinereous Vulture, although some co-occurring Gyps vultures tend to be heavier on average, especially the Cape Vulture and Eurasian Griffon.
2009 reported that North African male haplogroups, especially E1b1b1b ( E-M81 ), E1b1b1a-b ( M78 derived chromosomes showing the rare DYS439 allele 10, or E-V65 ) and a subset of J1 ( M267 derived ), represented, on average, 7-8 % of the current Iberian male lineages.
They are quite humid and fertile, especially in the north of the province, with an average temperature of 30 ° C in the humid season ( December – May ) and 25 ° C in the dry season ( June – November ).
The average Russian citizen and Soviet decision maker have questions about the allegiance of the non-Slav, especially the Central Asian.

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