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The margins of victory in the county for the Republican Presidential candidate in 2000, 2004, and 2008 have been 13, 21, and 14 percentage points, respectively.
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When the Labour government fell in 1979, the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher won a victory which served to push the Liberals back into the margins.
She won the titles in the 100 m, 200 m and 80 m hurdles all with large margins of victory ( four tenths or more ), but narrowly missed out on a fourth win in the relay, which was won by the British team.
Areas outside of Port Townsend ( such as Cape George ) gave Kerry 2-to-1 victory margins.
Nevsky's great victory against the Livonian Brothers apparently involved only a few knights killed rather than hundreds claimed by the Russian chroniclers ; decisive medieval and early modern battles were won and lost by smaller margins than are seen in contemporary conflicts.
The winning entry " Puppet on a String ", sung by Sandie Shaw had one of the widest margins of victory ever witnessed in the competition ; it garnered more than twice as many votes as the second place song.
Team B supporters, many of whom had been anticipating a victory of similar margins, suspected that the election had been fixed.
Himes was likely assisted by Barack Obama's landslide victory in the 4th ; Obama carried the district with 60 % of the vote, one of the largest margins for a Republican-held district.
She had secured the Democratic nomination after her long years in the General Assembly, as Lieutenant Governor and her demonstrated ability to run a campaign by her large statewide victory margins in 1992 and 1996.
Until recently, he did not gain the victory margins scored by North Dakota's two Democratic Senators, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan.
He won an easy victory to the Canadian House of Commons three years later, however, and was re-elected by comfortable margins four times since then.
The unusual dimensions of Gronen's margins of victory and heat times tipped off derby officials to illegal circumstances surrounding Gronen's racer.
In the 2006 election he had one of the highest margins of victory in Atlantic Canada.
He was reelected to three more terms as mayor by overwhelming margins, including winning an unprecedented 94. 2 percent of the vote in 1983, a 73 percent margin of victory in 1985, and 67 percent in 1987.
While Foley had usually relied on large margins in Spokane itself to carry him to victory, in 1994 he only won Spokane by 9, 000 votes while Nethercutt did well enough in the rest of the district to win overall by just under 4, 000 votes.
The Republican Party won a landslide victory in the fall congressional elections, capturing both the House and Senate by commanding margins.
After the one-off victory against Australia in England, Bangladesh were a more confident team however Sri Lanka won all five matches by large margins.
Their margins of victory were usually large.
Her margins of victory in the district have always been higher than those of GOP presidential candidates George W. Bush and John McCain as well as Republican gubernatorial candidates Kenny Hulshof, Matt Blunt and Jim Talent.
The average number of candidates per district, percentage of contested races, incumbency rates, incumbency victory margins, perceptions of interest group influence among candidates and citizens, and voter participation did not change notably.
New York State gave small margins of victory to Democrats John F. Kennedy in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Michael Dukakis in 1988, as well as Republicans Herbert Hoover in 1928, Thomas Dewey in 1948 and Ronald Reagan in 1980.
He won re-election in 1998 with 74 % of the vote, which was the largest margin of victory by any Governor up for election in 1998, and one of the largest margins of victory in Kansas gubernatorial history.
The key to Gore's victory was wide margins of victory in greater New York City and Long Island.
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In 2010, Republican Carl Paladino carried Cattaraugus County over Democrat ( and eventual winner ) Andrew Cuomo 65 % to 31 %, but Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Senator Chuck Schumer, both incumbent Democrats, carried the county by 51 % to 46 % and 54 % to 43 % margins respectively.
Although Monroe County has voted for the Democratic candidate since 1992, it is a close county in presidential elections ; it was won by the Democratic Party by margins of 5 % in 2008 and 0. 5 % in 2004.
The Republican candidate has carried the county in every presidential election since 1952, usually by overwhelming margins.
On the precinct level, Democrats generally carry the university city of Moscow by moderate margins, and the rural remainder of the county is strongly Republican.
The last Democratic candidate for President to win the county was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, although subsequent Republican victories have been by smaller margins than those in neighboring counties.
The county has supported Republicans for national office, but by much closer margins than most areas of the region.
Nonetheless, the family and its network remains influential so that although the county has remained one of the strongest and most consistently Democrat localities in Texas, frequently giving both national and local candidates margins greater than 70 percent.
After the initial flush of success some lean years followed and Mattie had to bear the disappointment of two county final defeats with Ballygar at the hands of Tuam Stars and Dunmore McHales, the later by the narrowest of margins but the best was yet to come.
He had the support of newspapers in all four of the counties that comprised the 89th District and won such large margins in the primary that the county Republicans did not put up a candidate for the general election.
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The entry-limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition, but unless general inflation permits profit margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy, we might expect the public-limit price to approach the entry-limit price.
And if he did stand on the margins of modernity, it was not in dying a martyr for such unity as Papal supremacy might be able to force on Western Christendom.
More stands on the margins of modernity for one reason alone -- because he wrote Utopia.
Southern demands for a slave code to ensure slavery in the territories repeatedly split the Democratic Party between North and South by widening margins.
These machines were similar in technological terms to the 2600, but sold for much higher prices with associated higher profit margins.
Shallow seas flanked the margins of several continents created during the breakup of the supercontinent Pannotia. The seas were relatively warm, and polar ice was absent for much of the period.
Nevada's capital is generally considered a Republican stronghold, often voting for Republicans by wide margins.
Overall, it has been suggested that the purchase of Compaq was not a good move for HP, due to the narrow profit margins in the commoditized PC business, especially in light of IBM's 2005 announcement to sell its PC division to Lenovo.
The Inquirer noted that the continued low return on investment and small margins of HP's personal computer manufacturing business, now named the Personal Systems Group, " continues to be what it was in the individual companies, not much more than a job creation scheme for its employees ".
Around 200 AD, ten of the plays of Euripides began to be circulated in a select edition, possibly for use in schools, with some commentaries or scholia recorded in the margins.
The literature assumed that due to the competitive nature of reverse auction, and in order to compensate for lower prices and lower margins, suppliers seek higher volumes to maintain or increase the total revenue.
One notion mercantilists widely agreed upon was the need for economic oppression of the working population ; laborers and farmers were to live at the " margins of subsistence ".
" In 2009, The New York Times wrote, " Mad once defined American satire ; now it heckles from the margins as all of culture competes for trickster status.
The monsoon also complicates transportation with roads and trails washing out while unpaved roads and airstrips may become unusable and cloud cover reduces safety margins for aviation.
The first game, Simon the Sorcerer, was released in 1993 for IBM PC compatibles running MS-DOS on three 3. 5 " floppy disks in a large box styled with purple margins, with no speech and only sub-titles used throughout the game.
It was part of Majesco's strategy of making profits from products with margins too slim for the original manufacturer to pursue, and was accompanied by Majesco's licensed reissue of several classic Game Gear cartridges.
Aragonés also became famous for his wordless " drawn-out dramas " or " marginals " which were inserted into the margins and between panels of the magazine.
These include considerations for safety margins during landing and takeoff.
The transmission system provides for base load and peak load capability, with safety and fault tolerance margins.
The Compositor itself is an abstract class, allowing for derivative classes to use different formatting algorithms ( such as double-spacing, wider margins, etc.
This made for low profit margins.
" Richard Drinnon partly blames Thoreau for the ambiguity, noting that Thoreau's " sly satire, his liking for wide margins for his writing, and his fondness for paradox provided ammunition for widely divergent interpretations of ' Civil Disobedience.
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