Sentence examples for a right-leaning state from inspiring English sources

Mr. Baucus had announced his retirement in April, raising Republican hopes of picking up a seat in a right-leaning state where President Obama is unpopular and where there was no Democratic heir apparent.

Those are spelled out in Article IV of the U.S. Constitution, said Rob Natelson, a senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Colorado Independence Institute, a right-leaning state think tank that Weld County commissioners say they have consulted to determine how to go about their secession movement.

That's saying something in such a predominantly right-leaning state.

However, the debate over imposing a ban on cow meat was resurrected recently when the ruling party introduced wide-ranging ban on the sale and consumption of beef in the right-leaning state of Maharashtra.

And laws pushed by right-leaning state legislatures requiring people to have certain kinds of identification in order to vote may prevent some forms of (vanishingly rare) fraud, but they also restrict the rights of the same people who are often taken advantage of by vote buyers.

His new job has left him with a legislative record that is providing plenty of fodder for attack ads.Then there are right-leaning states with embattled Democratic incumbents.

Conservative Democrats, many of whom represent right-leaning states and districts recently captured from the Republicans (see article), are nervous about backing bills without bipartisan support.

Yet a series of gaffes and surprises on the Republican side, coupled with unexpectedly strong campaigns from their opponents, has diminished their chances.The best pick-up opportunities for the Republicans should be in right-leaning states with open seats.

Big state universities also act as magnets drawing "foreign", out-of-state academics, artists and their wannabe students away from their natural habitats on the coasts, counteracting to some degree the polarward drift of right-leaning states.

Though 45 states and the District of Columbia have signed on to them since 2010, resistance came quickly, mostly from right-leaning states, where some leaders and political action groups have protested what they see as a federal takeover of local classrooms.

As speaker after speaker tossed juicy rhetorical tidbits to an appreciative crowd, the gathering emphasized the challenges that the party's less conservative candidates could face in right-leaning states with early caucuses and primaries, like Iowa and South Carolina.