Sentences with phrase «public polls do»

Liu described why he believes the public polls do not accurately portray his support.

Public polls don't seem to show that wave as likely to be particularly strong in tomorrow's New York elections.

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Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling (PPP), told Business Insider in an email that the landline aspect did play a big part in the inaccuracy.

A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.

Two polls published in recent days reinforced the idea that the American public generally disapproves of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and doesn't think it would benefit their personal finances.

In a poll commissioned in conjunction with tonight's show, the Marist Institute for Public Opinion found that more than seven in 10 Americans do not think private companies should be required to publish the salaries of its employees, nor should firms disclose pay rates internally.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

In 2002, an Ipsos - Reid poll found that 86 per cent of Canadians believed that the federal government should do something to alleviate public concerns about media concentration.

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

I wonder if these results from the recent Pew poll of attitudes toward religion in public life don't foretell a real change, however partial, however qualified by any number of other factors.

The Pew poll doesn't ask people why they want more religion in public life.

Christian Aid has taken a stand after a new ComRes poll found that 80 per cent of public agree it is morally wrong for banks to profit from investments that pollute the environment, while 77 per cent believe banks should be stopped from doing so.

This shows nothing more than ignorance of the bible and it's message for mankind maybe the President would do well to get alongside himself men of true faith Godly men who don't aspire for public office, who do nt name universities after themselves, who will tell him what Gods wants of him and not what the opinion polls want.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).

Representatives may defend and promote the science they believe is truth despite public opinion polls and fact checkers, but they often don't know what the science teaches for the simple reason that they are not scientists.

In the nightly news, respondents to public opinion polls describe him as a «can do fellow,» «a take charge kind of a guy,» «admirable for his ability to cut through red tape,» «a true patriot» who was «doing what he was paid to do.»

Do they really think the public will go into the polling booth thinking «oh well I would vote for Labour but they can't be trusted on the economy, and I would vote for the Conservatives but they might deliver the wrong kind of recovery, so I think I will marry economic efficiency and social justice and vote for the Liberal Democrats instead»?

Ties in nicely with the propaganda work before the G20, when everything possible was done to tell the public that all protesters were rioters (see stories like «poll tax protesters coming out of retirement» & «don't wear a suit or you'll be hunted down»).

«I remember a number of issues in the past where there was strong public support — the death penalty — the speaker opposed it... It's not about governing from the polls, it's about doing what you think is the correct thing to do.»

In doing so, we did find a statistically significant positive correlation between performance and voting intention as measured by Public Policy Polling data around the same time.

A poll released this week found that public satisfaction with Gove has reached new lows with almost two - thirds saying he is doing a bad job as education secretary.

First, we don't know how public opinion will move before polling day.

I think David Cameron did make one quite bad misjudgment over Maria Miller and that is not to realise that the public is still very, very angry indeed at the expenses issue, which our poll underlines tonight.

We know that the economy is doing OK and we know that opinion polls still show that public confidence in Miliband and Balls (as economic managers) is much less than public confidence in Cameron and Osborne.

The vast majority of the British public do not believe that British airstrikes on Syria are the right response to the Paris massacre, says a poll published today.

Opinion polls show that a significant majority of the public do not want to see Trident replaced, so cancelling plans for new nuclear weapons would be a vote - winner.

A Siena College poll this week shows that most New Yorkers don't know about the Moreland Commission, a panel of district attorneys and law enforcement officials investigating public corruption in Albany.

(Indeed, polling suggests that the public strongly prefers equity to localism and does not think that that different outcomes arising from different choices are a price worth paying for more local control.

Immigration has topped every public and private poll of vote - determining issues that ComRes has done.

She's doing very well in the polls... the public approve of what she's doing.»

Shall we just get rid of incessant polling — doesn't it just annoy the public?

78 percent of Manhattan public school parents polled said they don't like the way Mayor Bloomberg is handling city schools.

So it's not surprising that yesterday's ComRes poll for the Mail showed 64 % of the public think the Government doesn't understand the problems faced by ordinary families.

There is a Populus poll in The Times tomorrow which does not appear to cover voting intention, but rather asks the public what they expect they outcome of the next election to be.

Question topics included what he'll say to Rob Astorino if he bumps into him locally, what he has to say to the anti-fracking protestors, what was most surprising in the campaign, whether he'll be disappointed if he wins by 10 points rather the 20 points that public polls predict, for whom and on what line he and Lee voted, what he'll do to affect the state senate leadership should there not be any single majority conference, what he'll do in a second term concerning state mandates to local governments and what effect Republican control of the United States Senate will have on New York and his administration in a second term.

«I saw that meeting as my doing my job of trying to find a way to convey, in any way I could, that the public and even his voters had fierce opposition to the education cuts,» she said, adding that she told Bannon their polling showed half of Trump's voters opposed his cuts.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed his tanking poll numbers on «negative headlines» and said the public will welcome him back with open arms once the law enforcement probes wind down — and show he did nothing wrong.

A ballot test that did not include the third party candidate was still a 44 - 44 tie, according to the Public Opinion Strategies poll, suggesting neither is either helped or hurt by the presence of a contender with no money or name recognition.

The public consider Boris Johnson the most likeable politicians in Britain but they do not believe he would make a better prime minister than David Cameron, a new poll suggests.

There's also some pushing back on the polling of public financing and the point Republican lawmakers make when saying taxpayers don't support public dollars going toward political activities.

The Assembly is, of course, a far sight better then the Senate when it comes to basic functionality, but public opinion polls have shown voters don't differentiate, preferring instead to tar both houses with the same brush and are ready to jettison even their own representatives.

The upshot, therefore, is that we must avoid looking at poll data showing high percentages of public support and mistake it for an indication of what the electorate wants government to actually do.

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Casino expansion has broad support in public polls, but the plan to construct a massive convention center and casino next door to the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens does not fare as well.

It also comes hot on the heals of a YouGov poll which found not just that the prime minister and mayor of London need to do something pretty sharpish to boost their public approval ratings concerning their handling of the recent troubles, but that nine out of ten British people support the use of the weapons of mass saturation.

As previously argued, vox pops are no substitute for public opinion polls, since they do not convey the complexity of people's attitudes or understanding of politics.

«Not only do arguments to retain Bishops possess no intellectual credibility, they are also unpopular with the public, with polls indicating 74 % of the population — including 70 % of Christians — believe it is wrong that Church of England Bishops are given automatic places.»

Yesterday's speech was light on new policy, so we must assume the point was to send a message: that despite growing public scepticism — a recent YouGov poll found 78 % of people thinking it «unlikely Cameron will deliver his immigration promises» — he remains personally committed to doing so.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- A new national poll suggests that most Americans favor an economic stimulus package even if it comes with an $ 800 billion price tag, but that support doesn't indicate that the public wants to see a new era of big government.

He did not think it was a problem that a significant number of polling places in his district are not accessible, citing their location in public schools.