Sentences with phrase «actually voted in the poll»

That is if we take into account that hopefully only people in Indonesia actually voted in the poll.

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Atheists are minority in the U.S. and the world no matter what «secular» sources and polls voted by few thousands of people tells you that were made up by silly atheists dreaming about making America more atheist, unbiblical and unGodly than what it actually is.

He improved slightly on Bush's share of the presidential vote, moving up from 38 to 41 percent, but because of the overall decline in turnout, actually polled fewer votes.

What is extremely difficult to pin down and, according to him, the greatest challenge for accurate polling is determining who is actually likely to vote in any given election, both among the respondents, and how that maps out to the larger population.

In an election in which relatively few people vote, identifying your supporters and motivating them to actually show up at the polls is absolutely keIn an election in which relatively few people vote, identifying your supporters and motivating them to actually show up at the polls is absolutely kein which relatively few people vote, identifying your supporters and motivating them to actually show up at the polls is absolutely key.

10.32 - Lord Ashcroft has released the results of a new poll of how Scots actually voted in the referendum.

However, I'm always slightly wary of constituency polls in Liberal Democrat held seats — the effect of incumbency and tactical voting is far higher for Lib Dem MPs, and when you ask a generic voting intention I think many people give their national preference, rather than how they would actually vote in their own constituency.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

TLDR; in statistics, a mean value is meaningless unless you know the confidence interval for a given error probability (any poll saying that candidate Y will get X votes actually tells, in the fine print, something like «we are 95 % sure that the candidate will receive at least X-error votes and at most X + error votes»)

Greenberg said Siena wouldn't be conducting a separate poll of likely voters» attitudes toward the primary because it's impractical, and turnout in Democratic primary races will be so low that it would be hard to find respondents who are actually planning to vote in the September race.

Actually, every recent poll has included Hawkins in the question about who they will vote for Governor.

The goal of SVRD is not just to getting more young voters registered, but to actually get them to the voting booth — according to the city's Board of Elections, only 11 percent of registered voters 18 to 29 years old went to the polls in the 2013 mayoral election.

In Survation's poll in February they actually found just the same thing, and their approach to weighting by likelihood to vote is very similar to ComRes's (there is a difference in how they treat people who are very unlikely to vote — Survation weight them down very heavily, ComRes exclude theIn Survation's poll in February they actually found just the same thing, and their approach to weighting by likelihood to vote is very similar to ComRes's (there is a difference in how they treat people who are very unlikely to vote — Survation weight them down very heavily, ComRes exclude thein February they actually found just the same thing, and their approach to weighting by likelihood to vote is very similar to ComRes's (there is a difference in how they treat people who are very unlikely to vote — Survation weight them down very heavily, ComRes exclude thein how they treat people who are very unlikely to vote — Survation weight them down very heavily, ComRes exclude them.

Kalman Yeger, another councilman from Brooklyn, expressed concern during the hearing that if the commission's recommendations go before the voters in 2019, a year when there will be no major races to bring voters to the polls, it could mean that few people actually show up to vote on what could be fundamental changes to how government works.

In POWER2010's Deliberative Poll last month these two proposals received resounding support from a gathered microcosm of the population, given sufficient time and information to understand the proposals they debated; meanwhile, support for Brown's Alternative Vote actually fell over the two days from 43 % to 36 %!

Shortly after the 10 o'clock deadline on election day, broadcasters release a forecast based on the exit poll, which gives the first insight into how voters have actually voted in the general election.

Being utterly bored with what passes for news in the media, in particular the endless opinion polls supposedly showing voting intentions 3 months before the general election — and how many of those questioned actually know why they will be voting for the party they choose; even more importantly, how many of those questioned even understand what democracy is or how politics works in this country — I thought a little light relief was called for.

Unlike many other polls asking about voting intention in the referendum YouGov's tracker on the Alternative Vote referendum starts with text briefly summarising what First Past the Post and Alternative Vote actually are.

Columbia University professor Ester Fuchs said at this stage of the race the polls are not reflective of who is actually going to vote in the primary.

I don't need some partial poll to tell me how people actually voted in my constituency, where as it happens the Liberal Democrats increased our majority.»

The idea that the left lose Labour votes is simply nonsense, the fact is that we have not a left wing government since Harold Wilson, that since Blair New Labour has lost between 3 - 4 million voters, Left wing views actually resonate with the public, there were in the last four years polls taken that showed in the south east that 20 % of Tory commuters would vote Labour if they would nationalise the railways.

I find that school reformers, too, overestimate the significance of poll results that tell them what they want to hear — and forget that pollsters eliciting a desired response is no assurance that people will actually vote or behave accordingly in the real world.

I say limit voting to those who have actually logged in to the site prior to the poll going up * so that supporters of SotA and DU (or whoever else actively campaigns) can't rock the vote.

It seems that many more people will read a hub but less than 10 % will actually take the time to vote in the polls.

The race in the Backwards Compatibility poll is actually pretty close right now, with Black Ops 2 edging out Red Dead Redemption by a few thousand votes.