Sentences with phrase «at opinion polls»

If you look at opinion polls what you find is that older voters like it, and particularly older voters who remember grammar schools in the old way like it, but parents who actually have to make invidious choices about where to send their children hate it.»

To delve into where parties drew their support from it is necessary to look at the opinion polls.

While Brown may not appear popular in opinion polls, we only need look at opinion polls in France to see that a leader (Sarkozy) can be unlikable but still perceived as strong and effective.

And yet, if you look at the opinion polls over this period almost all of them show Conservative support in the low thirties and Labour support in the high thirties — a sufficient gap to put Miliband into Downing Street.

«There's concern in the Labour party at the opinion polls and has been for several months, said the source.

Remember his claim that he didn't look at opinion polls when he bottled an autumn 2007 election?

It's yet another instalment of the dishonesty he most memorably exhibited at the time of the bottled 2007 election, that he didn't look at opinion polls when cancelling the election.

The wonks of Westminster scratch their heads at opinion polls that show Labour and Conservatives neck and neck.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

At the moment, opinion polls are projecting the anti-European Party for Freedom will win the Dutch election.

Wells suggests all this is happening because more voters are appearing at the ballot box who are not detected by opinion polls.

Trump vowed at his rally that he would win Washington state, even though the state tends to support Democrats and that party's nominee, Hillary Clinton, leads by large margins in opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

It's not Colin Barnett's style to let an opinion poll alter his course, especially when it involves his path to victory at the next state election.

Instead of the usual economic forecasts, look at sales figures at key retailers and public - opinion polls.

Republicans in South Carolina also were voting on Saturday in the state - by - state contest to pick nominees for the Nov. 8 election, with opinion polls showing front - runner Donald Trump trying to solidify his spot at the top of the pack and rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio fighting for a second - place finish.

On the heels of President Trump's surprise victory in the U.S., the far - right French candidate Marine Le Pen has seen a surge in opinion polls — and yesterday's shooting at the Champs - Élysées is helping her case.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

Kiran Alwani is a Junior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, working on APF Canada's National Opinion Polls on Canadian views on Asia.

A new opinion poll by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada would suggest — at least where it comes to attitudes toward Asia and Canada's engagement with the region — that there may be more to this generation than avocado - toast - fuelled narcissism.

Public opinion is with this government when it heads abroad: Insights West's poll found that a staggering 67 per cent of Canadians rate the Liberals as «good» or «very good» at representing Canada internationally.

On April 7th, 2017, the Broadbent Institute released exclusive new polling from Stratcom, looking at Canadian opinion on economic security and levels of support for progressive policy measures.

On October 30, 2004, Ipsos - Reid released a public opinion poll that put support for Ralph Klein and his Progressive Conservatives at 50 percent.

Public opinion polling during the summer of 2008 placed the Conservatives and Liberals in a virtual dead heat, leading most to speculate at the time that if an election were held there would be a third minority government.

The inconvenient truth that his party still only sits at 35 percent in the latest public opinion poll could add momentum to those pushing to replace the Wildrose leader.

After the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, at least six public opinion polls suggested that Americans were becoming more receptive to gun control.

Kevin Wozniak, a sociologist at UMass Boston, reviewed polls after the Newtown school shooting in 2012 and found that the event coincided with a temporary spike in support for gun control, followed by a leveling off and return to pre-mass shooting opinion by the end of 2013.

An opinion poll by research company INSA / YouGov, published on Sept. 11, put support for Angela Merkel's CDU / CSU at 36.5 percent.

At the moment, he says «sensational reporting of opinion polls» clouds the issue.

His will is not what he happens at the moment to want; his faith is not what a present inventory of his religious opinions might discover; his conviction is not the answers he might give even to an omnicompetent poll - taker; his love spans all the decades of the beloved's life.

According to a 1982 Gallup poll aimed at measuring nationwide opinion, 44 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that «God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.»

While opinion polls may show it to be popular, get - tough legislation simply is not working: «Prison does not deter crime because criminals are too crazy, too drunk, too high, too uneducated, too unintelligent and too young to fully comprehend what they were doing at the time they broke the law.»

At the same time, public opinion polls demonstrate a continuous improvement in the dominant white population groups» ideas about black people and how they should be treated.

It seems, moreover, on the basis of public opinion polls, that this challenge is already accepted by a majority of our fellow citizens and thus the question of its establishment as a matter of law has not provoked a debate worthy of the momentous issues at stake.

According to various opinion polls at different times recently, including my one on JustArsenal, there are slightly more AKB's than AOB's in the world, so I am finding it hard to understand why a majority of my commenters (You lot!)

Another way of looking at it is as an opinion poll using an unrepresentative sample, as the sample only includes people who place bets.

Here is an excerpt from my response on here: According to various opinion polls at different times recently, including my one on JustArsenal, there are slightly more AKB's than AOB's in the world, so I am finding it hard to understand why a majority of my commenters (You lot!)

There have been various opinion polls at different times recently about Wenger, with varying results but it is a fact that a majority of my commenters (You lot!)

Shah, we found out, used to think Israelis should be relocated en masse to America, compared Israelis to Hitler, issued a public warning that «the Jews are rallying» (to take part in an opinion poll) and tweeted a link to an article which compared Zionism to al - Qaeda, and fretted that the Zionists are «grooming» Jews to «exert political influence at the highest levels of public office.»

Gordon Brown has continued his political slide into the parliamentary recess, with the latest opinion poll putting his personal approval rating at an all - time low.

Today's Q poll found Paladino's favorable / unfavorable rating at 16 - 13 with 70 percent of New Yorkers saying they don't know enough about him to have an opinion.

Perhaps surprisingly for such a country accustomed to high electoral volatility, the electoral polls in the last year suggest that Israeli public opinion has barely shifted at all since Israelis last went to the kalpi.

Debate over a possible coalition government has reached fever pitch with opinion poll after opinion poll hinting at a hung parliament.

Firstly, Israel relies on suboptimal polling methodology: samples are too small (often only 500 people) to filter out the effect of outlier results, and there are too few polls to accurately measure opinion at any given moment.

At the same time the candidates were pretty much tied in the opinion polls.

Well at the start of January, Labour had an average opinion poll lead of around one point over the Tories.

I tried searching for opinion polling on internment, as I know opinion polls are still held about the US's atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I only found information about opinion polling performed at the time internment was in place.

While she commands leads in the opinion polls her party will follow her, at least for now.

His poll numbers, which dipped below 50 percent briefly (at least in one public opinion survey) have bounced back into the low 60s.

Miliband dismissed opinion polls showing him performing worse at this stage of the electoral cycle than Neil Kinnock, saying irritably: «Let the polls take care of themselves.»

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