Sentences with phrase «back of opinion polls»
This seems to be on the back of opinion polls which may not have changed if you allow for their inbuilt margin of error and which certainly ignore the fact that Northern marginal seats are running ahead of the national figures.
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The release of new opinion polls in Greece suggests a small lead by the New Democracy party, backed by 25.3 percent of voters, versus the 25 percent who favor Syriza.
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.
The latest public opinion poll from the Angus Reid Institute finds Albertans themselves are, unsurprisingly, near unanimous in their backing of the project.
The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles «Lefty» Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that «opinion polls consistently show only about 5 % of blacks have sensible political opinions,» that «if you have ever been robbed by a black teen - aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet - footed they can be,» and that black representative Barbara Jordan is «the archetypical half - educated victimologist» whose «race and sex protect her from criticism.»
An opinion poll on Sunday showed 47 per cent of likely voters saying they will back the treaty, 35 per cent saying they will vote No, and 18 per cent as undecided how to vote in the May 31 referendum.
Public opinion of the Liberals is up, putting them back on par with the Tories, according to a new Ipsos poll.
Opinion polling shows that British voters backed the principle of asylum even before the current crisis — in a May poll by YouGov supporters outnumbered opponents by a margin of two to one.
Well the Tories have been doing the same thing for almost a quarter of a century now and yet still they stand back in amazement when the opinion polls refuse to budge.
The call to ban has long had the backing of the general public, with opinion polls consistently showing support for a complete prohibition and 94.5 % of respondents to a public consultation on the issue calling for the same back in 2010.
«Back in 2012, opinion polls suggested Mr Osborne was the most unpopular member of the government.
Voters would back David Cameron over Gordon Brown, according to the latest opinion poll, raising suggestions that the chancellor is losing the battle of personality politics.
Gordon Brown will be hoping to win a few seats back - particularly from the anti-war Liberal Democrats who rode high then - but Labour's opinion poll rating is now below that of 2004 so the Labour leader might lose a few seats in his nightmare scenario.
Against the background of opinion polls pointing to a Labour landslide, in a week he transformed the political weather, forcing Brown to back down at the eleventh hour.
The Conservatives were sailing more than 20 % ahead of the Labour party in a number of opinion polls, and most expected them to be swept back into power with a hefty majority.
In an online world of one - click opinion, sticking two fingers up at the Tories by backing Labour in a poll was simple, cost free and gratifying.
Interesting perspective from a political party head — that Allen giving people a chance to vote their opinion at the polls as opposed to a small group of political hacks making the decision on the nomination, represents a «back door.»
The headline spin from The Sunday Times, however, is that the Tories are back to the same kind of opinion poll lead that they had at the very start of David Cameron's leadership.
However, Britain's success in the conflict saw Margaret Thatcher and her Tory government surge back to the top of the opinion polls, and her position was strengthened further by the end of the year as the recession ended and more voters had faith in her economic policies.
A poll of NEA members taken last spring found that 26 percent supported the standards wholeheartedly, 50 percent backed them tentatively, with reservations, and 13 percent said they didn't know enough to form an opinion.
Public opinion polling has consistently shown majorities of Americans opposed to public funding of school vouchers.7 The Waltons needed a back - door approach to privatization.
APPA even has their own press release out showing that consumers back the continued sale of pets in pet stores... even though public opinion polls show the opposite.
Many recently published opinion polls continue to reflect pet owners» intentions to deprive themselves of some non-essential items before cut ting back on pet spending.
Energy commissioner praises US for exploiting tar sands and Gulf of Mexico, New study backs «iron fertilisation» of the oceans as a way to store carbon in the seas, Mixed results from US climate change opinion polls.
Sixty percent of voters say that resolving the foreclosure mess is essential to get the economy back on track and there is broad support for government policies that encourage homeownership, according to a new nationwide survey on housing commissioned by NAHB from the Republican and Democratic polling firms of Public Opinion Strategies and Lake Research Partners.