Sentences with phrase «because public polling»

Not exact matches

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

But the point is this: human judgement really matters because polls can not give definitive answers on public opinion on complex issues.

Several voters at the same polling place said they cast their ballots for de Blasio because they felt he was more in touch with the public and would steer the city in a better direction.

Those results generally align with views of both party insiders, though Democrats think Ayotte's margin over Trump is smaller than it appears because the GOP presidential nominee is drawing more support in New Hampshire than public polls suggest.

«Polling has shown that a large majority of the public is concerned that judges may not be fair or impartial because of the donations they receive from lawyers and special interest groups,» Hawkins said.

That's a problem, because, according to the latest Q poll, a whopping 90 % of New Yorkers with kids in public school support eliminating LIFO.

Some believe the reason most polls find Cameron to be more capable of tough decisions than Ed Miliband is because the Labour leader avoids public rows with unions and his own members.

He says the resolution process was flawed because of how quickly it was passed - the town never conducted a public meeting or a poll.

(CNN)-- Two days before voters go to the polls in Pennsylvania's closely watched Democratic Senate primary, Rep. Joe Sestak predicted Sunday he will emerge victorious over longtime Sen. Arlen Specter, partly because of the public's anti-incumbent, anti-Washington mood.

Clegg knows that his party is likely to be hammered in the elections because they are down in the polls and are unpopular, but will hold out hope that the public might still back AV, delivering a central Lib Dem objective.

Cuomo's stance has a number of advocates concerned that he has abandoned reform efforts because the public has grown numb to the cloud of scandal that hangs around the state capitol - a cloud voters appear to be attaching to the governor in public opinion polls.

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Speaking on the public television show «Off the Record,» MEA President Steven Cook said the MEA paid $ 25,000 toward a recall effort against House Education Committee Chairman Paul Scott, R - Grand Blanc, because polling showed voters in Scott's district are upset over the elimination of a pension tax deduction and public school funding levels, the Lansing State Journal reported.

Martin brought up the subject of charters by saying that a poll in South Carolina among black parents found that most of them were interested in enrolling their children in charter schools because they were not satisfied with traditional public schools.

14 — months since House Majority Leader Paul Stam told an audience never to use the term school vouchers because «vouchers don't poll very well» (The fight for the survival of public schools, N.C. Policy Watch, February 1, 2011)

They are calling it a walk - out because the public does not like strikes, and they have poll - tested the words.

One source said designers gave a collective sigh of relief, because car clinics, where members of the general public are polled, often have been blamed for watering down the styling of GM's vehicles as they morphed from concepts to production vehicles.

The point of all this is that there's even more evidence now — as Climate Progress puts it, «pretty much every major poll in the past six months makes clear that the public supports climate and energy legislation because it achieves multiple benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions» — that people want to get away from fossil fuels and move towards clean energy.

MC: That might be the cause, but on the other hand you look at public opinion polls about issues that are of concern to the American public, and climate change just isn't near the top of those lists, and maybe they made a calculated decision that a more sellable approach would be to focus on energy independence and self - sufficiency, because that's something that people have already bought.

The sentiment expressed by the poll results is perhaps most concerning because it is in spite of the fact that Canada has been undertaking serious efforts to combat the problem — with new legislation and public education efforts at the forefront.

The survey, conducted by the public opinion firm Hart Research, polled a representative sample of 605 teachers and found that more than 75 percent believed that a greater focus on social and emotional learning would be a «major benefit» to students because of its positive impact on workforce readiness, school attendance and graduation, life success, college preparation and academic success.

Hart, who along with McInturff does polling for the bipartisan NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll, argued that because of his inexperience in public office, Trump needs to find someone who can reassure voters that he has a steady hand on national security and foreign relations.