Sentences with phrase «by a poll suggesting»

Politicians on all sides are steered by polls suggesting low public support for raising benefits, especially for the unemployed (about 15 % believe they should get more).

Cameron's task isn't helped, however, by polls suggesting voters expect him to win and to win big.

Ed Miliband hopes of seizing power next year were rocked last night by a poll suggesting Labour faces a wipeout in Scotland.

Not exact matches

A poll commissioned by Google and released in May suggested only 20 per cent of Canadians had ever made a mobile purchase and only 16 per cent expected to boost their mobile shopping in the following year.

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

A September poll conducted by the Harrison Group and American Express Publishing suggests this nightmare could come true: nearly 70 % of respondents with $ 100,000 or more in discretionary income said the recession had changed their spending priorities.

However, polls suggested that if the SPD's members had rejected the deal and effectively triggered fresh elections, the party would have been thoroughly thrashed by the electorate.

Even in France, polling suggests people think Greece should stay in the eurozone only by a thin margin.

Every payday, almost half of Canadians feel hard done by, with a recent poll suggesting that 46 % of Canadians believe they're underpaid.

A new poll by the Military Times suggests American troops are most likely to vote for Donald Trump.

This week, polls suggest the opposite: people do not think that the executive actions will reduce the number of people killed by gun, but they solidly support the proposals.

Steinmeier's intervention suggests he regards a new election - desired by half of Germany's voters according to a poll - as a last resort.

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.

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

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.

This is not simply because Harper is better liked by Canadians who prefer to steer an SUV while sipping their Starbucks (though polls suggest he is); this is because Conservative candidates finished within a few percentage points of winning quite a few of those suburban ridings in 2006.

by Silvio Cascione, Sumanta Dey and Vuyani Ndaba (Reuters)- The U.S. dollar is likely to set new records against emerging market currencies this year, although its climb may be slower than in 2015 and possibly hampered by more frequent bouts of volatility, a Reuters poll suggested.

A recent poll by the Financial Planning Standards Council suggests that a large number of women lack money skills and knowledge.

This summer, the New York Times concluded a lengthy series on the perceptions of race among Americans by saying: «The series has portrayed a stubbornly enduring racial divide, and the poll suggested that even as the rawest forms of bigotry have receded they have often been replaced by remoteness and distrust in places of work, learning and worship.»

An exit poll published after last year's US Presidential election by the Pew Research Center suggested that 81 - per - cent of people identifying as «white, born - again, evangelical Christians» chose Mr Trump over Hillary Clinton.

A poll conducted in 2009 by Investor's Business Daily and TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence suggested that physicians are not nearly as uniform in their approval as Obama would like us to think.

A recent poll suggests 90 percent of Native Americans are not offended by the nickname of Washington's NFL franchise, but that's not going to change my opinion on this hot - button, societal issue

As an issue, football isn't going to be crucial to the coming election: most polls suggest that the electorate are more exercised by such trifling matters as the health service and the state of the economy.

Despite what has happened over the last fortnight, polls carried out by various Italian publications would suggest that supporters are ready to forgive Donnarumma if he opts to stay.

More than half of Britons would support some kind of passenger profiling by the security services, a new poll suggests.

This piece, written by the man who led the independent inquiry into last year's polling debacle which was released this week, suggested it was more about unrepresentative samples than it was to do with «shy Tories».

In recent weeks they have been buoyed by opinion polls which suggest the race has narrowed.

However, recent reports suggest that thousands of EU citizens living in the UK have been mistakenly sent polling cards by local authorities.

Electoral and polling evidence from across Europe suggests that women are less likely to be attracted by identity politics and nationalism.

The opinion polls are putting the Tories roughly ten points below their poll ratings in 2009, which suggests that there are ten per cent of voters to be picked up by the other parties.

An online poll by civil liberties group Big Brother Watch also suggested that as few as 12 % of people thought the bill would represent good value for money at a cost of nearly # 2 billion over ten years.

Some analysts have provided interesting evidence to suggest that online polls could be significantly overstating support for Leave through the way they handle undecided voters and by failing to represent more socially liberal voters who are harder to reach.

Recent polls commissioned by the Evening Standard have suggested that Labour's next batch of candidates are nowhere near as well known.

Ekiti purportedly — purportedly because, latter information suggests that poll was manipulated by the then extant powers — jettisoned the noble exertion of the Kayode Fayemi years, for a journey to nowhere, which Ayodele Fayose's present government - by - impulse suggests.

A newly - released poll by Remington Research Group suggests LG Kathy Hochul is in a tight primary battle with her Democratic challenger, Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams.

And the latest poll won't have helped: an Ipsos Mori poll for STV, the latest to come out, puts Labour behind by 28 points, suggesting the SNP could take 55 of Scotland's 59 seats.

Many have blamed Jeremy Corbyn for Labour's low poll ratings and one Labour peer recently suggested that his party would would win the next election «by a mile» with Balls as leader.

Shortly after the 2014 conference, private polling conducted by James Morris and Stan Greenberg showed Labour doing slightly — but not dramatically — worse than published polls suggested.

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

A recent Channel 4 News / YouGov poll suggested otherwise, reporting that potentially 9 Labour and 2 Lib Dem seats could saved from the SNP by tactical voting between unionist parties.

By coincidence, today also sees the publication of a poll from YouGov for the Times newspaper which suggests voters think Cameron is shifting to the right.

Consistency of the pre-election day polls suggests that the pollsters were reporting what they were told by the electorate.

They also said Mr Cameron would not be swayed by findings of another poll that suggested only 7 % of voters backed his stance and that 69 % of Tory supporters were among the 74 % of voters who think he should have sacked Mrs Miller.

The poll suggests Romney has consolidated support among Republicans since winning the first nominating contest in Iowa by a slim margin last week.

For a variety of reasons (including the impact of high levels of undecided voters in a specific poll), the actual result of an election contest may vary from the figures suggested by an opinion poll, even if the poll is carried out relatively close to election day, or on election day itself as in the case of exit polls, but the likelihood of such variation is not something that can be factored into this model.

In order to address the question, I estimate what the party first preference votes would be in the different constituencies, assuming similar (proportional) changes in party vote shares in all constituencies to those that are being suggested by a particular opinion poll, or — in this case — an average of the most recent polls.

After the election, one post-election poll suggested that turnout amongst 18 - 24 year old went up by as much as 16 percentage points in 2017, with another suggesting an increase of 12 points.

Even by recent polling standards, the figures for the EURef have been unusually varied but current online polling puts the race within a few points either way, while telephone polls suggest a single - figure Remain lead.

Within twelve hours a new opinion poll of members was released suggesting Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership by a landslide, with none of his rivals even coming close.

Recent marginal polling by Lord Ashcroft suggest that this could already be happening.