Sentences with phrase «by a pollster last»

I was called by a pollster last week about the Democratic Party primary for Mayor of Buffalo, but the questioner couldn't say who commissioned the poll.

Not exact matches

Second, as Americans have rapidly ditched landlines — 47 % of the population is «cellphone only» by the CDC's last count — pollsters are increasingly surveying cellphone users, a population that is two to four times more expensive to reach, says Republican pollster Bill McInturff.

Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority» that is, with a political entity that is kept alive on the West Bank by an American - trained militia and the Israeli Army, and that is headed by a prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose party won 2 percent of the vote in the last elections and who faces a constituency two - thirds of which tells pollsters that it doesn't want any deal with a Jewish state.

Taking the most recent poll published by each pollster in the last week, we calculate the proportion showing a Conservative lead over Labour of more than 6 points as the pseudo-probability of a Conservative majority, but we allow polls with exactly a 6 point lead to contribute a 0.5 to the average.

The group is run by Liz Kurantowicz, the former state Republican Party official who managed Voters for Good Government, the independent - expenditure group that ran afoul of the State Elections Enforcement Commission last year by paying Foley's pollster, an expense that the commission says Foley's campaign should have incurred.

«It's still a long way till the 2018 election, however, by a 12 - point margin, voters say they are prepared to re-elect Cuomo, up from seven points last month,» said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

This time last year, the pollsters found that 71 % of voters saw the Lib Dems as a united party - an enviable score unmatched by any of their rivals.

Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg says that, «trying to avoid the fate of the last three incumbents who went down to defeat (in the 24th), Katko continues to be viewed favorably by a majority of voters and to demonstrate significant crossover appeal.»

I attended a presentation by a pollster from Ipsos Mori who showed that there had been a decline last year in the number of people who believed that global warming was a real phenomenon — primarily, she said, as a result of Durkin's film (16).

Like I said to Carolyn (the person working for the pollster / fact - finding outfit hired by RECO to conduct a survey of selected registrants across Ontario) who contacted me last week, RECO should be a professional Realtor's best friend, and the worst enemy of all the rest.