Sentences with phrase «done by pollster»

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Polling done a year ago by another well - known pollster, Abacus Data, indicated similarly high levels of support and an identical level of opposition for the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project that currently dominates news coverage in both Alberta and British Columbia.

Such comments may also antagonize college graduates, who tell pollsters by overwhelming margins that they don't want to associate with a white nationalist party.

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.

A jump in the computers would be likely, with pollsters perhaps being swayed by the Buckeyes being on a bye (pollsters do that sometimes).

The information is typically protected by data protection rules and is zealously guarded by political parties, who do not like pollsters and journalists sniffing around their membership for changes in mood.

When asked by pollsters what they would vote, these voters answered «Don't Know», rather than admit to supporting the Conservative Party.

But pollsters don't ask voters if they should be governed by laws emerging from a corrupt process.

How did the pollsters blunder so badly by predicting a photo - finish and hung parliament?

George Eaton in the New Statesman has done us a service by revisiting the informative audit of the 2010 election by the Tory pollster Lord Ashcroft, entitled Minority Verdict, which throws new relevant light on the likely outcome of the present election campaign.

Most national polls have the Lib Dems down by much more than 10 points (between 10 and 15, depending on the pollster), so this suggests that while they are doing badly in marginals, it's not as badly as national polls would suggest.

About half the current regular pollsters do their research online, about half do it by telephone.

The press release by Public Policy Polling did not mention whether pollsters sought matchup data on the five other Democrats in the race or, if they did, what the results were.

The figures come after a Sunday newspaper claimed that a Department of Health - commissioned study by the pollsters Ipsos MORI found that more people that ever believe the NHS is doing a good job, but that ministers have chosen to «sit on» the findings rather than make them public.

Many pollsters are debating whether an online poll (used by Ednext) has now become superior to a telephone poll (used by PDK) on the grounds that people don't answer their phone anymore.

Given those challenges, pollsters / analysts Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett have delivered an invaluable service in their new study «High Schools, Civics, and Citizenship: What Social Studies Teachers Think and Do,» released today (Full disclosure: The study was commissioned and published by my shop at AEI).

The idea was dreamed up by Todd Rogers, a behavioral scientist and former Democratic pollster, and studies done in Chicago, San Mateo, Calif., and Philadelphia have shown the letters can reduce chronic absenteeism rates by 11 - 15 percent.

[* Better to ignore the Brexiteers» attempts to kibosh this, and don't believe the bloody polls — everybody who lies (as they do) or changes their mind, is bound to vote Remain in the end, as we see reflected in the odds quoted by the bookies (who invariably tend to beat the pollsters).

Speaking of situational logic, any time you're ready to explain how your «logic» led you to conclude that the pollsters where «skewing» their samples to rig their analysis to help Obama out by making it look like he was doing better than he was, please do feel free to do so.

Polling done a year ago by another well - known pollster, Abacus Data, indicated similarly high levels of support and an identical level of opposition for the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project that currently dominates news coverage in both Alberta and British Columbia.