Sentences with phrase «earlier polls which»

Since David Cameron became Conservative leader polls have suggested that the Labour party would perform less well with Brown as leader than with Blair as leader — a reverse from earlier polls which suggested there would be a large «Brown boost» for the Labour party.

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Earlier this month, Hearst Magazines, which publishes Cosmopolitan and Elle, said it has more powerful advertising data than Facebook in some cases as it has amassed unique profiles on 120 million digital consumers over the past year via various things like online quizzes and Snapchat polls.

Speaking of futures, earlier this offseason we posted an article which compared the National Championship odds at a number of offshore sportsbooks with two different rankings — the USA Today Coaches Poll and Ken Pomeroy's power ratings.

We could just as easily leave the polls open for a week and people can filter in when they want, which is I think what the no - excuse early voting is trying to accomplish.

Chryssanthos Laziridis advises Antonis Samaras, leader of New Democracy which is ahead in the polls at around 28 % — Samaras could well be the new prime minister after elections in late April or early May (the date yet to be announced).

Yet, the ease with which Prime Minister Theresa May was able to trigger the early election in light of her 21 point opinion poll lead over Labour over the Easter weekend appeared to cast doubt on its ability to deliver these aims.

Early voting and the other reforms will also ease pressure on polling sites, which will make voting more convenient.

Inverness, Nairn, Baednoch and Strathspey was singled out by Lord Ashcroft for a remarkable constituency poll earlier this year which put the SNP on 50 % - more than double the 21 % recorded by Alexander.

This was a reference to the events of late July and early August 2008 which followed Labour's defeat to the Scottish National Party in the Glasgow East by - election when, with a demoralised Gordon Brown on holiday in Suffolk, with Labour as many as 25 points behind in the polls, and with MPs insurgent and openly discussing a leadership challenge, Miliband made his move.

Advocacy organizations have estimated early voting and electronic poll books (which would facilitate implementation of early voting) would cost New York State roughly $ 7 million — compared to the State's $ 160 billion budget.

Reclaim New York Initiative's poll earlier this year showed clearly that Rockland and Westchester residents were offended by the way in which the bridge was named.»

Fieldwork for this poll was conducted a day earlier, starting on Sunday, half of which was included in yesterday's ComRes poll.

Griffin will seek to learn from the mistakes of the earlier National Front (NF), which in the general election of 1979 got ahead of itself by standing over 300 candidates (polling a meagre 1.3 per cent).

But Kingson on Tuesday outperformed a poll from only two weeks earlier, which showed him finishing a distant third to Deacon with 8 percent of the vote.

Vince Cable has publicly condemned long - time ally Matthew Oakeshott for funding the private polling which further undermined Nick Clegg earlier.

Giwa had challenged Pinnick's victory at the poll, stating that he won an earlier election held in Abuja, which was not recognised by FIFA, which meanwhile okayed Pinnick's emergence as President.

As a replacement to Saaka Sayuti who was earlier rejected by members of the assembly, he polled 39 out of 42 valid votes cast which represented 93 %.

The focus on upstate by the Democratic AG contenders has dropped off dramatically since the DRC straw poll (in which Coffey finished third) in Niagara Falls back in early May.

This means under - registration has doubled since the early 1990s (by which time Poll Tax evasion had already taken up to one million additional names off the registers).

Sean Coffey's campaign strategist Bruce Gyory sent out a statement earlier today, dismissing the Siena poll that showed his candidate in third place and invoking the closer - than - expected 2009 NYC mayor's race in which Bill Thompson defied predictions and came within less than 5 percentage points of ousting Mayor Bloomberg.

• The Kendall team commissioned private YouGov polling as early as late June which showed the party membership opposed austerity and further spending cuts, making the Kendall team realise they were out of the running.

The poll aligns with the findings of one released by Quinnipiac University earlier this week, which also showed de Blasio opening a wide lead over Quinn and Thompson.

When they head to the polls early next month, voters should consider Gulluscio's extensive experience, he said, which will yield more benefits for the people of District 32 than the younger Ulrich has been able to bring.

A Siena Research Institute poll released Friday showed Republican Bob Turner leading Democrat David Weprin by six percentage points, reversing results from the same poll a month earlier, which had Weprin ahead by the same amount.

However, it contrasts with the ComRes poll of the same constituency earlier this month which showed the Conservatives, UKIP and Labour all neck - and - neck.

Focused on delivering an on - time spending plan — which polls earlier this month showed 62 percent of voters wanted the timely budget, stronger ethics laws be damned — the governor and legislators jettisoned plans for a minimum wage hike, the Dream Act and changes to the criminal justice system from the spending plan.

The results come as Mr Brown, buoyed by a narrowing of the Conservative lead in this and other surveys, weighs up going to the polls a few weeks earlier than the 6 May date which up to now has been virtually inked in as election day.

On Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed adding money to the state budget to provide for a statewide early voting system, in which some polling stations would be open during the 12 days before an election.

These findings are very much in line with our earlier polling after the budget and the spending review, which found high levels of support for capping the total amount of benefits a family could receive, reducing the welfare budget and freezing the working tax credit.

This new survey confirms the findings of an earlier ITV / ComRes poll of people who watched the debate, which gave the Lib Dems an astonishing 14 per cent surge in support.

SkyData had a poll earlier on today which asked similar questions about how well respondents thought May and Corbyn were dealing with Russia, with very similar results.

The White Paper quotes a survey conducted earlier this year, which found that half the companies polled were worried that «the efforts to develop and produce high value - added products in Japan will not go smoothly», because of direct competition from other Asian countries.

When an ABC News Poll asked 1028 Americans earlier this year which movie should win the 2003 Academy Awards, 42 % named the eventual winner, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, compared to only 16 % who voted for the runner - up, Seabiscuit.

Earlier this week, I took a poll on Instagram Stories, which was SO helpful.

Our top award is the Single's Choice Award and is decided by the public through a poll which ran from mid September 2008 until early January 2009.

For its part, Pakatan Rakyat has brought a case against the Elections Commission before the High Court which is currently under review, accusing the elections body of gross incompetence, however international opinion has long since accepted the results and moved on, with both the United States and China accepting the result immediately following the poll in early May.

Early polls indicate that voters are evenly divided over the measure, which also contains gasoline - tax hikes and other provisions to raise needed transportation funding.

The report incorporates data from earlier polls that were supported in part by the National Center on School Choice, which is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES)(R305A040043).

The poll, which is conducted annually by Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) in conjunction with Gallup, asked Americans about using stimulus money to save teachers» jobs, investing in early childhood education, and other public education issues.

«It looks very bullish for Apple,» said Paul Carton, research director at ChangeWave Research, which polled more than 3,300 U.S. consumers earlier this month on their technology purchase plans for the next 90 days.

These stats come from psephologist Harris Poll, which earlier this year asked just over 2000 folk aged 18 and up about their e-reading habits.

Fact is, Gen X has the lowest confidence they will be able to retire comfortably and the lowest average retirement contribution according to the 16th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey, which polled 4.550 workers earlier this year.

· The sculptor Anish Kapoor, whose sculpture Marsyas filled the Tate Modern earlier this year, won the Turner prize people's poll, in which the public voted for the best artist of all those shortlisted since 1984.

For example I was a very early participant in the 2010 SciAm poll, which was similarly uncontrolled.

Earlier this month, TD Canada Trust released the results of its Everyday Banking Poll, which found that the most significant change in Canadian's banking habits over the past five years has been adopting online banking (46 %), followed by paperless recordkeeping (12 %) and viewing statements electronically (10 %).

Even if the Conservatives managed to get the proposal into law, it would carry no consequence for breaking it, much like the Conservative government's fixed election date law, which Harper broke by going to the polls early, in 2008, by retroactively claiming the law wasn't meant to apply to minority governments.