Sentences with phrase «early lead in polling»

California Democratic operatives said Honda's campaign may have taken its early lead in polling for granted.

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Despite news reports that might lead one to believe that the polling was not accurate, Webster noted in the podcast interview that they had a sense of the outcome early during election day.

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

That could boost the fortunes of left - wing populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, who leads in early opinion polls.

The polls in Florida show Romney's lead widening, and it's possible they underestimate what his real margain will be — due to his industry in getting his people to vote early.

While it's too early to determine how solid Spitzer's lead is — it is still unclear if he will have enough petition signatures to gain ballot access — 67 percent of voters in the poll believe the former governor should be given a second chance after resigning amid a prostitution scandal in March 2008.

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.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

After hours of discussion, and in defiance of pleas from state committee members pushing to delay the decision, the party formally broke its uneasy alliance with Cuomo, the two - term governor leading Nixon in one early poll by a 3 - to - 1 margin.

Despite the polling lead, de Blasio successfully argued to the city's campaign finance board earlier this month that his campaign should receive an additional $ 1.6 million in public matching funds, saying the race was indeed competitive.

Still, in early April, even Stefanik's own polling showed Doheny with a 17 - point lead in the primary.

Both Faso and Teachout had double - digit leads over their primary opponents in a Siena College poll earlier this month.

State Sen. Andrew Roraback (R) led former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D) by 6 points in Connecticut's 5th district, according to a National Republican Congressional Committee poll conducted earlier this week.

It isn't as extreme as the Ipsos MORI poll we saw earlier today, but it's still a very solid lead for the SNP in Scotland, and one that on a uniform swing would translate into the SNP getting a hefty majority of Scottish seats.

In a poll released earlier this week by Quinnipiac, Quinn led with 23 percent of the female Democratic voters» support, while Weiner was close behind with 21 percent.

A new YouGov poll for tomorrow's People newspaper shows the Tory lead remaining at 18 %, in line with the most recent YouGov / Daily Telegraph poll from earlier this week:

Republican Ron Johnson leads incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold in the race for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin by 7 percentage points among likely voters including early voters and those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate, according to this McClatchy - Marist Poll.

The Remain campaign has regained the lead in early polling, yet this may not be a solid indication of how the referendum turns out.

According to the polls conducted by Jan R van Lohuizen (former President George W. Bush's pollster for his 2004 re-election) for the American Unity PAC, Hanna led Tenney by 52 - 31 among likely primary voters in early May, and by the end of the month was ahead 61 - 20.

A Siena poll released earlier this month showed Serino leading Gipson by 12 percentage points in the 41st SD.

DeBlasio's 45 - point lead is down slightly from his 49 - point lead in the previous New York Times / Siena College poll from early October, and similar to his 44 - point leads in Quinnipiac University survey from last week and an NBC New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist survey from two weeks ago.

Thirty - five percent of the 273 members voting in the straw poll backed Romney, who came in second in the state's 2008 Republican primary and earlier this month held a wide lead in a poll of New Hampshire Republicans and GOP - leaning independents.

State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer (D) led all his potential Republican rivals by margins varying from 38 points to 50 points in a Quinnipiac poll out early this week.

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Even still, her entry into the race has clearly rattled Cuomo, nudging him left on a number of issues, and she's chipping away at his lead: The latest Quinnipiac polling shows him ahead by 22 points, down from 30 or 40 in earlier polls.

The Siena College survey released October 15 re-contacted 253 likely voters from a sample of 590 voters in a poll from early September and found Republican Nan Hayworth with an 11 - point lead over Democratic incumbent Sean Patrick Maloney, 52 percent to 41 percent.

Earlier in the race, a Siena College poll found Weprin leading Turner by six points, but both campaigns had surveys conducted on their behalf last week.

A Quinnipiac poll conducted in the Sunshine State earlier this month indicated Clinton's leads over Bush, Rubio, Paul, Christie, Ryan and Cruz had slightly increased since the beginning of the year.

Spitzer has been leading in the polls, and in recent weeks, Stringer has decided to go negative — even breaking a vow not to raise the ex-governor's prostitution scandal, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported earlier this month.

President Mahama and the National Democratic Congress had earlier rubbished claims by the opposition NPP that they are in a commanding lead gaining over 54 percent votes in the polls held on December 7, 2016 though the EC was yet to make a declaration.

The allegations have taken their toll on Blagojevich's poll numbers: He held just a seven - point lead over Topinka in an independent poll taken earlier this month.

Florida — OPEN, Jeb Bush (R) is retiring: While state CFO Tom Gallagher (R) and state Attorney General Charlie Crist (R) continue to lap their potential Democratic rivals in fundraising, a Republican poll released earlier this week showed a generic Democrat for governor leading a generic Republican by five points.

The earliest publicly released poll in the race, commissioned by the Buerkle campaign in April, showed the congresswoman leading Maffei, 42 percent to 38 percent.

We've already seen in YouGov's poll earlier this week that David Cameron holds a commanding lead amongst party members, but their voting decisions will obviously be influenced by how the polls suggest the voting public will react to David Davis and David Cameron.

PLATTSBURGH — A new poll in the New York State 115th District Assembly race shows Billy Jones with an early lead over Kevin Mulverhill.

Poll results released earlier this month placed the City Council speaker in the lead to replace Mayor Michael Bloomberg and trailed by ex-Rep.

An earlier poll in mid-July paid for by the House Majority PAC and national labor union SEIU, showed Maffei leading Buerkle, 44 percent to 40 percent, with 11 percent undecided.

For example, last week's YouGov / Sunday Times poll, showing a ten - point Conservative lead, the highest since January, could have been dismissed as a rogue poll, had it not extended a trend detected earlier in the week, with the Tory lead growing steadily from four points to eight points in the days following Alistair Darling's Budget.

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.

RANDOM STAT: The Tory poll lead over Labour shrank to 16 points in this poll - down from 23 points in a YouGov poll less than a week earlier.

This is just as initial results from some polling units indicated that the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and the incumbent governor, Willie Obiano, was in an early lead.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds a commanding early lead over the two Republicans who have emerged as leading contenders to challenge him in the November election, according to a new poll.

As polling results flowed into election headquarters at The Coliseum in White Plains, Scarpino held an impressive early lead, ultimately capturing 70 percent of the nearly 345,000 votes that were cast.

As polling results flowed into election headquarters at The Coliseum in White Plains, Scarpino held an impressive early lead, ultimately capturing 70 percent of the nearly -LSB-...]

Tedisco is a well - known figure in the area — his nickname is «Mr. Schenectady» — and an early poll released by his campaign showed him with a wide lead over businessman Scott Murphy (D) who has never before run for political office.

In earlier polls, Paterson held leads over both potential candidates.

Although Obenshain was considered the early front - runner, polls showed Herring leading by a very slim margin in late October 2013.

Mike Smithson of PB.com noted early on that phenomon now called «Smithson's rule», the more that David Cameron is in the news the bigger the poll lead.

Cynthia Nixon has cut into Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's early polling lead, but the two - term incumbent still maintains a dominant position in this year's Democratic primary, according to a new survey from Quinnipiac University.

The changes from last month are insignificant in themselves, but over the longer term there seems to be a slight weakening in the Conservative lead in YouGov's polls, down from the regular leads of around 7 points in the summer (this is in contrast to ICM, who are now reporting larger leads than they did earlier in the year).