Sentences with phrase «early polling»

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.

In 2008, before term limits were extended so Mayor Bloomberg could capture a third term, Markowitz in early polls led all potential Democratic mayoral candidates — including Weiner, Quinn and Thompson.

While early polling showed public backing for the convention — a 44 percent - to - 39 percent edge as late as early October — the numbers now are lopsided against one, although issues such as term limits and ending campaign funding loopholes for limited liability companies could come up during a convention.

An average of early polls by Quinnipiac University and Siena College shows the governor garnering 38 percent support, Republican Rob Astorino 24 percent and an unnamed Working Families Party candidate 23 percent.

The figure is virtually unchanged from earlier polls from January to December 2014 when the mayor's approval rating ranged from 47 percent to 53 percent.

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.

Some of the report's findings on the prevalence of private tuition or parents» willingness to pay for private education if they can afford it echo earlier polling for the Sutton Trust and other organisations, including the Independent Schools Council.

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.

De Blasio was announced the winner by local newscasts before 9:30 p.m., after early poll results showed him garnering over 61 percent of the vote with more than half of precincts reporting.

Early polls suggested that there was a surprising level of public support for the strike, with a Channel 4 poll showing 77 % backed the action and 23 % opposed it.

Greece goes to early polls Sunday while in the throes of a deep financial crisis.

Mirroring the results of earlier polls on the subject, Siena found overwhelming support among Democrats for the $ 15 wage - with 79 % backing it - and strong opposition from Republicans.

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.

As with earlier polling evidence it confirms that UKIP gained its votes mainly from former Tory and Lib Dem supporters, plus some from Labour.

Early polls give Democratic former Gov. Phil Bredesen an edge over GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn in the race to fill Republican Bob Corker's Senate seat, but she has the clear edge when it comes to money.

Indeed, Massachusetts voters rejected legalization in 2012 even though early polls showed popular support.

His collapse in early polling heralds a Republican debacle.

So, I would say that in a Way Too Early poll KU should be the # 1.

This follows earlier polling which found that a large majority of swing Labour voters actually want Miliband to take an even tougher stance against big business.

While Velázquez dominated across the Lower East Side, Queens, and Brownstone Brooklyn, she managed to keep pace with Dilan in the Hasidic sections of Williamsburg, where about 40 percent of ballots were cast in her favor, according to early poll return data.

Stringer had struggled to gain traction in early polls against a strong field of presumptive mayoral candidates.

The co-ordinated attacks upon Mr Miliband on the first day of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham came after early polling figures showed Labour now leading the Conservatives.

Indeed, if primary voters as a whole gave Quinn less than half the votes early polls this year suggested she would win, she fared no better with women voters than with men and failed to match Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's showing in the LGBT community, even though she outperformed her overall showing there by a factor of more than two.

While Quinnipiac has not previously surveyed voters across the state about the race, other earlier polls showed Mr. Cuomo leading Ms. Nixon by more than 30 and 40 percentage points.

Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy notes the seat has been Republican for 100 years and says the Dems chose not to go all in on the special election after seeing discouraging early poll numbers.

The polling data was compared to earlier polls conducted from 2005 to 2009 for the Boston Globe and the University of New Hampshire.

Very early polls taken by PEW asking a similar question about Keystone XL found that majorities favoring building the pipeline.

Barna's results verified findings of earlier polls: that CONSERVATIVE PROTESTANT CHRISTIANS, ON AVERAGE, HAVE THE HIGHEST DIVORCE RATE, while mainline Christians have a much lower rate.

He beat Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who had been a front - runner in early polls, in large part by courting voters disenchanted by Quinn's closeness with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and her promise to continue many of his policies.

Those factors considered, it's not surprising that FSU is already topping the way - too - early polls for next season — the Noles have taken the No. 1 position in early assessments from ESPN and USA Today.

Early polls indicated Bloomberg would defeat Spitzer in a landslide.

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).

A new poll shows that Ms. Nixon has cut into Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's early polling lead, but he still maintains a 22 - point advantage ahead of the Democratic primary, according to a new survey from Quinnipiac University.

Early polls showed strong public support for Prop. 37, with two out of three voters in favor.

We had done very well in the early polls.

After a strong start, risk assets in Asia are cratering, spiraling lower on the back of a strong performance from Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump in the early polls.

In an early poll by Canadian Business, 67 % of Canadians responded that it is important that the government protect the dairy and poultry sectors.

Robert Ritchie, better known to the world as Kid Rock, is leading the 2018 U.S. Senate race in Michigan, according to an early poll released Sunday.

The lesson of the 2012 Republican nomination race is that early polls are volatile, but the rise and fall of the freshman Republican Senator from Florida is more than a story of Rubio's foibles and tactical mistakes.

Report trends adjusted for differences in response rates in different years; for example, if recent data have a significantly lower response rate, then compare the results with those that would have been obtained in an earlier poll if only that lower response rate had been achieved.

Just like the early polls about Vietnam.

The Prime Minister, who had previously been adamant that she would not seek an early poll before the statutory end of the current parliament's term in 2020, argued that the situation has been changed by the divisions within Westminster over Brexit.

And although the party coincided with the release of an early poll showing Mr. Spitzer outpacing his would - be rival, the mood in the room was staid, with many attendees saying they were unaware of its release.

The outcome highlighted how much can change from the earliest polls in an election.

Third - generation Bay Ridge resident, Noreen Corducci, added, «We need more women in office,» but shrugged off whether Nixon, who trails Cuomo badly in early polls, is that woman.

Early polling has shown that she is down by over 40 points.

As others have noted, I'm suspicious of the accuracy of early polls - almost nobody is paying any attention to Senate races right now.