Sentences with phrase «early polls against»

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

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Of course, most media failed to remember the fact that Ms. Smith's Wildrose Party launched their own nasty push poll against Premier Alison Redford earlier this year.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

Earlier this year, a Siena College poll found that an overwhelming amount of upstate business leaders are against raising the minimum wage to $ 15.

But the poll also found that, while most disagreed with Quinn's stance against poultry, the speaker was still dominating the early race to replace Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with 39 percent of Democrats wanting her as their candidate for 2013.

It was made worse as, during September and October, the polls began to move against the government and a much heralded early General Election was not called.

It is still early, with many results still to be declared and of course we will not get the results of the European poll until Sunday, but Labour will not be surprised by these results and that may have consequences for any appetite among backbenchers to mount a concerted push against Gordon Brown.

Both main parties persist in favouring faith schools despite their wide unpopularity — a poll a year ago showed that 80 % of the public wanted to keep the cap (including 67 % of Catholics) and an earlier poll for the Westminster Faith Debates found 45 % against and only 32 % in favour of any government funding of faith schools.

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.

The 72 % of the GMREB member Realtors who voted against the status quo with CREA reflects positively on the 63 % who voted nation - wide in a REM poll earlier wherein that 63 % voted to leave CREA.