Sentences with phrase «encouraged by its polling»

The head of the Senate Democrats» election efforts, Senator Mike Gianaris, is encouraged by the poll.

Amedore is encouraged by the poll numbers.

Green candidate encouraged by poll showing 24 % support for independent challenge to Cuomo, but knocks his exclusion from the poll

The company said it was «happy with the results» on Sunday and encouraged by its polling as people left showings of the feature.

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Herold regularly polls his employees, encouraging them to be forthright by promising anonymity and by wording the surveys in such a way that prompts the «most brutal feedback.»

Some of them are more novel, such as the idea that Twitter should encourage passive users to create more content by prompting them with quizzes and polls.

It has had no serious challenge at the polls, although opposition parties exist and are encouraged by the ruling regime.

Holtzman was encouraged to get into the AG's race this year by a poll conducted by Doug Schoen (Mayor Bloomberg's pollster) that found she had the strongest name recognition of any of the Democratic contenders — particularly in NYC, where the bulk of the primary vote originates.

The public's hostility to the benefits bill is, in large part, due to the commonly - held view (articulated by Field) that it encourages scroungers: in the same poll, more than one in four respondents said they thought at least half of all welfare claimants were «scroungers who lie about their circumstances to obtain higher welfare benefits».

Making it a full day «holiday» would only encourage people to make it a true holiday and do something else, i.e. go fishing or go to a museum rather then go to the polls there by causing a lower turn - out, the exact opposite of the goal.

Maragos said he was encouraged by the Q poll because he hasn't lost much ground against Gillibrand, despite the fact that there are now two other Republicans in the race.

«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.

Encouraged by recent polling showing that 80 per cent of british firms would stay in the EU, Clegg will come out fighting today and ask them to join him on the frontline in the battle for Britain remaining in Europe.

Though trailing by nineteen points isn't anyone's idea of a good poll, it's encouraging for Pirro.

«We are very encouraged by the results of this poll.

Later on Monday, Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. issued a news releasing saying that he's «encouraged by Siena polls and news reports showing that Conservative Party and pro-family candidate, Bob Turner, has a real chance for victory over his opponent, David Weprin, in this week's Special Election in New York's 9th Congressional District.

His campaign raised issues, including saying that ballots were not available at a polling place at Carroll Hill Elementary School; that people were discouraged from voting; that voters were asked for ID at polling places at the Rensselaer County Office Building, in which the board offices are located; that the School 12 polling place was locked with no instructions on how to get inside; and that Wiltshire poll watchers were harassed by board employees about encouraging people to cast affidavit ballots.

The election was monitored by numerous international missions representing over 170 countries, and regional bodies such as the OAS and UNASUR supported the result, while encouraging a dialogue between the government and opposition to prevent any further post-election violence, which had claimed seven lives in the days following the contested poll.

We are encouraged to see in a recent poll by USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times that California voters have a favorable opinion of charter schools.

Each release will be accompanied by a poll (www.blackburnburrowsurvey.com) related to content in that issue that encourages readers to give feedback and provide comments.

According to a new poll by Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, 79 % of Republicans and independents who identify as conservative (the only groups polled) support the expansion of clean energy and policies to encourage such growth.

Almost all of these results are overwhelmingly encouraging, but it's important to regard polls like these with a grain of salt — it's by no means definitive proof that the American public has been permanently swayed to support the legislation.

Only 18 % of hiring managers polled by CareerBuilder last year said they were encouraged to hire a candidate due to his or her online presence.

By the time the polls closed on Election Day, the door - to - door field team had knocked on 34,000 doors, spreading the word about our REALTOR ® champion candidates and encouraging the voters to get to the polls.

According to a recent survey by real estate services firm JLL, nearly 70 percent of 544 corporate real estate executives polled say their companies are seeing increased demand for efficient workplace designs that encourage employee collaboration.

Sixty percent of voters say that resolving the foreclosure mess is essential to get the economy back on track and there is broad support for government policies that encourage homeownership, according to a new nationwide survey on housing commissioned by NAHB from the Republican and Democratic polling firms of Public Opinion Strategies and Lake Research Partners.