Sentences with phrase «few opinion polls»

If you look at the last few opinion polls you'll see Cameron's ratings are very good.

Not exact matches

«Of course he wouldn't really have to RUN for president — just make the announcement, hold a few mega-rallies that would be packed with tens of thousands of fans, and wait for the first opinion polls to come in showing him — what else!

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

Established in 2010, the poll represents the opinions of smaller firms (typically fewer than 10 employees and under $ 5 million in annual revenues) who choose to complete the questionnaire.

Public opinion polls show that most Americans are fed up with the tone of American politics and the broader cultural coarseness, but few seem willing to act on these beliefs.

Firstly, Israel relies on suboptimal polling methodology: samples are too small (often only 500 people) to filter out the effect of outlier results, and there are too few polls to accurately measure opinion at any given moment.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

As for the poll bear in mind that opinion polls have understated Tory support in the last few elections so the real lead could be over 30 points.

The tax system is there to raise money, not to engage in posturing to enable the Lib Dems to salvage a few points in the opinion polls.

The Labour Party has tended to fall below the ten percent level in most opinion polls over the past few years, as is especially evident in this Ispsos - MRBI opinion poll.

Gordon Brown will be hoping to win a few seats back - particularly from the anti-war Liberal Democrats who rode high then - but Labour's opinion poll rating is now below that of 2004 so the Labour leader might lose a few seats in his nightmare scenario.

They expect big Labour leads in the opinion polls within a few months but, as of tomorrow, they are also glad to finally have a Labour leader in place.

This week's opinion polls have the two parties neck - and - neck, with UKIP third, clearly ahead of the Liberal Democrats, though with some 2,300 fewer councillors.

Mr Salmond has run a textbook presidential campaign to overhaul his party's double - digit poll deficit of just a few months ago: opinion surveys now suggest he is on course for a second term as first minister.

The three parties will now spend the next few days studying the opinion polls to see if the debates will influence the general election.

On Majority Conservatism, Tim Montgomerie writes from Australia on the wisdom of a polling guru: «Abbott's constant repetition of a few key messages — Scrap the carbon tax; Stop the boats carrying illegal immigrants; and Build more roads — sent political journalists to sleep but they were killer messages identified by Mark Textor's opinion polling.»

With Kenya's presidential election drawing near, campaigns here are for the first time making widespread use of opinion polls, text messaging, teleprompters, spin doctors, $ 15,000 - a-plate fundraisers and even high - powered foreign political consultants such as Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, who swooped in for a few days to counsel opposition candidate Raila Odinga.

There has been no clear signal from either side in the Scottish independence vote or from the opinion polls on the likely outcome and there has been an unrelenting focus on undecided voters in the past few weeks.

Election Day is closing fast and a new CNN Opinion Research Corp. poll, released a few hours ago, shows that only 31 percent of Americans approve of how Republicans are handling their jobs, 3 points less than how they think Democrats are performing.

His 1993 German pavilion famously cracked the marble floor of the Nazi - architected building into rubble just a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of reunification; for the Biennale, he has contributed his celebrated opinion polls asking participants how they feel about the sometimes unsavory sources of wealth for the patrons of art causes.

Nevertheless if proper statistical processes are applied, an accuracy of a few pecent is nearly always achieved in pre election opinion polls.

tt — Nevertheless if proper statistical processes are applied, an accuracy of a few pecent is nearly always achieved in pre election opinion polls.

«-LSB-...] The trouble with assessing the public's opinion of science over time is that few public opinion polls asked questions about trust in science before the 1980s.

Following the bizarre attack on Clive Hamilton a few weeks ago, the Oz editorial page gives a full length response to the various online sources (mostly not named, but Peter Brent at Mumble cops the most flak, and Crikey is obviously an intended target) who bagged Tuesday's silly beatup of a no - news opinion poll.

The big issue with any election is uncertainty, which is not good for business and, following the global political turmoil of the past few years, the public are less certain on opinion polls, so may be nervous of the outcome.