Sentences with phrase «first lead in polls»

Last week, Young took his first lead in polls.

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In Europe, opinion polls show that the race to elect the next French president is too close to call with both leading candidates losing momentum ahead of Sunday's first - round vote.

Four recent polls in Iowa show him within the margin of error for first place or, in one case, the actual leading candidate.

In the first wave of exit polls that came out at 12:00 PM ET, the pro-bailout, conservative New Democracy party held a razor thin 0.5 % lead over the leftist SYRIZA party.

Since the candidates last met, the GOP nomination fight has been marked first by businessman Cain's rise in national polls and then the firestorm over accusations that he sexually harassed women during his time leading the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

Proud said this isn't the first time Malpass has been tracked, which is sort of a badge of honor for a challenger — especially when the incumbent has such a wide lead in polls and fundraising.

The poll found McGrath leading Kaminsky 51 percent to 43 percent in the Nassau County Senate race, a month after showing the first - time Republican candidate and the Democratic assemblyman in a virtual tie.

This puts pressure on Hollande from the left, and may just give Sarkozy an edge in the first round — but Hollande for now remains 8 to 10 percentage points in the lead in the polls for the decisive second round.

The Freedom Party, headed by the controversial Geert Wilders who attracted controversy following his anti-Islamic film Fitna, has led in several recent Dutch opinion polls and will secure its first seats in the Brussels chamber.

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.

In the first CBS News Poll following last week's presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Clinton has edged ahead to a four - point lead over her Republican rival among likely voters.

Opinion polls show de Blasio, who was first elected mayor in 2013, with a 40 - point lead over his closest rival, Republican Nicole Malliotakis.

Retired Brig. Gen. Don Bacon led incumbent Democratic Rep. Brad Ashford 48 to 44 percent among registered voters in a North Star Opinion Research poll, shared first with Roll Call.

It was the prime minister's first visit to the country in the run - up to the Holyrood elections, and he will be hoping his visit helps overturn the SNP's lead in the polls.

The Labour lead of three points is actually larger than recent YouGov polls and for the first time in a YouGov poll the Green party are ahead of the Liberal Democrats (Lord Ashcroft's polls have shown the same a couple of times).

The first major poll in the race between U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm and his challenger Domenic Recchia showed the incumbent clinging to a slim four - point lead among likely voters in the 11th Congressional District (Brooklyn - Staten Island), but both sides said they see a silver lining buried within the numbers.

As Hillary Clinton opened up double - digit leads in several national polls, it became possible to imagine Democratic control of both houses of Congress — and with it, actual legislative gains on progressive priorities for the first time since 2010.

Schumer, who enjoys a double - digit lead in the polls and is sitting on more than $ 23 million worth of campaign cash, has little to worry about from Townsend — a GOP political consultant who is running statewide for the first time and is unknown and vastly underfunded.

In the first poll released since two candidates emerged from Louisiana's jungle primary for governor, state House Minority Leader John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, holds a serious lead over Republican Sen. David Vitter.

Mr Trump's lead in New Hampshire is the first time the New York businessman — who has never held elected office — has translated his widespread support in opinion polls into a victory at the polls.

Peter Kellner: in YouGov's first Labour leadership poll, Jeremy Corbyn leads with Andy Burnham close behind (Comments: 1828)

According to a Siena poll released today — the first survey of state Senate races — Hanna is in better shape heading into the final weeks of this year's campaign, leading his Democratic opponent, Monroe County Legislator Ted O'Brien, by eight percentage points.

This is the first Conservative lead in a poll since that brief narrowing in mid-May.

There was other readjusting, too: Likely Democratic voters who are women — another category where Spitzer once led — were also downgraded as a projected share of the electorate, going from 59 percent of the primary in the second poll to 55 percent in the third, after starting off in the first Quinnipiac poll at 61 percent.

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Spitzer had a commanding lead in that first poll among likely Democratic voters who are black, 63 - 33 percent, while Stringer led among likely Democratic voters who are white, by 56 - 38 percent.

While Sanders nearly upset Clinton in the nation's first primary, the Iowa caucus last week, Clinton leads Sanders in almost every demographic group of New York Democrats, the poll showed.

Siena has released the first of its highly anticipated state Senate race polls, showing two incumbent Republicans who are Democratic targets with comfortable leads and close contests in two Democrat - held seats.

This sparked a brief Conservative lead in the opinion polls — the first time in eight years — but once the protests and consequent fuel shortages ended, Labour led the opinion polls once more.

The week after Louise Mensch announced her departure from parliament, my first poll in Corby found a 15 - point lead for Labour.

While victory is a long shot — the governor enjoys a $ 30 million war chest, support among unions and other factions, the incumbent bias in underattended primaries, and a 43 - point lead in the first poll — it's not out of the question.

Nevertheless, it'll be a good boost to Labour morale and presumably Ed Miliband will be delighted to be back in the lead in the polls in his first poll as leader.

Seeking his first reelection, incumbent Democrat Terry Gipson is facing a 12 - point deficit against Republican challenger Susan Serino, who leads 52 - 40 percent, according to a new Siena College poll of likely voters in the 41st Senate District, covering parts of Dutchess and Putnam Counties.

The party conference season traditionally produces boosts for each of three political parties in turn as they benefit from media coverage from their own conference, so while the first poll lead for the Labour party in 3 years is likely to be a big morale boost for the party, past experience suggests the Conservatives will move back ahead when they receive a boost from their own party conference in a week's time.

The first is that it overlooks a statistical fallacy, in extrapolating a poll lead in a hypothetical election tomorrow directly out to an equal poll lead in eighteen months» time.

At the moment the Conservatives are ahead in the opinion polls — amongst some of the pollsters it is their first lead since the fuel strikes.

Today's Guardian leader says» With the sole exception of September 2000, in the aftermath of the tanker drivers» fuel protest, this is the first ICM poll since January 1993 in which the Conservatives have led Labour.»

Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist and first - time political candidate, has drawn a large amount of support from Tea Party activists in the state that has helped propel him into the lead, according to recent Louisville Courier - Journal / WHAS Bluegrass Polls.

It was conducted in late August, so at the time all the polls were showing very tight Labour leads, and is largely interesting only because if Populus did conduct it, it's the first time we've seen an online poll from them.

In actual fact it's the first ICM poll to show a Tory lead since... er... a week and a half ago in the Sunday TelegrapIn actual fact it's the first ICM poll to show a Tory lead since... er... a week and a half ago in the Sunday Telegrapin the Sunday Telegraph.

WHAT IT FOUND: The first poll carried out entirely after Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May were grilled by a studio audience on Question Time showed a sharp drop in the Conservative lead.

It's the first and only public poll so far not to show Spitzer in the lead.

The headline findings are that David Miliband leads on first preferences amongst party and trade union members as well as MPs, with his brother Ed well ahead of the field in second place in all sections and, in the final stage, the poll predicts a 54/46 victory for the elder brother.

A recent Siena College Research Institute poll showed the Republican with a commanding 24 point lead over Eldridge and this was their first opportunity to discuss the issues in this format.

A poll over the weekend found that they had moved into the lead in the run - up to the European elections for the first time.

Lots of Cameron on the TV with some good policies + people remembering why they didn't like Brown in the first place = growing poll lead.

We polled Canadians to understand their perspectives and we commissioned one of the country's leading researchers to examine the volume of digital food and beverage advertising to Canadian children and teens, to assess the quality of the products, and to examine how well industry is regulating itself — the first research of its kind in the country.

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The top three vote - getters in the Gold Derby poll for Best Picture remain «The Artist,» «The Descendants» and «War Horse,» with the first two films flip - flopping for the lead over the past month.

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/19/narendra-modi-big-fan-solar-coal/ Narendra Modi, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party who is currently leading in the polls in the lead - up to the general election in May, is in fact a big fan of solar — and pioneered the first incentives for large - scale solar power in 2009.