Sentences with phrase «half of voters»

The poll found support across the political spectrum for issues like a $ 2 billion clean water bond fund, with 89 percent of voters in support.

He has just started to run television ads, and 65 percent of voters in the district say they still have formed no opinion of him.

But the vast majority of voters say they are undecided.

Asked if poll workers offered them a «privacy sleeve» to cover ballots, 22 percent of voters said no.

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

The signature requirement for new political party formation petitions was reduced from 2 percent of the total number of voters who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election to 0.25 percent of that group.

He doesn't care about the almost two - thirds of voters who don't vote for him.

One recent poll found 64 percent of voters supporting an assault weapons ban and 74 percent in favor of the opportunity to vote on it.

Nearly half of voters in marginal seats have still not decided how to vote, a new poll has revealed.

Some 54 per cent of voters polled said they were hoping for change in the next term, with just 21 per cent wanting Labour to remain in government.

The vast majority of voters think the government should cancel the reduction in the top rate of tax from 50 % to 45 %.

53 per cent of voters believe the Conservative party is more interested in helping its own supporters, rather than people generally, compared to 41 per cent for Labour.

They were handed millions of voters with new found loyalty.

Considering she's one of those at the very top, it should come as no surprise that a majority of voters don't believe she gets their needs and problems.

(3) A declaration that the current register of voters which contains the names of persons who are deceased is not reasonably accurate or credible.

Very few cases of voter fraud, of the kind preventable by voter ID laws, have ever been identified.

Still, 24 percent of voters polled said they remain undecided, while 39 percent said they might change their minds.

Exactly the same percentage of voters approve of the mayor.

Those are the citizens with the highest levels of voter registration.

68 % back help for lower income families to pay higher fuel bills but only a quarter of voters think such help will be significant.

The poll also shows more than two - thirds of voters want spending to be cut, double the proportion who believe the government should increase expenditure.

I am also not just representing a number of voters with the same goals.

Something happened in terms of the voter turnout that we did not anticipate or build into our model.

But an awful lot of voters don't know much about him.

This is a critical block of voters for any presidential candidate.

«Our objective is to make sure that whoever is elected to represent our community understands that our concerns are backed up by tens of thousands of voters,» he wrote.

A recent survey of voters from nine swing states indicates that education will be a top concern for poll - goers in the fall election.

Many of the voters agreed to the interest cap rate to be only 36 % for the loans.

Forty - two percent of voters surveyed believe the measure can reduce wrongdoing in politics.

The percentage of voters who believe gay marriage should be legal has grown to over 50 %.

The pool of potential 2013 Democratic mayoral candidates is wide, but does anyone stand out in the minds of voters?

Just 40 percent of voters view her favorably versus 51 percent who don't.

This is the lowest proportion of voters who believe the state's economy is in a recession since before the spring of 2008.

The poll found 63 percent of voters back immigration reform, with only 21 percent saying they oppose it.

The hard - fought referendum on electoral reform was defeated by a huge majority of voters on a turnout of above 40 %, effectively ending the issue for a generation.

Presumably the word choice is a function of polling that indicates global warming remains far down on lists of voter concerns.

We simply can't make real progress on election reform without addressing the greatest form of voter suppression in the state — closed primaries.

A simple fear of job competition is not the main concern of voters.

Half of voters felt the cap on charter schools should be increased versus 41 percent who were not in favor of charter expansion.

These are the kind of voters who will back independence without reading a single newspaper throughout the campaign.

He hired the company to develop psychological profiles of voters.

Here are the numbers: 45 percent of voters statewide want to keep the tax, 11 percent want to increase it.

We believe by offering a progressive economic alternative to austerity, Labour can best reach out to a broad coalition of voters whose living standards have declined under this Coalition government.

Teams may not like where they are ranked and want to catch the eyes of voters by blowing out opponents in the early tournaments.

But with a quarter of voters still undecided, there's all to play for.

The old school party bosses were state legislators and local district leaders, who usually lived within walking distance of most of their voters.

The other Democratic candidates are at 10 % or less in the survey, with more than a quarter of voters undecided.