Sentences with phrase «happen on polling days»

For a start, it got dark at half - past four; that doesn't usually happen on polling days.

Not exact matches

You might have missed it because of Super Bowl weekend but on Saturday six top ten teams lost on the same day, just the fifth time that has happened in the history of the AP poll.

Throughout the last 100 days Salmond is convinced things are moving his way: «Whatever is happening it is not being fully recorded in most polls» (29 June); there's «a real change in the air» (25 July); and «it's perplexing that we haven't as yet seen the same movement in the polls that I'm detecting on the ground» (16 August).

«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.

Today's poll is not a forecast of what will happen on election day, but it is a snapshot of Welsh public opinion.

Up to the very moment that the polls closed on election day, the Liberal Democrat position was to do the very opposite of what we're now lead to believe Danny Alexander and the rest of the leadership firmly believe must happen.