Sentences with phrase «looking lead in the polls»

Similarly, the source says the governor — who is sitting on a massive campaign warchest and an insurmoutable - looking lead in the polls — had planned events for Thursday, but they, too, were removed before a public schedule went out.

Not exact matches

In the introduction to a series that will look back at the events leading up to the election, Silver seems on the defensive somewhat, justifying his analysis of the poll results and pointing out that he predicted Clinton would be weak with the Electoral College and that Trump might prevail.

The question of who will be Germany's next Chancellor looks increasingly unlikely with the current incumbent, Angela Merkel seeing her lead in the opinion polls being eroded by socialist leader Martin Schulz.

The recently formed United Conservative Party may be leading in the polls but the party is looking a lot less united.

This measure is worth looking at in more detail as voting intention polls led many forecasters astray in 2015.

The Rochester and Strood by - election was already looking like a done deal in favour of Ukip, with one poll putting defector Mark Reckless comfortably in the lead.

Scottish Labour is looking to press home the party's lead in the polls nine months ahead of next year's Holyrood elections.

Parliament looks set to consider a bill that would introduce strict rules on polling companies and could even ban polls being conducted in the weeks leading up to an election.

Looking at the rest of YouGov's monthly figures, on the Best Prime Minister question, where Michael Howard has now been replaced by David Cameron and David Davis, Tony Blair has only a 6 point lead over David Cameron, compared to a 21 point lead over Michael Howard in the last Blair / Howard / Kennedy poll and an 11 point lead over Howard at the election.

Alan and Steve discuss what led to Spitzer's huge drop in the polls and they'll take a look at the numbers for other New York politicians including Senator Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Wisconsin (D): Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker (R) keeps looking strong in the polls, holding a high - single digit lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D).

The often caustic race for New York's 18th Congressional District had always looked to be a close one, with Maloney leading Hayworth by 5 percentage points in a Siena College poll released last week.

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And it looks like Team Spitzer does need to keep spending: While the latest numbers still have Spitzer beating Stringer by either four or twelve points (according to Quinnipiac University and Wall Street Journal / NBC Marist polls, respectively), the very recognizable former governor's lead sounds less impressive when you consider that, in the last three weeks, he has spent three times as much as the increasingly feisty but still somewhat unknown Manhattan borough president has spent on his entire campaign.

Whilst it is always unwise to look at any one poll in isolation, a trend is beginning to emerge as far as the recent YouGov polls are concerned, with increasing Tory leads of 4 %, 6 % and now 7 % being recorded over the last month.

These seats had Labour and Conservative equal at the last election so an eight point lead here is the equivalent of a four point national swing and a one point Labour lead in national polls... pretty much exactly what the national polls have been showing lately (actually if you look at the crossbreaks of the poll they suggest a swing towards the Conservatives in the Conservative held seats, a swing towards Labour in the Labour held seats, but given the sample size of those two groups and that the poll is only weighted at the level of all forty seats I wouldn't put too much weight on that).

Once the Coalition Government's cuts start to bite Labour can probably look forward to big leads in mid-terms polls, but underneath that our poll suggests image problems the new leader will need to address.

Still, for those getting rather bored with the voting intention figures, we can look ahead to several potentially significant events — many commentators have suggested Gordon Brown is putting great weight in the G20 summit this week to give his premiership a boost, beyond that is the budget, which could work either way, and past that we have the local and european elections, which often lead to realignments in the national opinion polls.

Looking through the rest of the poll, the Conservatives & Theresa May have a lead over Labour & Jeremy Corbyn on almost every economic measure YouGov asked about (36 on cutting the deficit, 32 points on managing the economy, 15 on providing jobs, 11 on keeping prices down, 11 on improving living standards, 6 on getting people on the housing ladder), the only exception was reducing the number of people in poverty, where Corbyn & Labour had a 7 point lead.

At least in England the conservatives are successful, have been leading in the polls, winning council elections and looking very much like a government in waiting.

Looking ahead to the 2013 mayoral contest, the poll found that Congressman Anthony Weiner is in the lead, with the support of 21 percent of registered Democrats polled.

The mayor, who enjoyed a 40 - point lead in polls early this month, has pointed out that the testimony involves accusations of pay - to - play activities by the de Blasio administration that investigators already looked into.

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Clinton has a modest 54 - 41 percent edge among early voters in an average of the three most recent tracking poll waves, while Trump leads by a 50 - 39 percent margin among those looking to vote on Election Day; those who anticipate voting early are more evenly split.