Sentences with phrase «majorities of voters favor»

Polling in Texas consistently shows that significant majorities of voters favor finance plans that include school choice alternatives that would allow parents to transfer their children out of under - performing schools to other public or private schools.

Although polls in all three states indicate that a majority of voters favor the measures, opponents last week reported some slippage in support in the wake of a controversy sparked by a memorandum...

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For the first time since that 1969 poll, a majority of Republican voters told Gallup they are in favor of legalizing marijuana.

The majority of the party's elites favor a combination of upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration that is opposed by most of the party's voters.

The numbers are a change from earlier in the year, when a poll showed the majority of voters said they were in favor of holding a constitutional convention, despite the fact that they had not heard much about it.

The poll also showed a majority of Democrats favor Harris but 45 percent of Trump supporters and 36 percent of California Republican voters said they would not vote in the Senate race.

A majority of New York City voters believe Mayor Bill de Blasio does favors for his political donors, a new Quinnipiac poll found.

«A majority of voters also say they would vote in favor of requiring legislators to disclose all outside income, for a property tax cap, to allow the use of medical marijuana, to allow wine to be sold in grocery stores, and to legalize same sex marriages,» Said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

The Weprin campaign said it believed that despite the occasional criticism the assemblyman had received on the issue, a majority of voters in the Brooklyn and Queens district were in favor of allowing gay couples to wed..

Cuomo selected Hochul because he wanted a conservative that would appeal to the voters in Western NY, a majority of whom favored his far right 2010 Republican opponent, Carl Pallodino.

It was even favored by a majority of voters in Republican strongholds, in New York City's suburbs (60 percent) and in Upstate (52 percent).

Ninety - two percent of voters surveyed in a new Siena Research Institute poll said public corruption is a serious problem in the state, and a solid majority said they would favor a complete ban on outside income.

And just as women rejected Quinn in favor of de Blasio by a greater than two - to - one margin, a majority of LGBT voters also rejected her candidacy.

A majority of New York City voters believe Mayor Bill de Blasio does favors for his political donors, a new Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday shows.

A 54 percent majority of voters surveyed said that while they believed de Blasio had done favors for his political donors, they didn't think the behavior was illegal, but merely unethical.

While 57 percent statewide voted in favor of Proposition 64 in 2016, a majority of voters in 18 counties did not.

New Survey Shows Majority of Independent Voters Favor Charter Schools, feel Unions do «More Harm than Good»

Once voters were read a brief description of the CCSS, a solid majority, 69 %, favored implementing the standards.

Unlike the mayor's election two years earlier, this one divided sharply along racial lines, with a majority of the predominantly white voters in wards one, two, three, and six favoring the charter amendment.

This comes just days after The New York Times / Siena College Poll released last week showed a resounding majority (See NECSN's release here) of New York City likely voters favor creating more public charter schools.

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This comes just months after a New York Times - Siena College poll found that the vast majority of NYC likely voters favor creating more public charter schools.

A majority of likely voters say they support the governor's tax measure headed for the fall ballot, but most also said they favor two major proposals in his budget - giving local school officials more say over spending and restructuring state school funding to favor disadvantaged students.

Even with strong majorities favoring time to adjust, over three - quarters (78 %) of voters believe teachers should continue to be evaluated based in part on test scores during the transition with 26 % believing those evaluations should be used only to reward good work or provide guidance to improve teaching and 19 % agreeing only if the evaluations are not used to hire or fire teachers.

A recent New York Times - Siena College poll found the vast majority of NYC likely voters favor creating more public charter schools.

· Policies to reduce America's dependence on fossil fuels and promote renewable energy are favored by a majority of registered voters across party lines.

According to a new poll released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a majority of voters in six moderate to conservative congressional districts now believe global warming to be the top environmental problem and favor immediate actions to reduce carbon emissions.