Sentences with phrase «majorities of voters support»

Majorities of voters support all eight of Cuomo's agenda items that Siena polled on, ranging from passing the Child Victims Act to eliminating cash bail for misdemeanors and non-violent felonies.

Result: A majority of voters supported the measure — 54 % yes to 46 % no — according to Ballotpedia.

The president has a chance to finally seize the initiative on an issue that an overwhelming majority of voters support him and are lining up against the GOP position of quietly defending Wall Street.

Woolf also addressed his own lagging poll numbers, and said that because the polls show that a majority of voters support his stances, it's an issue of messaging and communication, and he is confident that his campaign can overcome the double - digit gap.

According to Compassion and Choices, a majority of voters support aid - in - dying measures, and the group believes this is the year the law will pass.

Furthermore, the majority of those voters support the right to own an unregulated and unlimited number of fire arms, support lower taxes for the wealthy, and regard state healthcare as some kind of hideous Marxism.

Schurin says on the other hand a majority of voters support gun control but aren't passionate about it.

«The one thing this political crisis has show,» the prime minister says, «is that if an MP has more than 50 per cent of the voters, the majority of voters supporting him or her, then I think that is a better position to be in.

Just consider how it has been impossible to get Congress to pass a bill making it harder for the mentally ill to purchase a gun, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of voters support the common sense idea.

Not exact matches

«But he keeps winning these Democratic primaries, and he's getting the support of a majority of Democratic voters despite his views that are clearly not Democratic, which tells me that the things he says transcend politics and if there is not universal acceptance, there's more widespread acceptance for his beliefs and viewpoints than I think people realize.»

While a strong majority of self - identified Democrats were against the tariffs, 58 % of Republican voters supported them.

While a majority of the evangelicals who voted in 2016 supported Trump, there can be no doubt that his candidacy and campaign caused a sharp divide among Christian voters — if you need proof, just scroll through Facebook or Twitter or bring up the new president at church.

Indeed the notion that anything close to a majority of evangelical voters support Trump is simply a media myth.

The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

Can you link to a study that shows a majority of American voters support it?

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

A wide majority of voters who supported Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election say they would vote for her again despite her loss, according to a new poll.

With the support of 53 percent of voters, the alliance won 67 percent majority in parliament, and soon began to colonise the public sphere in an attempt to embed its Christian, nationalist and conservative values.

A: A Con Con will only be successful if there is a majority of voters in support of the effort.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- A majority of New York voters do not want disgraced former Governor Eliot Spitzer to run for statewide office this year, but many say that they would support a run in the future, a poll said on Wednesday.

De Blasio also insisted he doesn't worry that the vast majority of young voters support Sanders over Clinton.

#BESFactCheck data suggests that most voters do not support a coalition — 56 % of voters would prefer to see either a Conservative or Labour majority government to either of them being involved in another coalition.

Most of the measures have majority support and the backing of Republican voters, including the millionaires» tax extension.

Much of their support is from the Conservative heartlands, and even the vast majority of those workers who intend to vote for them have not defected from Labour: only 17 % of UKIP voters voted Labour in 2010 (the same amount who voted Liberal - Democrat), compared with 45 % who voted for the Conservatives.

A clear majority of voters (59 - 21) say all candidates for state office should sign a pledge in support of a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission — a victory for both former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose PAC, New York Uprising, is pushing candidates to do just that; and also for AG Andrew Cuomo, who is calling for citizens and candidates alike to sign his reform pledge.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

The vast majority of LGBT voters aren't single - issue voters, but we also aren't self - loathing enough support candidates or a party that is actively trying to harm us like GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans are..

The poll also showed majority support from New York City voters for Cuomo, with 56 % approving of his performance and 37 % disapproving.

The Siena Research Institute report summed it up well: «While Republicans are closely divided on public campaign financing, it is supported by a majority of independents and two - thirds of Democrats, and more than three - quarters of voters from every party support quick disclosure of contributions greater than $ 500.»

Large majorities of voters continue to support increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour and support the nearly three - year - old Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act.

A majority of New York City residents, suburbanites and upstate dwellers, as well a large swath of voters across all age groups, races and religions showed support for the initiative.

Mr. Owens doesn't, and never had, the support of a majority of the district's voters anyway.

By an overwhelming majority, (85 - 12), voters support the repeal of the «last in, first out» rule governing teacher layoffs, agreeing that the decision governing who loses a teaching job should be based on performance and not seniority.

While voters in democracies usually only incrementally change the party that they support relative to a prior election, every now and then, a party will go from being a leading or majority party, to holding only a small part of the legislature in a single election.

The poll of 400 likely voters in the newly drawn 24th District was paid for by House Majority PAC, a Super PAC supporting Democratic House candidates, and the SEIU, a national labor union.

A majority of voters (54 %) say they would definitely (34 %) or probably (20 %) vote for a congressional candidate who supports a ban on semi-automatic assault guns.

But asked if she could ever see herself making the same move as Carlucci, Hausner said, «I'm as you know, a very strong Democrat and I don't see myself doing that — if it were me I'd support a Democratic majority, the voters of New York voted for a Democratic majority.»

But when asked about some specific government services, a majority of the 940 voters polled expressed support for consolidating them across multiple local governments.

A majority of voters said «yes» to the spending plan, but it failed to pass because it didn't reach the required supermajority of support to go over or below the property tax cap.

A majority of likely voters who support DioGuardi — 54 % — are firmly backing him.

Meanwhile, a majority of upstate voters support the ban, 56 percent to 20 percent, with a similar margin in New York City, the poll found.

Nevertheless, nearly all of Cuomo's major goals in the new year draw majority support from voters.

Majority of young voters support delaying implementation of individual mandate Red Alert Politics

A majority of suburban voters in Westchester and Rockland counties do not support re-naming the Tappan Zee Bridge after former Gov. Mario Cuomo, a poll released Tuesday by an advocacy organization found.

A majority of NYC voters support a ballot measure to allow as many as seven casinos in the state, according to a New York Times / Siena College poll, even though they don't want any of those in the five boroughs and probably won't travel upstate to visit those that are built.

Even the majority of Conservative voters supported re-nationalising the steelworks, with 56 % in favour and 30 % opposed.

If the Democratic superdelegates continue to support Hillary after Bernie wins a majority of the voter's choice delegates, the Democratic elite will have created a mathematically impossible path for the party in November.

«A majority of voters from every party and region support making the Legislature full time and banning outside income, with support greatest in New York City.»

Victory for the Yes camp therefore clearly requires a majority of Labour voters to support it as part of something like the «Rainbow Coalition'that was briefly floated at the end of the last general election.