Sentences with phrase «majority of voters wanting»

Considering the first - half marvels are what the majority of voters want to see, I'm OK with that.

She makes the point that the majority of voters want a referendum.

Senate Democrats, meanwhile, are seizing on a Siena College poll released Tuesday morning that found a broad majority of voters want ethics reform and anti-corruption measures approved this year.

If a majority of voters want to raise taxes on higher incomes, they do not want to raise taxes on everyone.

Emily Thornberry has suggested Labour could yet back a second Brexit referendum if public opinion suggests the vast majority of voters want to stay in the EU.

A majority of voters want to see changes to the nation's tax code, a Republican - backed advocacy found in a poll it's releasing on Tuesday.

Isn't it strange that Harriet Harman was never heard saying polls have shown over and over again that the majority of voters want the railways taken back into public ownership or that they think that local authorities should be responsible for schools?

Plus we know a majority of voters want action too.»

Not exact matches

The poll also said 49 percent of voters believe Democrats should win control of the Senate, compared with 39 percent who want the GOP to maintain a majority.

Compared to a Republican majority in both houses of Congress with a Republican President of Perry's ilk, such voters may decide they want to continue with divided government.

Liz adds: (The fact that she led the change against US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as counsel of the Judicial Confirmation Network particularly worries some GOP chairs who don't want to alienate Hispanic voters — a very important voting bloc, particularly as the Senate majority hangs in the balance).

And the voters have to decide, do I want John Flanagan or Andrea Stewart - Cousins to majority leader of the senate?

While a majority of AB and C1 (i.e. middle - class) social group voters wish to remain in the EU, a majority of C2 and DE (i.e. working - class) voters want to leave.

It looked at how the Conservatives could win an overall majority, and rested on the premise that if the party did not want to govern in coalition, it would need to build a coalition of voters big enough to allow it to rule on its own.

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.

Considering recent YouGov polling for class showed the public actually backed nationalisation of energy companies by 68 % to 21 % (including a slim majority of Conservative voters), Miliband's «reform» is clearly what the public wants.

He assured all NPP members and sympathisers, and the majority of Ghanaians and stakeholders in Ghana's electoral process, who are desirous of a new voters» register ahead of the 2016 election, that, «we want the world to know that no amount of intimidation is going to stop those of us asking for a new register to go about our peaceful advocacy for a new register.»

While the coalition wants to cut benefit bills, Labour seems to oppose all the welfare reforms — which are popular with the great majority of voters.

The WFP had released the robocall's results, showing Democratic voters by a majority in each district of the eight IDC lawmakers want their senators to return to the mainline Democratic fold.

The Senate has a threadbare majority and an utter lack of consensus brought about by the voters of this state deciding to vote for who they wanted where without regard to party or who needs enough votes to pass bills.

Although a majority of voters do not want the former governor to run for office this year, the electorate isn't ruling out a political return for Spitzer in the future.

Majority Leader Don Gregorius of Woodstock said that electing Parete had «disenfranchised thousands of voters and many thousands of people who want change in the leadership of the Ulster County Legislature.

«Similarly, large majorities of Democrats, New York City voters, blacks, Latinos and younger voters want the Feds to bring civil rights charges, while Republicans are opposed, and upstaters, suburbanites, white and older voters are closely divided,» Greenberg said.

Babinec has pledged to caucus with House Republicans if elected and a majority of the voters polled in the district want the GOP to retain control of the House of Representatives.

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.

Farron has said the three issues he wants to own are housing, civil liberties and climate change — touchstone issues for Lib Dem activists, but there's an open question about how far they will resonate with the wider public, especially an ageing electorate, with over-55s expected to comprise a majority of voters by 2020.

While most New York House Democrats voted against the recently - passed law, the Siena poll shows a strong majority — 61 percent — of voters in NY - 9 said they would have wanted their representative to vote for the bill.

Rosemary Rivera of Citizen Action of New York agrees, saying a Democratic majority is what the voters want.

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.

A majority of voters — 56 percent — do not want him to make a bid for the office, including a majority of Democrats.

David Cameron's negotiation was a valiant final attempt to make it work for Britain - and I want to thank all those elsewhere in Europe who helped him reach an agreement - but the blunt truth, as we know, is that there was not enough flexibility on many important matters for a majority of British voters.

He said: «The overwhelming majority of Labour members and voters want the party to speak out clearly and unambiguously against the Government's plans for a hard and destructive Brexit.

A majority of English voters say they want their own referendum before more of their cash is transferred from Westminster to Edinburgh.

The body in question, the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee, had previously produced penetrating reports on English devolution, the need for a Constitutional Convention, Parliamentary boundaries, the future for Scotland, improving the legislative process, voter disengagement, the gagging bill, etc. — enough critical analysis for a domineering Conservative majority to want to get rid of it.

A new poll shows about half, 51 - percent of the 379 New York City registered voters who were questioned do not want Weiner to resign, but a majority, 56 - percent say Weiner should not run to succeed Mayor Bloomberg.

The Siena College Poll shows 55 percent of New Yorkers voters want a Democratic majority.

Answers to the latter question remain very split along partisan lines — a majority of Labour and Lib Dem voters want Osborne replaced, amongst the Conservative party's own supporters 29 % think that Osborne should go, 47 % that he should stay.

Just 20 % of voters said a majority of Tory MPs wanted to remain in the EU, with 14 % thinking a majority wanted to leave.

A majority of white voters want implementation stopped, a majority of black voters want implementation continued, and Hispanic voters are evenly divided,» Greenberg added.

The general consensus and the «majority» of British voters want to leave the EU.

However, when it comes to a 2020 presidential bid, a majority of voters, 51 %, say they do not want Cuomo to enter the race.

A majority of voters now want Britain to remain in the European Union, according to a poll, the Press Association report.

Governor Cuomo may have majority support when it comes to his gubernatorial re-election hopes, but a majority, 51 %, of New York voters do not want him to run for president in 2020.

«When U.S. voters complete their ballot, they are providing confidential information in the form of their candidate or proposition selections, which may — or may not — align with the majority of voters» beliefs and / or how other people want them to vote,» she said.

New York Times / Siena Poll Shows Resounding Majority of New York City Voters Want More Public Charter Schools

Education Bridgeport looked at the recent poll showing the majority of CT voters want to see immediate action to fix the school funding system.

If you look at the comments in the Daily Mail under any article about grammar schools, the vast majority of their readers (ie Tory voters) want them».

«Large majorities of California parents, and even larger majorities of state voters, want to see students tested regularly and in a wide range of subjects.»

Strangely the vast majority of people are financial illiterate, (basically a pet peeve, the reason our primary education system is so poor is that the worst enemy of a politician is an educated voter, few politicians desire an educated consumer) and trust without verification, and sadly do not want to spend even sixteen hours per year investigating the numbers and what they actually mean, and compare them to the alternatives.

A new public opinion survey conducted by Lake Research Partners has concluded that a majority of Missouri voters do not want their state legislature to repeal or weaken Proposition B, the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, which was approved in November.