Sentences with phrase «many voters support»

Nearly 70 percent of Americans who voted for President - elect Donald Trump and 89 percent of Hillary Clinton voters support mandatory paid family and medical leave, according to a post-election poll of 2,000 voters by the Center for American Progress.

That was during a follow up to a question of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush about why he's more qualified to lead than the real estate billionaire, who garners as much as 41 percent of Republican voter support in some national polls, which is nearly triple the support for Cruz and four times that for Rubio.

According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General is worrisome but court battles over states» rights and decisive voter support for legal cannabis make tough enforcement problematic for the Trump Administration.

It turns out that Eich contributed $ 1,000 to California's controversial Proposition 8, an anti-same-sex marriage bill that passed with broad voter support in 2008, and which became the basis for one of the gay marriage cases argued before the Supreme Court in 2013.

After riding a wave of birther conspiracy and reality TV celebrity to lead the field of potential Republican leaders with 26 % voter support, Trump's popularity plummeted in May to just 8 %.

The nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General is worrisome but court battles over states» rights and decisive voter support for legal cannabis make tough enforcement problematic for the Trump Ad...

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

Twenty - six percent of GOP voters support Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, with 13 percent opting for Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

The poll also showed that 59 % of voters support full legalization of marijuana across the U.S., while 93 % support medical marijuana.

An Angus Reid opinion poll released in December found only 25 % of voters supported the Tories, putting them in a tie for second with the Liberals.

Almost all U.S. voters support medical marijuana if prescribed by a doctor, a new Quinnipiac University National poll finds.

The poll, which was released Monday, finds that 89 percent of U.S. voters support allowing adults to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if prescribed by a doctor.

Voters support his vision.

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.

There is the new Quinnipiac University National Poll showing that 66 percent of American voters support stricter gun laws.

One recent poll found 64 percent of voters supporting an assault weapons ban and 74 percent in favor of the opportunity to vote on it.

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

Due to strong bipartisan voter support for cannabis legalization... we believe any action taken greatly increases the chances that Congress will act to ease cannabis regulations,» Agnese wrote in his note.

And while more than 90 percent of black voters supported Jackson in recent primaries, Hertzke notes that «many of these same black voters register remarkable sympathy for Robertson...» Robertson's appeal among blacks is correctly attributed to religious and cultural attitudes.

While the program is one of the rare issues that has managed to draw wide voter support on both sides of the aisle, some Republican leaders have targeted it as an example of executive overreach.

According to a poll released Tuesday by the Public Religion Research Institute, 52 % of Catholic voters support the Obama administration requirement that health plans cover prescription birth control without a co-pay.

A similar poll, also released Tuesday, conducted by Public Policy Polling on behalf of Planned Parenthood, found that 53 % of Catholic voters support the Obama administration on this question.

They do, however, follow the direction of the cultural groups to which they have some residual attachment: for example, traditionalist evangelicals who voted for Perot supported Republicans in congressional contests, while secular Perot voters supported Democrats for the House and Senate.

I think he's just doing what he probably has to do to build voter support, as silly as it may be.

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

In the Elk Grove Park District, voters supported a 15 - cent increase in the corporate fund tax rate, to 25 cents per $ 100.

But the Park District, which counted on gaining voter support to finance a recreation center at the Commons, has found itself in a financial bind since the proposal was rejected in an April referendum.

If voters support a new recreation center and expanded services, the Park District tax rate will increase, although the exact amount won't be known until the board locks into a final referendum cost.

Even if Cary voters support the purchase of the Hoffman farm, Lake in the Hills still is in a better position legally to control the land, said Gerald D. Sagona, Lake in the Hills village administrator.

According to unofficial results from the November ballot, 51.35 percent of voters said «no» to the Arlington Heights Park District's $ 39 million borrowing plan, while 48.65 percent of voters supported it.

NYC voters support it 55 - 37 and upstaters are at 54 - 39.

And in that election, older voters supported John McCain over President Obama by an eight - percentage - point margin, with 53 percent voting for Mr. McCain.

The Q - poll today found that while there's very little gap between male and female voters on whether to back Spitzer or Stringer, black voters support the former governor by a margin of 61 percent to 32 percent.

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

It essentially became pointless with the introduction of FPTP for all seats, before that many seats used Block Voting and there were alliance slates in places (in some, Liberals, Nat Libs and Cons all put up one candidate each to LAbour's two; evidence was a lot of Lib voters supported Labour with second vote, but Tory and Nat Lib voters split all over the place).

But the success of this would depend, not on how many voters support that party, but whether they can correctly organize their voters to split evenly between the two candidates.

By contrast, 49 percent of male voters support Stringer and 46 back Spitzer.

Between 2002 and 2010, the likelihood that a typical insider voted center - left declined by 11.3 percentage points; the likelihood that such a voter supported the center - right increased by 13.2 percentage points.

The arbitrary thresholds your refer to are a problem, because they will have a distorting effect on the election result, especially if a large number of voters support minor parties, and therefore have their votes discarded when the final count is done.

Akshar's lead is across the board: Democratic voters back him 50 percent to 37 percent, while independent or unaffiliated voters support him 70 percent to 17 percent.

The reason why they are doing well with it is because they can buy voter support as we saw in Totnes.

Today's Q poll finds voters support the idea of cleaning house in the Assembly — starting with their own representatives — 48 - 35.

In Maine, voters supported the proposal 53 percent to 47 percent, with 75 percent of precincts reporting.

The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum of voter support» the law requires and that our candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.

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.

Voters support welfare reform, but Corbyn strongly opposes it.

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