Sentences with phrase «of the voters polled by»

More than half of the voters polled by Siena College said they felt the state was moving in the right direction; a steady increase in the number has been since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in January 2011.

Not exact matches

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.

Last October, Catalonia's leaders defied the Spanish government by holding an independence referendum; 90 % of Catalans voted sí (although only 42 % of registered voters went to the polls).

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 distrust that Trump voters feel for the media is matched by their lack of faith in government, according to the Edelman poll.

Steinmeier's intervention suggests he regards a new election - desired by half of Germany's voters according to a poll - as a last resort.

A new poll released by the American Lung Association found that nearly 70 percent of voters want the EPA to leave the current standards in place.

According to a poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, nearly a third of GOP voters, 31 %, listed the situation with North Korea as the most important issue for congressional candidates to discuss in their upcoming campaigns.

I read a terrific study by Richard Charnin, who is a mathematician, a liberal Democrat, an eccentric but brilliant guy, who concludes on the basis of the exit polls and the actual vote on a precinct - by - precinct basis that the swing can not be that wide without widespread voter fraud.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

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.

Across party lines, roughly nine in 10 Americans support solar power, and according to a poll commissioned last spring by The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC), 69 percent of Republican likely voters and 80 percent of Democratic likely voters would be «unlikely» to reelect a politician who failed to raise the solar net metering cap.

The release of new opinion polls in Greece suggests a small lead by the New Democracy party, backed by 25.3 percent of voters, versus the 25 percent who favor Syriza.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

Despite the huge spending edge by the «No» side, which fueled an onslaught of television ads, a recent Field Poll found voters split evenly — 47 percent to 47 percent — on the measure.

An average of four major national polls calculated by Real Clear Politics shows Trump leads the GOP pack with 34.5 percent of support among likely Republican voters, while Cruz follows in second place with 19.3 percent.

With most of the Catalan leadership either under arrest or having fled abroad, some polls indicated the crackdown by the Spanish government had increased support for independence among voters in the region.

Meanwhile, a poll of Calgary - Centre voters conducted by Forum Research for the Huffington Post showed the Conservatives with 44 % support, the Liberals with 21 %, the New Democrats with 14 % and the Green Party with 12 %.

A poll conducted by Illinois Policy found 42 percent of active likely voters in Illinois oppose a progressive tax, with 29 percent unsure or having no opinion, and 29 percent supporting.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

By contrast, as much as 74 % of GOP voters identify as Christian, according to recent surveys and polls.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).

If you want to know why Republican poll respondents seem willing to make fools of themselves by supporting Trump, you should look at how the Republican party's establishment candidates have tried to make fools of Republican voters.

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.

A voter - exit poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS showed that white «born - again» Protestants voted 61 percent for Reagan and 34 percent for Carter, a split which closely parallels that of other sectors of society.

Nearly 70 % of the voters in a danpatrick.com poll think the Heat's season was a failure, but TNT analyst Steve Kerr said that people are focusing on false expectations created by LeBron James (above) and his teammates.

House Republicans opposed the bill as a needless expansion of government by the lame - duck Congress weeks after voters punished Democrats at the polls.

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.

The downside of this is that the government is decided by politicians behind closed doors, not by voters in polling booths.

The opinion polls are putting the Tories roughly ten points below their poll ratings in 2009, which suggests that there are ten per cent of voters to be picked up by the other parties.

Betty Ann Canizio - Aqil, a Board of Elections chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote by the board's commissioners — the second BOE official to be suspended over New York's primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

And, we know that the Obama campaign's voter scoring system did a good job of identifying people likely to support Obama but less - likely to show up at the polls (we know because those people did, in fact, show up at the polls after being aggressively courted by the campaign).

Specifically, some white voters give inaccurate polling responses for fear that, by stating their true preference, they will open themselves to criticism of racial motivation.

Calls by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a new electoral roll and validation of voters prior to the November 7 elections are a diversion by the party to aid it rig the poll, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress has said.

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.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

The Supreme Court demanded the list following a return to court by plaintiffs Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako, to seek clarity on the same court's May 5 ruling, in which it ordered the EC to delete from the register of voters, names of the dead, minors and those, who were registered onto the poll roll through their NHIS cards.

Democrats over the weekend questioned the results of a Siena College poll that showed Cuomo viewed viewed unfavorably by 51 percent of voters, after only 40 percent viewed him that way last month.

«A recent poll by the Siena Research Institute found only 27 people of voters are prepared to re-elect Gillibrand, while 40 percent prefer «someone else.»»

The poll found McGrath is viewed favorably by 48 percent of likely voters and unfavorably by 39 percent.

Homemade bombs are sometimes planted by workers from rival political parties to intimidate voters ahead of polling day.

By a margin of 51 percent to 42 percent, voters in the district backed the GOP controlling the Senate, the poll found.

A poll commissioned by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund shows that 50 percent of voters in NY - 19 — Republican Rep. John Faso's district — support the Affordable Care Act and only 33 percent support the American Health Care Act replacement bill.

Opinion polling shows that British voters backed the principle of asylum even before the current crisis — in a May poll by YouGov supporters outnumbered opponents by a margin of two to one.

I've heard repeatedly that Donald Trump is the front - runner for the Republican party presidential primaries when measured by polling for preferred candidate of republican voters, and Wikipedia backs that claim up.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's standing with New York voters has hit an all - time Q poll high since she ascended last winter to the seat once held by Hillary Clinton, but the junior senator isn't out of the woods yet when it comes to the fall elections.

The Associated Press unveiled a new project to supplant traditional exit polling — beginning with the 2018 midterm elections — by combining traditional, probability - based polling with an online, opt - in survey of voters in targeted states.

As John Dickerson notes, «According to exit polls, 27 percent of voters said they were contacted by the Obama camp.