Sentences with phrase «of voters believe»

In Massachusetts, over 90 percent of voters believe contraception is a basic preventive service that should be affordable for everyone, and 81 percent support passage of a state law guaranteeing no - copay insurance coverage of contraception.

Overwhelming majorities of voters believe it is important to «ensure that everyone has access to the civil justice system» and «strongly support a...

Overwhelming majorities of voters believe it is important to «ensure that everyone has access to the civil justice system» and «strongly support a wide range of services to enhance access.»

New opinion research shows that overwhelming majorities of voters believe it is important to ensure that everyone has access to the civil justice system.

75 % of voters believe a compelling reason to implement these rules is the boost to local economies and thousands of new jobs that will be created from investments in new technology

Sixty percent (60 %) of all voters believe economic threats are a bigger threat to the United States than terrorist attacks or military attacks from other nations.

57 % of voters believe public education is on the wrong track in the state with only 34 % seeing education as headed on the right track.

Three - quarters of voters believe a period of adjustment for the new standards and tests is to be expected (76 %) and that the new standards and tests should be given time to work (74 %).

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.

According to the poll, 74 percent of voters believe the state is spending «too little» on education.

Nearly two - thirds of voters believe that Labour has a problem with prejudice, according to a new poll commissioned amid a bitter row over anti-Semitism in the party.

According to the survey, 58 % of voters believe that former President Mahama will lead the opposition National Democratic Congress in the 2020 elections.

He quotes research showing that 75 % of voters believe Labour was too subservient to America and that the general public are three times more likely than Labour party members to attribute it to the party's electoral defeat, which he says proves his approach to foreign policy is «mainstream».

Greenberg says fewer than one fifth of voters believe Common Core has improved education while 40 percent think it's made things worse.

Some 40 per cent of voters believe Mr Corbyn offers a positive difference from other politicians while 37 per cent think he is being treated unfairly by the media, the polling found.

Just 24 % of voters believe Miliband is capable of being prime minister, according to an Ipsos Mori poll for the Evening Standard.

• A poll has come out suggesting that 59 % of voters believe benefits should rise in line with inflation, rather than below inflation, as the government is proposing.

Roughly 64 percent of voters believe criminal charges are appropriate in the Garner case versus 19 percent who do not, according to the poll.

The ComRes Poll quoted by the Electoral Reform Society found 59 % of voters believe the European parliament does not represent the view of European voters, while 74 % of people feel their voice doesn't count in the EU.

53 per cent of voters believe the Conservative party is more interested in helping its own supporters, rather than people generally, compared to 41 per cent for Labour.

In addition, 72 percent of voters believe police brutality is a very serious or somewhat serious problem in New York City.

Change of government Most worryingly for Brown, 58 per cent of voters believe it is time for a change in government, whilst only 36 per cent believe the economy is too fragile at the moment to have a change now.

Some 57 percent of voters believe the feud is bad for the city while 46 percent think it's bad for the state.

A YouGov poll in the Sunday Times found that 62 per cent of voters believe Brown should have accepted defeat on Friday with just 28 per cent saying he was right to hang on.

A YouGov poll in today's Sunday Times found that 62 per cent of voters believe Brown should have accepted defeat on Friday with just 28 per cent saying he was right to hang on, writes Channel 4 News.

Critics of Mr. de Blasio will pounce on the fact that the poll shows 47 percent of voters believe he does not deserve re-election, as opposed to only 41 percent that do.

Greenberg says fewer than one fifth of voters believe Common Core has improved education while 40 % think it's made things worse.

For Cuomo, it probably helps that the president - elect, a New York native, is deeply unpopular in his own state: He has a 31 percent favorability rating and only 12 percent of voters believe he will be a great president.

The poll found 47 percent of voters believe Cuomo's spending proposal is right on, while 27 percent want to see the state more, 23 percent want to see less spending.

At the same time, 48 percent of voters believe Cuomo staking out an anti-Trump position would be good for New York.

Forty - eight percent of voters believe Cuomo has «no impact» on improving police and community relations.

More than three - quarters of voters believe it's likely the rent laws, which are also set to expire this year, will be continued — a big priority for downstate lawmakers, particularly the Assembly Democrats.

Meanwhile, 34 percent of voters believe PBA President Pat Lynch, who has blasted de Blasio repeatedly and claimed the mayor's office has «blood on its hands» for the shooting deaths of two officers in Brooklyn last month, is actually making the rift between the NYPD and City Hall worse.

Still, half of voters believe a Cuomo presidential campaign would be good for the state.

Meanwhile, 30 percent of voters believe the governor doesn't achieve consensus on key issues, while 22 percent believe he jumps from issue to issue without a plan.

Forty - one percent of voters believe Cuomo is doing a good or excellent job, while 58 percent told Siena the governor's job performance has been fair or poor.

The poll found 56 percent of voters believe corruption remains a top problem for the state government to tackle, while 31 percent believe it is a «somewhat serious problem.»

On key issues facing the state — reducing corruption, improving public education, balancing upstate and upstate concerns, improving infrastructure, growing the economy and planning for the state's future — only between 23 percent and 35 percent of voters believe the governor has done a good or excellent job.

A survey conducted by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, has revealed that 58 % of voters believe that former President John Dramani Mahama, will lead the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 elections.

Forty - two percent (42 %) of these voters believe the party system was rigged against Sanders versus 34 % who say Clinton won the nomination fairly.

But, as Zambelli (and Gannett's John Campbell) noted, a subsequent Siena poll found 40 percent of voters believe Cuomo has made state government more open and transparent since he took office.

The latest Ipsos MORI Political Monitor show that Labour has closed the gap on the economy and the majority of voters believe coalition has been bad for both the Tories and Lib Dems

Another poll showed that 41 % of voters believe that Miliband is either «very weird» or «somewhat weird».

Fifty - three percent of voters said de Blasio does not have strong leadership qualities, while 43 percent of voters believe the mayor is honest and trustworthy.

The Comres poll for ITV found that 44 % of voters believe Ukip are a «racist party» with just 36 % disagreeing.

However, 64 percent have a favorable view of the governor - elect, and three quarters of voters believe he's got a good shot at creating jobs and helping turn around the state's economy — the top priority for 48 percent of those polled.

Furthermore, two - thirds of voters believe the coalition government is better for the UKeconomy than a Labour one would be.

Marist College also found that 65 percent of the voters believe Bloomberg's third term will not significantly change from his past two terms.

A TNS BRMB survey for the Herald newspaper found 45 % of voters believe the economy would perform worse if the country split from the UK, with 23 % disagreeing.

However, three - quarters of voters believe a state income tax cut in next year's budget is at least somewhat important.