Sentences with phrase «of voters polled»

Still, 24 percent of voters polled said they remain undecided, while 39 percent said they might change their minds.

Fifty - five percent of the voters polled said they support consolidating governance, including the structure of local and regional governing entities.

But at the same time, just over half of voters polled found they place the most trust in the state attorney general to clean up corruption.

A majority of voters polled, by a margin of 62 percent to 34 percent, oppose raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15.

Not surprisingly, 72 percent of voters polled oppose giving state lawmakers their first pay increase since 1999.

I have my doubts about the reliability of marginal seat polls since the average number of voters polled per constituency is only about 10.

Some 54 per cent of voters polled said they were hoping for change in the next term, with just 21 per cent wanting Labour to remain in government.

Twenty percent of voters polled said they were unsure.

More than 60 percent of voters polled said the schools chancellor needs education experience, not management experience.

A majority of voters polled are concerned about the shortage and support actions to mitigate its impact.

Just over half of voters polled in the district, 51 percent, want to see Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives.

Two - thirds of voters polled viewed Cuomo favorably.

Overall, most voters do not believe the measures agreed to in the budget will change much: 73 percent of voters polled do not expect it to have much of an impact on corruption, compared to 24 percent who do.

Three - fourths of voters polled say things in the country have pretty seriously gotten off the wrong track.

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.

Also, the Paladino campaign's effort to paint the AG as too much of an Albany insider to reform Albany isn't working so well, as 52 percent of voters polled disagreed with that sentiment.

But Cuomo's favorable rating remains well underwater in the district, where only 37 percent of voters polled hold a favorable opinion him, while 61 percent hold an unfavorable view.

Opolit Communis, a Buenos Aires based consultancy group, predicts that 38.9 % of voters polled intend to vote for Bullrich compared to 35.5 % for Fernandez de Kirchner.

City Comptroller John Liu is the favorite of 7 percent of voters polled while former Councilman Sal Albanese registered in at 1 percent.

Not surprisingly, 81 percent of voters polled called passing new ethics and anti-corruption legislation «very important» by the end of the legislative session in June.

A Quinnipiac University survey released this morning found more 50 percent of voters polled want an independent panel to redraw legislative boundaries — news that is sure to bolster minority parties in the Legislature and good - government groups seeking a process divorced from partisanship.

Following the drumbeat of corruption arrests, 25 percent of voters polled believe ethics and anti-corruption measures should be Cuomo's priority in 2016, an increase from 19 percent last year.

A plurality of voters polled, 36 percent, believe he'll be a bad president.

Wilson's own favorable / unfavorable rating wasn't included in the poll memo, nor was it explicitly noted exactly what percentage of voters polled knew of him.

Carroll also said more than half of voters polled continue to think Kelly might run — despite him saying repeatedly that he has no plans to run for office after serving out his term.

But the governor's grades when it comes to his handling of education are starkly negative: Only 28 percent of voters polled think he's doing a good job.

Fifty - five percent of voters polled felt that the mayor is doing favors for developers who donate to his political campaigns, versus 21 percent who disagreed.

And interestingly, the Queens native is most popular in the state's suburbs, where 76 percent of voters polled back him.

A majority of voters polled in the wake of the Parkland shooting seem to agree.

A majority of voters polled in a new Harvard - Harris survey said Trump missed an opportunity to bring the country together after three people died last week when white nationalists clashed with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va..

Forty - seven percent of voters polled don't approve of Black's selection to replace Joel Klein as chancellor.

Quinn's share of the Democratic vote now stands at 32 percent, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll — a five - month low and a significant dip from late February when 37 percent of voters polled said Quinn was their top pick.

Support for expansion services like Uber and Lyft outside of New York City is backed by 76 percent of voters polled in the survey, virtually unchanged from the 77 percent of support from a Jan. 30 Siena poll.

Nearly two - thirds of voters polled — 66 percent — would prefer Spitzer stay out of politics this year, while only 28 percent say he should throw his hat into the ring for an unspecified elected office and 6 percent are unsure.

Altschuler, a wealthy businessman who is largely self - funding his first - ever campaign, remains unknown to 23 percent of voters polled, but his unfavorables outweigh his favorables, 44 - 33.

In terms of his successor, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly leads the pack of potential 2013 mayoral candidates, with 25 percent of voters polled saying they favor him, the numbers show.

The Siena Research Institute poll said Cuomo was seen favorably by 49 percent of all voters polled, compared with 44 percent who view him unfavorably.

Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said the fact that roughly a third of voters polled either don't know or don't have an opinion about either Grant or Schroeder doesn't bode well for the challengers.

His favorability rating is 32 - 61, and a whopping 82 percent of voters polled said he's doing a poor or fair job as governor.

Meanwhile, 42 percent of voters polled in the survey said it's Hanna who is running a negative campaign (to be sure, Republicans have hammered O'Brien for supporting a judge who later was accused of sexual harassment), while 23 percent say it's the Democratic candidate who went negative.

Half of the voters polled, 50 percent, say they are inclined to re-elect Cuomo.

Sixty - nine percent of voters polled say they haven't heard enough about him to form an opinion yet.

Sixty - eight percent of voters polled said they don't think either the Senate and Assembly has what it takes to pull the state from its budget morass, which doesn't bode well, considering the state's three - men - to - tango budget process.

The Time Warner Cable News / Sienna College poll shows 59 - percent of voters polled are ready to support Republican Fred Akshar, with only 31 percent prepared to vote for Democrat Barbara Fiala.

Forty - nine percent of the voters polled said they had an unfavorable view of the congressman, who is under federal indictment on fraud and other charges stemming from his ownership of a health food restaurant in Manhattan.

That system is part of the problem, according to 67 percent of voters polled.

A whopping 63 percent of voters polled said they have a negative opinion of California Democrat, while 52 perecent said the same of President Obama.