Sentences with phrase «of voters trust»

Greenberg said 38 percent of voters trust SED the most to set education policy, followed by 23 percent who trust the Regents most, 18 percent who trust Cuomo, and eight percent who trust the Legislature.

A YouGov poll commissioned by the SNP found more than two - thirds of voters do not trust the Tories while only 16 per cent of voters trust them to represent their voice in Holyrood.

The referendum illustrated the breakdown of voter trust, as political elites failed again to represent the interests of their constituents.

Not exact matches

For example, the percentage of voters who trust Goldsmith in the categories of «public transport fares» and «reliability» has risen five points since Opinium's last poll.

By contrast, almost 50 % of Clinton voters said that they trust the government.

She questioned whether a single revelation could have persuaded some voters not to vote for Trump, saying «there's been a huge erosion of trust» as media outlets had allowed themselves to «become discredited» by partisans and politicians seeking to engage in a battle of disinformation.

Such statistics likely reflect the impact of the voter attitude behind another of our key findings: over 80 % of respondents to our survey either «agreed» or «strongly agreed» that a politician who is dishonest in his or her personal life can not be trusted in their professional role.

Dubbed Facebook's «collapse» of public trust, the double revelation that Cambridge Analytica, ostensibly a voter - profiling company, collected the data of 50 million Facebook accounts without user permission, and that thousands of third - party developers built apps on Facebook's platform to gather private information has spurred international outrage.

The surprising Brexit vote and the election of President Trump, which was a veritable trans - Atlantic echo where voters sowed the seeds of their distrust in status quo irrespective of the consequences, are two macro-level examples of the trust deficit.

Elections require authentication of voters» identity, secure record keeping to track votes, and trusted tallies to determine the winner.

Republican presidential candidates might be more trusted by more voters at every level of the income distribution if they focused more of their attention on policies directly impact the working and aspiring middle - classes.

All presidents have to show some type of religious affiliation to gain the trust of American voters.

If a businessman can convince voters that he will direct his talents toward advancing the interests of the middle - class and the struggling, he will find it easier to win the public's trust.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

WASHINGTON — Almost half (48 percent) of Ohio voters with children in K - 12 public schools think that students do not have enough time to eat lunch at school, according to a statewide survey released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

New Labour had run out of steam and - partly, but not solely, because of the Iraq war - lost the trust of voters.

He says it's all about an issue of «trust» between voters and the public.

«Voters and taxpayers deserve the transparency and the enforcement of the law against the appearance or the actual violation of public trust that may be involved.»

Many Tories feel the party has lost out to voters because of eroded levels of public trust in former promises on European referenda.

Voters are more likely to support democracy and accept the outcome of democratic elections — which is important if electoral violence is to be avoided — if they trust that people like them will not be excluded from political and economic opportunities just because their candidate lost.

Given that Leave voters are already less distrustful of MPs, it would be catastrophic for trust in democracy if MPs ignored the referendum outcome.

Brexit presents a unique opportunity to expose and debate some of our most pressing problems, and to restore the bonds of trust between voters and the political elite.

For Obama, trusting volunteers to communicate face - to - face with local voters, opinion leaders and the media was a natural extension of his community - organizing ethos — but it was online technology that made it work on a national scale.

Ahead of the Committee beginning its work, the largest opposition party accused the panel of bias insisting that two of the members could not be trusted to give a fair assessment on the NPP's position on the voters register.

Every time we pass an end - of - quarter date, and every time these articles reach fever pitch about the Dems» massive and over-the-top email fundraising operations, the more it erodes the average voter's trust in the larger Democratic Brand.

Both Labour and the Conservatives have work to do to win back the trust of Muslim voters at this election

I think the voters trust he will represent the needs of the Hudson Valley in the House because of his first hand knowledge of living here, working here and raising a family here.

There was plenty of fine talk of trusting Scots to choose the nation's destiny, of giving voters a choice.

At a time when only four in ten Americans trust mass media, and only one in four believe the media even attempts to report without bias, Trump's ability to send the media into overdrive fact - checking, debunking, and calling him out likely sends the same signal to voters that his provocation of the GOP establishment did: he is someone who will drive those who have betrayed their trust up the wall.

Forty - three percent of voters surveyed by Siena trust their local government most or all of the time to «do what's right,» as opposed to a 28 percent level of trust for state or federal governments.

The results of this primary show us that a majority of democratic voters knew they couldn't trust Graziano to represent the community and that his latest endorsement of conservative republican Dennis Saffran, by his own admission, was clearly made out of personal bitterness with a PAC (that despite being unconnected to Paul Vallone) sent out mailers questioning Graziano's checkered past which infuriated him is living proof that those voters were correct.

Gov. Cuomo said Monday voters will just have to trust him to do the right thing when asked why he won't return more than $ 1 million from a real - estate firm involved in two of Albany's biggest corruption scandals.

LWV MEET - UP: The League of Women Voters of Saratoga County will hold a Meet - Up on May 16 at 7 p.m. at the Adirondack Trust Bank Community Room, 31 Church Street, Saratoga Springs.

«Clearly there's a lack of trust and confidence among voters when it comes to their public officials,» said Donald P. Levy, director of the Siena Research Institute.

PollVault's user - friendly design allows voters to crowd - source ballot advice, or crowd - poll, seeing the ballot opinions of organizations and people they trust.

It is understandable that voters struggle with the notion of David Laws asking to be trusted with the country's finances when he made a mess of running his own household.

Two new Quinnipiac University polls show that New York voters trust the teachers» unions more than Governor Andrew Cuomo to improve education in the state, and two thirds of New York State voters say the Common Core aligned standardized tests are not an accurate way to measure how well students are learning.

A recent YouGov poll found that almost three quarters of Scottish voters do not trust Cameron's claims about independence.

Primaries force you to go to work and to earn the trust of voters.

Keeping with the Labor Day messaging, Mr. Bermudez passed along a SEIU 1199 mailer supporting Ms. Rivera earlier today with an attached statement declaring, «The clear violation of trust in misappropriating our tax dollars that has lead to FBI and Attorney General investigations should give 1199 the message that a pro-labor voting record should not be the only consideration for Democratic voters.»

Eramo spokesman Matthew Rey called Toback's allegation «a desperate and dishonest attack ripped from the Skelos playbook, delivered by a candidate soundly rejected by all facets of the Democratic Party and leaders we trust, just as he was dismissed by voters twice.

Finally, Jane raised the question of whether the accusations made during the second leader debates would further alienate and confuse voters already struggling to trust politics and politicians.

They'd trust the intelligence and judgment of THEIR OWN PARTY's voters and then work for that choice in the general election, rather than manipulate the primary to impose the Grand Pooh - Bahs» anointed one.

Even by its own limited standards Labour's move to the Right failed, since the endless attempt to triangulate in search of the «floating voter» erodes trust and alienates Labour's base; 5 million lost voters over the New Labour years is testament to that.

Allies of the state's teachers union this week were emboldened by a Quinnipiac University poll that found voters trust the teachers unions over Cuomo to help improve education.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a NY1 interview on Friday said a shutdown of the federal government would be a «violation» of the trust voters have placed in elected officials.

«Transparency builds trust, and currently Mr. Astorino's actions continue to prove that he is undeserving of the trust of voters by refusing to provide New Yorkers with a full accounting of his finances.»

The association cautioned against «any hasty, poorly - informed and premature decisions of the EC that could compromise the search for an enduring solution that could advance national interest», adding that: ``... a trustworthy voters» register and effective monitoring of electoral activities underlie public trust confidence in election results».

«It's just a violation of the public trust with the voters of this country, not just of New York, but the voters of this country,» he said.

Obama was elected - and because voters did not know him that well, and he was inexperienced, voters placed a measure of TRUST in him.