Sentences with phrase «of voters want»

Money can be overcome, as shown by our new healthcare bill, when something like 79 % of the voters want it.

Around 87 percent of voters want solar energy to generate more electricity and 79 percent welcome more wind power.

«An overwhelming 83 % of voters want the prime minister to challenge the US president on the issue amid record public acceptance that climate change is a reality.»

Plus we know a majority of voters want action too.»

Even when 52 percent of voters want a Democratic House, antiquated winner - take - all voting in single - winner districts leads to Republicans holding 57 percent of seats.

And 82 percent of voters want the state intervention, which has enabled the system's structural transformation, to continue for at least two more years.

Meanwhile, a Siena College poll shows that the Moreland Commission and its work are largely unknown to voters, yet 72 percent of voters want the Commission to continue investigations.

«ConservativeHome, the election campaign, David Cameron and the current situation Main 58 % of voters want Cameron to rule on his own»

Isn't it strange that Harriet Harman was never heard saying polls have shown over and over again that the majority of voters want the railways taken back into public ownership or that they think that local authorities should be responsible for schools?

A majority of voters want to see changes to the nation's tax code, a Republican - backed advocacy found in a poll it's releasing on Tuesday.

But polls show an increasing number of voters want the popular Cuomo to announce sooner rather than later — the flip side of surveys showing lame - duck Gov. Paterson and the Legislature with historically low approval ratings.

Only 35 percent of voters want to return their current representative to the Senate chamber, while 50 percent say they would prefer «someone else.»

Under our first - past - the - post electoral system, the SNP will win a raft of seats where only a minority of voters want to leave the United Kingdom.

The poll also shows more than two - thirds of voters want spending to be cut, double the proportion who believe the government should increase expenditure.

In some polls, as many as half of voters want to deny unfettered power to any single party.

Two - thirds of the voters want two (42 %) or more (25 %) debates.

Emily Thornberry has suggested Labour could yet back a second Brexit referendum if public opinion suggests the vast majority of voters want to stay in the EU.

Further complicating Cuomo's task, 52 percent of voters want Cuomo to balance the budget without cuts to health care and education — the two biggest spending areas, which the governor - elect has been quite clear will likely suffer next year.

If a majority of voters want to raise taxes on higher incomes, they do not want to raise taxes on everyone.

Senate Democrats, meanwhile, are seizing on a Siena College poll released Tuesday morning that found a broad majority of voters want ethics reform and anti-corruption measures approved this year.

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She makes the point that the majority of voters want a referendum.

Considering the first - half marvels are what the majority of voters want to see, I'm OK with that.

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.

Two - thirds of voters wanted to keep the birth control coverage requirement in a March 2017 survey by PerryUndem.

A total of 12 constituencies with Brexit - backing MPs saw more than 50 % of voters wanting to remain in the EU, it is claimed.

When the hung parliament was declared, 29 % of voters wanted a Lib - Lab coalition, 28 % wanted a Lib - Con coalition, 18 % wanted a Conservative minority government and 20 % backed a unity government comprising all the parties.

A Siena Research Institute poll in May found 77 percent of voters wanted all state employees, including legislators, to be stripped of their public pensions when convicted of crimes related to their public jobs.

This system has been recently confirmed, as there was recently a vote where 76.3 % of voters wanted to keep the current system, and did not want to elect the government themselves.

Rump got 46 % of the vote meaning 54 % of the voters wanted someone else.

A recent poll by USA Today and Suffolk University showed that 76 percent of voters wanted third party candidates to be included in the debates.

Focused on delivering an on - time spending plan — which polls earlier this month showed 62 percent of voters wanted the timely budget, stronger ethics laws be damned — the governor and legislators jettisoned plans for a minimum wage hike, the Dream Act and changes to the criminal justice system from the spending plan.

Both constituencies have been Labour seats since their inception, and in both over 60 per cent of voters wanted to leave the EU.

This is a classic case of voters wanting to have their cake and eat it too.

It's no surprise that political operatives from Working Families organizations who are much closer to the ground are sensing the new dynamic of voters wanting to reject the well - financed campaign for New Orleans - style school reform and take back control of their local schools.

However, bitcoin prices went on to lose some of these gains, plunging more than 10 % on 21st June after a poll conducted by market research firm Survation showed 45 % of voters wanted the UK to remain in the EU, compared to 42 % who wanted to stick with the economic bloc.

Not exact matches

The poll also said 49 percent of voters believe Democrats should win control of the Senate, compared with 39 percent who want the GOP to maintain a majority.

Morning Consult had conducted a study in December 2015 that produced evidence for a theory of «shy» Trump voters who experience social desirability bias during telephone interviews — that is, they don't want to admit they're voting for Trump.

They want a change that is significant in relation to a number of issues which are considered a high - priority now by at least 60 percent, and perhaps more, of Italian voters.»

'' [I'm] very scared because of the possible changes in policy, but also because American voters made it clear that they don't want us here,» says David, 28, a software engineer in the Bay Area.

On May 18, Swiss voters will decide if they want to introduce the world's highest minimum wage to their country where the cost of living is extremely high and the unemployment and poverty rates very l...

But the economically disenfranchised blue - collar voters who put him in office don't care about the tech industry; they want to roll back the clock to a time before the internet, before automation in factories, before the flow of global goods, services, and capital made Silicon Valley wildly rich.

LOS ANGELES — Mitt Romney may want to reconsider his campaign strategy involving the pint - size voters of tomorrow.

Romney wants voters to set off a brokered convention, where Republican insiders can hand - pick a nominee, bringing up visions of the cigar smoke - filled rooms of old.

The SPD only agreed to ally with Merkel after promising a list of distinctive policies to secure the approval of party members, many of whom wanted the SPD to regroup in opposition after the last four years in coalition damaged its standing among voters.

For example, if one of the areas you want to say you have experienced and impacted within the time - frame you have chosen is around U.S. voting numbers, you would probably want to have worked with your local representative's office or powerful and politically influential organizations such as the League of Women Voters or AARP.

But according to the NSA report, evidence that the hackers were also stealing the login credentials of people with administrative access to the voter - registration systems raises concerns that the Russians were able to do «anything they wanted» — including, Bardin said, breaching voting machines.

The survey found that 64 percent of Republican voters in Iowa, 67 percent in New Hampshire, and 66 percent in South Carolina support states that want to carry out their own marijuana laws without fear of federal law.

«And I just want to tell you that you are doing a disservice to all of us Republican primary voters who didn't vote for Trump, that are struggling whether or not to vote for Trump.»

The California congresswoman also claimed in July of that year that Romney intentionally drew boos during his address before the NAACP, and suggested that the former governor wanted to use the image of black people heckling him to curry favor with white voters.