Sentences with phrase «only public poll»

It's the first and only public poll so far not to show Spitzer in the lead.

The only public poll of next Tuesday's special election — to fill the seat vacated by Republican former senator Tom Libous — was less favorable for Democrats.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — In the only public poll conducted for one of the most closely watched races this season, incumbent Republican Rob Astorino and Democrat George Latimer are locked in a statistical tie for Westchester County executive.

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Only about a third of Republicans said they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on Election Day will be counted fairly, according to recent poll from the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

A 2012 Gallup poll found that only 5 percent of US adults identify as vegetarians (down from 6 percent in 1999 and 2001), so the ability to convince the public that vegan products can be as flavorful as meat ones is an important sell.

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

The inconvenient truth that his party still only sits at 35 percent in the latest public opinion poll could add momentum to those pushing to replace the Wildrose leader.

In Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith, I deal extensively with the history of polling and the current difficulties polling firms face, including not only plummeting response rates but also the public's declining confidence in polling.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

Obama has been more public and specific about his religious beliefs since polls last year showed that only a minority of Americans know he is Christian.

Rejecting the advice of «so - called communications experts» that the broadcasts are «quaint» and a «relic of the past», he cited a 2005 ICM poll which found party political broadcasts are second only to news bulletins as the lead source of information for general members of the public.

Only 11 % of the public believe Rupert Murdoch and other News Corporation executives are «fit and proper» to own British media, polling suggests.

In addition, public polls repeatedly show that citizens of Republika Srpska feel only a small attachment to the country as a whole.

Astorino's campaign, struggling to gain any semblance of traction in public polls, has resorted to what amounts to throwing spaghetti against a wall to see what sticks, releasing mostly online - only videos critical of Cuomo's handling of the economy and suggesting — without any context — that he could be in jail one day.

Presently, public polling shows both significantly trailing Christine Quinn, and with only modest recent gains for de Blasio and little change for Liu.

Republicans, it turned out, weren't the only ones with polling problems: The Democratic internals and public polls also overestimated the Democratic turnout.

«On key public services this poll also shows that older people are satisfied with our record of delivery in government and recognise that the SNP is the only party standing up for Scotland's pensioners.

In a recent ComRes poll conducted exclusively for Total Politics, fully 50 per cent of the public said the Lib Dems «seem to have almost no influence over government policy» and only one - third disagreed.

There has been no official polling of the Labour selectorate, and only a handful of polls of the London public.

Gillibrand is not only going to easily out raise Long, but she is far ahead in public opinion polls.

The Obama people are apparently thinking in terms of 1980, when the majority had turned against Carter but weren't sure about Reagan — the polls were close only a week before the election, but the public shifted at the last moment as they came to see Reagan as a reasonable alternative.

The public had already been sceptical about the ability of the coalition to survive for a full five years in the Guardian / ICM's poll in May, when only 33 % expected it would cling on until May 2015.

Voters also took a dim view of the Common Core, with only 19 % saying it has improved public education and 40 % saying it things worse, the poll found.

Other Westchester Municipalities having School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StPublic Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StPublic School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Stpublic school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StPublic Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StPublic School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Street.)

In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20 % of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70 % opposed and about 10 % undecided).

«The fact that only 16 have been announced in the first instance, only confirms a recent Ipsos MORI poll which showed that 96 % of parents and the public oppose the Coalition Government's free school policy.

He's not only blowing them away in fundraising, but also has a widening lead over them in public opinion polls.

«This poll shows that only five per cent of the British public support the sale.

«Not only do arguments to retain Bishops possess no intellectual credibility, they are also unpopular with the public, with polls indicating 74 % of the population — including 70 % of Christians — believe it is wrong that Church of England Bishops are given automatic places.»

Mr. Zeldin held a 15 - percentage point lead over Ms. Throne - Holst in a recent Newsday / Siena College poll, the only poll made public thus far in the congressional race.

Opinion polls show immigration is second only to the economy among issues the public rates as important.

With only eleven days to election day, distantly trailing de Blasio in opinion polls and at a financial disadvantage Malliotakis desperately needs both press attention and public interest.

«At a gathering of Tory Cabinet Ministers on Monday, the Prime Minister's political secretary Stephen Gilbert presented polling evidence to them which showed that when asked what the Coalition was doing, the public thought only of the cuts.»

«That the Parliament looks critically at the results of a new poll on support for nuclear weapons in Scotland commissioned by Lord Ashcroft; believes that the result stating that 51 % of Scots want the Trident nuclear deterrent to be replaced is misguidedly being used to suggest that a majority of Scots support keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland; understands that the results of this poll were intended to challenge the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that showed a decisive 75 % majority of the Scottish public is against both the cost and the reasoning behind the UK Government's intention to keep all of its nuclear weapons stationed in Scotland; understands that, while Lord Ashcroft conducted the poll to supposedly show that «more than half of Scots are in favour of nuclear weapons», the poll showed that only 37 % of Scots believe so in principle, compared with 48 % who do not; questions the integrity of a poll that, it understands, was privately paid for by a wealthy Tory backer; considers that Lord Ashcroft is spinning the results, and believes that he should stop doing so and accept what it considers the fact proven time and again that Scots want rid of nuclear weapons.»

Only a handful polled over the 4 % threshold to qualify for public funding.

There's a reason the Remain campaign has not been crowing much about the renegotiation in recent weeks: the polls suggest only a small proportion of the public — presumably dyed - in - the - wool Remain supporters — believe it changed anything much.

A publicly run NHS is popular with voters of all hues - 84 % of all voters, and 77 % of Tory voters, want the NHS run by the public sector, and only 7 % (13 % of Tory voters) want it run by the private sector, according to a recent YouGov poll.

SAMUEL ATTA MILLS — THE OPPORTUNISTIC STRANGER IN KEEA On July 24, 2012, Prof Mills became the first Ghanaian leader to die in office, but with the exact cause of death withheld from the public, speculations have been rife that there may have been foul play in the former law professor's passing which occurred only six months to the 2012 polls.

Though UFT and NYSUT leadership remain silent regarding the upcoming Gubernatorial race, we pledge go to the polls and vote for the only public school positive, teacher - and - student friendly candidates in this race.

Like many of his rivals, Mr. Coffey had only nice things to say about the current office holder, Andrew M. Cuomo, who is poised to announce his run for governor and has maintained high ratings in public opinion polls.

Prof. Addae believes that the results from every polling station should be «projected unto a public screen and not only on the internet.»

Quinn and Weiner, who recent polls have separated by only five points with Quinn leading, were joined by Sal Albanese, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Comptroller John Liu, Rev. Erick Salgado and Bill Thompson at the Brookyln's Manhattan Beach Jewish Center in a debate hosted by the Jewish Press.

The same poll found that only 23 percent of voters see the mess surrounding Cuomo's Moreland Commission on Public Corruption — Teachout's highest - profile weapon against the governor — as a deciding factor in the governor's race.

Both main parties persist in favouring faith schools despite their wide unpopularity — a poll a year ago showed that 80 % of the public wanted to keep the cap (including 67 % of Catholics) and an earlier poll for the Westminster Faith Debates found 45 % against and only 32 % in favour of any government funding of faith schools.

Bloomberg's barbs, which came from an August 6 interview, were published four days after a Quinnipiac poll showed a surge in de Blasio's popularity among voters, with 43 percent of those polled favoring the public advocate over the other Democratic candidates, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who captured only 18 percent of the votes.

The only independent poll made public in the 24th District race shows Katko had a 19 percentage point lead over Deacon.

The popularity of imposing bans on smoking in public places was further revealed in the results of a 2011 Gallop poll, which showed that 59 % of respondents supported bans, a marked shift from 2008, when only 40 % had favored such laws.

Now, according to a poll just released by Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center, vouchers that use taxpayer funds for low - income students to attend private schools gathered support from 43 % of the public, with only 31 % opposed.

The PDK / Gallup poll released last week shows 54 percent of Americans — a majority now — agree that «standardized tests are not helpful» in letting teachers know what to teach, a figure that jumps to an alarming 68 percent when you count only public school parents.

Polls show that the public and parents are leery of cyber schools, and this kind of media attention (sure to be mimicked in local papers) will only make them more so.