Sentences with phrase «percent of state voters»

Despite the stiff price tag, nearly 60 percent of state voters approved the stem cell bond, won over in part by the promise of medical miracles and partly by the prospect of a bio-tech economic boom.

A poll by Quinnipiac University released last week showed Romney with the support of 54 percent of state voters surveyed, compared with 21 percent for Santorum, 9 percent for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and 8 percent for Rep. Ron Paul.

The Siena College poll found that 68 percent of state voters and 62 percent of New York City voters are embarrassed by the national attention to the men's candidacies.

Eighty percent of state voters gave him an unfavorable mark, including three - quarters of New York City voters, according to the poll.

The poll found that 36 percent of state voters want the current governor to run for president, while 39 percent say he shouldn't run.

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When asked more generally, should the use of marijuana be made legal in the United States, 54 percent of voters said yes.

According to the Current Population Survey, the number of young voters actually decreased by 1.2 percent across all three states from 2008 to 2012.

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.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is up for re-election in a state where 58 percent of voters approved of President Donald Trump during the first quarter, now finds himself 1 point underwater — 43 percent approve, 44 percent disapprove — after a net slide of 17 points from fourth quarter, the biggest decline of any senator during that period.

retained his spot atop the rankings after picking up 11 points from the previous quarter — 72 percent of registered voters in the Green Mountain State approve of his job performance.

When likely voters were asked whether a third - party candidate who is certified on a majority of state ballots should be included in the presidential debates, 76 percent said yes; 17 percent said no; and 7 percent were undecided.

Jewish voters represent just a couple percent of the national electorate, but their numbers are bigger in swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, in the Florida Democratic primary, Sanders won sixty - five percent of the young voters despite losing the state decisively overall, and despite being an elderly garden gnome from Vermont.

They parallel the provisions of many state constitutions in this country and popular initiatives such as the Cardinal Bernardin Amendment, recently approved in a referendum by over 80 percent of Cook County, Illinois, voters, to make health care a right.

With a few lines of coded racism and a string of angry tweets, the president of the United States got the bulk of the 37 percent or so of voters who still support him to do just that — to walk away from the NFL.

Through it, the state can fund up to 75 percent of a project's costs if local voters approve a bond sale.

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

Two of her fellow statewide elected officials, AG Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, have some work to do in the name recognition department, 63 percent and 58 percent of voters, respectively, say they don't know enough about them to form an opinion.

As for the rest of the Democratic field in this survey, seven percent (7 %) of voters would choose Biden or New York Governor Andrew Cuomo if the 2016 Democratic presidential primary were held in their state today.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's favorability rating fell to 49 - 44 percent this month, matching his lowest favorability rating, according to a new Siena College poll of New York state registered voter...

A party meets the requirements for ballot access if a candidate nominated by the political party at one of the two immediately preceding statewide general elections received at least 5 percent of the vote, or if a combination of candidates nominated by the political party for a combination of districts that encompass all of the voters of the entire state polled at least 5 percent of the vote in each of their respective districts.

Clinton only received 33 percent of the vote from the sample, which targeted voters who live in specific neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Nassau County and a few other locations around the state including the Bronx, Albany and the Hudson Valley.

Despite an overwhelming feeling among participants that corruption is still a major problem in the New York State government and general disagreement with Governor Cuomo's claim that the Moreland Commission was successful, 58 percent of voters said they would vote to re-elect him.

The Buffalo businessman won some 94 percent of the vote in his native Erie County in last week's GOP primary, but the bulk of the state's population — not to mention enrolled voters — is concentrated in the five boroughs and on Long Island.

The latest Quinnipiac poll shows 90 percent of the state's voters support the Child Victims Act.

Kelly has a sky - high approval rating, with 66 percent of those polled stating they like the job he's doing, though there is a clear divide along race lines, with 78 of white voters saying they approve, versus just 51 percent of black voters.

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.

«Right now 60 percent of voters in this state view Cuomo favorably.»

By a similar 60 - 29 percent margin, likely voters say it «will be an expensive waste of time,» rather than a «once in a generation opportunity to bring our State Constitution into the 21st Century,» according to a new Siena College Poll of likely 2017 New York State voters released last hour.

Callinan pointed to an Eagle Point Strategies poll stating that 77 percent of New York voters support medical aid in dying.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's favorability rating fell to 49 - 44 percent this month, matching his lowest favorability rating as governor, according to a new Siena College poll of New York State registered voters.

According to a June 17th poll by the Siena Research Institute, a plurality of New Yorkers — 44 percent — wanted the state legislature to address corruption as a number one priority before the end of the session, including voters across every region, party and demographic group.

Tenney, a state assemblywoman, had the support of 35 percent of likely voters in the Time Warner Cable News / Siena College poll, ahead of Democrat Kim Myers, the daughter of the founder of Dick's Sporting Goods, who drew 30 percent.

The Quinnipiac poll found that only 29 percent of voters believed the state legislators who made such a pledge had broken their promise, with 68 percent saying they didn't know.

Meanwhile, 41 percent of voters do not back a proposal that would create a payroll tax in order to circumvent the $ 10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions.

The majority coalition that controls the state Senate is pleased with the Siena College poll that found 54 percent of voters surveyed believed the power - sharing arrangement would lead to effective governing.

A new Marist College poll finds 56 percent of registered voters in New York State approve of the job Governor Andrew Cuomo is doing in office.

Forty - nine percent of voters in New York disapproved of how Gov. Andrew Cuomo is handling mass transit in the state, while a plurality also disapproved of a proposed congestion pricing plan that is aimed at raising money for trains and buses in New York City, according to a Quinnipiac University poll on Thursday.

Forty - four percent of New Yorkers see the Legislature in a better light thanks to state lawmakers» passage of a budget prior to the April 1 deadline, but Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos continue to to be viewed unfavorably by nearly twice as many voters as view them favorably.

However, by a margin of 64 - 28 percent, voters say the developers have a legal right to build, and that sentiment holds across every region of the state and every major demographic group — be it age, gender or political philosophy.

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.

But 77 percent of voters upstate polled said they agreed with critics of the state budget agreement that the ethics package did not go far enough.

Today's Q poll finds AG Andrew Cuomo's Rose Garden strategy isn't working so well when it comes to the budget mess, as 64 percent of voters say they'd like to hear more from the Democratic gubernatorial hopeful about what he would do to pull the state out of its fiscal morass.

And 76 percent of voters generally support state funding of pre-K.

Overall in New York State, voters approved 97.6 percent of school district budgets on Tuesday, according to the New York State School Boards Association.

In 2014, the state ranked 49th of 50 in the country, with just 29 percent of eligible voters casting their ballots in the general election.

AARP officials say that in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, voters 50 and older went to the polls at nearly twice the rate of younger voters, accounting for 58 percent of all votes cast in New York State.

According to CNN / Time / Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday, 51 percent of likely voters in Washington State back the three term senator, with 43 percent supporting Rossi, who was the GOP gubernatorial nominee in 2004 and 2008, with two percent undecided.

But an official with Perkins» campaign said 44 percent of the voters in the 2014 and 2012 congressional races there came from Perkins» State Senate district, slightly more than the 40 percent of the vote that came from the State Senate district currently represented by Espaillat.