Sentences with phrase «percent support banning»

Sixty - five percent support banning outside employment for lawmakers, who technically are considered part - time under current law.

Eighty - four percent would back term limits for lawmakers and 79 percent back term limits for state elected officials; 77 percent support ending the practice of limited liability companies giving unlimited funds to campaigns; 74 percent back allowing initiative and referendum on the ballot; 65 percent support banning full - time employment for the Legislature.

Sixty - six percent of those polled support banning political contributions by companies that do business with the level of government they contribute to, and 55 percent support banning elected officials from earning income outside of their government salary.

The clear majority of payday loan borrowers, 59.50 percent, maintain that payday loans should be legal, while 22.20 percent supported banning the financial product.

In a national Marist poll, 69 percent supported a ban on assault weapons, including 57 percent of Republicans.

Not exact matches

A Quinnipiac University poll found that just 43 percent of Republicans support an assault - weapon ban.

The share of Americans supporting a ban on all guns hovers in the 8 to 10 percent range, making it a pretty fringe position.

In the March 3 - 5 poll, 63 percent of Americans supported «nationwide ban on the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets.»

In November, 65 percent of Americans supported a «nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons.»

One recent poll found 64 percent of voters supporting an assault weapons ban and 74 percent in favor of the opportunity to vote on it.

Support for an assault weapons ban grew from 56 to 61 percent.

Support for a handgun ban is a little more than 20 percent and has fallen over the years.

But in a mirror image of the findings on a gun ban, support for universal background checks often polls in excess of 90 percent.

According to Quinnipiac, support for a ban on high - capacity magazines grew from 56 percent to 63 percent from January 2013 to March 2018.

But Americans are roughly split on this proposal, with 50 percent in support and 46 percent opposed, a stark contrast from the 80 percent support for the ban in 1994, the year it was enacted.

A 71 percent majority of Democrats support such a ban.

While more than 7 in 10 Republicans and independents supported banning assault weapons in 1999, the new Post-ABC poll finds 45 percent of independents supporting it now, dropping to 29 percent among Republicans.

According to a Pew Global Attitudes Project survey released yesterday, support for a ban on veils that cover the whole face except the eyes is widespread across Europe, with strong majorities in Spain (59 percent), Britain (62 percent), Germany (71 percent) and France (82 percent) all supporting legislation outlawing such veils in schools, hospitals, and government offices.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Self - identified white evangelicals, who lean Republican, showed the strongest support among faith groups for the travel ban, with a 76 percent approval rate in a Pew Research Center survey released last week.

The results contrast a previously reported National Journal poll, which found that only a narrow plurality (48 percent) supported 20 - week abortion bans.

A Michigan State University study found that 60 percent or more of respondents in every state would support a gestation crate ban.

Given studies showing «adult - sized impacts» that youth as young as seven years old are receiving, a significant percent of Americans, 40.5 percent, support a ban on youth playing contact football.

More than 40 percent of Americans support a ban on youth playing contact football up until entering high school, according to a survey of 1,003 adults by the Robert Morris University Polling Institute Powered by Trib Total Media.

Among only those with an opinion — support for a ban prior to entering high school was 45.5 percent compared to 54.5 percent opposed.

In addition to supporting the pension forfeiture, 66 percent of those polled also support banning political contributions by companies that do business with the level of government they contribute to, and 55 percent back banning elected officials from earning income outside of their government salary.

Meanwhile, a majority of upstate voters support the ban, 56 percent to 20 percent, with a similar margin in New York City, the poll found.

The fracking ban has the least support among suburban voters, where the ban has the backing of 52 percent of voters.

Democrats are most likely to be support the fracking ban by a margin of 67 percent to 11 percent.

The ban on assault weapons and large ammunition clips passed by state lawmakers and signed into law earlier this week has the support of 73 percent of New York voters, according to the latest poll by the Siena Research Institute.

61 percent from the downstate suburbs and 57 percent of upstaters all say they support the Cuomo administration's decision to ban fracking.»

The Post-ABC poll also finds that 58 percent of adults say stricter gun control laws could have prevented the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, but there is no rise in support for banning assault weapons compared with two years ago and the partisan divide on this policy is as stark as ever.

Support for banning assault weapons among all respondents decreased from 69 percent in 2013 to 63 percent in 2015, and support for banning the sale of large capacity ammunition magazines decreased from 68 percent to 60 pSupport for banning assault weapons among all respondents decreased from 69 percent in 2013 to 63 percent in 2015, and support for banning the sale of large capacity ammunition magazines decreased from 68 percent to 60 psupport for banning the sale of large capacity ammunition magazines decreased from 68 percent to 60 percent.

In a letter of support for Denver's declawing ban, Barnette stated that the rate of owner - surrendered cats in her shelter has decreased by 43.3 percent since the city enacted a declawing ban in 2009.

In 2010, he conducted a poll on the popular microblogging service weibo that drew 30,000 participants, 99 percent of whom supported a ban on shark imports.

For evidence that US Congress members are more responsive to the interests of Big Oil than to the citizens who elect them, one need look no further than Congress's recent decision to lift the 40 - year ban on oil exports, despite the fact that 69 percent of Americans across both parties support the ban.

A 2013 Environics Research poll found that 81 percent of Canadians support a ban on the trade in products of shark finning.

All four opposition parties in the Canadian Parliament — who together won 60 percent of the vote in the last federal election — are opposed to Northern Gateway and support an oil tanker ban.

The survey found that 67 percent of its participants support a preemptive ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems.

This new NGO's 31 - pp report on artificial intelligence technologies includes a section on the military uses of AI and a UK survey that shows 50 percent of those polled support a ban on fully autonomous weapons.

Actually, 62 percent of Floridians support a ban on assault weapons, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

A recent Politico - Morning Consult poll showed that 88 percent of Americans now support universal background checks, 81 percent think a person should be at least 21 to buy a gun, 70 percent favor a ban on high - capacity magazinesand 68 percent think assault - style weapons should be banned.

The idea of banning such weapons was supported by 82 percent of Democrats, 57 percent of Republicans and 68 percent of no party affiliation / independent voters.