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Not exact matches

Gallup polling on favorable or unfavorable views of both major parties has found neither party has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percent).

Basic resources jumped 1.22 percent as a sector, supported by an uptick in metal prices, while oil stocks fell as investors doubt that the recent rally in prices will last.

Last year for Small Business Saturday 2014, more than 126,000 tweets were sent in support of the initiative, a 10 - percent increase from the previous year.

Thirty - two percent of shareholders supported the split in roles, down significantly from last year's tally of 40 percent on the same issue, a reversal that will emboldened companies that still embrace having one person serve in the chairman and chief executive roles.

Given the fact that they make up 99 percent of this country's employers and the majority of all job growth over the last 50 years, it would be shame if they kept their opinions concealed when it comes supporting the candidates that support small business.

The measure received even less than the 40 percent support it had received last year.

«It's essentially been a flattish market for the last five years; now 2017 is plus 20 percent, that's an amazing rebound,» said Bruno Lannes, Shanghai - based partner at Bain, adding lower pricing and government support were key drivers.

Paul Ciana, a technical strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, sees the next major support level for 10 - year notes at around 2.95 percent, the 150 - month simple moving average, which they last touched in 2007.

A weaker U.S. dollar, down about 3.2 percent from the same time last year, is also providing support, as is slower U.S. supply growth following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Across party lines, roughly nine in 10 Americans support solar power, and according to a poll commissioned last spring by The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC), 69 percent of Republican likely voters and 80 percent of Democratic likely voters would be «unlikely» to reelect a politician who failed to raise the solar net metering cap.

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.

Last week, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)-- whose membership includes hundreds of consumer brands from a range of industries around the world, including food giants Campbell Soup, Clif Bar, Hershey, Mars and Procter & Gamble — announced a new resolution to mitigate the roughly 40 percent of food wasted globally by agreeing to halve food waste within the operations of its 400 retailer and manufacturer members by 2025, and to support wider UN Goals on the issue.

Last year only 77 supported men's wrestling, and there has been a 30 percent decline of men's D1 wrestling scholarships in that time period.

Without Mr. Weiner in contention, Ms. Quinn's support rises to 30 percent, a 7 - point tumble from her last standing in February.

This announcement, in addition to the Governor's continued support of the growing fishing industry, has contributed to a 6.5 - percent increase in fishing sales since just last year.

Today's Siena poll finds a whopping 77 percent of New Yorkers view new Gov. Andrew Cuomo favorably, up from 70 percent last month, and 72 percent say they at least somewhat support his 2011 - 2012 spending plan, although they oppose his call to reduce education aid.

Voters also strongly supported inclusion of both the rent laws (63) and a property tax cap (73 percent) in the budget, but neither made it into the framework agreed to last night.

A Quinnipiac poll released last week had Visconti with the support of about 6 percent of likely voters.

Not to mention, a poll conducted by the DPA and the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) last year found that 62 percent of New Yorkers support marijuana legalization for adult use, indicating «this is actually really popular across demographics,» Moore said.

Last month, the Remsenburg - Speonk district's five - member board voted in support of a flat 2 percent cap.

Murray's GOP support remains «solid,» Levy said, but has slipped slightly — 69 percent of Republicans said they planned to vote for Murray, down from 74 percent last month.

They lost Greece, but saw an increase in support — from 7,859 to 9,890 votes and 41 to 45 percent relative to 2013 — and had a huge surge in Irondequoit, which they won with 55 percent in 2013 and 77 percent last week.

He has the support of 22 percent of voters and Rice is supported by 20 percent, with the other candidates in single digits and Schneiderman finishing last, behind Richard Brodsky and Eric Dinallo.

Funiciello is gaining with registered Democrats, where he receives 14 percent of their support, up from 7 percent last month.

As for the minimum wage, Cuomo said last weekend that he would support the Working Families Party's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 10.10 per hour and to allow individual communities to seek state approval to set their own minimum wages up to 30 percent above.

By the way, last polls show support for GOP in the House is at 12 percent... kind of hard to win anything other than a Loser's Whig Party Primary with numbers like that...

In the race for public advocate, Councilman Eric Gioia (D - Sunnyside) ended up dead last among the four candidates campaigning for the position, with 5 percent supporting him, the poll found.

The poll found the straight - talking Buffalo developer, the upset winner in last week's GOP primary, had 54 percent of the support of women voters to Cuomo's 34 percent.

Paladino has to petition his way on because he didn't clear the 25 percent support threshold at the GOP convention last week, which he called rigged by party leaders.

A Quinnipiac poll last week found voters statewide support legalizing personal use by almost two to one: 63 percent in favor, just 32 percent opposed.

That includes 58 percent support statewide for suing the federal government over the tax reform law signed late last year.

He now has 42 percent support across the 11 battleground states surveyed — up from the 40 percent he had last week before the convention.

Fifty - one percent of Republicans now support marijuana legalization, a nine - point increase from last year, according to a new Gallup poll.

Clinton is ahead of Trump by 21 percentage points — 51 - 30 percent — which is down a little from a 25 - point, 50 - 25 percent lead last month, the poll found, with eight percent of voters saying they support Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and three percent backing Green Party nominee Jill Stein.

Slaughter has support from 86 percent of Democrats in the district, a 5 - point increase from the last poll; Brooks has support from 74 percent of Republicans, a 4 - point drop from the last poll.

The Republican Caucus strongly opposes this request which clearly argues against the beliefs of 83 percent of the public, as expressed in last year's referendum (see attached chart showing overwhelming support for downsizing).

Funiciello had support from 11 percent in the last Siena - WWNY poll.

A Siena College poll released last week shows that 62 percent of voters statewide support having a convention in 2019, at which elected delegates would propose and vote on constitutional amendments.

Three Erie County legislators with the Republican - supported majority voted last week against extending Erie County's additional 1.75 percent additional sales tax, part of the 8.75 percent sales tax all county residents pay that must be reauthorized every two years.

The mayor clocked 27 percent support, with all the rest far behind, though last week's Quinnipiac University poll showed de Blasio back up to 43 percent.

Mr. Donovan became a controversial figure nationally after a grand jury he impaneled decided not to indict a white NYPD officer involved in the death of black Staten Islander Eric Garner last year — but he proved tonight his support remained strong in his home borough, which is roughly 70 percent white and home to many cops and their families.

Just 21 percent of voters supported the American Health Care Act while 56 percent opposed it, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll published after last month's House vote.

If Rice lands the unanimous support of the Brooklyn Dems, as chairman Vito Lopez suggested at a reception he held for her last week, she'll be at 24.13 percent — just shy of the 25 percent mark she'll need to get onto the ballot.

In Washington, Romney threw his support behind Dino Rossi, who emerged from the state's unique non-partisan primary last week with 34 percent of the total vote.

Meanwhile, 42 percent said in the latest survey that they would support someone else, up six percent from last month.

Twenty - two percent of likely voters chose Meek, indicating a sharp decline in support for the Democrat over the last two weeks.

The survey indicates the race is tightening: Marist's last poll in April found Quinn had the support of 26 percent of voters as Weiner, amid speculation he would enter the race, was the favorite of 15 percent of those polled.

Funding for Gotbaum's office will be cut by about 40 percent after the City Council reached a budget deal last week — a move that the public advocate called «political payback» for not supporting Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) during the fight to extend term limits last fall.

Suozzi backers say he received a 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood when he last ran for county executive in 2013, and that the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League also endorsed Suozzi, saying, «Tom Suozzi supports women and treats our decisions with dignity.»

In just five days since the last Quinnipiac poll, Weiner has dropped 10 percentage points, to 16 percent support among those polled.