Sentences with phrase «point national lead»

Today's meeting comes against a backdrop of a slight narrowing of the polls, but also a Labour fear that extra spending by the Tories in marginal seats might mean Cameron winning a majority with just a six - point national lead, three or four points fewer than many pollsters predict.

A Guardian ICM poll released this week gave the Conservatives a 12 - point national lead, with a 42 per cent share of the vote compared to Labour's 30 per cent.

An ABC News / Washington Post poll released on Sunday showed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton with a 1 percentage point national lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, within the margin of error.

Not exact matches

Either way, Merkel seems to have little to fear in her reelection bid: The most recent national poll gives her a lead of 11 points.

The research mirrors what a team led by Giovanni Chiodini from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics reported late last year, when they too modelled Campi Flegrei's activity and found that it's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point that could trigger another eruption.

Craft buyouts tend to lead to broader expansion — Goose Island and Blue Moon became national brands; Elysian and Ballast Point aren't far behind.

Or, as pointed out by the federal environment minister McKenna in a letter Thursday to B.C. environment Minister George Heyman, that Canada already has a mountain of regulation to ensure a world - leading regime to transport oil and products, including: the Railway Safety Act, the Pipeline Safety Act, the National Energy Board Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Marine Liability Act, the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, and that Ottawa has pledged to spend an additional $ 1.5 billion to protect its coasts and marine environment.

As Grant Brisbee pointed out on Monday, MLB finally got things right when it comes to World Series home - field advantage, and the seasons of the Dodgers, Nationals, and Indians are proof of that: Who has the top record does matter, and the Dodgers are, one game at a time, wasting the incredible lead for it that they had built up over the summer.

The sharpshooter capped things off by averaging 26.7 points and 7.0 rebounds in his senior season, leading Creighton to a 27 - 8 record and earning National Player of the Year honors.

Last summer she was the leading point - getter on the U.S. Women's Select Team that played the national team in Finland.

The national player of the year race is just getting started, but it's clear that Oklahoma freshman point guard Trae Young is the leading candidate right now.

Last season's National Player of the Year, McDermott finished as the NCAA's 5th all - time leading scorer (3,150 career points) and should help provide the offensive spark that Chicago desperately lacked last year.

Going into the Los Angeles Times 500, the final race of the Grand National stock car season, Earnhardt led Yarborough by a mere 29 points out of some 4,000.

After blowing a 20 - point lead in a mid-October loss at LSU, the Tigers were effectively written off as a national title contender — Gus Malzahn's team had also come up short at Clemson in early September, and no two - loss team had ever made the playoff field.

Despite 37 points from senior guard Milan Moses (a season high), Dublin's girls were unable to stay with the fast - paced Matadors, led by highly - recruited guard Sabrina Ionescu — ranked 5th in the national class of 2016 by ESPN — and her triple - double of 27 points, 10 rebounds and 10 steals.

Whatever you may think of the scientific validity of their positions, or the degree to which they have, or have not, been influenced by the nefarious dairy lobby (and I offer no opinion on either point), here are some leading organizations that currently support flavored milk in schools: the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, the National Medical Association, the National Hispanic Medical Association and the School Nutrition Association.

The change corresponds with Clinton's drop in the national popular - vote lead: from a 5.7 - percentage - point lead in our estimate on Oct. 28 to a 2.9 - point lead now — so a swing of about 3 points against her.

Yet shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan pointed out that there is a «black hole» in the department, and that today's National Audit Office report revealed there was a # 130m loss of savings, since the Tory - led government took over 28 months ago, as a result of sentencing reforms not going ahead.

Labour's lead by two points in this week's Ashcroft National Poll, conducted between Friday and Sunday.

I really thought that national poll leads of 8, 9 even 10 points were the basis for victory.

Labour lead by two points in this week's Ashcroft National Poll, conducted over the past weekend.

Labour lead by a single point in the final Ashcroft National Poll of 2014, conducted over the past weekend.

At first, this does not appear to be a major change in the electoral fortunes of the parties but when we look at the revised national shares, the impact is more significant as this suggests that Labour and the Conservatives would be neck and neck in England & Wales rather than the 2.5 point lead the Conservatives actually had.

State Sen. Andrew Roraback (R) led former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D) by 6 points in Connecticut's 5th district, according to a National Republican Congressional Committee poll conducted earlier this week.

A Siena College / Syracuse Post-Standard poll conducted nearly a week ago showed Katko with a 10 - point lead in the race, and national political analysts have declared the race between Katko and Maffei a toss - up.

The Senate President, however, pointed out that the current administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari, had put corruption on the front burner of national discourse.

It was carried out between the 16th and 29th June, when the national polls were showing Tory leads between 18 and 23 points, equating to swings between 10.5 % and 12.5 %.

Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer, who recently entered the North Dakota Senate race, leads Democratic incumbent Heidi Heitkamp by 5 points, according to a poll commissioned by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and shared first with Roll Call.

That's a swing from Conservative to Labour of just one point, far lower than the swing shown in ComRes's GB polls (it would be the equivalent of a national poll showing a Conservative lead of five points) suggesting Labour are doing worse in key marginals than in the country as a whole.

The average swing across the twelve seats polled was 4.5 % from Con to Lab — the equivalent of a two point Labour lead in the national polls.

The average swing across these seats was 6 points from Con to Lab, the equivalent of a 5 point Labour lead in the national polls.

This is a swing of 2.5 % from Conservative to Labour, the equivalent of a 2 point Conservative lead in a national poll.

The average Labour lead in the national polls at the time the fieldwork was done was also two points, so once again the Ashcroft polling is suggesting that in Con - v - Lab marginals the swing is very much in line with national polling.

During that period the average Labour lead in the national polls was about 3.5 points: that's the equivalent of a uniform swing of 5.25 %.

Labour lead by six points in the Ashcroft National Poll, completed yesterday.

The Conservatives have climbed 5 points to 33 % in today's Ashcroft National Poll, giving them a 2 - point lead over Labour, who are down 2 points on 31 %.

It is amazing how Ghana's leading opposition, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is quick to point accusing fingers at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, as regards the issue of corruption, when its flagbearer, Nana Akuffo - Addo and national chairman, Frederick Worsemao Armah Blay, popularly called Freddie Blay, are leading the institutionalization of corruption within the NPP.http: / / ghanapoliticsonNational Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, as regards the issue of corruption, when its flagbearer, Nana Akuffo - Addo and national chairman, Frederick Worsemao Armah Blay, popularly called Freddie Blay, are leading the institutionalization of corruption within the NPP.http: / / ghanapoliticsonnational chairman, Frederick Worsemao Armah Blay, popularly called Freddie Blay, are leading the institutionalization of corruption within the NPP.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump has withered to 3 percentage points, signaling their battle for the White House has become too close to call heading into the two major - party national conventions, according to a new McClatchy - Marist poll.

While the Siena Research Institute didn't poll the district this cycle, a National Republican Congressional Committee - commissioned poll released Oct. 17 revealed Stefanik led Derrick by 25 percentage points.

There are two current national polls published today, from YouGov and Harris, and both show a ten point lead for the Conservatives over Labour.

These seats had Labour and Conservative equal at the last election so an eight point lead here is the equivalent of a four point national swing and a one point Labour lead in national polls... pretty much exactly what the national polls have been showing lately (actually if you look at the crossbreaks of the poll they suggest a swing towards the Conservatives in the Conservative held seats, a swing towards Labour in the Labour held seats, but given the sample size of those two groups and that the poll is only weighted at the level of all forty seats I wouldn't put too much weight on that).

The points they raised are already part of the issues that the party is addressing through the national reconciliation committee led by the Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson.

This is a swing of 6 points (the equivalent of a Labour lead of about 5 points in a national poll), so suggests Labour may be doing somewhat better in key marginal seats than in the country as a whole.

The eleven point lead for Labour in the capital represents a swing of 4.5 points to Labour since the election, suggesting a smaller swing to Labour than in the country as a whole (it would be the equivalent of a 2 point national Labour lead), and significantly less than YouGov's recent London polls.

Citing outside money from national Republicans and a recent poll showing U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei with an eight - point lead over Republican challenger John Katko, two political forecasters have changed its rating of the 24th Congressional District race.

(CNN)- A new poll released Saturday shows the Democratic candidate now has a slight lead — a four point advantage among likely voters — over the Republican in a special congressional election in Western New York that has attracted the national spotlight.

National Democratic observers say either Space or Sulzer could win the primary and are quick to point out that that they approached Space about a potential candidacy last year but were told he would not even consider the race until his wife won reelection — a decision that led them to push for Sulzer.

David Cameron led Ed Miliband by 15 points (42 % to 27 %) as best Prime Minister in the national poll, though it was notable that his lead was twice as high among men (22 points) than among women (10 points), and more than twice as high among private sector workers (24 points) than public (10 points)-- though for him to have any sort of lead among public sector workers in the current climate is an achievement worth noting.

The latest poll in the Virginia gubernatorial race shows former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie ahead by one percentage point over Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D.), who has previously led in the polls.

Now a research team, led by investigators at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has tracked rare potent antibodies in an HIV - infected individual and determined sequential structures that point to how they developed.