Sentences with phrase «poll lead as»

Labour has raced into a poll lead as the Tories deal with fall - out from the Budget and the cash - for - access controversy, a survey shows.

Second, with an opinion poll lead as large as 21 percent, Mrs May can afford to lose a significant amount of support while still winning the election.

Not exact matches

He's got as much as a 10 - point lead against real estate magnate Donald Trump, according to some polls.

That was during a follow up to a question of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush about why he's more qualified to lead than the real estate billionaire, who garners as much as 41 percent of Republican voter support in some national polls, which is nearly triple the support for Cruz and four times that for Rubio.

Polls show Northam with a small lead over Gillespie, who formerly served as chair of the Republican National Committee.

Quite apart from the merits of the allegations, the Democrats are anxious to be seen as tougher on harassment to sharpen their profile in next week's special election in Alabama, where Republican candidate Roy Moore still leads opinion polls despite facing multiple unsavory allegations of his own.

While an opinion poll on Saturday gave Fine Gael a one - point lead over Fianna Fail and suggested another minority government as the most likely outcome, Dublin City University politics lecturer Eoin O'Malley said Monday's events would also hurt them.

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

The results are a stark contrast to multiple polls last week that gave the Leave camp as much as a 6 point lead, leading to fears that Britain was hurtling towards a «Brexit» - a British exit from the European Union.

Despite Cruz's vice presidential announcement last week, Donald Trump holds a strong lead in the presidential race as voters head to the polls Tuesday in Indiana.

Trump holds a strong lead in the presidential race as voters head to the polls Tuesday in Indiana.

But the presidential race had tightened in the past week, as Trump closed in on Clinton's narrow polling lead.

According to recent polls, the party led by the outspoken Marine Le Pen is set to capture victories in as many as three regions out of 13 «super regions» created by French President Francois Hollande.

We believe the Brexit vote will continue to be top of mind this week, as polls point to a marginal lead for those on the «leave» side.

In addition, as part of the broader project, workshops are planned in both Washington and Beijing that will bring together leading experts on U.S. - China relations, as well as representatives of the expert groups polled by the project, to discuss in detail the survey findings and their implications for policy in the United States and China.

Most Greeks want to see the terms of an international financial rescue revised even as they acknowledge that failing to abide by them may lead to the country exiting the euro, an opinion poll showed.

If elections play out as polls suggest, and if the United Kingdom and the EU can begin constructive Brexit negotiations, we believe pent up corporate demand and relief among investors could lead to strong economic and financial market performances across Europe.

In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap general election for late October, in what was widely seen as a move to capitalize on his healthy lead in opinion polls and to secure a further mandate for current monetary and fiscal policies.

That could boost the fortunes of left - wing populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, who leads in early opinion polls.

It was novel for the New Democrats to come as close to power as it did recently, taking official Opposition status and then briefly flirting with a national lead in the polls.

As Barack Obama continues to widen his lead in the polls, conservative evangelicals seem to have rediscovered an affinity for biblical accounts of the Babylonian Captivity.

As a wave of disappointed voters announced on Twitter that Trump's election has led them to drop the label evangelical, den Dulk speculated that evangelical believers who voted for Clinton may have been less likely to identify that way in exit polls, widening the born - again gap between the two candidates.

The rapper Eminem, whose «Lose Yourself» was recently voted as the most popular running song in a Runner's World poll, claims he ran 17 miles a day on the treadmill to beat an addiction to alcohol and painkillers, stating that his «addict's brain» led him to get carried away with running.

We recently ran a poll in which just over 25 % of you would rather neither Alvaro Morata or Jamie Vardy leading our attack next season, and now Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge is re-emerging as a possible target.

The former Secretary of State holds a slight edge in the polls (46 % to 44 %) but, as we documented in our previous post, Trump has been on the rise over the past month and a half, cutting into Clinton's lead with each passing day.

I don't believe there would be a single United fan not happy to have LVG replaced in May with Pep — he led our recent poll by a clear margin with 40 % of the vote, whilst just 6 % of fans want Van Gaal to continue as far as 2017/18.

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.

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People failing to turn out as they've indicated they will... perhaps due to weather (though it's fairly unlikely this was a big factor in this election), a false sense of security (such as when the polls in the days leading up to and into election day suggest a comfortable victory!)

The Conservatives under Mr Cameron are currently leading the polls as the most trusted party on the environment, although the government has now agreed to Tory and Liberal Democrat demands to introduce a climate change bill in the Queen's speech this month.

Since then, however, the «Brown bounce» that led the prime minister's advisers to urge him to call a snap election has disappeared as Labour slumps 13 points behind the Tories in the polls.

But neither Alvarado Quesada's efforts nor Alvarado Muñoz's mistakes seem to have affected voters» intentions, as the latter still leads the polls with few days left until the run - off election.

(Remember that Siena's first post-primary poll included all registered voters and showed the AG up by 33 percentage points, leading Paladino's campaign to reject the outcome as «suspicious»).

As Liz pointed out earlier, Gillibrand holds wide leads over all three challengers, with none polling above 27 percent.

Khan's comments come as a new poll finds him extending his lead over his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith.

Romney has been ahead in the polls there lately, but his support is eroding and as recently as December, Gingrich had a solid lead.

Today's Q poll finds Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo has widened his lead against his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, even though many New Yorkers identify with the Buffalo businessman's mad - as - hell sentiments.

This even applies to «well intentioned» initiatives and led several states from threatening to arrest international election monitors if they attempted to monitor elections from the polling place as only legal voters and poll employees are allowed in the polling place itself.

This measure is worth looking at in more detail as voting intention polls led many forecasters astray in 2015.

Even as the polls leading up to election night showed Slaughter in the lead, conventional wisdom kept telling me Republican voters would vote the party line.

Pasok is in turmoil as its 43 % at the 2009 elections has now dropped to around 11 % in the opinion polls, with voters blaming the Papandreou - led government for its handling of the deep crisis even more than they blame New Democracy which was in power and increased the deficit substantially from 2004 - 2009.

As a result, the two leading trade associations, the British Polling Council (BPC) and the Market Research Society, immediately agreed to commission an inquiry.

He was picketed by religious groups during the 2010 election campaign for his stance on family and parenting issues, which, as outlined in the poll opposite, went down like a lead balloon with some Christian voters.

For days, Sky News had a «Labour woes» strap on the screen as the party's opinion poll lead shrank and its grandees kept on twisting the knife.

A USA TODAY / Suffolk University poll found that in a hypothetical race with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee and Bernie Sanders leading the Democratic ticket — presumably the scenario most conducive to a Bloomberg victory — Trump was chosen by 37 % of likely voters, Sanders by 30 %, and Bloomberg by 16 %.

The race for New York governor is picking up steam, as a new poll released Wednesday shows incumbent Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo with a commanding lead over the competition.

The majority of Long Islanders — led by Democrats, third - party or independent voters, African - Americans and Latinos — have an unfavorable view of Republican President Donald Trump and rate his handling of issues as fair or poor, according to a Newsday / Siena College poll.

The poll also found that Cuomo is still as popular as ever, with a 69 percent approval rating and a 2 - to - 1 lead over either Republican challenger in his race for Governor.

Jim Murphy's election as Scottish Labour leader two months ago did lead to a change in the party's fortunes in the polls, but he has more recently taken some interesting strategic positions.

A movement of that size is rather bigger than would normally be expected to occur as a result of the chance fluctuations to which all polls are subject, though we might still want to suspend our judgement and await further polling evidence before presuming that the SNP's lead has actually grown.