Sentences with phrase «polling day last»

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The last widespread survey (i.e., not the barrage of fickle online polls that appear every Valentine's Day) was by the Society for Human Resource Management in 2005, in which 40 % of people claimed they had dated colleagues at some point during their career.

U.S. crude inventories likely rose by 1.3 million barrels last week, while gasoline and distillate stockpiles fell, a preliminary Reuters poll showed on Monday ahead of data by the Industry group the American Petroleum Institute later in the day.

In the last few days, the Mexican peso has hit all - time lows against the U.S. dollar as Trump appeared to gain momentum in election polls.

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

Faux News was reporting that McCain was leading in the poll even the day leading up to the last election.

9:29 Fight [q - t - l] those among the people of the Book [Christians] who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden and do not profess the true religion, till they pay the poll - tax out of hand and submissively.

In 2015, the UK Parliament was projected to come out about even between the top two parties, but the conservatives won by over 5 %, ending up with the majority (which was considered to be a near 0 % chance possibility as the day began), this summer Brexit passed (considered almost certain to fail as the day began, ended up passing by 4 %), and last month the Colombian Peace Referendum failed (after being consistently polled to pass by about 10 %).

The legend goes that the Sun won the 1992 election with its devastating campaign in the lead up to polling day, culminating with: «If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights».

The party's appeal to the 48 % of people who voted to remain in the European Union last year did not cut through as hoped on polling day.

The latest New York Times / CBS News poll, conducted last week, showed likely voters in the same age group supporting Mr. Romney by a 15 - point margin — even wider than the gap on Election Day 2008.

Much of the nervousness is a hangover from last year when both the polls and bookies also predicted a Labour government, only for their hopes to be crushed on polling day.

Kenya goes to the polls in closely contested election — in pictures View gallery Odinga supporters interviewed by the Guardian in recent days said their leader had been robbed of victory in the last two elections, but that they would not take to the streets if they believed they had been fairly defeated this time.

Throughout the last 100 days Salmond is convinced things are moving his way: «Whatever is happening it is not being fully recorded in most polls» (29 June); there's «a real change in the air» (25 July); and «it's perplexing that we haven't as yet seen the same movement in the polls that I'm detecting on the ground» (16 August).

They want every Conservative activist and donor to strain every sinew until the last polls have closed on General Election day.

At the end of last month, one survey put the party on 7 %; the following day another poll from a different company had them at 19 %.

It is impossible to know whether Rudd's initial poll boost for Labor will last until polling day, but seats above 5 % now look less likely to see big swings.

The rating is based on the average of all their polls done within 5 days of the last general election, and the previous election carries more weight that than the one before that.

Publishing polls in the last five days before an election is illegal in Israel, so the final pre-election polls were published on 13th March.

With election day upon us, the same data helps target emails, ads and last - minute individual contacts to maximize the chances of getting Democratic supporters to the polls.

June 26 Last day to deliver Federal primary ballot in person to county board, by close of polls on election day.

Sept. 11 Last day to deliver state / local primary ballot in person to county board, by close of polls.

Nov. 7 Last day to deliver general election ballot in person to county board, by close of polls on election day.

During a TED talk last year, the «Free Speech» presenter put forward ways to ensure more young people turn up on polling day.

After some last - minute speculation that the polling day might be moved forward politicians from all parties are working towards the date originally predicted by politics.co.uk on November 6th last year.

The last polls conducted before polling day show the Scottish National Party (SNP) is likely to win a lot of seats and hold the balance of power.

(CNN)-- A national poll released Sunday showed President Barack Obama with an edge over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the last couple days of the 2012 presidential campaign.

The Hempstead Town Board voted Tuesday to approve 18 personnel matters and entered into at least nine contracts, a day after Supervisor - elect Laura Gillen wrote asking Supervisor Anthony Santino, whom she defeated last week at the polls, to refrain from doing so.

The primary results came after a day marred by problems with the old lever voting machines and other issues including last - minute changes to polling sites and voters» names not appearing on official rolls.

The last day the poll was conducted was the day Spota and one of his chief aides, Christopher McPartland, were indicted on federal charges accusing them of taking part in a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of Christopher Loeb in 2012.

Democrat Susan Guinn is effectively tied with Republican county Assessor / Recorder / Clerk Ernie Dronenburg as his challenge of same - sex marriage last year is heavily influencing voter opinion, according to a poll that also found nearly half of respondents undecided just days before the election.

Last night, one day shy of the first anniversary of the Brexit poll taking place, May told EU leaders in Brussels that European citizens could stay in the UK after Brexit and she was willing to guarantee the rights with regard to things like education and pensions of those that have lived here for five years.

If the more promising opinion polls on the last day had been right, Miliband might have been able to address his party with a tone of some vindication — many of the judgments he had made, often criticised and even derided by his own side, looking shrewd and ultimately rather effective.

The polling, all in Lib Dem - held seats, was done 10 days before last week's key parliamentary vote to increase university tuition fees to up to # 9,000 a year, which saw the party's MPs split three ways and the coalition's Commons majority slashed by three quarters.

Our survey is the latest in a series of disastrous polls for the Remain campaign in the last few days as Brexiteers swiftly close the once wide gap.

The Siena poll of 930 New York voters, conducted over four days last week, was released two months before New York holds its presidential primary election, on April 19.

In it's last poll prior to election day, Siena College surveyed likely voters across the state.

All told, the committee over the last three days has unloaded $ 964,460 in advertising costs in the final days before voters head to the polls on Nov. 7.

Although Clegg was determined to resist any invitation to meet Cameron before polling day, tonight's film reveals a chance 45 - minute meeting, at the opening of the Supreme Court last October, which allowed them to get to know and trust each other — as Cameron says, he established that Clegg was «a reasonable person, in politics for the right reasons».

A stakeholder's meeting at both the senatorial and local government headquarters will hold on 10th October, while 12th October is the last day for the submission of names of polling agents by the member sought to be recalled and the representatives of the petitioners.

At issue last fall was that the Ulster County Board of Elections had allowed a few dozen poll - watchers to vote a few days earlier (via legally proscribed sealed envelopes) than current law allows.

With the last few days newspapers having been an orgy of Cameronia, it is rather unsurprisingly a good poll for the Tories — for the first time since the beginning of the general election campaign it shows the parties neck and neck: CON 36 % (+1), LAB 36 % -LRB--1), LD 18 % -LRB--2).

Time for a catch up of the YouGov polling over the last few days.

Despite holding the highest poll numbers of any sitting governor, and having a famous name and distinguished Democratic pedigree, Cuomo has said he'll maintain a low profile and only show up for the last day of this year's convention in Charlotte.

Downing Street made clear last week — in the days running up to the poll — that the prime minister was angry with Warsi after she announced her resignation on Twitter without informing him.

The Shadow Chancellor also took aim at Mr Blair and Lord Mandelson for making interventions in the last week before polling day, as did Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald.

Looking at polls in the last few days, it seems like that mojo may be back.

Election Day is here at last and polling places across upstate New York are prepared to be busy, because presidential election years tend to boost turnout.

The poll, conducted over four days last week, is the first to account for the breadth of negative coverage Cuomo's received in the weeks since the publication of a 6,000 - word story in the New York Times on July 23 that detailed the administration's handling of the ethics commission, which the governor abruptly shuttered in April this year.

For example, last week's YouGov / Sunday Times poll, showing a ten - point Conservative lead, the highest since January, could have been dismissed as a rogue poll, had it not extended a trend detected earlier in the week, with the Tory lead growing steadily from four points to eight points in the days following Alistair Darling's Budget.

Another poll released last week was conducted just days after the first story broke, and showed Cuomo's favorability rating dropping six points to 53 percent in the immediate wake of the scandal.