Sentences with phrase «polling day over»

Clegg also faced a week - long media barrage in the run - up to polling day over his handling of allegations of sexual impropriety by the party's former chief executive, Lord Rennard.

Second is that investors have been discounting days and weeks of wrangling after polling day over who would form the government — and so they are semi-euphoric that we already know who's in charge.

Second is that investors have been discounting days and weeks of wrangling after polling day over who would form the government - and so they are semi-euphoric that we already know who's in charge.

Not exact matches

The day before the vote, London odds makers gave 80 % chance that Remain would be victorious, as polls revealed a 10 - point edge over the Leave campaign.

In Cambridge Analytica's early days, Bolton's PAC funneled $ 1.2 million toward polling and «behavioral microtargeting with psychographic messaging» over the course of two years.

In just over 40 days, on May 14th, voters in BC will head to the polls.

Whether by Columbus Day, or Thanksgiving, or Valentine's Day, the Trump campaign will be over due to declining poll ratings or defeat in delegate selection contests.

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.

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 %).

Betty Ann Canizio - Aqil, a Board of Elections chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote by the board's commissioners — the second BOE official to be suspended over New York's primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to hold a double - digit lead over his Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, with less than two weeks to go before Election Day, according to a Siena College poll released this morning.

The main goal of the Democratic party's field organizing is to get their supporters off their butts and to the polls, either on Election Day or (even better) beforehand — absentee ballots are field - organizing gold, since every early ballot in the bank represents a voter who WO N'T need to be hassled in person or over the phone before November 4th.

Polling takes place across Europe over three days to take into account the traditional polling days in different member Polling takes place across Europe over three days to take into account the traditional polling days in different member polling days in different member states.

Asked if it doesn't concern him that Haggerty has never been able to account for the full $ 750,000 contributed by Mayor Bloomberg to the state Independence Party and subsequently handed over to him to (ostensibly) pay for poll watcher on Election Day, Paladino replied: More >

It has also added over 10,000 new members since polling day, partly reversing the decline it suffered in the early years of coalition.

One day after the release of a Siena College poll showing Cuomo with sizable leads over his potential Republican challengers, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco's campaign critiqued past public polls and insisted that the incumbent Democratic governor can be defeated this year.

Fidler is favored to win this contest, and despite their considerable financial edge over the Democrats, the Republicans are likely to keep their powder dry on this race unless internal polls show the odds improving for Storobin as election day nears.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

A recent poll of New York voters showed 45 percent thought he should run for office some day, but 48 percent said his political career was over.

Facing each other eight days before the November election, as Schneiderman's lead over Donovan narrowed in the polls, tensions at the WAMC studios in Albany were high.

A poll conducted fifteen weeks before Election Day shows incumbent New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is maintaining a wide lead over his nearest challenger.

Not a day passes without known NDC activists trading insults and / or accusing some kingpins in the main stream or through social media over alleged wrongful acts whilst in government which resulted in the party's excruciating defeat at the polls.

They help explain why an issue which should be another MP's affair spills over into the seat which matters come polling day.

We currently have a 60 point lead in the polls over my Scozzafava - supporting opponent and we are confident of prevailing on Election Day.

The trend over the course of the ANP is slight, but with five months until polling day is unmistakeably away from the two largest parties.

We knew we were going down; but, as in 1992, we hoped that when it came to polling day, stubby pencils would hover over the box next to the Labour candidate on the ballot paper, and people would decide to «play safe» and vote Conservative.

«We have been in consultation with campaign attorneys and polling data experts over the past several days.

«With just over a week to polling day, No to AV activists will be working hard to ensure that people go out and vote on May 5th.»

The Labour lead over the Conservatives has narrowed dramatically in recent days, and is down to just one point in three different polls, including this one from YouGov for the Sunday Times

(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.

It's all over bar the shouting as the polls have closed after an intense few days of campaigning and a busy voting day.

A spokesman for the Corbyn campaign said: «Polls rise and fall but this is a great start - Jeremy has only been in the race just over a week and already created a terrific platform to lift off from - higher than anyone predicted 10 days ago.

The poll was conducted over a three - day period between September 5 - 7, and surveyed 500 likely Democrat voters in the Albany Democratic primary.

[124] Some of the opinion polls had shown a 20 - point Conservative lead over Labour before the election was called, but this lead had narrowed by the day of the 2017 general election, which resulted in a hung parliament.

The day is expected to be further complicated by brand new Assembly and Senate district lines, which have changed many voters» districts and polling places, as well as lingering doubts over the competency of the Board of Elections, which bungled the ballot count in June's Congressional race between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat so badly that it took weeks to learn the final results.

I asked Rivera why the Election Day jobs — essentially handing out fliers for Espada outside of a polling place, surrounded by other people handing out Espada literature — were only for those over eighteen.

The tiff between the candidates over the financial health of New York State comes on the same day that a Siena College poll, conducted for the Albany Times Union newspaper, finds the majority of upstate New Yorkers are worried about money, and are treading water financially.

Stringer also announced Tuesday that he plans to audit the agency following confusion over poll locations, poor staffing and workers unsure of what to do on primary day.

His party started here with a far better infrastructure than in Glasgow East (which they won in July on a swing of over 20 per cent) and the confidence exuded by the SNP campaign all the way until polling day suggests that they too will have been flabbergasted by the extent of Labour's victory, on a swing to the SNP of a mere 5 per cent.

Maffei holds a small lead over Katko in polls, but a large fundraising lead with just over two weeks before Election Day.

With just over 100 days left before voters in New Jersey and Virginia head to the polls to pick their governors, Republicans have a legitimate chance of picking up both of the seats.

Over the final weekend before polling day, Miliband unveiled the eight - foot tablet with Labour's six pledges chiseled into its surface.

The poll, which was conducted over two days on May 4 and 5, surveyed 532 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percent.

The BMG Research polling also found that over double the number of 55 - 64 year olds feel well informed about the referendum compared to 18 - 24 year olds, suggesting that young people will be less likely to vote on polling day.

Among the question topics were his plans for the remainder of election day, what was most surprising in his campaign, public polls showing him substantially behind, whether his family is happy that the campaign is over and what he thinks voters care about most.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

«We have a little over a month left, and I won't stop knocking on doors and meeting with concerned citizens until the polls close on Election day.

Sterling suffered its biggest one - day fall in over a year when news of Sunday's YouGov poll broke, putting «Yes» in the lead.

The two women, one of them was an EC official on Election Day, moved away from her post at the polling station near the Asafo Palace to a drinking spot and handed over her EC jacket to the other woman.

Heading into the final days of the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton is holding an edge over Donald Trump after a month of tumult, with most voters saying their minds are made up and late revelations about both candidates made no significant difference to them, according to the latest New York Times / CBS News poll.