Sentences with phrase «polls suggested we were»

«The table lists ten areas that a previous YouGov poll suggests are closest to the national average of support for the EU, alongside expected time that votes will be counted.»

This is not simply because Harper is better liked by Canadians who prefer to steer an SUV while sipping their Starbucks (though polls suggest he is); this is because Conservative candidates finished within a few percentage points of winning quite a few of those suburban ridings in 2006.

While Monday's Senate debate was slated to focus on gun control, the two absent candidates — who some polls suggest are the frontrunners in the GOP primary — quickly became the punching bags of their counterparts in attendance.

If the Tories thought that Miliband and Labour would give them an easy ride back into Downing Street, today's poll suggests they were sorely mistaken.

His party is targeting a potentially useful 20 seats, although polls suggest it is struggling to make headway.

Polls suggest he is on course to win the seat for the party, which campaigns for the UK to leave the European Union.

Our poll suggests it's a knife - edge decision: Tory voters who would be unhappy with a soft Brexit are about as likely to turn to UKIP as those who would be unhappy with hard Brexit to jump ship to Labour or the Lib Dems.

Confident they've found the votes to pass a massive tax overhaul, Republican lawmakers have entered the next phase of their effort: attempting to sell the plan to a public that polling suggests is deeply skeptical.

I began it thinking that the politics of a hung parliament, which is where almost all the opinion polls suggest we are headed, were complicated.

How much media will he do when the Tories» own polling suggests he's toxic with floating voters?

David Cameron and Ed Miliband were talking tax and business, while Nick Clegg was in the news over a poll suggesting he was as risk of losing his Sheffield seat, and Nigel Farage was in a Radio 4 interview taking questions on immigration targets.

In July 2014 Cameron demoted Gove after polls suggested he was unpopular with parents, appointing him Chief Whip instead.

The opinion polls suggested we were right about that.

Meanwhile, the party took a blow today as an ICM poll suggested it was 16 points behind the Conservatives.

After initial polling suggested it was going to be a landslide win for the Welsh Conservatives, many were left wondering just how much of a traditional Labour heartland the nation could truly be.

As kids across the country return to school, the results of a new poll suggest it's adults who need a lesson on the Common Core State Standards, a set of end - of - grade expectations in math and English adopted by 44 states and the District of Columbia.

Not exact matches

An Angus Reid poll of 799 British Columbians last October suggested 75 % felt it should be taxed and regulated rather than prohibited, up six percentage points from a year earlier.

One in four voters backed UKIP in the 2013 local elections but polls suggest the Paul Nuttall - party is steadily in decline and could suffer around 105 net losses today.

Labour is currently marginally behind in the national polls but appears to be gaining popularity in London, suggesting they are losing ground elsewhere, he said.

A poll last week suggested that Labour would fail to take Wandsworth and Westminster, but indicated the party was still on track for its best result in 40 years in London.

Users on Twitter expressed anger and disbelief at the poll, suggesting it was making light of the horror of the Holocaust and an act of trolling.

One poll suggests the wage issue is a political winner, and not just in Ontario.

Some studies (and opinions) suggest that brand loyalty is a concept that's dying; for example, 79 percent of the millennials polled in one survey ranked quality as their most important purchasing decision, rather than the name brand involved.

As the name suggests, Polly the Poll is a chatbot that checks up on team health and well - being through polls.

Other recent polls suggest that goodwill toward Democrats may be more complicated than the Journal poll suggests.

However, the bank noted that whether far - right supporters are certain about their vote, support for Macron may be more fragile than what polls suggest.

But recent polls suggest that the incoming Alabama senator - elect's victory may be a part of a larger trend that could spell trouble for Republicans in next year's midterm elections.

Wells suggests all this is happening because more voters are appearing at the ballot box who are not detected by opinion polls.

However, polls suggested that if the SPD's members had rejected the deal and effectively triggered fresh elections, the party would have been thoroughly thrashed by the electorate.

But a recent poll of consumers who use social networks suggests just how easy it is for companies to unwittingly convince people to click that invisible, but oh so potent, «hate» button.

Every payday, almost half of Canadians feel hard done by, with a recent poll suggesting that 46 % of Canadians believe they're underpaid.

A new poll by the Military Times suggests American troops are most likely to vote for Donald Trump.

Opinion polls suggest Canadians are already abandoning dreams of early retirement.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

Recent polls have suggested the overall turnout could be over 80 %.

Polls suggest Macron is well ahead.

Drivers in Athens are honking their horns as opinion polls suggest that «No» voters are out in front

With the U.K. general election just days away, latest polls suggest the outcome is still too close to call.

«If Cameron, Clegg and Miliband really cared, they would have been up here campaigning to save the U.K. weeks ago and not just at the last minute when the polls suggest there's a chance they could lose,» said Alistair Davidson, a computer programmer from Dunblane in central Scotland.

A new opinion poll by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada would suggest — at least where it comes to attitudes toward Asia and Canada's engagement with the region — that there may be more to this generation than avocado - toast - fuelled narcissism.

However, recent polling suggests Canadians are no longer buying this worn out narrative.

by Silvio Cascione, Sumanta Dey and Vuyani Ndaba (Reuters)- The U.S. dollar is likely to set new records against emerging market currencies this year, although its climb may be slower than in 2015 and possibly hampered by more frequent bouts of volatility, a Reuters poll suggested.

Marceau presented the economic road map at a critical time for the minority PQ, which is widely expected to call a snap election in the coming weeks as polls suggest Marois is within striking distance of a majority mandate.

This time last year, Sinn Féin attracted just 10 per cent support in polls, suggesting its anti-austerity stance is proving popular with the public.

New poll suggests people are feeling more pessimistic about their futures over next five years

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

Polls suggest that Sinn Féin is now the second - most - popular party in Ireland and the biggest opposition party.

A new poll from Harris Interactive suggests that 90 percent of adults ages 18 - 34 believe that the advertising they see is truthful (at least some of the time).

TORONTO — One in three Canadians say that they are already feeling the effects of increasing interest rates, a new poll suggest.

But David Zahn, head of European Fixed Income, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group, suggests investors should be cautious about extrapolating this result to the upcoming polls in France and Germany.