Sentences with phrase «pollsters ask»

Over all, young people, like Americans generally, still tend to place climate change and energy problems low on lists when pollsters ask them to name their concerns.

According to Philip Johnson march 2012 Telegraph: «Whenever pollsters ask the public if they want new selective schools, 70 per cent or more say yes.

«All too often, pollsters ask Americans whether they support more or less gun control, or frame gun policies as controls on gun ownership generally rather than as measures to keep guns from criminals or other high - risk groups,» Barry says.

Most telephone pollsters ask how certain people would be likely to vote in a general election on a scale from one to 10, where one is certain not to vote and 10 is absolutely certain to vote.

When pollsters ask voters about their priorities, employment is always at or near the top of the list.

If a pollster asks a stupid question, you'll get stupid answers.

Gallup pollsters asked a cross-section of Americans whether they experience life as dull and routine, or as exciting.

Gallup pollsters asked 7,948 students at 48 colleges to pick two areas, out of half a dozen, which they thought would be most important to them ten years hence.

Carroll says his pollsters asked respondents a new question in light of the scandal.»

In a survey underwritten by a group trying to bring a casino to the former Nevele hotel resort in Ulster County, pollsters asked if the casino would be built in a resort destination outside of any city, 69 per cent replied in favor.

In one question, pollsters asked voters if they'd consider voting for White House budget director Shaun Donovan, who ran the city's housing agency under Bloomberg.

When a pollster asks their opinions about a race, low - participation voters might migrate to the candidate they've actually heard of, which would favor Clinton over Sanders.

The pollster asked the following questions of 1,003 adults between 6th and 7th January:

Most people have no idea what it is when the pollster asks.

But when pollsters asked about support for the concept of common standards — without the Common Core label — 68 percent of people were supportive.

Pollsters asked voters what issues mattered most to them.

After first finding that without a description respondents opposed the Core 39 to 34 percent, the pollsters asked the following:

Pollsters asked 1,011 adults whether they most preferred to shop at Wal - Mart, Kmart or Target.

Not exact matches

Pollsters typically ask roughly 1,000 people a question like: Whom do you plan to vote for?

It was the first time the pollster had asked voters whether Merkel should quit.

I remember once being sent a survey on some political issues, the questions asked on the survey were so contrived that it left me little recourse but to answer the question the way the pollsters wanted the question answered — if I answered honestly.

Let your minds drift back to the Bush / Kerry election and the question asked by pollsters, «Who would you rather invite to a family BBQ, George Bush or John Kerry?»

Siena pollster Don Levy: «When we took a look specifically at three functions of government and asked New Yorkers «Who do ya think is doing a better job, local or state,» - there's where the big difference really jumps out.

For example, when pollsters fail to prompt by party names when asking voting intention, the Lib Dem vote share falls by several percentage points.

When asked by pollsters what they would vote, these voters answered «Don't Know», rather than admit to supporting the Conservative Party.

No self - respecting pollster would ask the question that Alex Salmond proposes to put on the ballot paper in his referendum.

Survation were the most accurate pollster in the 2017 general election so it is natural to ask who is right, Survation or the other pollsters?

[1] Pollsters used to call people at home to ask them how they'd vote.

Asked for an example, she cited the fact that on the Republican primary ballot question the pollsters included the 31 percent of people who said they were planning to vote in the Democratic primary.

But pollsters don't ask voters if they should be governed by laws emerging from a corrupt process.

This is the most pertinent question a pollster can ask.

The major pollsters have so far avoided asking voters specifically about a matchup between Cuomo and the nonfictional Teachout, explaining that the challenger is still virtually unknown.

Ask any pollster why Democrats made such wide gains in Congress and state legislatures around the country in 2006 and they will tell you that independents acted like Democrats.

Also, the pollster read a series of negative statements on each candidate, and then asked the «horserace» question.

It seems the pollster and businessman is a bit of a rockstar here at Tory Conference, due to his extensive and revealing polling and a sassy Twitter presence; before the event began, delegates were asking for photos with him.

However, pollster Steve Greenberg says that when given the specific wording of the amendment on the ballot in November and asked whether they would vote yes or no to approve an amendment to «allow the Legislature to authorize up to seven casinos in New York State for the legislated purposes of promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes through revenues generated,» 55 percent said yes they would approve it, compared to 42 percent who say no they would not.

The campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is releasing results of an internal poll Wednesday that shows him tied with Gwen Graham and within striking distance of frontrunner Philip Levine — and leading among Democrats after the pollsters provided pitches for each candidate and asked again.

The pollsters keep asking about the Cuomo - Rob Astorino race, but usually leave Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins off the ballot.

asked Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

The campaign claimed momentum, though polls still show nearly 90 percent of Democratic voters still don't know enough about Teachout to form an opinion, and the pollsters hadn't even bothered to ask about Wu.

Pollsters at Quinnipiac University called 822 voters on landlines and cellphones, asking questions about subways, buses, funding for mass transit — along with questions about the ongoing feud between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Santa Fe Institute Professor Mirta Galesic says pollsters might also ask: how do your friends plan to vote?

But this year the government asked the London - based pollsters, Ipsos MORI, to carry out a new survey, changing the wording of several questions.

Besides asking participants to name their favorite movie, the pollster would ask them to predict the outcome of the poll.

For several decades pollsters have asked American citizens to grade the nation's public schools, both nationally and within their local community.

The pollster shows them / reads them a brief description, and then asks their opinion on the spot, with presumably seconds to digest the description, no further information, no background and no context.

It is crucial to recognize that «reformers,» not educators, have driven this shift: In a 2008 survey, for instance, education pollsters Steve Farkas and Anne Duffett asked, «For the public schools to help the U.S. live up to its ideals of justice and equality, do you think it's more important that they focus equally on all students regardless of their backgrounds or achievement levels... or disadvantaged students who are struggling academically?»

Pollsters discovered this by asking one randomly chosen half of the respondents the same question as was posed to the other half, except that they dropped any specific mention of the Common Core.

For instance, pollsters Steve Farkas and Anne Duffett have reported that teachers believe their students are all entitled to equal attention but that, when asked who is most likely to get one - on - one attention, 80 percent said academically struggling students and just 5 percent said academically advanced students.

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