Sentences with phrase «pollsters said»

Demographics are another key factor to watch, the pollsters said.

The pollsters said some of the highest «strongly disagree» percentages of the survey came in response to questions about arming teachers and administrators.

When Hillary Clinton first announced in 1999, the pundits and pollsters all said she could never win, that she would never be able to form coalitions and get support upstate and in the suburbs.

The pollsters said independent voters are breaking toward Turner as the Sept. 13 special election approaches.

Pollsters said the results showed how Trump was dragging down the Republican Party, but the president took none of the blame.

Pollsters say that at this point in a government's mandate, public opinion has often begun to turn against an incumbent prime minister.

The swingometers of previous General Elections have already become redundant, pollsters say.

Pollsters say Labour supporters need to back AV by more than two to one if the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign is to emerge on top.

Pollsters say a ratification may hinge on whether younger voters, tens of thousands of whom have registered to vote in recent months, actually turn up to cast their ballot.

Pollsters say the daily revelations risk reinforcing suggestions the Conservatives are a party for the rich, out of touch with reality.

Experts believe the Tories could be left with just two councils in the capital, although pollsters say the party will present much stiffer competition elsewhere across the UK.

One pollster said: «Such polling projects in the commercial sector frequently cost more than # 250,000.»

The pollster said the party had suffered a «rapid decline», falling from its peak of 19 per cent as recently as late last year.

Last November, every major news outlet and pollster said Donald Trump would lose the presidential election, and just last week there was similarly unanimous consensus that Britain's Conservative Party was headed to a big win in its own election.

''... [I] t's the president's job to do the right thing regardless of what the pollsters say.

Not exact matches

«We as Democrats have to have a stronger economic message that appeals to Midwest and white blue - collar voters,» says Democratic pollster Celinda Lake in an email.

Let's say a pollster like Miringoff were to run that same poll 100 times.

Pollsters surveyed 517 registered Hispanic voters in the state, and 35 percent said they would vote for Romney in the primary compared to 20 percent for Gingrich.

Basically, Wells says, the pollsters got six things wrong:

And that can be even lower on cell phones, says Anna Greenberg, Democratic pollster and Vice President at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.

Second, as Americans have rapidly ditched landlines — 47 % of the population is «cellphone only» by the CDC's last count — pollsters are increasingly surveying cellphone users, a population that is two to four times more expensive to reach, says Republican pollster Bill McInturff.

Wang said a number of steps must be taken to attempt correction of the miss, including reviewing if pollsters adequately captured hard - to - poll demographics — such as blue - collar white voters — and as beginning to understand how to capture the leanings of undecided voters.

Oczkowski said pollsters «making guesses on old intuitions and old methodologies isn't going to work anymore.»

According to TechCrunch, Snowden said he doubted fake news on Facebook had the power to skew the election in Donald Trump's favor, a criticism the platform has faced following the candidate's win, which surprised pollsters and journalists.

Conservatives appear to be the only real alternative to the Liberals in Quebec in 2019, says pollster Jean - Marc Léger.

«The unofficial campaign is on,» said pollster Nik Nanos.

«The notion the news is imperilled runs contrary to [the public's] experience — 93 per cent say they get more news today, quicker, in a more timely fashion, from more diverse sources, than they ever had in their life,» pollster Allan Gregg said.

«The media thinks that once they've said it once, they're bored with it,» said pollster Allan Gregg, the chairman of Harris - Decima who once advised Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney.

Pollster Frank Graves says that while the middle class itself may be comfortable with the direction of the current Liberal government, the growing ranks of working class and poor aren't.

«For the first time tonight, same - sex marriage has been passed by popular vote in Maine and Maryland,» said Robert P. Jones, a Washington - based pollster who specializes in questions about politics and religion.

I'm saying it doesn't mean what the pollster and government are presenting it to mean.

«Religion is a proxy for trustworthiness of a candidate, especially for white evangelical voters,» said Robert P. Jones, a pollster who focuses on religion and values questions.

I say that as if it were a continuing process because I live in a state with early voting and despite what polling and the Obama campaign says, pollsters only get to talk to people who will talk to them and get to choose who they poll.

Miami entered the weekend ranked No. 11 in S&P +, suggesting that its real caliber is almost exactly the same as the pollsters have said.

Paladino praised his pollster, Tony Fabrizio, and said his assessment of the head - to - head match - up finds just 10 percentage points separate the Buffalo businessman and the attorney general.

«The debt ceiling hullaballoo devastated President Barack Obama's numbers even in true blue New York,» said Q pollster Mickey Carroll.

The USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times poll corroborated that: «Women who said they backed Trump were particularly less likely to say they would be comfortable talking to a pollster about their vote.»

Women who voted for Trump might have been especially reluctant to tell pollsters, said David Paleologos of Suffolk University.

«If Hawkins does that well on Election Day — something third party candidates often don't do — then it will almost certainly make this year's race closer than four years ago and keep Cuomo well below his total vote from 2010,» said Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg.

«After his lopsided victory in the Republican primary, Paladino is now better known by New York voters — but not necessarily better liked, other than by Republican and conservative voters,» said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

«New Yorkers are tired of telling pollsters, elected officials and community leaders that they want ridesharing in their communities — it's time for Albany to ignore NYC special interests and act,» said the company's New York general manager, Josh Mohrer.

Pollster and Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson has said, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ascended to the height of double standards, when it questioned the credibility of the five - member team that was empanelled by the Electoral Commission (EC) to assess calls for a new voters register.

«Gillibrand has a better than two - to - one favorability rating and a solid majority prepared to re-elect her,» said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

«Cuomo continues to hold a double - digit lead, but the numbers have shifted somewhat following Lazio's withdrawal from the race,» said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff.

«The Democratic primary for New York City comptroller is no longer an Eliot Spitzer romp,» said Quinnipiac pollster Mickey Carroll.

«Chief executives often find third terms difficult, and the current economic climate is not making it any easier for Bloomberg,» said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff.

«If a happy campaign is one with a lot of opponents, even happier is one with a lot of anonymous opponents,» said Q pollster Mickey Carroll.

Such numerical values allow pollsters to quantify expected voter turnout but they do not say why respondents are more or less likely to head to the polls.

«Andrew Cuomo is by far the most popular statewide elected official,» said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff.

«Eliot Spitzer's political scars remain, although for some New Yorkers, they may have faded a bit,» said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff.