Sentences with phrase «private polling»

Which is, of course, truly laughable given the massive investment by political parties, and sometimes individual candidates, in private polling.

The banks that have reportedly commissioned private poll analyses may already be starting to trade on what the district results are telling them.

The party may not have the funds to do private polling on anything like the scale they have done in previous years, but frankly it may not need to.

Shortly after the 2014 conference, private polling conducted by James Morris and Stan Greenberg showed Labour doing slightly — but not dramatically — worse than published polls suggested.

Following the leaking of private polling, Oakeshott warned that the Lib Dems were was «heading for disaster» under Clegg, who had made the party one of «no roots, no principles and no values».

But more recent private polling shows Heaney closing the gap, at least according to Heaney's team.

The policy of ensuring no one on welfare can earn more than those on Britain's average wage has received 82 % popularity in private polling for Cameron, but why not go further?

Gov. Cuomo has remained publicly neutral in the race between Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer because his own private polling data shows the hooker - loving former governor will likely win on Tuesday — and he fears retribution from the notoriously vindictive «steamroller,» insiders told The Post.

Another prominent Democrat said private polling data showing Trump's support in New York state sharply declining over the past two weeks convinced Cuomo «that the Democrats have a good chance to take the Senate anyway, so he might as well get on board.»

Two rival leadership campaigns have conducted private polls which are said to put Corbyn in front.

«Lord Saatchi, then the Conservatives» co-chairman, announced in 2004 that despite Labour's national lead the Tories private polling put them ahead in the marginals, and on course to win the election.

Lib Dem peer who leaked private polling suggesting party would do better under Vince Cable back to help pro-EU campaign

Matthew Oakeshott resigned the Lib Dem whip in May 2014 after releasing private polls to the Guardian indicating that the party would do better with his ally, the then business secretary Vince Cable, as leader.

The most important story concerning the Conservatives today appears over at the Wall Street Journal from Iain Martin; Tories Hire YouGov to Do New Private Polling.

Fred Dicker: «Armed with troubling private polling data, top state Democrats are fearful that «complacency» by less - than - enthusiastic (Clinton) voters will lead to a surprisingly strong showing by Bernie Sanders in New York's important April 19 primary.»

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In the last US election over $ 100 million was spent on private polling for the various parties.

It says it's seen private polling which suggests the leader hopeful is on top.

Private polling analysis seen by The Sunday Times puts the party on course to win 25 parliamentary seats at the next election.

He also claimed that the Tories» private polling last year, unlike the published polls which suggested a hung Parliament after the general election, pointed to a majority for David Cameron and the Conservatives.

«Multiple public and private polls now show House Republican incumbents who won by wide margins last fall, tied with or trailing real and hypothetical opponents,» analyst David Wasserman wrote.

Jeremy Corbyn has had his odds on being the next Labour leader slashed to 5/1 as private polling shows him to be ahead in the first round of voting.

With the considerable exception of the party's opposition to Darling's autumn stimulus (although even that was backed by considerable private polling) the Tories have been very unwilling to get ahead of public opinion on the recession.

Nowhere was this truer than him lavishing tens of thousands of pounds on slanted private polling rather than in helping friends and colleagues get elected.»

Senior Tories believe Coulson's decision highlighted a fundamental weakness at the heart of their campaign: that it has become too negative just as Brown finds his feet and Labour's private polling reports that Cameron is shrill and failing to embody optimism.

There was a time (up to the point that the Times commissioned YouGov to do a public poll) in the Labour leadership election when it looked like it might be the same, that journalists would be reporting the campaign solely upon what campaigns claimed their figures were showing, on constituency nomination figures and on a couple of private polls that Stephen Bush had glimpsed.

The latest evidence to «support» this is private polling conducted by ICM Research leaked to The Guardian in Inverness, Bairn, Badenoch & Strathspey; Twickenham; Wells; Redcar; Cambridge; and Nick Clegg's own constituency, Sheffield Hallam.

Sensing correctly that the 1973 Nittany Lions, a team that had rolled to a sparkling 12 - 0 record behind future Heisman Trophy - winning running back John Cappelletti, would be snubbed again by poll voters, Paterno held his own private poll and awarded his team national - championship rings.

Private polling for the party before the 2005 election suggested that the «fairness» component of the «freedom, fairness, trust» slogan used in the run - up to the election resonated well with the electorate.

Oakeshott resigned from the party on Wednesday, warning it was «heading for disaster» under Nick Clegg, after releasing private polls that indicated the party would do better with his ally Cable as leader.

Armed with troubling private polling data, top state Democrats are fearful that «complacency» by less - than - enthusiastic Hillary Clinton voters will lead to a surprisingly strong showing by Bernie Sanders in New York's important April 19 primary, The Post has learned.

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Sauna and steam open onto hot or cold whirlpool baths, an eight meters private poll, and a spring water plunge pool overflowing with fragrant tropical flowers.

The cack - handed attempt by Lord Oakeshott to stir insurrection against Clegg by leaking private polls he'd paid for in battleground seats backfired spectacularly.

Farage was drawing on private polling and his experience on the doorstep.

At the same time 100 % support David Cameron's leadership in private polls.

Recent public and private polls show Bredesen leading Blackburn... Republicans... worry that Corker's Bredesen - friendly comments amount to a tacit permission for pragmatic - minded GOP voters to cross the aisle.

He has taken private polls, asked unsuspecting cab drivers what they thought of this Randy Moss, and as often as not they have trashed him.

The reason for this cabinet minister's optimism was that the Remain campaign's private polling is being done «face - to - face», as he put it, and not over the phone or on the internet.

If the Prime Minister and his closest associates start to doubt their private polling, perhaps we might see David Cameron offer to take part in TV debates in the final days of the campaign after all.

The reason my informant was optimistic about the referendum result - I wouldn't go as far as to say confident - was that the Remain campaign's private polling, he claimed, tells a different story to the polls we read about in the newspapers or see on TV.

When I've asked fellow Lib Dems who know about these things (some of whom have seen the party's private polling) they reckon that sounds about right.

One private poll, commissioned by the New York Unity PAC, a pro-same-sex-marriage group, was made public and showed McDonald had a chance of winning a three - way race one the minor - party ballot line.

Lord Ashcroft, who is now a leading political pollster, described reports that the Conservatives» private polling showed the party on course to victory as «nonsense».

While this argument has some weight, the party's own private polling has been roundly criticised, and is hardly the epitome of methodological rigour.

Private polling had persuaded the Tory campaign director Lynton Crosby that Cameron's most likely route to a majority lay in gobbling up Lib Dem - held seats in the south - west.

It contained the results of a private poll, commissioned by Oakeshott from the respected polling firm ICM, of six Lib Dem seats.

There is also something quite depressing about resorting to «private polling» as a reassurance mechanism.