Sentences with phrase «public opinion polls»

The spot delivered lackluster results in public opinion polls and failed to impress professional ad reviewers.

As in the case of public opinion polling, he is only asked questions so that he may have a chance to confirm his own dependence.

Public opinion polls on marriage show challenges with the younger generation, of course.

Actually, it's a pertinent topic for political office seekers, as public opinion polls use statistical methods to measure the electorate's support (or lack thereof) for a particular candidate.

And you really don't believe that wars should be run based on the latest public opinion polls, do you?

In other words, actual church attendance was about half the rate indicated by national public opinion polls.

Public opinion polls consistently show that voters know very little about judges and judicial candidates on the ballot and wish they had more information.

State and local surveys are costly and time intensive, and as a result most public opinion polling is only done at the national level.

In this context, early public opinion polling has shown that Canadian voters view the economy as the highest - priority issue in the 2008 election.

What public opinion polls say about the current «score» is less important than what is influencing how and why voters make one choice over another.

Public opinion polls take the social temperature on everything from government programs to citizen well - being.

Two major public opinion polls have just been released.

On the economic front we had quarterly meetings with 5 - 6 experts who reviewed statistics, did private public opinion polls and gave us their insights on what they thought could happen.

Overall, the bill has failed to win broad popularity in public opinion polls.

An interdisciplinary research team used multiple methods of data collection and analysis, including an examination of public opinion polls; a media scan; observations and interviews with a broad range of actors.

Public opinion polls show consistently high support for equal shared parenting.

A recent public opinion poll conducted in Bridgeport included questions about Malloy, Mayor Bill Finch, Paul Vallas, members of the Working Family Party who serve as the outspoken minority on the Bridgeport Board of Education and Carmen Lopez, the former Connecticut superior court judge who brought the lawsuit that determined that Paul Vallas lacked the credentials necessary to serve as a superintendent of schools in Connecticut.

A recent public opinion poll conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs found that 75 per cent of Torontonians support Mayor Rob Ford's commitment to repeal the Toronto Land Transfer Tax.

But the findings, in new public opinion poll from Education Next, may have as much to do...

According to the latest one, a Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll released Tuesday, 68 percent of the state's registered voters want Paterson to stick it out, with 28 percent saying he should step down.

Today Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School released the ninth annual Education Next public opinion poll on education policies.

Majorities say Canada should encourage investment from UK, EU, US, discourage from China September 12, 2017 — As Canada continues to look for ways to deepen its economic ties with the world's second - largest economy, a new public opinion poll from

Although I could speak today about the underfunding of B.C.'s courts, legal aid, and a recently released Angus Reid public opinion poll suggesting that British Columbians are dissatisfied with the justice system, this is, after all, supposed to be a light, entertaining, and fluffy column about legal practice on the west coast, and there are some topics that don't lend themselves to my swordplay.

Yet a 2012 Angus Reid public opinion poll indicated that 61 % of Canadians supported reinstating the death penalty for murder in Canada, and Prime Minister Harper himself indicated he supported the death penalty in 2011.

«Public opinion polls find that Americans want their elected officials to do more on housing,» she says, citing several studies to that effect.

An Angus Reid Public Opinion poll put the Conservatives at 39 per cent, the Liberals at 25 per cent and the NDP at 19 per cent.

MC: That might be the cause, but on the other hand you look at public opinion polls about issues that are of concern to the American public, and climate change just isn't near the top of those lists, and maybe they made a calculated decision that a more sellable approach would be to focus on energy independence and self - sufficiency, because that's something that people have already bought.

First, while public opinion polling on the question of cannabis legalisation has been all over the place on the question, the most reliable results suggests that a slim majority of Germans opposes cannabis legalisation.

APPA even has their own press release out showing that consumers back the continued sale of pets in pet stores... even though public opinion polls show the opposite.

As previously argued, vox pops are no substitute for public opinion polls, since they do not convey the complexity of people's attitudes or understanding of politics.

«Last year Cuomo killed a minimum wage hike even though public opinion polls demonstrated overwhelming support among voters for it, including Republicans.

Nevertheless, if one were to accept public opinion polls as the compass of our society, would it not make sense to survey the French people also on all the demands made by LGBT activists in the name of equality and antidiscrimination?

A series of public opinion polls sponsored by upstate Siena College have found that majorities of 65 percent or more of those surveyed favor such continuation.

David Konisky of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs analyzed 20 years of survey results from Gallup public opinion polls in one of the first major studies of how attitudes about the environment by self - identified U.S. Christians have shifted over time.

In August, Education Next — an education policy journal published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford — released its 11th annual public opinion poll examining Americans» views on K - 12 education.

In 2010, respected public opinion polling analyst Nate Silver ranked the Quinnipiac University poll as most accurate among major polls conducting surveys in two states or more.

Professor Charli Carpenter from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, who conducted the first public opinion polling in 2013 on US views on killer robots.

Democrats, meanwhile, have seized on dismal public opinion polling on the plan and the fact that most individual tax cuts would expire under it while a massive corporate tax decrease would be permanent.

Public opinion polling during the summer of 2008 placed the Conservatives and Liberals in a virtual dead heat, leading most to speculate at the time that if an election were held there would be a third minority government.

Representatives may defend and promote the science they believe is truth despite public opinion polls and fact checkers, but they often don't know what the science teaches for the simple reason that they are not scientists.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.

Poll Hub is produced by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, home of America's leading independent college public opinion poll, The Marist Poll.

This is the situation which should be addressed if animal welfare is to be genuinely improved, not the simplistic and prejudiced attack on one particular method, fuelled by loaded public opinion polls, blinkered animal rightist claims and cheap, ill - informed headlines.

Public opinion polls inevitably influence politicians making law, so is it not reasonable to question whether those totally unaffected by an activity, and have little or no knowledge about it, should be able to play such a role in its future?