Sentences with phrase «public polling suggested»

Results and public polling suggested voters split along racial lines.

2.5 %, significantly closer than the final public polls suggested.

Those results generally align with views of both party insiders, though Democrats think Ayotte's margin over Trump is smaller than it appears because the GOP presidential nominee is drawing more support in New Hampshire than public polls suggest.

A series of public polls suggest Limbaugh is a broadly disliked figure among Democratic base voters (no surprise there) but it remains to be seen whether that disdain will translate into a desire to turn out on a random Tuesday in March to cast a vote against a Republican House candidate.

Not exact matches

Even so, recent polls suggest opposition among the general public has softened lately.

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.

After the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, at least six public opinion polls suggested that Americans were becoming more receptive to gun control.

A recent Pew poll suggests that John Q. Public wants more religion in American public life, notPublic wants more religion in American public life, notpublic life, not less.

The new survey suggests that the Pope is arguably the most well - regarded religious figure among the American public today, said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

Only 11 % of the public believe Rupert Murdoch and other News Corporation executives are «fit and proper» to own British media, polling suggests.

And, with a recent poll suggesting that people in Sunderland would now vote to remain in the EU if there was another referendum, are the public getting cold feet?

Early polls suggested that there was a surprising level of public support for the strike, with a Channel 4 poll showing 77 % backed the action and 23 % opposed it.

Perhaps surprisingly for such a country accustomed to high electoral volatility, the electoral polls in the last year suggest that Israeli public opinion has barely shifted at all since Israelis last went to the kalpi.

However, the poll suggests that the public are not so keen to listen and would flock to support the Lib Dems if Blair returned leaving Labour on 36 %, the Conservatives on 34 % and the Lib Dems on 15 %.

Astorino's campaign, struggling to gain any semblance of traction in public polls, has resorted to what amounts to throwing spaghetti against a wall to see what sticks, releasing mostly online - only videos critical of Cuomo's handling of the economy and suggesting — without any context — that he could be in jail one day.

Even now as voters head to the polls, Ipsos MORI's latest polling suggests a large proportion of the public are yet to fully commit to voting Leave or Remain.

The news of the robocall comes almost simultaneously with word that Owens, like Democrat Dan Maffei in central New York, has filed a court order to impound ballots ahead of tomorrow's vote — a sign that the race against Republican Matt Doheny will be as close as the public polls have suggested.

They will however draw some solace from the poll, which suggests that a majority of the public support the need for cuts.

Opinion polls suggest that the public believes the change has come about for party political reasons.

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.

More recent polls suggest that most of the public want and expect debates at the 2015 election, now that the precedent has been set.

Politicians on all sides are steered by polls suggesting low public support for raising benefits, especially for the unemployed (about 15 % believe they should get more).

As for Britain not being social democratic, polls of the public's views on a number of issues suggest otherwise.

The polls suggest that the voting public is losing patience with the government's economic handling.

Recent polling suggests that the public is more approving of reductions in welfare than politicians used to realise.

[91] Opinion polling for the council elections conducted in early 2017 suggested that the SNP looked set to repeat this level of success, with 47 % of the public claiming they will be voting for SNP candidates on election day.

The public are happy with the severe punishments meted out in the aftermath of this month's rioting and support tough sanctions against those convicted, a new poll suggests.

(Indeed, polling suggests that the public strongly prefers equity to localism and does not think that that different outcomes arising from different choices are a price worth paying for more local control.

The irony here is that for once, Corbyn is far more in touch with the public and with the kind of voters Labour needs to win back than his parliamentary party is (the most recent ICM poll, for example, suggests that the voters Labour's lost since 2015 break about 4:3 for Leave).

The BMG Research poll for the Evening Standard suggests a wide difference of opinion between the public at large and Labour members, who look set to re-elect Mr Corbyn as party leader next month.

Meanwhile, the BBC reported that a poll for Newsnight suggested more people believed David Cameron would make the right cuts in public spending than Brown.

The Tories had previously rolled out polling data suggesting that the general public would support legislation putting same - sex marriages on a level legal status with heterosexual marriages.

Despite these public information campaigns, polling evidence suggested that by the time of the referendum about half of British Columbia voters were unaware of the referendum.

A ballot test that did not include the third party candidate was still a 44 - 44 tie, according to the Public Opinion Strategies poll, suggesting neither is either helped or hurt by the presence of a contender with no money or name recognition.

The public consider Boris Johnson the most likeable politicians in Britain but they do not believe he would make a better prime minister than David Cameron, a new poll suggests.

There was applause from the audience and instant polling suggested the public liked this stuff a lot.

The bad poll numbers come as The Daily News reports on an email excluded from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics report on the Lopez scandal that suggest Silver was conducting an affair with top aide Judy Rapfogel (the speaker's office called the claim ridiculous).

The firming - up of the poll lead suggests the public was turned off by Salmond's performance in the TV debate with Darling.

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.

The reality is that trying to pick a horse in the NYC race is tough, despite recent polls that suggest NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has a shot at garnering enough support to avoid a runoff.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- A national poll suggests that three - quarters of the public thinks President - elect Barack Obama is a strong and decisive leader, the highest marks for a president - elect on that characteristic in nearly three decades.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- A new national poll suggests that most Americans favor an economic stimulus package even if it comes with an $ 800 billion price tag, but that support doesn't indicate that the public wants to see a new era of big government.

So far, public polling hasn't suggested de Blasio is in too much electoral danger.

Ms Abbot suggested there would be less public infighting between the party's MPs under new Chief Whip Nick Brown, and this would rejuvenate Labour's months - long poll slump.

Those twin banditos of the public trust — husband - bugging attorney - general candidate Jeanine Pirro and wife - ferrying state comptroller Alan Hevesi — continue their black reign of terror over newspapers and bloggers, but a Marist poll released Friday suggests that the citizenry at large is unfazed.

Anyway, the bottom line is that this poll suggests that the public viewed Obama as a typical self - interested politician this week.

Public opinion polls suggest potential Democratic nominees with a leads over the GOP nominees in hypothetical matchups.

Polling suggests Maloney and Gillibrand begin the race essentially tied and Maloney has already shown a willingness to take after her former House colleague in public.

«That the Parliament looks critically at the results of a new poll on support for nuclear weapons in Scotland commissioned by Lord Ashcroft; believes that the result stating that 51 % of Scots want the Trident nuclear deterrent to be replaced is misguidedly being used to suggest that a majority of Scots support keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland; understands that the results of this poll were intended to challenge the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that showed a decisive 75 % majority of the Scottish public is against both the cost and the reasoning behind the UK Government's intention to keep all of its nuclear weapons stationed in Scotland; understands that, while Lord Ashcroft conducted the poll to supposedly show that «more than half of Scots are in favour of nuclear weapons», the poll showed that only 37 % of Scots believe so in principle, compared with 48 % who do not; questions the integrity of a poll that, it understands, was privately paid for by a wealthy Tory backer; considers that Lord Ashcroft is spinning the results, and believes that he should stop doing so and accept what it considers the fact proven time and again that Scots want rid of nuclear weapons.»

In an analysis that will dismay senior Blairites in the party, the report suggests the Conservatives are too right - wing on crime, immigration and welfare — all areas where polling suggests the public would like to see even tougher policies.