Sentences with phrase «public polls on»

For the scientific community, the release of public polls on contentious questions of science usually makes us feel like Bill Murray's character in the film Groundhog Day.

We asked comptroller candidate Eliot Spitzer what he thinks about the recent wide swings in public polls on the race.

While there's been little reliable public polling on the contest, internal GOP polls have shown a tighter - than - expected finish, and national Republicans have accordingly thrown extra resources at Gianforte.

Last Friday, these three finalists were put into a public poll on our Outskirts Press blog to determine the winner of the 2012 Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year.

This month's open thread — for appetizers we have: William Nordhaus's extremely impressive debunking in the NY Review of Books of the WSJ 16 letter and public polling on the issue of climate change.

Not exact matches

Each year, the Harris Poll conducts its «Reputation Quotient» study, examining public opinion on the 100 most visible companies in America.

Tom Jensen, the director of the Democratic - leaning firm Public Policy Polling, pinned some of the blame on the response rate for telephone pPolling, pinned some of the blame on the response rate for telephone pollingpolling.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among 1087 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the average amount of vacation time given to employed workers is about 4 weeks (3.7), while the self - employed take a similar amount of time off (4.0 weeks, on average).

A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.

Only about a third of Republicans said they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on Election Day will be counted fairly, according to recent poll from the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Sesno tells Fortune that «the media are between a rock and a hard place on this» due to the fact that Trump is a fascinating figure who has a lead in the polls that demands the public's attention.

A separate poll published by the Telegraph on Saturday found public confidence in the government's handling of Brexit at an all - time low, with around two - thirds of people disapproving of how negotiations are being handled.

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.

Martin Schulz, leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), has doubled down on social reform policies in a last - ditch effort to boost his election polls during a public television town hall - style exchange.

But it is also true that public opinion began to show a partisan split on trade before Trump won the nomination, with Republicans displaying more skepticism toward TPP in polls even as they showed more enthusiasm on Capitol Hill.

In an effort to continue capitalizing on this trend, WikiLeaks recently polled the public about implementing additional digital cash systems.

On October 30, 2004, Ipsos - Reid released a public opinion poll that put support for Ralph Klein and his Progressive Conservatives at 50 percent.

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

Given that level of incentivization, and its short - and long - term impact on tax revenues and the local tax burden, the Elon Poll explored what residents in these locations in contention think about public financial support for the project.

Public opinion of the Liberals is up, putting them back on par with the Tories, according to a new Ipsos poll.

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

It's as if we are continually polling the public on our self - worth, seeking feedback on the way we look, the causes we support, the marriages we have, the kids we raise, the stuff we say.

The chatter around a poll released Wednesday by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Religion News Service will likely focus on the findings highlighted in their news release: 82 % of Americans surveyed believe that bin Laden distorted the teachings of Islam to suit his own purposes; 65 % believe the al Qaeda leader is rotting in hell; and 62 % think it is wrong to celebrate the death of another human being.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).

Public opinion polls may shed light on societal values, for citizens express and influence institutional aims and goods.

A similar poll, also released Tuesday, conducted by Public Policy Polling on behalf of Planned Parenthood, found that 53 % of Catholic voters support the Obama administration on this question.

As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»

But look at the polls: The public appears to be moving right on abortion — still, as it has long been, the top social issue.

Public opinion polls show that most Americans are fed up with the tone of American politics and the broader cultural coarseness, but few seem willing to act on these beliefs.

It seems, moreover, on the basis of public opinion polls, that this challenge is already accepted by a majority of our fellow citizens and thus the question of its establishment as a matter of law has not provoked a debate worthy of the momentous issues at stake.

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?

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 anti-discrimination?

The Joint Ambition for a Zero Food Waste Britain has been developed following extensive consultation with 240 organisations and builds on public polling conducted with over 2,000 households.

Recent polling shows that 74 per cent of the UK public back a ban on advertising junk food on TV before 9 pm.

It is important to note that the betting statistics found on the Sportsbook Insider live odds page are NOT «consensus» picks, wish lists, or public opinion polls.

Although the AP Poll is highly flawed, public bettors continue to place an inordinate amount of value on these rankings.

Even Nestlé's Global Public Affairs Manager, Dr. Gayle Crozier Willi, acknowledged in April this year that Nestlé is «widely boycotted» after an independent poll found it to be one of the four most boycotted brands on the planet.

The public likes the PM of the day to articulate its rage on such issues, and it can't have been a coincidence that this was the moment Cameron's poll ratings began to tick back upwards again.

Those detailed pieces in turn link to more details and to primary sources if you have them (the polling data that your piece on public opinion is based on, for instance, or a spreadsheet of your opponent's campaign contributions from well - known evildoers).

He asserted that, Mr. Anyidoho simply flew off the handle and run amok, launching blistering verbal attacks on anyone he perceived to be anti-government, and so wondered why he's suddenly gone on hibernation from the public view just a week after the general polls.

Do they really think the public will go into the polling booth thinking «oh well I would vote for Labour but they can't be trusted on the economy, and I would vote for the Conservatives but they might deliver the wrong kind of recovery, so I think I will marry economic efficiency and social justice and vote for the Liberal Democrats instead»?

The researchers asked a selected group of voters to state their opinions on a variety of real public policy questions, and then presented them with fabricated poll results on the same topics.

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 %.

Polls show the public share Osborne's prejudice against «scroungers», the «neighbour still asleep, living a life on benefits», as Osborne put it today.

The last public poll I recall on this issue (Siena, April 2009) found New Yorkers supported the Senate voting to pass the gay marriage bill (53 - 39), which would have virtually guaranteed it would become law since the Assembly and the governor were both on board.

Polling showing 81 % of public support assisted dying: http://humanism.org.uk/2012/09/07/news-1108/ Previous BHA news article — «L' waives right to anonymity in assisted dying court case: http://humanism.org.uk/2013/04/18/paul-lamb-l-waives-right-to-anonymity-in-assisted-dying-court-case/ Previous BHA news article — Court of Appeal allows «L' to join Tony Nicklinson Claim: http://humanism.org.uk/2013/03/20/court-of-appeal-allows-l-to-join-tony-nicklinson-claim/ Previous BHA news article — New case to test rules on assisted dying in UK: http://humanism.org.uk/2011/08/19/news-873/ The BHA's campaign on Assisted Dying: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/public-ethical-issues/assisted-dying/

«I think we started our position on that long before anybody thought of Occupy Wall Street, and, you know, we obviously welcome the message and the ratification and all the polling across the country and certainly across the state indicates that the public supports us on that overwhelmingly,» the speaker told me during a Friday CapTon interview.

As Anne Marie [Carrie] has already pointed out on her blog last month — a 2008 Barnardos poll found that 54 % of the public thought that British children were beginning to behave like animals.

As an example, the last mayor of a nearby town foresaw the problems that «enforcing» changes to the town's main street (1 less car way, and more parking space), would cause to his reputation, so he made public, electronic poll (with voting stations on public spaces) on that district (and lost).

More than half of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, according to a Gallup poll out yesterday, marking the first time the law has gained majority support since Gallup began tracking public opinion on it in 2012.