Sentences with phrase «public polls say»

With the election four weeks away, New York's Republican chairman Ed Cox says things are looking good for his party, no matter what public polls say.

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And such actions still have not protected firms from legal attack; McInturff, who conducts the NBC / WSJ poll and is co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, says he gets a claim per week accusing his firm of calling a cellphone from an autodialer.

The survey, which polled 1,002 U.S. adults, also highlighted the fact that the DOJ and Apple legal battle has become a hot topic in the public sphere, with 75 % of respondents saying they have heard a lot about it since the news came out last week.

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.

A poll by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research says 61 percent oppose revoking the requirement, including 58 percent of Republicans.

Many pundits are demanding conditions be applied to any public funds used to help auto manufacturers, and 40 % of the CEOs in the poll said protecting the Canadian share of North American production is the most crucial requirement.

Since the 2016 election, Facebook has paid unusual attention to the reputations of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg, conducting polls to track how they are viewed by the public, said Tavis McGinn, who was recruited to the company last April and headed the executive reputation efforts through September 2017.

Over the rest of the campaign, Cohen's most notorious public moment was his odd August 2016 TV appearance in which a CNN anchor pointed out Trump was behind in polls and Cohen repeatedly asked, «Says who?»

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

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.

Nearly 3 out of 4 American adults (72 %) say they are willing to help Syrian refugees after the Paris terrorism attacks, according to an Ipsos Public Affairs poll sponsored by World Vision.

In a Public Religion Research Institute poll released last week, 18 % of black Americans surveyed said they see same - sex marriage a «critical issue,» putting it behind the economy, education, deficit, a growing wealth gap and immigration.

Their conservative leanings are part of a broader trend increasingly documented in freshman surveys, federal statistics, and public opinion polls, which have found declining rates of approval for casual sex and legal abortion among the young and a rise in the percentage of teenagers who say they are virgins.

In March, the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life saw a first in its ten years of polling: the largest group of voters in its survey, 38 %, said that politicians are talking about religion «too much» right now.

But, lets say the bishop of the local Catholic diocese took a public poll during Sunday mass and asked for a show of hands as to how many of his congregants use an unapproved form of birth control?

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).

According to a poll released yesterday by the Public Research Research Institute and Religion News Service, most Americans (56 %) say it is somewhat or very important for a presidential candidate to have strong religious beliefs.

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.»

According to a CNN / Opinion Research Corporation poll released Tuesday, 61 percent of the public says yes, with one in ten saying no and nearly a quarter unsure.

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.

The public's hostility to the benefits bill is, in large part, due to the commonly - held view (articulated by Field) that it encourages scroungers: in the same poll, more than one in four respondents said they thought at least half of all welfare claimants were «scroungers who lie about their circumstances to obtain higher welfare benefits».

A poll released this week found that public satisfaction with Gove has reached new lows with almost two - thirds saying he is doing a bad job as education secretary.

A new poll from Siena College shows that 90 % of New Yorkers say the current opioid crisis is worse than previous public health crises.

Despite the polling lead, de Blasio successfully argued to the city's campaign finance board earlier this month that his campaign should receive an additional $ 1.6 million in public matching funds, saying the race was indeed competitive.

The vast majority of the British public do not believe that British airstrikes on Syria are the right response to the Paris massacre, says a poll published today.

The public were right behind the decision, with 88 % of people in an ITV News / ComRes poll said she should have gone when the expenses report was first published.

In the poll of 984 Nassau and Suffolk registered voters, 81 percent of respondents said public corruption negatively affected taxpayers and needed to be eliminated, compared with 17 percent of voters who considered corruption an inevitable part of politics.

In a recent ComRes poll conducted exclusively for Total Politics, fully 50 per cent of the public said the Lib Dems «seem to have almost no influence over government policy» and only one - third disagreed.

Saying Ed M will take it is a hunch: YouGov showed DM stronger than is likely: ex-ForSec public name recognition means he will poll better among those least likely to vote, where turnout will be under 25 %; that the union endorsements, the campaigning efforts and union members response to campaign have probably helped EM more than DM.

The stark contrast for the governor and mayor in the poll comes after de Blasio went public in July with his frustrations with Cuomo and what he said was an inclination toward aiding Senate Republicans in Albany at the expense of what was needed in the city.

Several public - opinion polls have recently shown Gillibrand with less than a 50 percent approval rating and with a large number of voters saying they know little about her.

Several voters at the same polling place said they cast their ballots for de Blasio because they felt he was more in touch with the public and would steer the city in a better direction.

«It's almost Labor Day and he hasn't moved in the polls, while the general public is seeing more and more of the Cuomo attack ads and not very much from Rob,» said one of the state's best - known GOP leaders.

«From the very start, public opinion polls had solid majorities in favor of the bill and those majorities grew,» said Gottfried in a interview on AM 970's Effective Radio of the bill to legalize prescription - based medical marijuana.

Voters also took a dim view of the Common Core, with only 19 % saying it has improved public education and 40 % saying it things worse, the poll found.

Polls show that 80 % of the public are with us when we say that Britain needs a new and looser relationship with this emerging single currency on the continent.»

Should he become governor — as every public - opinion poll says he will — Cuomo will need to crush the give - away - the - store special - interest pandering that has passed for leadership for more than three decades.

One source said a private poll conducted for a commercial enterprise showed Weiner grabbing a significant number of votes from the three top contenders: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former Comptroller Bill Thompson and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

78 percent of Manhattan public school parents polled said they don't like the way Mayor Bloomberg is handling city schools.

Seventy - seven percent of those polled said the pension stripping should apply to all state employees - not just elected officials - who are convicted of crimes that relate to their public jobs.

But they said private and some public polling in contested House districts continued to show their party in a position to win enough seats to claim the majority.

Quinnipiac poll director Mickey Carroll says Silver's public image has been tarnished by the scandal.

Question topics included what he'll say to Rob Astorino if he bumps into him locally, what he has to say to the anti-fracking protestors, what was most surprising in the campaign, whether he'll be disappointed if he wins by 10 points rather the 20 points that public polls predict, for whom and on what line he and Lee voted, what he'll do to affect the state senate leadership should there not be any single majority conference, what he'll do in a second term concerning state mandates to local governments and what effect Republican control of the United States Senate will have on New York and his administration in a second term.

«I saw that meeting as my doing my job of trying to find a way to convey, in any way I could, that the public and even his voters had fierce opposition to the education cuts,» she said, adding that she told Bannon their polling showed half of Trump's voters opposed his cuts.

The governor pointed to public opinion polls that indicate New Yorkers are behind his budget, saying: «If you take that barometer then you would say people accept the budget that I put out and the track that I put out.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed his tanking poll numbers on «negative headlines» and said the public will welcome him back with open arms once the law enforcement probes wind down — and show he did nothing wrong.

There is overwhelming public support for the NHS and people are most likely to say health services should be the top spending priority for government, a new poll finds.

There's also some pushing back on the polling of public financing and the point Republican lawmakers make when saying taxpayers don't support public dollars going toward political activities.

«The public is quite wise,» said Siena College Polling Institute Director Don Levy.

With state leaders racing to finalize a new state budget by the Saturday start of the new fiscal year, a majority of New Yorkers say tax the rich, keep teens out of adult prisons and offer free tuition for some public college students, a new Q poll found.