Sentences with phrase «says election polling»

Cliff Zukin, a political scientist at Rutgers University, says election polling is in crisis.

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President - elect Trump exulted in his surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton, mocking critics who said before the election that polls showed he had no path to the White House.

A Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll released on Sunday found that 50 % of people said they want Democrats to lead Congress after the 2018 midterm elections, compared to 39 % who said they hoped Republicans would retain congressional control.

In a Gallup poll during the 2016 general election, 51 % of Americans said the president should release all relevant medical information, an increase from 2004 when 38 % held that view.

Jensen said he repeated to anyone who'd ask throughout the general election that Clinton was up by 3 or 4 points, but that it was not «that unusual» for polls to be off by that amount.

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.

Ireland was on the verge of a snap election on Monday after the opposition party propping up the minority government said the deputy prime minister's refusal to quit would force the country to the polls next month.

Shown pictures of some of the people who apparently voted twice, including at Ust - Djeguta's polling station no. 217, Leila Koichuyeva, a member of the election commission there, said: «They could be twins.»

Asked about the discrepancy, the chairwoman of the polling station's election commission, Oksana Mediyeva, said independent monitors had watched the vote and had raised no issues.

Here are 9 things we know about the election, the polls and why Trump could surprise a lot of people, says GOP strategist Sara Fagen.

The Monmouth poll found that in counties that Trump or Hillary Clinton, his Democratic challenger, won by less than 10 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, 30 % of people say they approve of the bill and 38 % say they disapprove.

Jonathan Golub, the chief equity strategist at RBC Capital Markets, said Tuesday that market moves including the tightening of polls and the FBI ending its investigation into Clinton's emails have given a strong indication of how markets will move after the election.

«There's a national poll that came out this week that brought together Republicans and Democrats in saying that I would beat Donald Trump if we had an election today to become president.

In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.

Bocskor says the combination of an election year and marijuana on the ballot will bring people to the polls who are not usually politically active.

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.

Simcha Felder says he will stick with New York Republicans, even as voters went to the polls in special elections that could make him the swing vote.

A poll of polls says Labour will win the most seats at the election, but the analysis by Sky claims it won't be enough to gain a majority.

A majority of Americans say that President Barack Obama's religious beliefs are either somewhat different or very different than their own, a poll on religion and the recent elections found.

Only about half of Protestant pastors say they plan to vote for Republican John McCain in the upcoming presidential election, but McCain still holds a substantial lead over Democrat Barack Obama, for whom less than one - quarter of pastors polled indicate they will vote...

This new poll shows pastors have a distinct view of the current election cycle — one that's different from people in the pews, said Stetzer.

I am urging all of you to go to your respective polling stations in your numbers and ensure that we have a free, fair and credible election, because when we have that, the Elephant will win,» he said.

Allies of convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate, who is now running for the NYC Council, say they will file a lawsuit against NYC Board of Elections for moving polling sites from his stronghold in LeFrak City in Queens.

Residents of LeFrak City in Queens are suing the NYC Board of Elections, saying their right to vote is being denied by the board moving a polling site away from the hotbed of support for convicted felon and NYC Council candidate Hiram Monserrate.

He charged the supporters to be vigilant in the 2016 elections, saying the Battle is the Lord's, but the Lord will only work with hardworking polling station executives.

A YouGov poll for the British Future think - tank found just 41 % of around 3.3 million 17 - to 21 - year - olds say they will exercise their democratic right in the 2015 general election.

Commenting on the revelation by his colleague Prophet Badu Kobi that Nana Addo will lose the election if he fails to purge himself, Rev. Bempah said, Nana Addo is winning the polls because he has purged himself as advised

«This poll simply confirms what we already know — that David Weprin is winning this election because New Yorkers know they can trust him to protect Medicare and Social Security and reform the tax code to make millionaires and Big Oil pay their fair share,» said Weprin campaign spokesperson Elizabeth Kerr.

As none of these policies were put to voters before the election, this could well be the year that the country starts to say «no» to government in a way that they have not since middle Britain made a previous Conservative government abolish the poll tax.

Calls by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a new electoral roll and validation of voters prior to the November 7 elections are a diversion by the party to aid it rig the poll, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress has said.

He said that a total number of 21, 084 police will be deployed for the Anambra State election, with 17, 320 of them stationed within the 4,330 polling units in the state.

«I didn't take a poll to enter this race, and my policies and approach to this election will not be determined by polls,» Spitzer said in the statement this evening.

Kariuki, A., «Kenya to hold polls in March 2013, says elections body», The Citizen (18/03/12).

US president Barack Obama said the poll failed to meet «internationally accepted standards» and the EU government also criticised the way the election was conducted.

«While a recent poll showed that the Lib Dems have lost support since axing Charles Kennedy, the SNP are moving forward as we engage with Labour in a head to head contest for the 2007 Scottish election,» Mr Salmond said.

As I always say, a petition - free post-election period will be the ideal that election management should aspire to, just as it has been in the U.S except for the year 2000 Florida saga and in the United Kingdom where, for about 99 years, all election results were accepted from the polling units as annouced up to the final point of declaration of a winner.

«With the recent election of Todd Kaminsky replacing former Republican Leader Dean Skelos and today's poll, it is clear that the people of New York are demanding real change,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

«The Siena poll shows that Chris McGrath has all the momentum, all the energy and is poised to win this important special election for hardworking Nassau County taxpayers and their families,» said Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

Ibrahim Idris, IGP The IGP who spoke at a dialogue session he had with a coalition of Civil Society Organization, CSOs, under the aegis of Situation Room, said he has put necessary manpower and logistics in place to secure electorates, electoral officials, observers and election materials that will be used for the Anambra poll.

Kenya goes to the polls in closely contested election — in pictures View gallery Odinga supporters interviewed by the Guardian in recent days said their leader had been robbed of victory in the last two elections, but that they would not take to the streets if they believed they had been fairly defeated this time.

Kenya election monitors urge losing candidates to accept poll results Read more James Orengo, an opposition leader, said the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) had rejected the counting process as a «charade».

A wide majority of voters who supported Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election say they would vote for her again despite her loss, according to a new poll.

After collecting and analysing almost 6oo, ooo tweets through VOICES from the Blogs posted in the three weeks leading up to polling day, which discussed the primary election, we can confidently say that this was not the case.

And if the polling results are close, the standard saying is: «the undecided will decide the election».

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said the most recent presidential election should serve as a «wake - up call» about the importance of voting and access to polling machines.

«Actress Cynthia Nixon is a nuisance to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term, but at this stage she is not running strong enough to make either the Democratic primary or general election challenge successful,» Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said.

... The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Labour Uncut blog, shows that a majority (53 per cent) of current Tory supporters believe their party has got better since the last election, with only 11 per cent saying it has got worse.

The NBC / WSJ poll also shows Democrats with the intensity advantage, with 59 percent of Democratic voters saying they have a high level of interest in next year's elections (registering either a 9 or 10 on a 10 - point scale), versus 49 percent of Republican voters saying the same thing.

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.

A Com / Res poll for ITV on 30 April put UKIP 11 points ahead of Labour, with 38 % of voters saying they intend to vote for Nigel Farage's party at the European and local elections on 22 May.