Sentences with phrase «significant lead in the polls»

De Blasio said he's been preparing and not taking anything lightly, despite his significant lead in the polls and in fundraising.

In the Democratic race for comptroller, former governor Eliot Spitzer has a significant lead in the polls.

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The efforts of Martin Schulz and other senior SPD politicians to gain an advantage over their political competitors by leading a hardline anti-Trump campaign do not appear to have had any significant effect on the SPD's standing in the polls.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

SNP Campaign Director John Swinney said: «This is an encouraging poll which shows a significant lead for the SNP amongst older people and a further fall in support for Labour amongst some of their traditional voters — highlighting just how far Labour have come from their founding principles.

New York Rep. John Katko holds a significant lead over his Democratic opponent and is actually outperforming Hillary Clinton in his upstate House race, according to a new poll.

Despite this unpopular economic message, the Tories maintain a lead in the polls due to the right wing and unpopular policies that Labour has pursued in government that have alienated significant elements amongst its former supporters.

In both polls, the «no» campaign still maintained a significant lead when uncertain voters were included.

Throughout the election the Labour Party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a Labour majority before the election day.

The New York Times / Siena College Poll shows public advocate Bill De Blasio, a Democrat, leading the pack in the race for New York City mayor... Pollster Steve Greenberg says De Blasio has opened up a significant lead over the other candidates.

Still, for those getting rather bored with the voting intention figures, we can look ahead to several potentially significant events — many commentators have suggested Gordon Brown is putting great weight in the G20 summit this week to give his premiership a boost, beyond that is the budget, which could work either way, and past that we have the local and european elections, which often lead to realignments in the national opinion polls.