Sentences with phrase «single digit lead»

Wisconsin (D): Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker (R) keeps looking strong in the polls, holding a high - single digit lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D).

The latest CNN / Time / Opinion Research Corporation poll shows Republican Senate nominee Pat Toomey with a single digit lead over Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak.

Not exact matches

The move will lead to layoffs ranging in the single digits, Alfano noted.

Just putting them side by side leads to a single - digit lift in sales, says Global Chief Sales Officer Rob Gehring, who joined Hershey in early 2016 from Coca - Cola.

The Lions cut the lead to single digits briefly down the stretch, but Santa Clara pulled away.

The game was a tight battle all the way, with neither team taking more than a single - digit lead.

Georgia, with a season high in points, has won three of four entering the last week of the regular season, but the Bulldogs showed why they've been so fickle this year, leading by 22 early in the second half before falling flat offensively and letting LSU pull within single digits in the closing minute.

Thanks to Peters» 3 pointer, Mississippi State built a 24 - 11 lead midway through the first half and Georgia never got within single digits the rest of the half.

I want Chelsea to drop like 5 points, and then city lose a match or 2 too, just to make lead into single digits, not that we stand a chance, but it will feel better.

The most costly fumble came with a little more than 11 minutes left in the game: The Spartans had picked up momentum with an onside kick recovery, a quick score on a 43 - yard pass from Abel Ordaz to Isaiah Foskey, and then a Bosco botched snap on a punt attempt that left De La Salle in great field position to try and cut the lead to single digits.

Well if we are counting numbers, we still have 24 games left, what would help us very much is if chelsea drops some points in this festive season to get the lead in single digits and we need to bring in a DM and CB to plug our weak areas.

I am just hoping chelsea lead will be in single digits by january, the team is really getting difficult to pick upfront, just wish we had that liberty defensively, but i am rather confident in the strike force used in the last match, which offered 3 types of strikers.

Kansas ended the first half of its 2012 Final Four matchup with Ohio State by forcing a turnover and getting a layup to cut Ohio State's lead to single digits.

As the Number Cruncher Politics blog has pointed out, the SNP only has a single - digit lead over Labour in 15 seats - and in just two of them is the lead less than five points.

Cuomo, who often employs his own polling firm to gauge public sentiment, was told that Spitzer — whom he privately opposes as a likely «disaster» for the city and state — was leading Stringer by «the high single digits.»

«McGrath has turned what was a neck - and - neck battle into a solid, single - digit lead heading into the final days of the campaign,» said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.

On the Democratic side, Schneiderman enters the final primary campaign weekend with a two - to - one lead over Rice in New York City (38 - 19), with the other three candidates all in single digits.

When we last looked at the polls a month ago, we saw the beginning of the process by which the Conservative lead slipped to single digits.

A majority Conservative government is now equal with a majority Labour government as the ideal outcome of the 2015 general election and Labour's lead has been consistently reduced to single digits.

To put this in context, if we look back at 2006 - 2007 when the opposition Conservatives had a comparable single - digit lead over the Labour government, David Cameron was pretty much neck and neck with Tony Blair as best PM, the Conservatives and Labour were pretty much neck and neck on who would run the economy well and Cameron had a positive approval rating.

«In fact, according to Siena, we are leading in every single one of the districts currently held by Republicans, most of them with comfortable, double - digit margins.»

Even so, Corzine has pushed his lead back to high single digits with a withering attack on Forrester's alleged ethical issues — a drumbeat that should continue through Election Day.

WHAT IT FOUND: This was the second poll in just two days that reduced the Tory lead to single digits.

One can expect a lead of single digits for a while, but this is only a temporary reversal for them.

Udall has led Schaffer in most polls since the race began last summer and recent results put him ahead by high single digits, though roughly a quarter of Colorado's voters remain undecided.

Just be careful about going overboard with it and thinking that low carbs automatically leads to single digit body - fat.

Leading actors tend not to be in the single digits on the occasion of their debut Oscar bids: Keisha Castle - Hughes was 13 when she got a best actress nod for Whale Rider in 2004, and how many people remember Jackie Cooper, who was indeed nine when he was tapped for a prize for Skippy in 1931?

Depending on how the question is asked and the particular poll, the lead has ranged from a high of +25 - 30 points in 1999 and 2009 to a modest single - digit lead in 2004 and 2014.

«We're living in a world in which Massachusetts, which leads the country in NAEP [National Assessment of Educational Progress], has half of its schools labeled «failing» and where Alabama has a single - digit number of schools in the «failing» category.»

There continues to be a wide margin between financial concerns and other issues, with all other answers in the single digits, led by items such as educational quality and standards, teacher quality, school violence, and drug use.

The firm's strategy is to invest at single - digit multiples in a small collection of industry - leading businesses across Frontier, Emerging, and Developed markets.

«We spoke to a few developers [and] some of them said that the numbers on Kickstarter for DRM - free version [of games], their backers are in single digits,» lead designer and founder Avichal Singh explains.

It's very rare to see a nearly double - digit drop in crash totals in just a single year; it's very clear that law enforcement initiatives to help encourage safer driving, as well as Kansas drivers showing more care on the roads, are leading to a reduction in crashes, injuries and fatalities.

That erosion has led to an exodus of investors who, for single - digit returns, would rather put their money into safe bond investments, Pitchford says.