Sentences with phrase «slight lead in some polls»

He's back this year, seeking the same seat, and he's holding onto a slight lead in some polls.

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However, news that New Democracy had taken a slight lead in the weekend opinion polls sent shares on the Athens Stock Exchange up by 6.9 percent on Monday and a further 1.9 percent on Tuesday.

The former Secretary of State holds a slight edge in the polls (46 % to 44 %) but, as we documented in our previous post, Trump has been on the rise over the past month and a half, cutting into Clinton's lead with each passing day.

After the YouGov poll at the weekend showed a narrowing in the Tory lead to 7 %, there is a new Populus poll in tomorrow's Times, which shows Labour flatlining on 30 % and a slight increase in the Conservative lead to 13 %.

The release of the poll comes days after candidates submitted the latest in campaign finances, which shows Sheehan with a slight lead on a final balance of $ 67,515.

The 49 percent approval rating, with 40 disapproving of the job the mayor is doing, is actually a slight uptick from 47 percent in the last poll taken December 18, before two police officers were brutally murdered in Bedford Stuyvesant, leading to a difficult month for Mr. de Blasio.

The slight deterioration of Clinton's lead in Ohio matchups is opposite of what Quinnipiac polling found in Florida, another crucial battleground state.

(CNN)- A new poll released Saturday shows the Democratic candidate now has a slight lead — a four point advantage among likely voters — over the Republican in a special congressional election in Western New York that has attracted the national spotlight.

Today's meeting comes against a backdrop of a slight narrowing of the polls, but also a Labour fear that extra spending by the Tories in marginal seats might mean Cameron winning a majority with just a six - point national lead, three or four points fewer than many pollsters predict.

The changes from last month are insignificant in themselves, but over the longer term there seems to be a slight weakening in the Conservative lead in YouGov's polls, down from the regular leads of around 7 points in the summer (this is in contrast to ICM, who are now reporting larger leads than they did earlier in the year).