Sentences with phrase «still leads in the polls»

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Quite apart from the merits of the allegations, the Democrats are anxious to be seen as tougher on harassment to sharpen their profile in next week's special election in Alabama, where Republican candidate Roy Moore still leads opinion polls despite facing multiple unsavory allegations of his own.

Popular support for the Fidesz party hit 18 % in a December opinion poll cited by the BBC, although it still leads other parties.

(In most polls, Rudy Giuliani still holds a double - digit lead.)

Our Top States rankings show that whoever is New York governor in January (Cuomo currently holds a commanding lead in the polls), he will still have plenty to do.

Still, there was degree of complacency in markets that the polls, which had shown a Bersani - Monti coalition, would be able to gain control,» said Westpac Bank's senior currency strategist Sean Callow, referring to center - left leader Pier Luigi Bersani and Mario Monti, the outgoing prime minister who leads a centrist alliance.

Democrats still have a sizable 8 - point lead over Republicans in a generic House ballot, according to a new Monmouth University Poll.

And if such an attitude sounds unthinkable politically, let me ask this question: Â how many commentators would have predicted two years ago that a Stephen Harper minority government would be able to have a $ 56 - billion - dollar deficit and still maintain a comfortable lead in the polls?

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...

Actually, Vic, the polls are still showing Romney in the lead.

Still, the poll shows Cuomo blowing out Astorino in New York City, where he leads 72 - 16.

While it's too early to determine how solid Spitzer's lead is — it is still unclear if he will have enough petition signatures to gain ballot access — 67 percent of voters in the poll believe the former governor should be given a second chance after resigning amid a prostitution scandal in March 2008.

The poll also found that Cuomo is still as popular as ever, with a 69 percent approval rating and a 2 - to - 1 lead over either Republican challenger in his race for Governor.

A final poll in the long Presidential race shows the contest tightening a bit in New York, though Hillary Clinton still leads Donald Trump by double digits.

For polls conducted in the past week, on average the Conservatives still had a large, 14 - point lead amongst men, but only a small, 4 - point lead amongst women.

* In New York, the latest Marist poll suggests Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still favored to prevail in his Democratic primary against Cynthia Nixon: the incumbent leads in the poll, 68 % to 21 In New York, the latest Marist poll suggests Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still favored to prevail in his Democratic primary against Cynthia Nixon: the incumbent leads in the poll, 68 % to 21 in his Democratic primary against Cynthia Nixon: the incumbent leads in the poll, 68 % to 21 in the poll, 68 % to 21 %.

Still, in early April, even Stefanik's own polling showed Doheny with a 17 - point lead in the primary.

But when Siena polled potential head - to - head matchups in the primary and general elections, Cuomo still holds large leads.

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

Meanwhile, despite a summer of bad press stemming from his office's involvement in the Moreland Commission To Investigate Public Corruption, polls have shown Cuomo still maintains a wide lead over his Republican opponent, Rob Astorino.

It isn't as extreme as the Ipsos MORI poll we saw earlier today, but it's still a very solid lead for the SNP in Scotland, and one that on a uniform swing would translate into the SNP getting a hefty majority of Scottish seats.

ALBANY — Already riding an enviable lead in the polls and with his Republican opponent still struggling to introduce himself to voters, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has entered the final four months of his re-election campaign with an enormous monetary advantage, according to state financial disclosures released on Tuesday.

Regardless of how big a lead Labour has in the polls — and trust me that lead is not nearly as big as it should be at this stage of a Parliament — Ed Miliband and Ed Balls still trail David Cameron and George Osborne when it comes to the question of economic competency.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's lead over City Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside) and city Comptroller William Thompson in the bid for the city's highest office has slimmed, although many city and Queens residents said they still do not know much about either of the mayor's challengers, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

Spitzer's lead dwindled to within the margin of error in the latest poll, but he's still benefiting from constant media coverage, while there's relatively little interest in Stringer's years in local politics and relation to feminist icon Bella Azbug.

While these numbers still represent a double digit margin for the Democratic nominee, it's a far cry from the projected 24 point lead in the most recent Siena Poll conducted Oct. 19th.

The poll is anomalous in giving the Conservatives a lead over the opposition, but it is in line with other surveys which find the public still trusts the Conservatives with economic policy, despite George Osborne admitting he would exceed the borrowing levels proposed by Alastair Darling and be unable to eradicate the deficit by the next election.

Democratic primary candidate Cynthia Nixon started to gain some ground on Cuomo in a Siena College poll, though he still maintains a wide lead.

Labour may still lead well in Conservative - Labour marginals, according to Michael Ashcroft's polling, but there's a sense now that their opportunity slipping away.

The latest NBC 4 New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist poll shows Donald Trump still has a commanding lead over his GOP rivals in New York, with 54 percent among likely primary voters, compared to Ohio Gov. John Kasich's 25 percent and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's 16 percent.

Aiken has done well in fundraising from individuals, while Ellmers has relied on party funding, but polls still show Ellmers with a sizeable lead.

The poll shows de Blasio losing a little ground in the Democratic mayoral primary, but he still leads 2009 nominee Bill Thompson 39 percent to 25 percent.

Even still, her entry into the race has clearly rattled Cuomo, nudging him left on a number of issues, and she's chipping away at his lead: The latest Quinnipiac polling shows him ahead by 22 points, down from 30 or 40 in earlier polls.

The mayor's lead decreased in the latest NY1 / Baruch College City Poll, but he was still up by at least 30 percentage points heading into Election Day.

And it looks like Team Spitzer does need to keep spending: While the latest numbers still have Spitzer beating Stringer by either four or twelve points (according to Quinnipiac University and Wall Street Journal / NBC Marist polls, respectively), the very recognizable former governor's lead sounds less impressive when you consider that, in the last three weeks, he has spent three times as much as the increasingly feisty but still somewhat unknown Manhattan borough president has spent on his entire campaign.

Though polls across the country have been tightening to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's disadvantage, she still maintains a comfortable lead over her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, in the candidates» shared home state of New York, according to a new Siena poll.

Labour has knocked four points off the Conservative party's lead but still trail by eight per cent in an opinion poll out today.

Although recent polls show the No campaign in a comfortable lead, large numbers of voters still appear not to have made up their minds how — or whether — to vote.

Democrat Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by double digits in New York, but the race has tightened in the final days, with Clinton still ahead by 17 points but the two now even among independent voters, according to a poll by Siena College issued November 6th.

That's what Ashcroft found in his last two polls of the seat, it's still the case now — a Conservative lead of just one point.

The Monmouth University Poll also finds a shift in the race to succeed Pence as governor, but the Democrat still holds the lead.

«The botttom line in all this is that Cuomo still has a very strong lead in New York; 25 points among likely voters he's over 50 percent,» Director of the Marist College Poll, Lee Miringhoff, told WCBS 880.

A final poll in the long presidential race shows the contest tightening a bit in New York state, though Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton still leads Republican Donald Trump by double digits.

Still, Gillespie held off on bringing the president into Virginia, leading former White House senior advisor Steve Bannon to brag to the New York Times that a purported GOP surge in the polls there proved that «Trumpism without Trump can show the way forward.»

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.

Thompson, a Democrat, still trails Bloomberg 37 percent to 47 percent among city voters, but this 10 - point gap is less than half of Bloomberg's 54 percent to 32 percent lead in mid-June, the poll reported.

Tonight's YouGov poll has topline figures of CON 40 %, LAB 39 %, LDEM 9 % — a Tory lead but still in line with the recent average of a small Labour lead of a point or so.

Feinstein still holds a wide leads in polls, however, and should benefit from California's so - called jungle primary system, which that places every candidate, regardless of party, on the same ballot.

Cuomo is still leading Nixon among registered Democrats — by a 58 percent to 27 percent margin, according to a new Siena College poll, though it is a drop from 66 percent to 19 percent in March.

Paterson has narrowed the record high 59 - point lead lead Cuomo had last month in the Siena poll, but he still trails by 44 points.

Prof Alabi, who is the least worried about the new development, stated vehemently that he is still interested in contesting to become the one who will lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to victory during the December polls.