Sentences with phrase «surprised by this poll»

«I am not really surprised by the poll numbers,» he said.

Wow, am I surprised by this poll.

A measure of just how vast the change has been in Scotland is that we are no longer surprised by polls showing the SNP with huge landslide leads in Scotland — we should be.

I was surprised by the poll results and I would have expected the numbers regarding married couples meeting online to be slightly lower than it was.

«Going ballistic» Travel and rewards expert Tim Winship says he wasn't surprised by the poll results because he says rewards users, especially frequent fliers, are passionate about their miles.

Not exact matches

The top five signings of the January transfer window have been decided by fans on a poll on the UEFA official website, with a surprise winner...

The poll result really took me by surprise because I voted for «3rd or 4th» and was expecting this was the majority answer as well.

The results from the Claret and Hugh's poll for Hammer of the year are in and it will come as no surprise that Marko Arnautovic is the red - hot odds - on favourite to pick up the award which is voted for by West Ham supporters towards the end of each season.

That said, I was surprised by how many women in my — admittedly unscientific and pretty small — poll agreed with that statement.

According to an article written by several people at Pew Research, «The results of Tuesday's presidential election came as a surprise to nearly everyone who had been following the national and state election polling, which consistently projected Hillary Clinton as defeating Donald Trump.»

In a presidential cycle that has featured nothing but big upsets, almost daily controversies, and a willingness by much of the American public to forgive and forget that which was once labeled as «out of bounds,» it would not be surprising to see the pendulum of political polls swing once more.

Paladino continued to insist the polls are wrong and he will surprise everyone by defeating Democratic frontrunner Andrew Cuomo when the polls close tonight.

We are also mindful of the fact that all public polls showed Carl losing in the primary, but he won by 25 percent — a surprise to everyone.»

Polls and pundits have suggested Republicans are likely to retain control, but Democrats have said they are hoping high turnout driven by the presidential race will lead to some surprise victories.

The negative poll numbers aren't a surprise coming from Staten Island, where residents resist de Blasio's more progressive policies and often believe their concerns are ignored by the city.

So it's not surprising that yesterday's ComRes poll for the Mail showed 64 % of the public think the Government doesn't understand the problems faced by ordinary families.

The poll numbers are not surprising because it seems the current republican party is made of those who believe the party was founded by Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.

Question topics included what he'll say to Rob Astorino if he bumps into him locally, what he has to say to the anti-fracking protestors, what was most surprising in the campaign, whether he'll be disappointed if he wins by 10 points rather the 20 points that public polls predict, for whom and on what line he and Lee voted, what he'll do to affect the state senate leadership should there not be any single majority conference, what he'll do in a second term concerning state mandates to local governments and what effect Republican control of the United States Senate will have on New York and his administration in a second term.

But given that Donald Trump just overwhelmingly won the Erie County GOP's straw poll by more than forty points, and given the billionaire real estate mogul's strong support among the chairman's fellow WNY Republicans, it would be a surprise if he backed anyone else at this point.

One man who will be surprised by the Times poll is Britain Stronger In Europe boss Lord Rose, who yesterday told a Westminster lunch that his side will win «by a substantial margin».

The picture painted by the Ashcroft marginal poll is not particularly surprising — a big swing from Con to Labour, the Liberal Democrats collapsing where they are against Labour but more resilient against the Conservatives.

A surprising exit poll, collected by Ipsos MORI and GfK on behalf of the BBC, ITN and Sky News, was published at 10 pm at the end of voting: [158]

Now Prime Minister, Callaghan surprised many by announcing on 7 September that there would be no general election that year and he would wait until 1979 before going to the polls.

A poll released by the Siena Research Institute on the 19th Congressional District was more notable (to me) for its top of the ticket surprise than its tight showing between Republican John Faso and Democrat Zephyr Teachout in the race to replace WAMC's favorite Republican member of Congress.

The exit poll caught everyone by surprise, especially the pollsters who had repeatedly suggested a neck - and - neck, two - horse race

The Ney re-election campaign has also done its own internal poll and found (surprise, surprise) that it is leading by a substantial margin.

NAAM in a statement signed by its administrator, Courage Abiwu, said «your overwhelming endorsement at the polls does not come to us as a surprise, because we believe in your vision, competence as well as your feasible policies that we stand to benefit from at the local level.»

It is still early, with many results still to be declared and of course we will not get the results of the European poll until Sunday, but Labour will not be surprised by these results and that may have consequences for any appetite among backbenchers to mount a concerted push against Gordon Brown.

«I am not surprised by the result of this opinion poll,» Mr Campbell said.

Last week's byelection in Henley was predictable and surprising in equal measure: predictable because it showed that David Cameron, riding high in the polls as the government falls from grace, can win a safe seat on his home turf; but surprising because the Conservative vote didn't go up by much compared with the 2005 general election, even though the party is a full 14 % higher in the national polls.

«We were quite surprised by the low level of support,» says Ed Maibach of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, a member of the polling team.

Although many political scientists were surprised by Tuesday's results, they do not think it is time to give up on polls.

Anyone following coverage from afar won't be surprised that Luca Guadagnino's lavish queer drama «Call Me By Your Name» topped most of the categories in our annual Sundance Critics Poll.

Director Mike Leigh Cast Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman Loitering within tent Judging by its surprise inclusion in this poll, this second episode in Mike Leigh's «Play for Today» TV series has remained one of the director's most fondly remembered early features.

Anybody watching the escalating battle across the country over the Common Core State Standards and aligned standardized testing will hardly be surprised by a new national poll which reveals a significant loss of support over the last year — especially among teachers, whose approval rating dropped from 76 percent in 2013 to only 46 percent in 2014.

While it is clear that the two polls tapped very different constituents, Rick Hess, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, says that it isn't surprising that a standard - by - standard review of the Common Core would look different than a review of the sum of Common Core's parts.

To be honest, I'm not surprised by the outcome of the poll.

It comes as no surprise then that the Puerto Princesa Underground River secured a place among the «New Seven Wonders of Nature,» based on a global poll organized by Swiss foundation New7Wonders.

Remember this is the same show that was so hyped for the Wii they promoted it on the show without Nintendo even asking them to (no seriously, the people at Nintendo were surprised and flattered by those episodes, I even remember the old Nintendo Forums had a poll once asking people how excited they were for the Wii and one choice was «as excited as Cartman»).

It's not surprising that the first substantive energy exchange between the two candidates dealt with gas prices, given — as a national poll by the University of Texas just found — that this is by far the most pressing energy issue on voters» minds (to the consternation of climate hawks).

A recent Zogby telephone poll was conducted to gauge public opinion of the Waxman - Markey climate bill — and I have to admit that I was surprised by the results.

From what we know, in Japan, the 3DS version marginally outsold the PS4 version, but the result of this poll should not surprise since the audience was probably mostly formed by core gamers that are more likely to have played the game on PS4.

What IS surprising, however, is that my anecdotal experience is backed up by two March 2017 Harris Poll surveys, commissioned by the University of Phoenix, revealing that 61 % of those surveyed have considered changing their careers, and almost 40 % are likely to change in the next 5 years.