Sentences with phrase «tell pollsters»

People won't tell their spouses about their money lies — but they will tell pollsters.

It examines whether respondents are right when they tell pollsters that their local schools are worthy of an A, B, C, D, or F grade.

I suspect that when people tell pollsters they support «accountability» in education, this is what they mean.

Such studies could help reveal the relationship between what voters tell pollsters and what voters really think.

And, even if they tell pollsters they approve, will this be reflected in the way they vote?

Somewhere around a fifth of people normally tell pollsters they don't know how they would vote in an election tomorrow.

«When 79 % of voters tell the pollsters that they don't trust any MPs, the party promising «independence» — for Britain from the EU, but also for the individual from the state — suddenly seems appealing.

On the other hand, no voters perhaps don't like publicly saying how they will vote — in keeping with when people didn't tell pollsters they would vote for John Major in 1992.

That's why a clear majority tell pollsters that they want the troops to start coming home, now.

«However important one thinks corruption is or should be, and however many times voters tell pollsters they care, what happens — partticularly in suburban communities — is that the voters fall back to what they care most about: property taxes, schools and crime on the streets, not in City Hall or the Capitol,» Levy said.

Women who voted for Trump might have been especially reluctant to tell pollsters, said David Paleologos of Suffolk University.

Not when three quarters of American Christians tell pollsters that they think the phrase «God helps those who help themselves» can be found in the Bible.

I think seeing it as vividly as possible is a very necessary lesson for those many (so far, always at least 42 %) Americans who, to our appalled disbelief, still tell pollsters they approve of his performance.

Year after year 40 percent of Americans tell pollsters that they attended church or synagogue in the last seven days.

Many people who tell pollsters that their religion is «None,» he maintains, mean only that they don't belong to a specific church.

Such comments may also antagonize college graduates, who tell pollsters by overwhelming margins that they don't want to associate with a white nationalist party.

Protestantism in 1934 included the overwhelming majority of Americans, and today 49 percent of people surveyed tell pollsters they «prefer» various forms of Protestantism — or 58 percent will do so if one includes black Protestantism, though we shall see that formally it differs from other Protestant bodies.

«Healthy» treats: Consumers tell pollsters they want healthy fast food — then they don't buy it.

Yet 73 % told pollsters they are «thinking about another job.»

Seventy percent of respondents told pollsters that if they felt a practice needed to be adjusted, they would candidly approach decision - makers within their organization if they felt their views would be welcomed and the company was willing to change these practices.

Perhaps surprisingly, four in 10 even told pollsters they believed the economy was getting better.

And many business owners have told pollsters that uncertainty over the budget is leading them to postpone hiring and new investment.

Social connection, apparently, is on the decline in the U.S. with Americans telling pollsters they had an average of three close friends in 1985 and only one in 2004.

That compares to 75 % of Republicans and nearly half of independents telling pollsters climate change wasn't a source of concern in 2009.

«Democrats just tell a pollster, «No, I don't like it.

• 71 percent of bosses told pollsters they challenge current perspectives.

Less than 23 % of Americans told pollsters at Fairleigh Dickinson University that they dislike prayers at public government meetings.

Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority» that is, with a political entity that is kept alive on the West Bank by an American - trained militia and the Israeli Army, and that is headed by a prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose party won 2 percent of the vote in the last elections and who faces a constituency two - thirds of which tells pollsters that it doesn't want any deal with a Jewish state.

But despite the fine words, at this point — indeed at every point in the process — Salmond was acutely aware independence was not the settled will of the Scottish people, only around a third of whom consistently told pollsters they would vote Yes in the autumn of 2014.

Several pollsters rejected the idea that Trump voters were too shy to tells pollsters whom they were supporting.

«New Yorkers are tired of telling pollsters, elected officials and community leaders that they want ridesharing in their communities — it's time for Albany to ignore NYC special interests and act,» said the company's New York general manager, Josh Mohrer.

Forty - one per cent of young people told pollsters «religion is more often the cause of evil in the world» while only 14 % said it was a cause for good.

They told the pollsters that they intended to vote, but either for a smaller party or for one they would choose nearer the time.

The notion that leave voters are more determined to vote in the referendum, based on what leavers have been telling pollsters, has been little questioned.

Thirty - three per cent told the pollsters that Labour's funding by trade unions was «dodgy» as opposed to 17 % saying it was clean.

Overall, 82 percent of New Yorkers told pollsters that government corruption is a problem in their state.

According to a recent ComRes poll, the party has lost the support of almost four in ten of the people who voted for it on 6 May, with more than one in five people who backed the Lib Dems at the general election telling pollsters that they would now vote Labour.

No Bowling Green massacre ever occurred, a fact that many mainstream news outlets reported, but a majority of Trump voters still told pollsters that the non-existent massacre is why the US needs Mr Trump's immigration executive order.

My guess is that the reason is that Labour are really the only major opposition party to the coalition and hence many people will be telling pollsters they'd vote Labour as the only mainstream way of voting against the coalition.

RANDOM STAT: Three people who voted remain told this pollster they were going to vote Ukip.

Why are 50 % of Americans fine telling pollster that they oppose gay marriage, but somehow 25 % or so get shamed into agreeing to repeal DADT?

«So, telling a pollster that the phenomenon isn't happening may reflect something about a person's general policy preferences, not just their level of certainty that the global climate is changing.»

And when Donald Trump came along, they were the people who told the pollsters, «That's my guy.»»

For years, voters from all political parties have been telling pollsters at the First Five Years Fund, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on early learning, that they are in favor of more funding for early childhood education.

The populations of France, Italy, Turkey, Spain and Argentina have also totally flunked climate denial, with 80 % or more of those surveyed telling pollsters that human activity is driving climate change.

Roughly two - thirds of Americans have consistently told pollsters that global warming is occurring.

Americans Take Steps to Beat Gas Prices On the brighter side, 31 % said they walked or bicycled more and 16 % are taking greater advantage of public transportation with one in ten telling pollsters they've moved so they could live closer to work.

These financial pros told pollsters their clients preferred North American real estate (67 percent expected increased purchases there) and that money would most likely flow into residential real estate (72 percent expect clients to add to this slice of their portfolios.)

Not exact matches

«We saw the numbers but we did not project it would be that significant a falloff from 2008 and 2012,» Steve Mitchell, a Michigan pollster who conducted the Fox 2 / Mitchell poll in the state, told Business Insider.

He had told Business Insider in March that he'd «only been wrong like this twice in my life» when discussing how Michigan pollsters, including himself, missed Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont's shocking victory in the state's Democratic primary.