Sentences with phrase «up to the vote polls»

In the period leading up to the vote polls suggested Labour was popular while Ken was not, and the Tories were unpopular while Boris was not.

Not exact matches

Every quarter polls will go up listing various charities for which customers can vote to whom MADD should give their large endowment.

Considering that small - business owners plan turn out to the polls in droves, who will step up to capture the small - business vote?

In the latest poll of British voter intentions, 52 % of respondents said they would vote to leave the EU - up from 27 % in June!

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

Evangelical Christians made up two - thirds of the South Carolina electorate on Saturday, and Gingrich took 44 % of their votes, according to CNN's exit poll.

With Huckabee on the sidelines, other Republican White House hopefuls will have a better chance of picking up evangelical votes, which accounted for more than half the GOP electorate in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008, according to polling.

CNN: Pew poll: Obama opens up lead over Romney among Catholics President Barack Obama has opened up a significant lead among Catholic voters, a crucial swing voting bloc, according to a recent Pew poll.

He improved slightly on Bush's share of the presidential vote, moving up from 38 to 41 percent, but because of the overall decline in turnout, actually polled fewer votes.

According to Pew Research's exit polls, the Catholic vote went up four percentage points for Trump, while white evangelicals rose three points and «Other faiths» jumped six points.

(CNN)- Despite Jon Huntsman's attempts to speak up during the first few Republican primary debates, the results from a recent straw poll of GOP activists in Florida spell bad news for his campaign: Like the beleaguered former front - runner Michele Bachmann, Huntsman received 2 % of the vote.

The losers in the 47 % do not vote, most aren't bright enough to find their polling place and of the ones that do they generally screw up the ballot anyway.

I tried to come up with an objective method to answer the question, but when it came time to vote in the accompanying poll, a plurality of you ignored the evidence and went with your gut, like they do on the MLB Network.

They also have a game against a Wichita State squad that picked up a few votes in the preseason poll, which means that the coaches have the Shockers a few notches ahead of Marquette to start the season.

From now until the NFL Draft in late April we'll be putting up a daily poll asking GGN to vote on the best available player from a rolling list of a dozen candidates.

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.

They're picked to finish third in the Big Sky this season, but that's not a knock: they picked up three first place votes and four teams finished within seven points of the top of the poll.

Craft fairs are also great places to test new products because you can get direct feedback from your buyers — or if you're scared to ask them face to face, why not set up a mini voting booth or chalkboard poll, like Folksy seller Ruth Robinson did at one of her markets stalls.

«Why show up at the polls if there's no reason to vote?»

All the favorable polls in the world won't help if the other guy's supporters show up to vote and yours don't.

Two Bachmann aides with iPads strapped to their hands like catcher's mitts mill around the crowd, signing people up to vote for Bachmann in the straw poll.

I don't have polls to back this up, but a simplified version of what I just said would be: A libertarian is likely to vote FOR «pro-gay-marriage» specifically - e.g. in a referendum - but vote against politicians («D») who are for gay marriage for reasons that have nothing to do with gay marriage but with the politicians» other policies.

But many people will be deciding how to cast their vote on the basis of what sort of a country we are - and if you look through all the chaos that the polls throw up, this ultimately means whether the country will be more or less fair in the EU.

«The latest polls are welcome indications of the strong backing for the SNP we are seeing in communities across Scotland - while Labour are continuing to pay the price for working hand in glove with the Tories during the referendum, and lining up with them at Westminster to vote for more cuts.

In an election in which relatively few people vote, identifying your supporters and motivating them to actually show up at the polls is absolutely key.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

Even as the polls leading up to election night showed Slaughter in the lead, conventional wisdom kept telling me Republican voters would vote the party line.

The process seemed to be abnormally long (up to 3 days and 3 nights) in the areas where opposition enjoys strong support, and was marked with constant conflicts, strange power cuts in the polls and international observers or observers from opposition parties not being let into the polls at all: all symptomatic of possible attempts to alternate the results and change the voting papers.

There were «stories of things that shouldn't have been happening,» he said, including people «turning up to polling stations with bundles of postal votes.»

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said the most recent presidential election should serve as a «wake - up call» about the importance of voting and access to polling machines.

These national poll findings suggest that the first time vote may well prove to be particularly open and up for grabs in LibDem - Conservative marginals, but it may be a challenge for both sides to persuade first time voters of the value of backing a candidate who has a chance in the constituency race.

Washington (CNN)- Young adults will be a deciding factor in the midterm elections, and with just two months until November, their votes are still up for grabs, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

Since last month's poll, in the constituency vote the SNP were up one per cent to 53, Labour were also up one to 22, the Tories remain on 16 and the Liberal Democrats down one on six.

Late in the campaign, amid polls showing a potential Yes vote for Scottish independence and panic among the Westminster political class, it was he who got each of the main UK parties to sign up to the now infamous «Vow» promising further devolution.

The SNP were credited with 49 % of the vote, up three points on the company's previous poll conducted at the end of March while Labour were estimated to be on just 25 %, down four points.

An Opinium / Observer poll conducted last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday shows how strongly the public was against military intervention both in the lead - up to, and immediately after, the Commons vote.

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.

With the polls neck - and - neck and no party likely to hold a majority in parliament, voters face the prospect of a new government lurching to the extreme left, the extreme right, or breaking up the country unless they vote Liberal Democrat to anchor Britain to the centre ground.

Francisco Moya's campaign has redoubled its poll - watching operation after receiving reports this morning that voters at PS 89 in Elmhurst, Queens showed up to vote and received ballots that were already pre-marked for Moya's primary opponent, expelled ex-Sen.

This allows neighboring precincts (different city council districts or different school districts or something — jurisdictions never seem to line up logically) to share a polling place, or to allow for voting in party primaries.

While the inquiry could not rule out a modest late swing towards the Conservatives, initial claims that the polling errors were due to «shy Tories» (respondents who deliberately misreported their intentions) or «lazy Labour» (Labour voters who said they'd vote but ultimately didn't) did not stand up to scrutiny.

By Thursday morning, his campaign launched a poll on its website asking supporters to vote on which federal agency they'd want to forget and picked up the theme in a fundraising email that says the gaffe «Just goes to show there are too damn many federal agencies.»

The volume of response since those results suggests that the UK now realises that first - past - the - post is problematic - backing up a pre-election poll that found that a majority favoured voting reform to help the smaller parties.

It's time for New York to step up and be a leader in improving voting access and participation, by passing common sense reforms that help everyone get to the polls and have their voices heard.»

«There will be 40 % of the population who will turn up to the polling station who will be told «sorry, you're a citizen of this country but you are not able to vote».

Citizenship requires a modicum of responsibility, which includes showing up at a polling place (school) to vote!!

Both the campaigns for and against the alternative vote have become increasingly negative in the run - up to polling day.

There were some bad personal polls for Brown around March 2007, showing the Tory vote nudging up to 40 - 42 when asked the question if he was leader.

Including those who opted not to vote in her race, the percentage drops to 74.8 of voters in the district who showed up to the polls and cast a ballot.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?