Sentences with phrase «voters had no opinion on»

Almost one quarter of voters had no opinion on the takeover.

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On the Labor side, at least one in five voters have a «don't know» opinion of Bill Shorten.

Forty - nine percent of voters in the latest poll said they have never heard of Pruitt or have no opinion on him, down from 55 percent in mid-March and 50 percent in a

Forty - nine percent of voters in the latest poll said they have never heard of Pruitt or have no opinion on him, down from 55 percent in mid-March and 50 percent in a poll from Dec. 1 - 3, 2017.

*********************************** One would hope that voters were casting their ballots on the basis of what they conclude is best for a civil society and a pluralistic population, not on the more egocentric opinions they may have about right or wrong that are derived from their religious beliefs.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).

Walker seems to have a firm grasp of the opinions and priorities of the median Wisconsin voter on state - level issues, but has seemed terribly confused about....

Writing at a time when many people were paying attention to the travails of «the Clinton couple of Arkansas,» A. M. Rosenthal, on the Op - Ed page of the New York Times that he once edited, thanked the Clintons for the «gift» of presuming «that Americans have achieved adulthood at last» and delivered himself of this opinion: «I know there are voters who do believe that a President should have what they consider a spotless sexual history.

There are some voters who don't see the election as a contest between two candidates who have differing opinions on nuanced, complicated economic, diplomatic and social issues, but as one between a candidate who is against abortion, and one who supports a woman's right to have one.

Let this campaign be a lesson to all political Web 2.0 enthusiasts — in electoral politics, the voter opinions that ultimately matter are the ones they have in mind when they pull the lever on a voting machine.

Commenting on the TUC opinion poll * showing that two thirds of voters thought paying teachers less in lower - pay areas would make it harder for schools to recruit and retain good quality teachers, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:

This is not true, given that huge numbers of eligible voters don't have strong opinions on issues and that even people with reasonably well formed views may not flip their vote (even in competitive primaries) based on those views.

On the other hand, voters have been narrowly divided in their opinions of Biden throughout his time in office.

In addition, Ackerman and Fishkin have already shown that this deliberative process helps to inform voters and, in turn, shape opinions on issues.

The recent scandals focusing on Governor Paterson have drawn Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch into the public's view, and more voters have formed an opinion about his job performance.

TUC Opinion Poll on Regional Pay Commenting on the TUC opinion poll * showing that two thirds of voters thought paying teachers less in lower - pay areas would make it harder for schools to recruit and retain good quality teachers, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Only Michael Gove has expressed any support for local pay in teOpinion Poll on Regional Pay Commenting on the TUC opinion poll * showing that two thirds of voters thought paying teachers less in lower - pay areas would make it harder for schools to recruit and retain good quality teachers, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Only Michael Gove has expressed any support for local pay in teopinion poll * showing that two thirds of voters thought paying teachers less in lower - pay areas would make it harder for schools to recruit and retain good quality teachers, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Only Michael Gove has expressed any support for local pay in teaching.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

«NO Party has ever won a post war election when they trailed in voter's opinions on their economic competence AND their Leader trailed in voters approval ratings».

Just 20 percent of voters said they didn't have an opinion on the conflict.

ALBANY — State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is giving Suffolk the go - ahead to become the first county in the state to allow online voter registration, in a legal opinion that could have widespread impact on counties and voters across New York.

The impasse on the customs arrangements comes amid reports that Downing Street has seen polls suggesting that about a third of Northern Irish voters support a united Ireland, but that a hard border would shift opinion further towards a breakaway from the UK.

AG Eric Schneiderman is giving Suffolk the go - ahead to become the first county in the state to allow online voter registration, in a legal opinion that could have widespread impact on counties and voters across New York.

When you give voters information about what's going on, they certainly have an opinion about it, but with the lack of information most voters say «I just don't know enough about it, I don't really have a strong feeling, I just don't know what's going on.»

Fifty - nine percent of borough voters said they haven't heard enough about Malliotakis to say whether their opinion of her was favorable or not, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.

A Siena College poll released on Monday found that 53 percent of New York State registered voters have a favorable opinion of Cuomo, down nine percent from last month's 62 percent.

«It is safe to say that Cuomo's national status and potential as a candidate for office beyond where he is now has put him in the news lately, and may have elevated the opinion of voters as someone who could handle issues on a national and global scale,» he said.

Two caricatured extreme positions of political strategy, held by no - one, are these: a) that voter preferences are entirely fixed, and that the art of political campaigning is to choose where within the spectrum of fixed voter opinions to place oneself to provide the best chance of victory whilst achieving the maximum of one's desired programme; b) that voters can be persuaded of anything if one has truth on one's side and argues for it with sufficient conviction.

But voters have a slightly better opinion on how he's doing as governor, with 43 percent ranking his work as «excellent» or «good» compared to 40 percent six weeks prior.

As daily revelations are brought forth by The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, and other media, New York's public opinion community has been busy trying to keep tabs on changing voter sentiment.

There has been no clear signal from either side in the Scottish independence vote or from the opinion polls on the likely outcome and there has been an unrelenting focus on undecided voters in the past few weeks.

But voters had not expressed an opinion on proportional representation, he said.

As mounting calls for reform from both sides of the isle take shape, voters are right to question policies that will have lasting effects on their students; and AAE is eager to shine a spotlight on teacher opinions during this critical time.

Voters who have strong opinions about the Spokane teacher walkout this week likely will find a school board candidate on their August primary ballot who shares their stance.

Maybe it's because I've been writing about Magritte — my April Loose Ends column is about his and Georges Braque's overlapping concerns and wildly different visions — but reading Nixon speechwriter Raymond K. Price's 1967 prescription for how to elevate voters» low opinions of the candidate, all I could think of was Magritte, the ad man, and the insights on representation he brought to his art, as explored in the Menil Collection exhibition Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926 - 1938.

This is mere hate speech — and it is precisely this shrieking tone of quivering, anti-scientific, pseudo-moralistic, unreasoning hatred that has driven voters away from the Left on both sides of the Atlantic and has led to the timely collapse of the mainstream news media's influence on public opinion.

Assuming elections are decided by who has the biggest «voter education» budget, Heartland's chances of winning over US voters to their opinion on AGW should be about double those of US IPCC supporters.

Public opinion polls consistently show that voters know very little about judges and judicial candidates on the ballot and wish they had more information.

But if voters are largely ignorant about what it is that the legislatures are up to anyway — and prof. Somin observers that «[f] or most legislation, the vast majority of voters will not have heard of its existence, much less have an informed opinion on its merits» (184)-- then legislation's claim to democratic legitimacy is weak if not non-existent, except in unusual circumstances.

There are three major reasons, in my opinion, that contribute to the lack of voter participation in elections, and they are these; 1) Eligible voters believe that their votes count for nothing, that their votes will not have any effect on the outcome, 2) That many, if not most, politicians are sadly the same (in it for their own personal gain, be it fame, a stepping - stone toward future appointments, or simply to satisfy their uber egos).