Still, 24 percent
of voters polled said they remain undecided, while 39 percent said they might change their minds.
«You can't do a general election likely poll and a primary
voter poll in the same poll because they're two different samples,» he said.
Not surprisingly, 72 percent of
voters polled oppose giving state lawmakers their first pay increase since 1999.
But at the same time, just over half of
voters polled found they place the most trust in the state attorney general to clean up corruption.
The approximately 600
potential voters polled identified jobs, healthcare and the federal deficit as concerns that need to be addressed.
So, how do Labour recover some ground on what is - routinely - one of the
issues voters poll highest as a priority?
I have my doubts about the reliability of marginal seat polls since the average number of
voters polled per constituency is only about 10.
More than 60 percent of
voters polled said the schools chancellor needs education experience, not management experience.
Some 54 per cent
of voters polled said they were hoping for change in the next term, with just 21 per cent wanting Labour to remain in government.
Statewide, 55 percent of registered
voters polled by Siena say they are prepared to re-elect Cuomo in 2014, compared to 35 percent who say they'd prefer someone else.
Voters polled also support a number of Democratic issues, with 74 percent calling climate change a real threat and 66 percent saying they support a path to citizenship for immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
Forty - one pecent of likely
voters polled didn't know enough about her to have an opinion.
Still,
most voters polled said they didn't know enough about any of the candidates to form an opionio.
Point scoring and oxygen is vitally needed by all three primary campaigns, including that of Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos — especially since
voter polls show most New Yorkers are in the middle of yawning when asked about the GOP Senate primary.
Twenty - six percent of New York
City voters polled said Cuomo was the politician who best reflected their politics, while 30 percent said they more closely identified with de Blasio's.
Amazingly, the same margin of error applies to samples of even larger populations, which explains why American
voter polls use the same standard sample size (1,000) that we do in Britain.
Regardless of whom they support, nearly half of the registered New York
voters polled think Clinton will be the next president, while 19 percent think Trump will move into the White House.
Stringer dominates among
white voters polled with 60 percent, while Spitzer does equally well among black voters at 61 percent.
The overwhelming majority of
Florida voters polled in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre want stricter gun laws, including universal background checks for gun buyers, a higher minimum age for gun purchasers, and an outright ban on assault - style rifles.
It was named after Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African - American who lost the 1982 California governor's race despite being ahead in
voter polls going into the elections.
Also, the Paladino campaign's effort to paint the AG as too much of an Albany insider to reform Albany isn't working so well, as 52 percent of
voters polled disagreed with that sentiment.
But Cuomo's favorable rating remains well underwater in the district, where only 37 percent of
voters polled hold a favorable opinion him, while 61 percent hold an unfavorable view.
Opolit Communis, a Buenos Aires based consultancy group, predicts that 38.9 % of
voters polled intend to vote for Bullrich compared to 35.5 % for Fernandez de Kirchner.
City Comptroller John Liu is the favorite of 7 percent of
voters polled while former Councilman Sal Albanese registered in at 1 percent.
Still, most of
citywide voters polled said de Blasio does not deserve reelection — including 66 percent of Islanders surveyed.
A Sierra Research Institute poll released in May reported that 73 percent of the 695 registered
voters polled agreed that the tax cap accomplished what was intended in that property taxpayers are not seeing large annual increases.
Among the 620 likely
Syracuse voters polled, 36 percent said they would vote for Walsh if the election were held today, compared to 34 percent who said they would vote for Perez Williams.
But when asked about some specific government services, a majority of the 940
voters polled expressed support for consolidating them across multiple local governments.
While concerns have been expressed by Mayor Stephanie Miner and other city residents about a potential merger with the county, by and large the Syracuse voters and
suburban voters polled provided similar answers to most of the questions.
Not surprisingly, 81 percent of
voters polled called passing new ethics and anti-corruption legislation «very important» by the end of the legislative session in June.
Following the drumbeat of corruption arrests, 25 percent of
voters polled believe ethics and anti-corruption measures should be Cuomo's priority in 2016, an increase from 19 percent last year.
Wilson's own favorable / unfavorable rating wasn't included in the poll memo, nor was it explicitly noted exactly what percentage of
voters polled knew of him.
The new data come
from voters polled in the three regions — the Capital Region, Southern Tier / Finger Lakes and Catskills / Hudson Valley — where 17 casino developers are vying for up to four licenses.
Carroll also said more than half of
voters polled continue to think Kelly might run — despite him saying repeatedly that he has no plans to run for office after serving out his term.
The League of
Conservation Voters poll found 38 percent of voters approved of Buerkle's job performance; 44 percent disapproved.
Fifty - five percent of
voters polled felt that the mayor is doing favors for developers who donate to his political campaigns, versus 21 percent who disagreed.
Just 3 % of
leave voters polled by BMG Research said they would now vote remain, while 4 % of those who backed EU membership on June 23 said they would switch in the other direction.
And interestingly, the Queens native is most popular in the state's suburbs, where 76 percent of
voters polled back him.
To predict winners, Kennedy, David Lazer, a social scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, and his Ph.D. student Stefan Wojcik statistically modeled the elections using
voter polling data as well as data on other factors that can tip elections: the country's economic prosperity, democratic freedoms — using a third - party measurement called a Polity score — and whether an incumbent was running.