Sentences with phrase «voters polled back»

And interestingly, the Queens native is most popular in the state's suburbs, where 76 percent of voters polled back him.

Not exact matches

One in four voters backed UKIP in the 2013 local elections but polls suggest the Paul Nuttall - party is steadily in decline and could suffer around 105 net losses today.

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission vote on Thursday to roll back net neutrality rules could galvanize young voters, a move Democrats hope will send millennials to the polls in greater numbers and bolster their chances in next year's elections.

A new Morning Consult poll shows national security is back at the forefront of voters» minds following the mass shooting in Orlando that left dozens dead and injured.

The March 6 national poll found U.S. voters oppose steel, aluminum tariffs; voters oppose armed teachers, back armed security 6 - 1.

The release of new opinion polls in Greece suggests a small lead by the New Democracy party, backed by 25.3 percent of voters, versus the 25 percent who favor Syriza.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

An opinion poll on Sunday showed 47 per cent of likely voters saying they will back the treaty, 35 per cent saying they will vote No, and 18 per cent as undecided how to vote in the May 31 referendum.

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»

The poll also answers other burning questions of our time, such as which golfer his peers would want on his back in a bar fight (hint: it's not Bubba Watson), who has the «prettiest swing» on tour («Not the Americans, that's for sure,» noted one LPGA voter), whether the PGA Tour should ditch Doral because of Donald Trump's controversial positions (nope), and whether LPGA players believe Michelle Wie will win another major (not so much).

Sensing correctly that the 1973 Nittany Lions, a team that had rolled to a sparkling 12 - 0 record behind future Heisman Trophy - winning running back John Cappelletti, would be snubbed again by poll voters, Paterno held his own private poll and awarded his team national - championship rings.

The Q - poll today found that while there's very little gap between male and female voters on whether to back Spitzer or Stringer, black voters support the former governor by a margin of 61 percent to 32 percent.

Though the measure on the state level is backed by Silver and broad support from voters according to polls, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said increasing it this year would be far too difficult to pass the Republican - led Senate.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has received a major boost ahead of next May's Holyrood elections as a poll finds more than half of voters now back independence.

By a margin of 51 percent to 42 percent, voters in the district backed the GOP controlling the Senate, the poll found.

Opinion polling shows that British voters backed the principle of asylum even before the current crisis — in a May poll by YouGov supporters outnumbered opponents by a margin of two to one.

I've heard repeatedly that Donald Trump is the front - runner for the Republican party presidential primaries when measured by polling for preferred candidate of republican voters, and Wikipedia backs that claim up.

A majority of New York voters opposed the passage of the American Health Care Act, the Republican - backed measure that failed to gain enough votes for passage last week in the House of Representatives, according to a Siena College poll released on Monday.

Polling shows that 56 percent of Michigan voters back the shift.

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.

The day began with word of a new Quinnipiac University poll showing likely voters backing Cuomo 49 percent to 43 percent for Paladino, a surprisingly close margin.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spent Sunday urging voters to head to the polls on Tuesday, as Sal Albanese, his leading rival in the Democratic primary, pushed back against a widely held belief that the incumbent was a shoo - in to win.

The phenomenal rise in support for Ukip is underlined by a new Opinium / Observer poll which shows almost one - third of voters would be prepared to back Nigel Farage's party if they believed it could win in their own constituency.

One recent poll of marginal seats found 74 % of Labour voters and 75 % of Ukip voters backed their local service being bought by the state.

Polls have shown around two thirds of voters back re-nationalisation.

According to a new Reuters / Ipsos poll, most Trump voters haven't budged in their support of the president, with 88 percent of those surveyed saying they'd cast their ballots for the Republican candidate again if America were to go back in time to Election Day.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spent today urging voters to head to the polls on Tuesday, as Sal Albanese, his leading rival in the Democratic primary, pushed back against a widely held belief that the incumbent was a shoo - in to win.

Considering recent YouGov polling for class showed the public actually backed nationalisation of energy companies by 68 % to 21 % (including a slim majority of Conservative voters), Miliband's «reform» is clearly what the public wants.

Polling experts said more voters could be persuaded to back independence, if the prospect of another Cameron - led government increases.

The letter, marked «personal and confidential,» accused both candidates in tomorrow's GOP primary — Sen. Mark Grisanti and Kevin Stocker — of turning their backs on «traditional marriage» and urged voters to stay home altogether rather than going to the polls to choose between them.

They also said Mr Cameron would not be swayed by findings of another poll that suggested only 7 % of voters backed his stance and that 69 % of Tory supporters were among the 74 % of voters who think he should have sacked Mrs Miller.

Black Democratic voters also favored de Blasio over all other candidates, including Thompson, the only black candidate in the primary, whom only 25 percent of those surveyed said they backed, according to the poll.

That set the stage for the presidential primary in April, the congressional primary in June, and voters called back to the polls yet again for the state primary in September.

Polling recently published by Policy Exchange shows that a Labour shift on immigration and welfare would be the single most important issues to win back Labour swing voters.

The Prime Minister's «irrational» backing of beleaguered Culture Secretary Maria Miller over her expenses is damaging the party's election hopes, activists warned, as a poll suggested two in three Tory voters thought she should be sacked.

Recent polling has indicated that Tory figures backing Brexit are becoming the frontrunners to be the next leader among party voters.

Despite the Senate contretemps this spring, most voters say they want the coalition to continue, the Siena poll found, with just 22 percent backing full Democratic control.

The Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation then rambled a bit about how black voters were supporting gays long before Baptist ministers were something or other (I couldn't quite follow what he said), then Rangel got back on message, adding that no matter what the polls say, at the end of the day Spitzer will not have the votes in the African American community that current polling suggests.

A Siena poll last week found voters back holding a convention, but that support has been slipping compared to previous surveys.

The irony here is that for once, Corbyn is far more in touch with the public and with the kind of voters Labour needs to win back than his parliamentary party is (the most recent ICM poll, for example, suggests that the voters Labour's lost since 2015 break about 4:3 for Leave).

John Sparks Jay, back in July, 51 % of registered voters in New York City told The Marist Poll it was time to oust Mayor Michael Bloomberg from office and elect someone else.

A YouGov poll for The Times also suggested that 2.7 million voters who backed Labour at last year's general election would now vote for the Tories.

Though Labour has a huge share of the vote in London — 51 % of voters — the party has slipped back in inner London since a similar poll in February that predicated it could snatch Conservative councils in Barnet, Wandsworth and Westminster.

Boundaries have changed in many seats since 2005, and the strength of the Lib Dems means some two - way marginals now look more like three - way marginals: add in the rise of smaller parties such as the Greens, plus highly volatile national polls, and even hardened tactical voters may struggle to work out which horse to back locally this time.

The poll shows core Labour voters saying they are less likely to back Labour, not definitely deciding to abandon it.

Our NY1 / Baruch College City Poll shows 49 percent of likely voters are backing de Blasio, while 16 percent are with Malliotakis.

The poll, a copy of which was obtained by Capital, surveyed 550 likely Democratic and unaffiliated voters, between May 22 and May 25, and again on May 27, just a few days before delegates to the party's convention in Albany would have to decide whether to back the incumbent governor or gamble on a protest challenger.

The poll showed 16 per cent of voters intend to back minor parties, such as Ukip, the Greens, the BNP and the Scottish and Welsh nationalists.