Sentences with phrase «voters polled believe»

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.

Not exact matches

The poll also said 49 percent of voters believe Democrats should win control of the Senate, compared with 39 percent who want the GOP to maintain a majority.

According to Mentel, given the many elections across Europe, the situation «needs to be watched,» though overall he doesn't believe that voters will follow the populist route when heading to the polls.

The poll also found that 87 percent U.S. voters believe that U.S. Veterans Administration doctors should be allowed to prescribe medical marijuana in pill form to veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in states where cannabis is legal.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, the number of Republican voters who say they believe in human - caused climate change was 23 percent while the number of Democrats was 69 percent.

Despite such efforts to instill doubt in voters, a recent CNN / ORC International poll showed that a candidate's Mormon faith made no difference to 80 % of Americans, and that 51 % believed Mormonism was a Christian religion.

The Democrats began stepping up faith outreach after the 2004 election, when the party suffered major losses and exit polls showed that many voters believed the Democrats were secular or hostile to religion.

It wasn't even having 53 percent of the voters in the 2012 exit poll saying they believed Romney's policies would primarily favor the rich.

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).

Despite the dismal primary numbers, Lenihan believes the County Executive's race will draw more voters in places like Buffalo's Fillmore district to the polls.

While it's too early to determine how solid Spitzer's lead is — it is still unclear if he will have enough petition signatures to gain ballot access — 67 percent of voters in the poll believe the former governor should be given a second chance after resigning amid a prostitution scandal in March 2008.

That may not be enough for voters, with polls showing many believe independence would harm the economy.

He cites a Gallup poll carried out in August 1944 which asked voters whether they believed politicians in the wartime coalition government were acting mainly in the interests of their country, party or themselves.

In a sign that voters in the region, long starved for jobs and economic prosperity, are upset with the status quo, 65 percent polled believe the state is headed in the wrong direction.

One of the most popular explanations in the immediate aftermath of the election was that we had seen a repeat of the polling failure of 1992 where «shy Tory» voters were believed to have swung the election.

According to exit poll results, Clinton lost support from voters who believed she was not as honest and trustworthy as the Vermont senator.

Cuomo Ignores Calls for Debates A recent poll conducted by Siena College shows that although a large majority of New York voters believe Governor Andrew Cuomo's handling of the Moreland Commission was inappropriate, they still view him favorably and would vote to re-elect him.

And, he tells the Marist Poll's John Sparks that's because he believes voter turnout will be low in the upcoming midterm elections.

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.

A Quinnipiac Poll published Wednesday, which surveyed 955 city voters, found that 56 percent approve of the job Cuomo is doing and 58 percent believe he would be better for the city than Nixon.

YouGov's tracker polls on the cuts show voters have consistently accepted their necessity, and now believe their effect on the economy has been at least broadly positive.

A new PPP poll finds only 45 percent of Trump voters believe Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting with Russians about information that might be harmful to Hillary Clinton... even though Trump Jr. admitted it.

Not only is this an extremely rare sight in Congo, but it is an occurrence that many locals believe is being undertaken to strategically coincide with election season, the logic being that voters will go to the polls with evidence of development and progress fresh in their minds.

The demonstration christened «Baamu Yadda», loosely translated, «we will not budge,» attracted thousands of Ghanaians who believe the EC must validate the voters» register for the November polls as proposed by the Justice VCRAC Crabbe panel.

The poll found 60 percent of voters in New York City believe the increasingly bitter rift between the two top Democrats has had a detrimental impact on the city.

However, 64 percent have a favorable view of the governor - elect, and three quarters of voters believe he's got a good shot at creating jobs and helping turn around the state's economy — the top priority for 48 percent of those polled.

The spot will surely appeal to the same Republican primary voters who handed Trump an overwhelming victory in New York State, but another Heaney ad oddly addresses the need for the pledge of allegiance to be recited in school while promising to keep dangerous Syrians out — it's hard to believe polling showed that issue cluster popping.

A Siena College Poll released Tuesday morning shows voters in New York State still believe government

The Sienna Poll found that the 865 voters surveyed believe state lawmakers earn enough with their current $ 79,500 base salary.

NEW YORK CITY — If recent polling is to be believed, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has struggled among African American voters.

The latest poll also shows that a majority of voters does not believe de Blasio deserves to be re-elected next year, while he finishes in a dead heat with two potential rivals.

Washington (CNN) A majority of Democratic voters in New York City believe New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo would be better for the city than his primary opponent Cynthia Nixon, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

The Quinnipiac poll found that only 29 percent of voters believed the state legislators who made such a pledge had broken their promise, with 68 percent saying they didn't know.

The poll shows a majority of New York City voters believe Bloomberg lost his focus during his third term.

The poll found that 37 percent of voters believed the agreement will lead to more dysfunction in the Senate, a chamber not exactly known in recent years for running smoothly.

The poll, which surveyed voters in 52 upstate counties, found most upstate residents believe the state is headed in the wrong direction, 59 percent to 34 percent.

The majority coalition that controls the state Senate is pleased with the Siena College poll that found 54 percent of voters surveyed believed the power - sharing arrangement would lead to effective governing.

According to the poll, the vast majority of likely primary voters believe a new Buffalo train station should be located in the historic Central Terminal as opposed to downtown.

The Comres poll for ITV found that 44 % of voters believe Ukip are a «racist party» with just 36 % disagreeing.

Yesterday's Siena poll found 49 percent of New York voters — including 53 percent of independents and 60 percent of Republicans — believe the Common Core standards should be stopped, which is something Astorino has pledged to do if he's elected.

A YouGov poll for The Sunday Times finds that only 21 % of voters think that David Cameron genuinely believes in gay marriage.

A Survation poll taken ahead of the election revealed that 67 % of voters believed foxhunting should remain illegal.

A December Quinnipiac University poll showed that while 50 percent of voters statewide believed the governor should become a national leader by challenging Trump's policies, 56 percent said he shouldn't run for president in 2020.

A majority of British voters believe Owen Smith should replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, according to a new poll.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says many politicians believe it's safer for their chances to be reelected under the present system, when only a small number of their core supporters come to the polls.

The campaign's first poll showed that 38 percent of likely 2017 Democratic mayoral primary voters believed de Blasio deserves to be reelected.

And despite what some in the traditional media might have you believe, Florida's Republican lawmakers are actually held in good standing by most voters, with 52 percent of Floridians giving them the thumbs - up, according to a recent poll from the University of North Florida.

However, two - thirds of polled voters believe things are improving on the issue.

Several senior Democrats said they believe that Cuomo, who has been warring with de Blasio for more than two years, has only about three more months before it's too late to find a candidate with a real chance of defeating de Blasio, who polls show has lost the confidence of a majority of voters.

Nearly half of all Donald Trump voters believe a widely debunked conspiracy theory claiming that Hillary Clinton is involved in a child sex ring run out of a popular Washington, D.C. pizzeria, a recent poll suggests.