Sentences with phrase «voters polled by»

However, voters polled by YouGov did not favour an election this year.

By a 74 - 24 percent margin, voters polled by Siena agree that legalizing casinos will create thousands of jobs.

More than half of the voters polled by Siena College said they felt the state was moving in the right direction; a steady increase in the number has been since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in January 2011.

Voters polled by Siena gave Cuomo higher marks on everything from job creation to taxes to on - time budgets.

Not exact matches

Nearly 70 percent of Americans who voted for President - elect Donald Trump and 89 percent of Hillary Clinton voters support mandatory paid family and medical leave, according to a post-election poll of 2,000 voters by the Center for American Progress.

Last October, Catalonia's leaders defied the Spanish government by holding an independence referendum; 90 % of Catalans voted sí (although only 42 % of registered voters went to the polls).

According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.

Wells suggests all this is happening because more voters are appearing at the ballot box who are not detected by opinion polls.

But his polling numbers jump by nearly half among voters under 50, while support for the frontrunners, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, stays stagnant, or even drops slightly.

States permit poll watchers so long as they are registered, trained, and abide by state rules designed to make sure voters aren't impeded or intimidated while getting to and from the polls.

The distrust that Trump voters feel for the media is matched by their lack of faith in government, according to the Edelman poll.

Steinmeier's intervention suggests he regards a new election - desired by half of Germany's voters according to a poll - as a last resort.

Last - minute opinion polls indicated a knife - edge result, with voters narrowly favouring Mr Tsipras's call for a No vote to reject a last - ditch bailout offer by Greece's creditors, even though it has already expired.

A new poll released by the American Lung Association found that nearly 70 percent of voters want the EPA to leave the current standards in place.

According to a poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, nearly a third of GOP voters, 31 %, listed the situation with North Korea as the most important issue for congressional candidates to discuss in their upcoming campaigns.

As California puts the finishing touches on a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage by 2022, Morning Consult's policy polling shows that voters nationwide think that's a pretty good idea.

I read a terrific study by Richard Charnin, who is a mathematician, a liberal Democrat, an eccentric but brilliant guy, who concludes on the basis of the exit polls and the actual vote on a precinct - by - precinct basis that the swing can not be that wide without widespread voter fraud.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

Almost all U.S. voters support medical marijuana if prescribed by a doctor, a new Quinnipiac University National poll finds.

The poll, which was released Monday, finds that 89 percent of U.S. voters support allowing adults to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if prescribed by a doctor.

Across party lines, roughly nine in 10 Americans support solar power, and according to a poll commissioned last spring by The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC), 69 percent of Republican likely voters and 80 percent of Democratic likely voters would be «unlikely» to reelect a politician who failed to raise the solar net metering cap.

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.

Despite the huge spending edge by the «No» side, which fueled an onslaught of television ads, a recent Field Poll found voters split evenly — 47 percent to 47 percent — on the measure.

An average of four major national polls calculated by Real Clear Politics shows Trump leads the GOP pack with 34.5 percent of support among likely Republican voters, while Cruz follows in second place with 19.3 percent.

With most of the Catalan leadership either under arrest or having fled abroad, some polls indicated the crackdown by the Spanish government had increased support for independence among voters in the region.

Meanwhile, a poll of Calgary - Centre voters conducted by Forum Research for the Huffington Post showed the Conservatives with 44 % support, the Liberals with 21 %, the New Democrats with 14 % and the Green Party with 12 %.

A poll conducted by Illinois Policy found 42 percent of active likely voters in Illinois oppose a progressive tax, with 29 percent unsure or having no opinion, and 29 percent supporting.

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.

By Selina Robinson, B.C. New Democrat spokesperson for local government This Saturday, voters across the province head to the polls to cast their ballots in local government elections.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

By contrast, as much as 74 % of GOP voters identify as Christian, according to recent surveys and polls.

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).

If you want to know why Republican poll respondents seem willing to make fools of themselves by supporting Trump, you should look at how the Republican party's establishment candidates have tried to make fools of Republican voters.

According to the exit polls Romney won white voters by 59 % to 39 % for Obama.

According to a poll released Tuesday by the Public Religion Research Institute, 52 % of Catholic voters support the Obama administration requirement that health plans cover prescription birth control without a co-pay.

A similar poll, also released Tuesday, conducted by Public Policy Polling on behalf of Planned Parenthood, found that 53 % of Catholic voters support the Obama administration on this question.

The latest polls by NBC and CNN show Trump still solidly leading Ted Cruz among white evangelical voters at large.

Off topic but I am posting here... by taking voters off the voter roles, it not only disenfranchises them on election day, it takes them off the direct mailings that remind people to vote, including sample ballot, polling places, etc..

A voter - exit poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS showed that white «born - again» Protestants voted 61 percent for Reagan and 34 percent for Carter, a split which closely parallels that of other sectors of society.

«A voter is more likely to be struck by lightening than they are to impersonate another voter at the polls.»

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.

Nearly 70 % of the voters in a danpatrick.com poll think the Heat's season was a failure, but TNT analyst Steve Kerr said that people are focusing on false expectations created by LeBron James (above) and his teammates.

You blew the doors off the poll voters by giving Rutgers as many wedgies as possible.

House Republicans opposed the bill as a needless expansion of government by the lame - duck Congress weeks after voters punished Democrats at the polls.

The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

Marist decided to play it safe by also polling registered voters (that's how Siena went, saying it's too early for the «likely» route), and those numbers are: 55-29-10, 6.

The downside of this is that the government is decided by politicians behind closed doors, not by voters in polling booths.