Sentences with phrase «voters polled did»

Forty - one pecent of likely voters polled didn't know enough about her to have an opinion.

Forty - seven percent of voters polled don't approve of Black's selection to replace Joel Klein as chancellor.

Not exact matches

Buffett on Monday vowed to do «whatever it takes» to get out the vote in his congressional district in Nebraska, including driving voters himself to the polls to cast ballots.

«They're not thrilled that he's already jumping ship to run for higher office because that's exactly what he campaigned against and what he promised he wouldn't do, be a ladder - climbing career politician,» Petersen said, noting a JTD strategies poll that found half of Missouri voters think Hawley could be using his attorney general career as a stepping stone to higher office.

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 bottom line is that marijuana ballot initiatives can drive more people to the polls, but they don't seem to help either party or affect the number of young voters.

Studies looking at 2012 voter turnout in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington have found that ballot measures legalizing marijuana did not drive younger voters to the polls.

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.

This may indicate that German voters are wary about doing anything to foster Trump's style of chaos within Germany (although internal party turbulence is probably a more salient factor for explaining the party's drop in the polls).

The poll of 1,011 likely voters was conducted April 10 - 13, although the poll methodology does not indicate if any of the responses were collected after the president announced airstrikes against Syrian targets in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack.

-- «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.»

What bothers me is that, assuming the poll was reliable, 30 % of registered voters do not know that Romney is Mormon and think that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.

A foul - mouthed Silverman pushes people to do whatever it takes to make it to the polls in spite of voter ID laws, while an uncensored Jackson orders disenchanted Obama supporters to «wake the f *** up» and get to work.

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).

I don't think the majority of American voters that can take the time from their very busy schedules to spend 10 minutes at the polls are pro-gay.

Nice try on the Obama thing... except those same exit polls from»08 clearly showed that Obama did far better than McCain with the more educated voters.

The Tea Party is not the majority of white voters, I don't care what your fancy polls might tell you.

The Associated Press top 25 voters didn't hold MU's loss to the Volunteers against them all that much, placing the Golden Eagles at # 23 in the newest poll.

Seriously, that's what is needed (Edited to add: I learned today that you need to SIGN UP to be able to do this — don't just show up at the polling place expecting to get to distribute food to voters.

Do real life voters strategize their vote based on the polling averages?

And, we know that the Obama campaign's voter scoring system did a good job of identifying people likely to support Obama but less - likely to show up at the polls (we know because those people did, in fact, show up at the polls after being aggressively courted by the campaign).

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

And that's before accounting for some of the factors that the model doesn't consider: the disagreement in the polls, the unusual nature of Trump's candidacy and the demographic changes it is producing, Clinton's superior turnout operation, the possibility of «shy Trump» voters, the fact that the news cycle is still somewhat fluid headed into the final weekend, the declining response rates to polls, and the substantial number of high - profile polling misses around the world over the past few years.

A majority of Republican voters, 67 percent, do have a positive view of the president, the poll found.

«This poll shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, voters know that spending 27 years in the backslapping, dysfunctional donor - fueled Albany machine does not prepare you to be the fighter we need in Congress,» she said.

(Actually, the latest poll found that while a majority of NYC voters don't think de Blasio deserves re-election, he's still trouncing all of his potential rivals, and the one who comes closest to beating him is a fellow Democrat — and erstwhile primary opponent — former NYC Council Speaker Chris Quinn).

The poll found only 19 % of voters said it doesn't bother them too much, while 8 % aren't upset at all.

The same poll found that NYC voters approve 56 - 37 percent of the job Cuomo is doing, and say 58 - 22 percent that he would be better for the city than Cynthia Nixon.

Today's Marist poll finds AG Andrew Cuomo's continued waiting game has not hurt his standing with New York voters, 64 percent of whom say he's doing either a «good» or «excellent» job in office.

Such numerical values allow pollsters to quantify expected voter turnout but they do not say why respondents are more or less likely to head to the polls.

Philip Hammond had been in the job for more than a year but our focus groups told us that few voters recognised him - and almost half of those polled immediately after the budget said they actually didn't know if he was doing a good job or not (almost 2/3 didn't know whether shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, would be any better either).

New York City voters approve 48 - 38 percent of the job NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is doing, his lowest grade since a 45 - 46 percent approval rating in January 2017, a new Q poll found.

It turns out that Thad Cochran didn't just make good strategic decisions, like courting Democratic voters in a Republican primary; his campaign also made the smart tactical choice to rely on a data - driven field operation to persuade voters and get his supporters to the polls last week:

On a more positive note, it is also possible that there could be something of a «reverse Bradley effect», whereby normally Republican voters don't admit in polls that they will vote for a Black Democrat... but then do because they can't stand McCain.

Washington (CNN)-- A day after divided Senate Democrats had to delay a pre-election vote on renewing tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday still didn't rule out a House vote on extending tax breaks for middle - income Americans before voters go to the polls.

My latest research, involving a poll of over 8,000 people and discussions with undecided voters around the country, helps to show how he can do it.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- A majority of New York voters do not want disgraced former Governor Eliot Spitzer to run for statewide office this year, but many say that they would support a run in the future, a poll said on Wednesday.

The Siena College poll finds only 44 % of voters like the job that Cuomo is doing as governor.

Turnout is usually very low in even the hardest - fought special elections, in part because voters simply don't expect polls to be open in April.

Using YouGov polling which asked voters, between June and December 2010, whether they thought the spending cuts were being done fairly or unfairly, Katwala has produced a «fair cuts index» which appears to show pretty conclusively that popular attitudes have shifted decisively against the government, By mid-September, the index showed a net fairness rating of -21.

Turnout is typically very low in even the hardest - fought special elections, in part because voters simply don't expect polling places to be open in April.

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.

The Siena College poll finds 53 percent of voters view Cuomo favorably, while 40 percent said they don't.

Polling expert Peter Kellner commented «The figures do not support the argument that Labour paid a heavy price this year for neglecting its core voters; rather they tell us something far bigger about long - term trends and what Labour needs to do to regain power».

A special local government Siena Research Institute poll finds a majority of voters say local governments beat the state on everything from understanding citizens» needs to «getting things done.»

No, that poll in the 39th Senate district doesn't mean anything, Senate Republicans are insisting amid reports of a phone survey gaging voters on a variety of political figures in the area.

A YouGov poll commissioned by the SNP found more than two - thirds of voters do not trust the Tories while only 16 per cent of voters trust them to represent their voice in Holyrood.

Our poll found that a third of voters don't know enough about Johann Lamont to rate her performance.

The rationale was clear: he connected better with voters than Gordon Brown did, even if the poll evidence was not always conclusive.

He endorses Siena's decision to poll registered voters, saying it's too early to do as the Q poll did and go with the likelies.