Sentences with phrase «voters polled knew»

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.

Not exact matches

Drivers in Athens are honking their horns as opinion polls suggest that «No» voters are out in front

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.

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.

Protest candidates like Donald Trump and Ben Carson can be conduits for the frustration of voters (or, to be more accurate, poll respondents), but they will never be president, and most of their supporters probably know it.

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.

Maybe it will make you feel better to know that polls show that the majority of voters think gay marriage should be legal.

Their political uniformity is so reliable that I take an LGBT voter's guide with me into the polling booth, knowing that in voting against their endorsements I can never, for example, inadvertently harm a pro-life candidate.

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).

«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.

Surely there must be some kind of formal definition of where the boundary lies, so that voters know who they are eligible to vote for and where to find their polling place.

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).

Trump appeared to confirm Russia's involvement in the 2016 election while suggesting the Obama administration knew of Russian interference long before voters took to the polls.

Tony Hoffmann and Laurie discussed VID palm cards to be distributed at every polling place in the district letting voters know ofour opposition to the Constitutional Convention.

On a recent evening in the small basement office of the Alexandria Democratic Committee, Bob Mack and his team of McAuliffe volunteers crafted a plan for the nine weeks remaining until Election Day: focus on known Democratic voters — and get them to the polls.

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.

We now know that these larger poll numbers were predicated on large numbers of potential voters who were powerfully demotivated; witness the Labour voters who stayed at home at the 2009 European elections.

In other words: The fact that Long's chances at unseating Gillibrand are so slim (she's vastly underfunded and trailing badly in the polls among the few voters who even know who she is), that it makes things harder for her fellow Republicans running in competitive down - ballot congressional races.

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

In Germany, the country where Juncker's name was most prominent, polls showed less than a fifth of voters even knew he was the lead candidate for the EPP.

My Rochester & Strood poll found more than one fifth of UKIP voters saying either that they would revert to the Tories in a general election, or that they didn't know what they would do.

Several public - opinion polls have recently shown Gillibrand with less than a 50 percent approval rating and with a large number of voters saying they know little about her.

Mario Cilento, President of the New York State AFL - CIO, said, «This poll confirms what we knew when we endorsed Sean Patrick Maloney for Congress — even without the powerful advantage of incumbency, Sean's strong commitment to issues important to working families would resonate with Hudson Valley voters.

Second, Ipsos MORI's poll confirms that one of the criticisms of Labour that has often been heard since the referendum, viz. that voters do not know what Labour stands for any more, still has considerable force.

No matter the internal strife over Donald Trump's presidential bid, the intensely competitive Republican primary contest is bringing a booming number of voters to the polls — while Democratic turnout plunges, raising questions about whether these trends will last through November.

Recent polls have shown that most Republican voters do not know enough about any of the three candidates to form an opinion, with many saying they have not decided whom to support.

Sanders delegates on the convention floor were saying no, but polls show that Hillary Clinton is picking up at least 80 % of Sanders voters.

According to the latest poll, Thompson ranks third in black voters support and 40 percent don't know him.

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 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 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.

And the poll found that while voters hold a 17 % to 10.7 % favorable - to - unfavorable opinion of Schneiderman, the bulk of the electorate either doesn't know him or have no opinion of him.

Steingraber says her group does not endorse candidates, but she notes that voters will go the polls in November, without knowing the incumbent governor's ultimate decision on fracking.

The poll found two - thirds of voters don't know enough about the GOP candidate to even form an opinion of him.

Polls show most voters still don't know much about attorney Wendy Long, Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos and U.S. Rep. Bob Turner.

According to the poll, 54 percent of voters didn't know or had no opinion of Sini, while 76 percent of voters didn't know or had no opinion of Perini.

The poll also found that New York City voters know very little about the Republican candidates for mayor: Former MTA Chairman and CEO Joseph Lhota, businessman John Catsimatidis, publisher Tom Allon, former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion and Doe Fund founder George McDonald.

In an online poll, 85 percent of voters answered «no» to the question «Do you agree with the Citizens Salary Review Commission's recommendation to raise elected officials salaries?»

Only 4 in 10 voters know anything about Ms. Nixon, according to a Siena College poll released this week.

The poll found 41 percent of voters did not know Deacon, or had no opinion of her.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

The poll found that 42 percent of voters believed that Bloomberg's ability to spend millions of his own dollars gave him an unfair advantage, while 87 percent of those polled did not know enough about Avella to form an opinion.

A Faso spokesman says that according to the state Board of Elections, voters in Columbia County were instructed to place their ballots into a separate slot on the scanning machine for provisional ballots and that replacement ballots were to be at all polling places no later than 4 p.m.

Survation polling from last year (yep, we know - treat it with as much caution as you think sensible) showed he performed very well indeed with potential voters.

As much as 29 % of Lib Dem voters in the last election told the poll they would vote for Labour or the Green party, 15 % would defect to the Conservatives or Ukip and 22 % said they did not know who they would for.

The Survation poll found 53 % of voters thought Darling won the debate and nearly a quarter said it made them more likely to vote «No».

Today's Siena poll finds Doug Hoffman continues to attract the support of 15 percent of NY - 23 voters even though he's no longer campaigning, leaving the two remaining candidates — Democrat Rep. Bill Owens and Republican Matt Doheny — running neck - and - neck.

In an off - year, voters know our Congressional and state reps are going to be Democratic, so local voters might not be as motivated to take the time to go the polls.

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