Sentences with phrase «voters polled oppose»

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What's more, even if there is a backlash, it might not be that big: a new POLITICO / Morning Consult poll shows support for stricter gun laws among registered voters at 68 %, well above the 25 % who oppose such laws.

Also on Thursday, Quinnipiac University released a new poll showing that 71 % of American voters — including 55 % of Republican voters — say they oppose the government enforcing federal laws banning marijuana in states that have already legalized the drug for either medical or recreational purposes.

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

In cities and towns where voters opposed legalization, elected bodies such as town councils or boards of selectmen can impose a ban without polling residents.

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.

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.

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

When the Q poll first started questioning voters on this issue, they were opposed, 55 - 37.

The poll found New York voters opposed the American Health Care Act, which would have overhauled the current ACA, 56 percent to 27 percent.

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.

That's basically the upshot of a somewhat less - than definitive today's Q poll, which found voters oppose «obesity tax or a fat tax on non-diet sugary soft drinks,» 66 - 31, unless they're told the proceeds would be used to fund health care.

A majority of voters polled, by a margin of 62 percent to 34 percent, oppose raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15.

ALBANY — A majority of New York State voters oppose Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan for building the country's largest convention center at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, according to a poll released on Monday.

Lastly, according to a joint Wall Street Journal - NBC opinion poll, American voters overwhelming oppose free trade deals.

A Quinnipiac University Poll published Thursday found that state voters were still not sold on congestion pricing — 49 percent polled opposed the idea, while 43 percent support it.

Sixty two percent of New York voters said they supported making marijuana use legal for people 21 and older, with only 28 percent opposed, according to a poll commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project Foundation and the Drug Policy Alliance.

A Siena College poll released this morning found a broad majority of likely voters oppose the convention, 57 percent to 25 percent.

They hope to rally voters against a convention, which polls show voters oppose 57 percent to 25 percent.

The polling, shared first with CQ Roll Call, found that in six districts held by Republicans, voters would be less likely to support the GOP incumbent if they opposed the Equality Act.

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.

Cuomo supports the Dream Act, and he said he would continue to push for it (Changes of the measure passing took a double - whammy hit in March when the state Senate narrowly defeated the bill and a Siena College poll showed most voters oppose the measure).

A YouGov poll for the Times in January found that just one - in - four voters think Trident should be fully replaced as opposed to 56 % of voters who think it should be downgraded or scrapped altogether.

The Siena Research Institute Poll released Thursday morning found 59 % of state voters support Cuomo's campaign for the higher wage and only 38 % of voters oppose it.

An ICM poll for The Guardian finds 61 % of all voters support the move to legalise gay marriage with just 32 % opposed.

Meanwhile, according to today's Siena poll, Nearly three - quarters of voters say they are «concerned» about the safety of New York's nuclear power plants and a majority opposes building new nuclear power plants in the state.

Left - wing voters opposed to Merkel have opted for the Greens and the Left Party, with the SPD now polling at just 22 %.

Also in the poll, Suffolk voters overwhelmingly opposed holding a state constitutional convention, 64 percent to 23 percent, with 13 percent answering that they were undecided or had no opinion.

A 2015 poll by the Siena College Research Institute revealed 59 percent of statewide voters support the SAFE Act while 33 percent oppose it.

A recent Siena Research Institute poll estimates that a record high of 58 percent of New York's registered voters support gay marriage, compared with a record low 36 percent who oppose it.

More than 100 backbench Labour MPs are also thought to oppose the plan creating the potential for a significant showdown between Gordon Brown and his own party at a time when the polls show that many voters think Labour would be better off with a new leader.

«I saw that meeting as my doing my job of trying to find a way to convey, in any way I could, that the public and even his voters had fierce opposition to the education cuts,» she said, adding that she told Bannon their polling showed half of Trump's voters opposed his cuts.

A recent Siena poll showed voters support Cuomo and his budget conceptually, but oppose education cuts and support the millionaire's tax.

That gave the Senate GOP, which has blocked public financing of political campaigns on the grounds that it costs too much money, an opening to attack, citing the recent Q - poll that found New York voters oppose the system 51 percent to 39 percent.

The poll found, not surprisingly, that 82 percent of voters would oppose a pay increase for the Legislature, 15 percent backing such a move.

Thirty - eight percent of voters say they are opposed to fracking, while 35 percent of those polled back the drilling method.

«The coalition will also unveil new campaign literature opposing the amendment, which will be distributed to voters in an extensive campaign at subway stations and polling sites,» according to the advisory.

A separate Survation poll for the Mirror today also found broad support for the policy with 70 % of Labour voters backing it and just 15 % opposing it.

Overall, 40 percent of poll respondents say they oppose the new law, while support is strongest — 70 - 26 — among voters under the age of 35.

The poll found voters in New York City by a margin of 62 percent to 36 percent oppose the tax, with even a narrow majority in Manhattan — 50 percent to 49 percent — also opposing it.

Britain is the only country in Europe where more voters oppose the EU constitution than back it, a new poll has found.

The poll found that even natural Conservative voters are increasingly split over his record, with 40 % of their 2010 voters now saying he is doing badly, as opposed to 42 % saying he is doing well.

In December 2014, just before Cuomo announced his hydrofracking decision, a Siena poll found 35 percent of voters supported fracking while 38 percent opposed it.

He publicly fought with Gov. Andrew Cuomo — which apparently did not help him with voters, based on this poll — and faced a multi-million dollar advertising onslaught from Uber, the e-hail giant which opposed his attempts to regulate the industry.

Siena College polling in January and February showed that the trail was the only piece of Cuomo's agenda Siena asked about that a majority of voters did not approve of (57 percent opposed it in February).

In a new Quinnipiac poll released last week, only 11 percent of voters said they would vote for Carrion compared to 62 percent who would vote for the opposing Democratic candidate.

Critics of Mr. de Blasio will pounce on the fact that the poll shows 47 percent of voters believe he does not deserve re-election, as opposed to only 41 percent that do.

Fourteen months after the passage of the SAFE Act, 63 percent of registered New York state voters say they support the SAFE Act, compared to just 32 percent who oppose it, according to a Siena College poll released March 24, 2014.

According to the poll, McCain now leads Obama 46 % to 41 % amongst likely voters, as opposed to the same poll which last month showed Obama leading by 7 %.

New York State voters oppose fracking, 45 to 41 percent, in a Quinnipiac poll released on Wednesday morning, while more than a third say Cuomo is «dragging his feet» on a decision.

[66] A poll done by Arizona State University researchers found that 81 percent of registered Latino voters in the state opposed SB 1070.