Sentences with phrase «voters showing their support»

Further, 56 percent of Wisconsin voters showed support for the state proposal to allow Wisconsin taxpayers to deduct some of their student loan payments from their state income tax.

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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.

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.

Democratic preference in both polls was slightly above data site 538's polling aggregator, which on Sunday showed that 48.5 % of voters who said they would support a generic Democratic candidate in 2018, compared to 37.6 % who preferred a generic Republican.

As recently as late June, just 55 % of Sanders voters said they would vote for Clinton; recent polling data shows just 41 % of young voters are supporting Clinton.

The April 26 - 30 voter poll showed Lopez Obrador winning 48 percent support, unchanged from a Reforma voter survey earlier in April.

A survey on Monday showed voters who disapproved of Abe's cabinet outnumbered those who support his cabinet for the first time in six months.

The poll also showed that 59 % of voters support full legalization of marijuana across the U.S., while 93 % support medical marijuana.

If Kenney doesn't follow the lead of Brown, his fellow social conservative caucus colleague, it likely signals one of two things: he does want the support of voters for whom parental rights regarding their pre-adolescents and teens are a big issue; or that he's calculated that a softening of his image would show weakness and isn't worth it, because his party has such a comfortable edge over Notley that he can afford to lose voters wary of anything resembling social conservatism.

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.

There is the new Quinnipiac University National Poll showing that 66 percent of American voters support stricter gun laws.

I have yet to see the details, but the Edmonton Journal is reporting on a new Environics survey, taken between November 4 and 8 that showed the governing Progressive Conservatives with the support of 51 % of decided voters across the province.

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 %.

However, a deeper look shows that the tariffs received the most support not from Republicans overall, but specifically from Trump voters.

In an earlier post I wrote that establishment Republicans need to avoid showing contempt for the Republican primary voters whose support they need.

At the same time, black voters overwhelmingly supported Obama in 2008, while more recent polling shows a nearly equal level of support for the president's 2012 reelection.

On «The Daily Show» recently, Jon Stewart grilled Mike Huckabee about a TV ad in which Huckabee urged voters to support «biblical values» at the voting box.

With 17 of 20 precincts reporting as of press time Tuesday night, the fire district's tax increase received support from 46 percent of voters, with 54 percent opposing, unofficial vote totals show.

Glen Ellyn voters Tuesday were supporting the village «s proposal to float a $ 15 million bond issue, early election results showed.

The level of support is consistently high, and shows little difference across voters of the top three candidates.

Bouyed by this morning's Siena poll that shows overwhelming support among New York voters for taxing the rich, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver just issued the following statement:

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).

Can you link to a study that shows a majority of American voters support it?

The latest New York Times / CBS News poll, conducted last week, showed likely voters in the same age group supporting Mr. Romney by a 15 - point margin — even wider than the gap on Election Day 2008.

But Leave supporting Tory MP Liam Fox said voters had shown great «courage» by deciding to «change the course of history» for the UK and, he hoped, the rest of Europe.

A poll commissioned by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund shows that 50 percent of voters in NY - 19 — Republican Rep. John Faso's district — support the Affordable Care Act and only 33 percent support the American Health Care Act replacement bill.

Indeed, as figure 2 shows, pro-independence voters were almost as united in their support for the SNP in Westminster in 2010, when they won only 20 per cent of the vote, as they are now.

Instead, Trump steadily gained support, showing that anti-establishment voters would tolerate, if not welcome, presumptuous politicians being brought down to size.

The poll shows Cain, who stood at just five percent support two weeks ago, now holding 17 percent support among Republican primary voters.

The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum of voter support» the law requires and that our candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.

Woolf also addressed his own lagging poll numbers, and said that because the polls show that a majority of voters support his stances, it's an issue of messaging and communication, and he is confident that his campaign can overcome the double - digit gap.

Moreover, analysis of voting behaviour during the 2014 European election shows that 21 per cent of Green voters had supported Liberal Democrat candidates in the 2010 general election; 18 per cent had voted Labour; and a further 18 per cent had have voted Green.

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.

SNP Campaign Director John Swinney said: «This is an encouraging poll which shows a significant lead for the SNP amongst older people and a further fall in support for Labour amongst some of their traditional voters — highlighting just how far Labour have come from their founding principles.

For the second time in as many weeks, a statewide poll shows that voters» support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo is waning as the summer wears on.

The latest Quinnipiac poll shows 90 percent of the state's voters support the Child Victims Act.

One recent poll shows Cuomo with support from nearly two - thirds of possible voters.

The poll also showed majority support from New York City voters for Cuomo, with 56 % approving of his performance and 37 % disapproving.

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.

The survey, conducted after the video release but before the debate, showed Clinton with 46 percent support among likely voters in a four - way matchup including two minor party candidates, compared with 35 percent for Trump.

TUC Opinion Poll on Regional Pay Commenting on the TUC opinion poll * showing that two thirds of voters thought paying teachers less in lower - pay areas would make it harder for schools to recruit and retain good quality teachers, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Only Michael Gove has expressed any support for local pay in teaching.

A majority of New York City residents, suburbanites and upstate dwellers, as well a large swath of voters across all age groups, races and religions showed support for the initiative.

Guess it goes to show that Mr. Bishop has done nothing to earn NY1 voters support.

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).

US Hispanic voters showed signs of staying away from Obama due to his race - hence their support for Hilary Clinton in the Democrat contest - and liberal social attitudes.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, four years ago, you got about 1 percent of the vote, but now some of the polls are showing you close to 10 percent of support among registered voters.

The poll shows Cruz scoring new love from the party's most conservative members, with evangelical and tea party voters showing major support for him.

The strategy, senior Democratic officials agree, will show voters that Republicans first pulling their support now for Trump is too little, too late.

The recent book Revolt on the Right (co-written by Robert Ford) showed that Ukip draw their support from a very clear demographic: the «left - behind» electorate of older, working - class white voters with few educational qualifications.

Secondly, a poll conducted by the Mail on Sunday last weekend showed that only 26 % of voters who will be 16 and 17 at the time of the referendum support independence.