Sentences with phrase «voters surveyed said»

A 54 percent majority of voters surveyed said that while they believed de Blasio had done favors for his political donors, they didn't think the behavior was illegal, but merely unethical.

When asked which candidate has run the more negative campaign, half of voters surveyed said Maffei.

Voters surveyed said Collins, a businessman and former Erie County executive, would do a better job representing them than Hochul on the issues of jobs and the federal budget deficit.

According to the poll, 48 percent of voters surveyed said they have a favorable opinion of Grimm, compared to just 31 percent for Reccia, whom 46 percent viewed unfavorably.

Seventy - two percent of the registered voters surveyed said young adults have «less opportunity to be successful» on the Island than they did in 1991.

A recent AARP survey found about three quarters to four fifths of the 50 + Queens voters surveyed said they're «extremely» or «very» likely to support candidates who'll work on:

The Syracuse.com/Post-Standard/Siena College poll shows 17 percent of potential voters surveyed say health care is the most important issue to them.

Not exact matches

A Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday — conducted by telephone, and with a plus - or - minus 3.5 % margin of error — found that 51 % of registered voters said they would vote for or lean toward a Democratic candidate if the 2018 elections were held today, compared to just 36 % who said they would vote or lean Republican.

Pollsters surveyed 517 registered Hispanic voters in the state, and 35 percent said they would vote for Romney in the primary compared to 20 percent for Gingrich.

The president referenced a survey that said that 37 percent of Republican voters approved of Putin, adding that «Ronald Reagan would roll over in his grave.»

In an April 26 - May 1 survey of 1,991 registered voters, 62 percent say the administration is running somewhat or very chaotically, a rise of 4 percentage points from a March 15 - 19 poll and 8 points from a March 1 - 5 poll.

I say this, and I do so in capital letters with exclamation points, because of a survey released Thursday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life regarding voter perceptions of the religious beliefs of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

According to the Public Religion Research Institute survey, two - thirds of voters (67 %) said it is either very important or somewhat important for a presidential candidate to have strong religious beliefs.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 1,655 registered voters released today, more than half of white evangelicals said they weren't satisfied with their ballot options (55 %), reflecting the feeling of Americans at large (58 %).

In March, the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life saw a first in its ten years of polling: the largest group of voters in its survey, 38 %, said that politicians are talking about religion «too much» right now.

The Pew survey found that 17 % of registered voters think Obama is a Muslim, while 31 % say they do not know the president's religion.

In one recent survey, 81 % of voters described the parties as «much of a muchness» and only 16 % said they felt there was a real difference between them.

For instance, when looking at the internet as a persuasive tool, they say that «e-mail is not close to challenging direct mail and phone calls as ways to reach voters: A Pew Research Center survey last month found that 38 percent of registered voters had received phone calls about the midterm campaigns, while only 15 percent had received e-mail.»

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Paladino is getting strong support from Tea Party voters, which has helped him gain in the polls, the survey said.

Despite uncertainty about effectiveness, it can at least be said that Labour are using a strategy rooted in an understanding of the voters that can be justified with the survey evidence.

If this week is any indication, expect a late - December blizzard of studies, reports and surveys predicting doomsday scenarios for New York's schools, cities and other government entities if a tax cap goes through — despite a poll saying that voters clearly want the mechanism.

Sixty - four percent of registered voters who were surveyed said they support a proposal to increase taxes on the city's wealthiest earners, while only 21 percent favored tolling motorists entering Manhattan, according to the Quinnipiac University Poll released on Friday.

But he also said Cuomo's high approval rating (as much as 68 percent in some voter surveys) shows the relatively new governor is yet to cash in his political capital.

After the 2009 European Parliament elections, only 28 % of UKIP voters in the BES survey said they were planning on voting UKIP again at the next general election.

According to a new Reuters / Ipsos poll, most Trump voters haven't budged in their support of the president, with 88 percent of those surveyed saying they'd cast their ballots for the Republican candidate again if America were to go back in time to Election Day.

Although 29 % of voters statewide still say they have either never heard of or are unsure how to rate Ravitch, that proportion has fallen since Marist's March 9th survey.

Greenberg says the numbers have remained consistent over the last several months, prompting a tweak to the survey: «What Siena did this month is we asked voters how they think Cuomo is doing his job on a variety of specific issues.

Black Democratic voters also favored de Blasio over all other candidates, including Thompson, the only black candidate in the primary, whom only 25 percent of those surveyed said they backed, according to the poll.

Forty - one percent of voters said they'll vote Democratic while 37 percent said they'll vote for Republicans, according to a Quinnipiac University survey.

Only 41 percent of voters in the latest Quinnipiac University survey said the mayor was doing a good job, while 52 percent said he wasn't.

Meanwhile, 42 percent of voters polled in the survey said it's Hanna who is running a negative campaign (to be sure, Republicans have hammered O'Brien for supporting a judge who later was accused of sexual harassment), while 23 percent say it's the Democratic candidate who went negative.

Meanwhile, 47 % of Labour voters were dissatisfied with Mr Corbyn, while 29 % said the same about Mrs May, according to the survey by pollsters Ipsos Mori for the Evening Standard.

More than half the voters Quinnipiac surveyed said they haven't heard enough about her to form an opinion of her.

«The Republicans have had double - digit leads in all five races that we looked at,» says Siena College spokesman Steve Greenberg, whose college conducted the voter surveys.

The survey of more than 1,000 New York voters by Quinnipiac University shows that although Cuomo appears for now to be in a strong position to win re-election in 2014, 52 percent of the state's voters say he has done a «not so good» or «poor» job of «cleaning up corruption» in Albany.

Pollster Larry Harris says that disparity is not unusual, because it generally reflects where the most number of registered voters live in the area that was surveyed.

«Ninety percent of voters in the last survey say «get this ethics reform done».»

The survey indicates Democratic voters are divided, with 41 % saying Weiner should run and 44 % disagreeing.

For example, in one 1997 survey of California voters 37 percent of Republicans said that they planned to vote in the 1998 Democratic gubernatorial primary, and 20 percent of Democrats said they planned to vote in the 1998 Republican United States Senate primary.

Head of the Political Science Department, Dr. Bossman Asare, who made this revelation while presenting the survey findings, said: «We wanted to find out who the voters think should lead the party [NDC] in 2020, and overwhelmingly 58 % of the candidates we interviewed said they believed Mr. Mahama will become the candidate and a number of them generally said they wanted Mr. Mahama to come.

The DCCC said the poll was a live call survey taken between March 8 and March 12 of 500 NY - 22 likely November 2018 voters.

The School Board Association's Tim Kremer says a survey of the state's school districts finds that the vast majority are budgeting within the strictures of the tax cap, and as a result, 93 percent expect their budgets to be approved by voters on May 21.

Analysis of the survey by Crosby shows that voters who want Britain to leave the EU are more motivated than those who say they are in favour of staying in.

Weiner has continued to say he is leaving it up to the voters to decide what should happen with his campaign, and majority of those surveyed say he should pack it up.

The survey found that 72 % of UKIP voters at the 2014 European Parliament election say they could see themselves voting UKIP in a general election.

Among Democratic voters, 55 % say he is now doing either an excellent or good job in office, the same proportion as in Marist's September survey.

When voters are surveyed, they typically say that they regard corruption as commonplace, which is also to say that they regard it as part of the atmosphere, like humidity in August, immune to undoing.

Polls show Paladino rising against the once seemingly unassailable Cuomo, but the latest survey showed Lazio taking 8 percent of voters, most of whom would likely go to Paladino and cut into Cuomo's lead, said Marist College pollster Lee Miringoff.

«90 % of voters in the last survey say «get this ethics reform done.