Sentences with phrase «voters wanted»

However, bitcoin prices went on to lose some of these gains, plunging more than 10 % on 21st June after a poll conducted by market research firm Survation showed 45 % of voters wanted the UK to remain in the EU, compared to 42 % who wanted to stick with the economic bloc.

Turns out that voters did (narrowly) support the initiative, although fewer voters wanted to pay for it.

... That's what the voters wanted.»

Was this what voters wanted to hear?

Andrew Phillips - an ally of Paddy Ashdown - who is now Lord Phillips of Sudbury, warned his party against trying to lead when few voters wanted to follow.

Number 10 should be worried that the normally ultra-loyal Gary Streeter MP went on to BBC TV last night to say that voters wanted more Conservatism from the Prime Minister and less Liberalism.

It's hard to say, but the trend does seems to be moving away from Blair — back in July Populus found 48 % of Labour voters wanted Blair to stay on past the next election and only 24 % wanted him to go before 2006.

It contrasts with the New Zealand referendum which took a two - stage approach — asking first if voters wanted to keep or discard the current system, and if the latter, asking which exact system they would replace it with.

Both constituencies have been Labour seats since their inception, and in both over 60 per cent of voters wanted to leave the EU.

Focused on delivering an on - time spending plan — which polls earlier this month showed 62 percent of voters wanted the timely budget, stronger ethics laws be damned — the governor and legislators jettisoned plans for a minimum wage hike, the Dream Act and changes to the criminal justice system from the spending plan.

Spitzer himself has been floated several times as a mayoral candidate, although a Marist poll conducted back in October of 2012 found 57 percent of registered voters wanted him to stay out of the race.

Mr Clegg was marginally more of a hit with the ladies - 14 per cent of female voters wanted a pint with him, over 13 per cent of men.

A recent poll by USA Today and Suffolk University showed that 76 percent of voters wanted third party candidates to be included in the debates.

Rump got 46 % of the vote meaning 54 % of the voters wanted someone else.

According to Marist, in April of 2010, only 24 percent of New York voters wanted him to run for mayor; now 33 percent want him to run.

The margin was narrow — 37 to 36 percent, with Tsongas, who had «suspended» his campaign (as opposed to dropping out and releasing his delegates) with 24 percent — but it was clear that Connecticut voters wanted to put the brakes on the Clinton Express.

Of course the voters wanted change, and they chose to take a chance that change will come with a Democratic Congress.

Almost all «yes» voters wanted the powers transferred north of the border, but even 41.2 % of «no» voters agreed with them.

This system has been recently confirmed, as there was recently a vote where 76.3 % of voters wanted to keep the current system, and did not want to elect the government themselves.

The voters wanted a champion in Tallahassee who will fight for higher paying jobs, affordable healthcare and fully funded public schools and I am honored and humbled that they have placed their faith and trust in me,» Taddeo said in an election night statement.

It is clear the voters wanted real change not he same group with a new handpicked leader that's disenchanted with his own majority party's choice.»

A Siena Research Institute poll in May found 77 percent of voters wanted all state employees, including legislators, to be stripped of their public pensions when convicted of crimes related to their public jobs.

When the hung parliament was declared, 29 % of voters wanted a Lib - Lab coalition, 28 % wanted a Lib - Con coalition, 18 % wanted a Conservative minority government and 20 % backed a unity government comprising all the parties.

While swing voters wanted Labour to acknowledge its mistakes, most in the movement wanted to see the new leader defend the party's record.

In 2010, the party had not done enough to show that the change uncertain voters wanted was the change we were offering.

Some 70 % of Richmond Park voters wanted to remain in the EU in June, and the Lib Dem candidate, Sarah Olney, claims it continues to be a huge concern.

It's clear that Todd's record of delivering results for the people of Nassau County and his message of ethics reforms, government accountability and responsible leadership is what the voters wanted and they now deserve to finally have that voice representing them.

Firstly, they did not tell voters they wanted to cut tax credits before the election.

The voters wanted to forgive McGwire, but first he would have to come clean.

Two - thirds of voters wanted to keep the birth control coverage requirement in a March 2017 survey by PerryUndem.

But that wasn't what Romney thought conservative voters wanted to hear.

Rudd, who was appointed Home Secretary in 2016, said voters wanted those who had the right to reside in Britain to be treated fairly and humanely but also that illegal immigrants be removed.

A new poll released by the American Lung Association found that nearly 70 percent of voters want the EPA to leave the current standards in place.

But although voters want government to act, jobs increasingly are not coming from government, but from companies, where job tenure is unstable.

Voters want jobs.

Whether it's a candidate that goes to church, plays a sax or even some hoops... the voters want to be able to relate to them.

The tax radicalism marks you as an unserious candidate and a general election disaster, when somewhat conservative voters want a competent winner.

(Overall, 75 percent of registered voters want the Dreamers to stay.)

As journalists and political consultants often say, voters want to be assured that a presidential candidate «shares their values.»

Considering the first - half marvels are what the majority of voters want to see, I'm OK with that.

To Park District President Peter Koukos, it means that if Highland Park voters want to know what the district is proposing for its Rosewood Beach, they should look north to see what Lake Forest did; that was the purpose of the boat tours.

The voters want to know «What did Schumer Know and when did he know it» and when did «Cover Up» Cuomo learn of this???

She makes the point that the majority of voters want a referendum.

Most of our attention should now be focussed on what we do next, and it is on looking to the future that, I would guess, most voters want Vince to spend his time.

Voters want authenticity.

From Public Policy Polling: Trump Lead Grows Nationally; 41 % of His Voters Want to Bomb Country From Aladdin; Clinton Maintains Big Lead

Voters want benefits cut, but not if it makes them personally worse off.

Could this deliver what the Leave voters want?

Senate Democrats, meanwhile, are seizing on a Siena College poll released Tuesday morning that found a broad majority of voters want ethics reform and anti-corruption measures approved this year.

If immigration is what the voters want to talk about, the economy is top of the candidates» list.