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The snap general election she called in April, when the Tories were 20 points ahead in opinion polls, has now left the United Kingdom with a minority government.
Consider young voters, who in the recent election appear to have gone to the polls in droves, giving huge support to Labour’s far-left leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Menem's maneuvering notwithstanding, the polls show that the man twice elected president was at the end of his road.
Since then, despite governments of varying political complexions, there has been no serious attempt to repeal the law, which polls show is supported by about 70% of the population.
When Kaczynski was forced to go to the polls again only two years later, it became evident that many of those who had not voted in 2005 were unhappy with the outcome.
If these considerations fail to get people to the polls, however, compulsory voting is one way of overcoming the free-rider problem.
These "technologies" range from producing decoy political parties and legally persecuting opponents to publishing fake polls and falsifying elections.
Judging from opinion polls, the European public has come to see the EU’s handling of the euro crisis as a success.
The National Front, the only party to present a coherent, united, and purely negative position on Europe, is predicted by many public opinion polls to win next month’s European Parliament election.
In April 2018, despite mounting authoritarianism and official complaints from the European Union, opinion polls put support for the far-right PiS at 40%.
Opinion polls indicate that there will be a second-round run-off between Le Pen and either Sarkozy or Juppé, which means that those on the left will have to choose a conventional right-wing candidate if they want to beat Le Pen.
To be sure, opinion polls still favor the independent centrist Emmanuel Macron in a second-round run-off.
In fact, in recent months, Le Pen’s popular support has remained rather consistent, with her lead in opinion polls for the first round remaining stable, even as French politics is thrown into upheaval by scandal and mistrust.
If we have learned one thing from the annus horribilis that was 2016, it should be that opinion polls are fallible.
Polls of climate researchers, as well as analysis of thousands of scientific publications, consistently show a 97-98% consensus that human-caused emissions are causing global warming.
Opinion polls show that support for the EU has surged in many member states since the UK’s referendum.
In principle, this should help Barack Obama and the Democrats, because polls show them stronger on economic issues, whereas Republicans and John McCain do better on security issues.
After the Republican convention, polls showed McCain ahead in early September, but after the financial meltdown, Obama took the lead.
One should be careful, however, about reading too much into national opinion polls measuring the candidates’ popular support.
Not only does the Electoral College confuse predictions based on national opinion polls, but there is also the possibility of surprises which can lead to last-minute reversals.
Global warming is not a hoax, but at a time when opinion polls reveal rising public skepticism about climate change, this unsavory glimpse of scientists trying to cook the data could be just the excuse too many people are waiting for to tune it all out.
Over and above that, two factors explain the bizarre phenomenon captured by recent opinion polls in France.
The French people still have time to pull themselves together – and opinion polls suggest that they are beginning to do it.
Populists of the right and the left, some with authoritarian leanings, lead opinion polls in Brazil and Mexico ahead of presidential elections in both countries later this year.
BEIRUT –Three years ago, regional opinion polls showed that the Middle East’s most popular leaders were Hezbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Polls in North America, Europe, India, and Japan show that opinions about China’s influence are predominantly negative.
Two major factors limit China’s soft power, as measured by recent international polls.
Protecting Europe in the Age of TrumpBRUSSELS – Just like the polls prior to the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, the polls in the run-up to the United States’ presidential election were wrong.
First, a majority of Japanese do not want to change Article 9, as opinion polls consistently show.
For the SPD – which seems to be nostalgic for the early 1970s, when the party was led by the charismatic Willy Brandt – this distinction might work well; public opinion polls show that Germans tend to be much closer to the SPD than to Merkel on Russia.
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