Sentence examples for election approval from inspiring English sources

In the British general election, approval voting would probably have yielded a less skewed result in terms of parliamentary seats.

In the eight instances where a president was re-elected or where his party kept the White House, the average post-election approval bounce was roughly five percentage points.

But the era of large post-election approval bounces may be receding.

Compared to previous presidents, however, Mr. Obama's post-election approval bounce has been relatively meager.

But his hand might have been even stronger had he received a more average post-election approval bounce.

The two largest post-election approval bounces belong to losing candidates: Gerald Ford in 1976 and George H. W. Bush in 1992.

But their leader, Rep. John Boehner, had a pre-election approval rating of -7 percent.

Despite his defeat, Bush climbed back from election day approval levels to leave office in 1993 with a 56% job approval rating.

This often shrinks the gap between pre-election and post-election net approval as some of the bounce apparent in Micah's dataset is merely because approvals shifted, sometimes significantly, between the last pre-election poll and election day.

In a close election, that approval was quietly pivotal for Thatcher's deceptively rightwing successor John Major.

Among whites, who constituted much of Mr. Nagin's voting base in his first election, the approval rating was 5percentt.