In 2000, voters in California and Michigan, by overwhelming margins, defeated initiatives that would have provided for the use of school vouchers.
Recent independent polls -- three statewide and one in Colorado Springs, a generally conservative city -- have shown overwhelming support for the initiative, over 80percentt, despite an enduring conflict nationally over background checks at weekend gun shows between groups that favor tighter restrictions on gun ownership and those that favor unfettered access to guns.
"But as we go out in the community and engage voters, there is overwhelming support for this initiative".
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
The school voucher movement suffered a serious setback with the overwhelming defeat of voucher initiatives in California and Michigan.
With a Long Island voting history of overwhelming support for preservation initiatives on the ballot, backers of the bond issues said prospects for passage were good.
"If you talk to people who work for her, you'll find overwhelming support for her initiatives and her leadership style," he said.
Two states' overwhelming approval of ballot initiatives last week to require background checks at weekend gun shows is prompting advocates of gun control to predict that the incoming Congress might pass legislation that creates a similar federal law.
It's the incremental stripping of those privileges that take up the final quarter of the book; his sense as he approaches retirement that he is expected to bow before the management newspeak, health and safety directives and "clinical governance protocols" that are overwhelming the modern NHS – initiatives that no one understands and that do nothing for patient care.
It is time for Israel to use its overwhelming strength to take some initiative.
