America's relatively pro-competitive rules added more than four percentage points, relative to the OECD average, to its IT investment share; regulation pulled the figures for France, Greece, Italy and Portugal down by 2.5 to 3.5 points.
That means that Ohio was slightly Republican-leaning — by 2.7 points — relative to the national trend.
In Florida, the white non-college-educated turnout rose by seven points relative to 2012, which was enough to keep the white vote steady despite substantial demographic changes.
Rates on bonus saver accounts, with higher interest rates, have increased by 2.5 percentage points relative to the cash rate since 2009.
gains of about 16 points relative to the group of kids that didn't get intensive treatment," Dr. Smith said on Friday.
Surveys from Gravis Marketing have been very strongly Republican-leaning this cycle — by about four percentage points relative to the consensus.
However, they had gained much less ground — only three or four percentage points — relative to where the polls stood before either party's convention.
On average, however, the polls just after the challenging party's convention overrated their standing by a whopping 14 points relative to their actual finish.
Mitt Romney made clear gains in some of the polls (in Ohio and Virginia, among the states that Purple Strategies tracked), while his numbers receded in others (he lost two points relative to President Obama in the YouGov weekly tracker).
Both the CDU-CSU and the SPD lost percentage points relative to the 2005 election, however, even if the CDU-CSU's loss was small (1.4%) compared with the 11.2% loss of the SPD.
Reference frame, also called frame of reference, in dynamics, system of graduated lines symbolically attached to a body that serve to describe the position of points relative to the body.
