Sentence examples for secret polling from inspiring English sources

He said he was not aware of the secret polling in Sheffield and Inverness, the seats of Clegg and Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury.

After three MPs suggested Clegg should consider his position, secret polling commissioned by Oakeshott showing that the party could do better under Cable was leaked to the Guardian.

Some of the cash was directly targeted at ensuring the re-election of May, who Ashcroft had identified in secret polling as one of the most vulnerable Tory MPs.

He said he was not aware of the secret polling in Sheffield and Inverness – the seats of Clegg and Alexander – but he did know about some of the other surveys.

With Obama's popularity on the decline, however, in late 2011 White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley conducted some secret polling and focus group research into the idea of Secretary of State Clinton replacing Biden on the ticket.

I have no secret polling data, and nothing to add to the obvious comments, like "he needs to offer specifics, clean up his clown act, and sound presidential," that everybody is already making.

Bill, his nose red and his fist banging, claims to have secret poll results proving that the president is beatable.

In 2008 the NCP commissioned a secret poll to find out, using a nationwide sample of nearly 23,000 people.

One month ago, a secret poll of "energy insiders" by the National Journal found that "virtually all" expected easy approval of the pipeline by year's end.

Oakeshott resigned as a Liberal Democrat peer, warning that the party was heading for disaster, after the secret polls were leaked to the Guardian in the wake of very poor results in the council and European elections.

Though the Republican leadership has opposed anything further, he also suspects that "if you did a secret poll among Democrats and Republicans, rank-and-file members, I think overwhelmingly people would say they would love to get money out of politics".