Word: canvass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with some 40 per cent of the vote each; Roosevelt has 12 to 18 per cent; and the Conservative candidate, Paul L. Adams, might get five per cent on a sunny day when the older people can get out to vote. But in the time it takes pollsters to canvass the state, opinions often change. Most experts currently give Rockefeller a slight lead...
...this left confusion as the only constant, even among the professional seers. An NBC poll by Oliver Quayle showed a pronounced trend for Rockefeller, while a New York Daily News canvass found O'Connor improving on a slight 3.6% lead. An ABC poll by John Kraft reported a near deadlock with O'Connor 2% ahead and the undecided still at 13%. All three indicated the minor-party candidates could get about 20% of the vote between them. Thus, it was not even certain that the winner would have a majority mandate...
...York, the Daily News's statewide canvass found O'Connor edging ahead of Rockefeller, while two minor party candidates, Liberal Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and Conservative Paul Adams continued to draw significant support. The standings at week's end: O'Connor 40.4%; Rockefeller, 39.4%; Roosevelt, 13.5%; Adams...
...late for revisions now. The deed had been done. Still, Sickles supporters looked for a way out. Mahoney had won by less than 1 per cent of the vote, and absentee ballots had to be counted and a canvass conducted to verify the results. There were irregularities in many of the polling places and Sickles could even challenge the entire result of the election. For two weeks the hope persisted. Then, after all the indignance and the rationalization and the searching, it was over. It rained that Wednesday too--two weeks later--and Carlton Sickles announced he was conceding...
...similar canvass of East Cambridge will be conducted on March 19 by M.I.T. students and the Cambridge Senior Girl Scout Troop...