Word: courante
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...THIS RACE at least, the little matter of who is beating whom says more about statistical analysis than it does about state politics. During the first week in October, a New York Times poll showed Moffett ahead by five percentage points. The same week, a University of Connecticut-Hartford Courant canvass had Weicker up by 16 points. Since then, another Times poll has put Weicker in the lead by two points or sixteen points, depending on the order the polling questions were put to voters...
...state where Democrats and Independents outnumber Republicans by a factor of 2-to-1, Dodd seems to benefit from a comfortable advantage. A recent poll in the Hartford Courant gives Dodd the lead with 55 per cent of the vote to Buckley's 31 per cent. Sid Gardner, who manages John Anderson's campaign in Connecticut, predicts a decisive win for Dodd. Buckley, Gardner observes, "has had some difficulty shaking his staunch conservative image." With this reputation gone unchallenged, Buckley will have little chance at rallying those pivotal blue-collar Independent votes...