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...poll, which has a 5.5 percent margin of error, places Gephardt in the lead with 18 percent, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis second with 16 percent and Illinois Sen. Paul Simon third with 15 percent, said James V. Murphy, chief executive officer of the nationally respected firm...
...volatile Democratic contest, in particular, is straight out of an antacid commercial. No candidate has much margin for error: one gaffe, one stumble, one strategic miscue could spell the difference between heartburn and heartthrob. With a tightly bunched field and estimates of turnout as low as 90,000 Democrats, the support of a few thousand caucus attendees may be all that separates the victor from also-ran status. The latest political tout sheets label Richard Gephardt as the freckle-faced favorite; he put on last week's most elaborately choreographed media event, importing 42 House colleagues to stand with...
...poll commissioned by WEEIAM, WCVB-TV and The Boston Globe had error margins of plus or minus 9 percent regarding the Democrats and Republicans most likely to attend the caucuses and of plus or minus 5 percent for the overall Democrat and Republicans samples...
Michael Bungo, director of the Space Biomedical Research Institute at Houston's Johnson Space Center, is not so sure. "This is just one test case," he says. "The margin of error is considerable." The validity of the 5% figure, Bungo believes, also depends on whether bone-marrow testing was done at the preferred point -- the spine -- or at the heel bone, which he says the Soviets have done in the past. Besides, while total calcium loss may have been low, he is concerned that there still may be structural changes in Romanenko's bones that could make them more prone...
FOOTNOTE: *The survey was conducted by telephone with 1,804 adult Americans. The potential sampling error is plus or minus...