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Recent statistics seem to indicate that the American public will be receptive to the project's message, Winsten reported. According to Winsten, a Gallup poll conducted for Harvard found that 78 percent of adults said they would be willing to be the designated driver from time to time...
...rush for independent testing angers some competitors and government officials, who contend that federal and state inspections provide ample safety. Not everyone is so sure. Fully 75% of the consumers surveyed in a Gallup poll last year said that pesticide contamination was a major concern to them. The National Academy of Sciences and the General Accounting Office have both issued studies that question the effectiveness of Federal Government & produce inspection, which typically samples only 1% of all fruits and vegetables sold...
...alas. These are among the revelations in a Gallup study released last week on more than 10,000 adults from nine nations, including Italy, Mexico and Japan. The lowest scorers were young Americans, with an average of just 6.9 correct answers to 16 easy questions (Swedes were tops, with...
...crime, more and more of them no longer seem willing to trust their safety solely to their husbands, their neighbors or the local police. Between 1983 and 1986, as gun sales to men held steady, gun ownership among women jumped 53%, to more than 12 million, according to a Gallup poll commissioned by gunmaker Smith & Wesson. Even more striking, the poll found that the number of women who were considering buying a weapon quadrupled, to nearly 2 million...
...that many pollsters missed the trend. Most tracking polls question a relatively small number of voters, usually fewer than 400, in each party every night. The results are then averaged over several days. The weekend before the primary, most tracking polls showed the race dead even. Some, most notably Gallup, gave Dole the lead by as much as 8 points. By Monday most polls detected that Bush was picking up momentum. Dole's pollster, Richard Wirthlin, found Bush gaining ground but on the basis of his weekend data still insisted the Senator would triumph. The volatility of the poll data...