Word: margin
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...coercive government meddling and destructive litigation, while it hides its true agenda with deceptively innocuous language. The state House and Senate have already rejected this measure by votes of 2 to 150, and 0 to 34. The public needs to repudiate this extremist initiative by a similarly emphatic margin...
...said its survey showed Bush leading 51-44 among probable voters polled Tuesday through Thursday, with a margin of error of three percentage points. The margin had been 53-41 in a survey taken during the three days ending Monday...
Harvard undergraduates favor Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis over Republican Vice President George Bush by a nearly three-to-one margin, a straw poll conducted by the Institute of Politics revealed this week...
Still, the IOP survey revealed huge gender and minority gaps between the two candidates. Among women, 78 percent chose Dukakis, compared to 18 percent for Bush. The margin between the two candidates was much closer for men, with the governor leading 65 percent to 31 percent...
Dukakis won 12 out of the 13 undergraduate houses, with his largest margin in Adams House, 89 percent to 8 percent. Bush's lone victory took place at Eliot House, where hecarried the house 50 to 45 percent...