Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Katie Boyle, deputy press secretary for the Dole campaign, admits that their latest in-house poll shows as little as a 3 percent difference between the two candidates--although most Iowa polls show Dole to be enjoying a wide margin of support over Bush. Media polls in caucus states, she says, "should all be taken with a grain of salt. They don't measure organization. Smart campaigns don't pay much attention to them...
...campaigns of underdogs Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern were given enormous boosts by their New Hampshire performances. Both candidates lost the primaries, but won the public relations battle when they finished better than expected. Walter Mondale won the Iowa caucuses by a large margin in 1984, but Gary Hart emerged instantly into the spotlight by beating the odds with a second place. Hart then became the media-appointed alternative to Mondale, shoving John Glenn, the previous number two candidate, out of the race...
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...
Dartmouth had a two-point halftime lead in the close match, but Cornell (6-6 overall, 1-1 Ivies) went up by a point with 15 minutes left to play. The Big Green stormed right back to take a lead it would not relinquish, and extended its winning margin on free throws...
...Tony Coelho (D-Calif.) the chief vote counter for House Democrats. said the margin for the showdown vote remains razor-thin, with a group of 30 to 50 members considered crucial...