Word: polle
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...unlikely statement, perhaps, considering that he is president of the Harvard Republican Club and currently on his way to New Hampshire to campaign for John McCain. But on this day, Motley’s words ring especially true: his candidate is trailing in nearly every national poll, the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has been involved in a number of embarrassing gaffes, and Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley, recently announced his endorsement of McCain’s rival, Democrat Barack Obama...
...Some political pundits predicted a divide within the Democratic Party, in which Clinton supporters would defect in droves to support Republican nominee John McCain. Initially, this theory seemed to have backing—in a March Gallup poll, 28 percent of Clinton supporters had said they would vote for McCain in a McCain-Obama matchup...
Most Americans do not trust media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, citing media bias and misguided focus as their primary concerns, according to a poll released by the Harvard Kennedy School last week. The poll—which was co-sponsored by the Merriman River Group—found that 89 percent of U.S. citizens agree or strongly agree that the news media focuses too much on trivial issues, 77 percent agree or strongly agree that the news media is politically biased, and 82 percent agree or strongly agree that media coverage has too much influence on whom Americans...
Users can indicate negative characteristics like “long lines,” “poll place hard to find,” and “they ran out of ballots.” There is also room to review the positive aspects of the experience, such as “poll workers were courteous and friendly...
...University of Wisconsin political-science professor Charles Franklin has crunched early-October tracking-poll data and found that Regina Hansley is pretty typical. Undecided voters are no more likely to express questionable attitudes about African Americans than are the public as a whole. He did find, however, that undecided voters are more likely to be predicted as McCain voters than are the general population; 50% of undecideds will likely go for McCain, compared with the 36% of decided voters who say they will pull the lever for the Republican...