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While election polls show Barack Obama leading in tomorrow’s presidential election, a key question throughout the election has been whether polls overstate the support of black candidates. Fortunately for the Obama campaign, a new Harvard study finds that the senator may not have much to worry about. In November 1982, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a black Democrat, was running ahead in the polls for governor of California and was feeling confident going into election day. Pre-election polling showed that he had a significant lead over his Republican opponent, and exit-polling conducted...
Eighty-two percent of the 563 students that responded to The Crimson’s poll indicated that they intend to vote for Obama in the upcoming election, compared to 11 percent who favored Republican candidate John McCain...
...Crimson administered its questionnaire to a random sample of 1,000 undergraduates using the iCommons polling interface. Harvard FAS ID’s were used as logins to prevent repeat voting and responses from students not included in the survey sample. The poll carried a margin of error of 3.9 percent...
...People are ready to embrace change.” Members of HRC also seemed optimistic about their efforts paying off. “Definitely there is election fatigue. [But] a lot of independents in New Hampshire are really fans of McCain,” Motley said. The most recent poll by the University of New Hampshire put McCain at 41 percent and Obama at 52 percent of the popular vote in the state. But Zafran said, “The only poll that really matters is the poll on Election...
...final criticism of the Court’s decision is that a majority of Californians do not approve of same-sex marriage, as evidenced by a 2000 ballot measure to recognize only heterosexual marriages. The ideological terrain has shifted since then, however—a July California Field Poll survey found that 51 percent of voters will likely vote against Prop 8. This Tuesday, voters will have the chance to express their opinions; the fact that they have never voted for same sex marriage before is not an argument for why they cannot now. Gay rights are a perennial source...