Word: polle
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...Clymer left The Times in 2003, and worked for a couple of years as political director for the National Annenberg Election Survey, leading an extensive national poll on the 2004 elections. Earlier this year, he covered the Wyoming Republican primary for The Times from his ranch in the state...
...that activity. They might, of course, be proved right, but given their recent track record they also run the risk of crying wolf, which is part of the reason why the denizens of Florida and the rest of America's hurricane-prone coastline are largely shrugging. A Mason-Dixon poll of Atlantic coastline dwellers released this week reveals, astonishingly, that more than half don't feel vulnerable to hurricanes...
...about to let the divided high court have the last word. Brandishing more than 1 million signatures from an ongoing petition campaign, they plan to put before voters as soon as November a proposition that would amend the constitution to forbid same-sex marriages. (A Los Angeles Times poll shows a majority of registered voters would support the amendment, preferring to overturn the ruling). The alliance of groups opposed to gay marriage, meanwhile, has petitioned the court to delay such unions, which could begin as early as June 16, until after the November vote...
...independent poll in April gave Clinton a 50-37 advantage, and McClintock says he thinks the margin has expanded. As a New York Senator, Clinton already represents many of the 4 million Puerto Ricans who live on the mainland; her husband was always popular on the island, and even commuted the sentences of 16 members of a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group when she ran for Senate. Puerto Ricans pay more attention to local politics than national politics, but they certainly know Hillary Clinton; by contrast, Obama has been running biographical radio ads on the island this week. "We have...
...although Bush announced on Wednesday that he'll allow Americans to send cell phones to Cubans now that Raul Castro has permitted his citizens to own them). And when recent surveys show that even a majority of Miami Cubans, of all people, favor relaxing the restrictions - in an FIU poll 55% backed unlimited travel to Cuba - it's probably time for U.S. politicians to drop the one-string embargo banjo and pick up a new instrument for effecting change across the Florida Straits...