Word: polle
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...declined 3% last year. Industrial production this year will drop more than 15%, and agricultural output 5%. One state economic planner said he feared a return to "the horrible times we lived through in the past," referring to "the famine of the 1930s, the repressions of 1937." A poll published last week by the Soviet National Public Opinion Studies Center asked, "What does the Soviet Union offer its citizens?" The response given by 65% of those interviewed: "Shortages, waiting in lines and a miserable existence...
...next election. This is an historic choice, with ramifications for Americans not even born yet. Let's put aside for a moment the small politics of the day. The judgment of history should be the approval we seek, not the temporary favor of the latest public opinion poll." Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), speaking at the Virginia Military Institute, April...
...News/Suffolk University poll of Massachusetts voters released last week, only 37 percent of respondents indicated that Kerry should seek reelection for another Senate term. To have any chance at retaining his Senate seat in 2008, it is high time for him to scrap his national ambitions and strive to regain relevance at home...
...Until recently, simulated second-round scenarios favored Sarkozy over Royal - though most also found him losing to Bayrou. For that reason, many Sarkozy backers have long prayed for a Royal matchup. But there are signs the contest may not be a Sarko slam-dunk after all. First, the last poll simulation found Sarkozy-Royal ending in a 50-50% tie. Meanwhile, Sarkozy - who built his hard-line, law-and-order reputation as France's Interior Minister - has sparked outrage among rivals and even consternation among his backers by embracing crime-fighting policies and immigration proposals that some critics have likened...
...Friday night, two days before the polls close in Sunday's first round of balloting in the most significant presidential election in a generation, France entered political purdah. Suddenly, the candidate speeches and poll results that have been a febrile mainstay of French news over the last six months simply stopped, in accordance with the law. That left the millions of voters who declared themselves undecided in the final week of the campaign - an astounding 40% of the electorate, according to recent polls - facing a quiet weekend to make up their minds free of media influence. Still, their friends...