Word: polle
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Trouble had already been gathering in the weeks before polling, when an opposition protest was met with police batons and tear gas and leading opponents were detained. Two prominent critics of Wade reported receiving death threats. Others claim that on voting day, thousands of ballots were not delivered on time to opposition areas, which allowed Wade to clinch over 50% of the vote and avoid a runoff against Idrissa Seck, 47, once Wade's most loyal lieutenant and now his most bitter rival. Despite noting "serious incidents" and "acts of vandalism against certain political leaders," regional observers declared the election...
...potential successors united, and the resolution was dropped from the agenda. Recently zanu-PF dissidents have been meeting the opposition parties, and have blocked their leader's attempts to call a state of emergency that would allow him to cancel all elections. That means there will be a presidential poll next year. Will Mugabe be the zanu-PF candidate? The very fact that this is a question demonstrates how rapidly his power is ebbing away...
...added that the building was “once voted the greatest building in America by a bicentennial poll of designers and planners...
...laughs at the suggestion that his stratospheric early poll numbers and laundry list of liabilities leave him nowhere to go but down...
...Indeed, this belief is so unshakeable that it often defies reality. In a 2005 New York Times poll, 80 percent of respondents answered “yes” to the question, “Do you think it’s still possible to start out poor in this country, work hard, and become rich...