Word: polle
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...wrong with France today: it has one of the highest unemployment rates in Western Europe, the government's finances are overstrained, the country's international competitiveness [an error occurred while processing this directive] is waning, and there's a deeply felt public malaise that is reflected in the bad poll numbers of political leaders, as well as in the sales of pessimistic books about the future. Violence in the banlieues around Paris and other major cities is now a regular and ugly occurrence. There are a lot of things that are right with France, too. Its worldwide reputation...
...White House that when a conservative commentator recently asked Bush to give him some good news, Bush replied, "You're talking to Noah about the flood." Even the President knows this election has become a national referendum on him and his performance. In the latest Washington Post--ABC News poll, 31% of those surveyed said they will use their congressional votes to register their opposition to Bush, which was almost double the percentage who said they felt that way before the last midterm. By comparison, only 17% said they plan to use their vote to show support for Bush...
Friends describe a President who knows he's the same person today that he was at his Gallup-poll peak of 90% approval after 9/11 and that he was in the depths of 31% last spring. In Journeys with George, her documentary about Bush's first campaign, former NBC producer Alexandra Pelosi--who, as it happens, is the daughter of the woman who has the most to gain in these elections--tells of being invited to Bush's private compartment on his campaign plane when she was having a low moment. "They can say what they want about...
...Democrats are optimistic about swaying older women, says pollster Celinda Lake, because they "were among the most supportive in the early days of the war in Iraq and now are some of the most critical." While 54% of Southern women voted for Bush in 2004, a recent Associated Press poll found that only 32% of them approve of his handling of the war, compared with 36% of all Southerners. Republicans argue that they can hold these show-me moms by stressing the good economy and the moderate popularity of President Bush's prescription-drug program...
...voting, hurt mainly by a corruption scandal involving his party. But on the eve of Sunday's runoff vote he is far ahead of his rival, as most analysts expected. "If you look at the course of the last five or six months there has only been one poll out of range, and that was on the eve of the election itself," said Dr. Timothy Power, a lecturer at Oxford University's Centre for Brazilian Studies. "Lula had to face the first-round election on his one bad weekend of the year. I think the fact that we have...