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James K. Polk once said: “Preseason polls are dumb.”Well, not really. Our 11th president’s famous slogan was “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” But I’m saying it now: preseason polls are dumb.How can a team be properly evaluated before it has played a down? If games were played on paper, the Yankees would have swept the Tigers, and if players’ values were so easily projected from their vitals, Darius Miles would be an All-Star. Or an Oscar winner...
...Menendez is also banking on New Jersey electoral history; the Garden State frequently has very tight, down-to-the-wire races, which the Democrats ultimately pull off. "This is a late deciding state, historically," he told TIME. And indeed, a new poll out this week showed Menendez with a slight, four-point lead over Kean. The fallout over the Foley scandal could possibly tilt the race to Menendez, but Kean has tried to get out in front of that issue by calling for Hastert's head. Keeping some distance from his own party, Kean knows, may be the only...
...This Time/Oprah Winfrey Show poll was conducted by telephone October 3, 2006, among a national random sample of 750 adults, age 18 and older throughout America...
...step up in the pocket, it makes it a lot easier to get to them.”Though Harvard struggled at times, the team still proved why it’s at the top of the Ivy League pecking order. The latest AP-FBC Division I-AA Poll had the Crimson ranked No. 15 in the nation. No. 24 Princeton remained the only other Ivy League team in the Top 25.“I thought it was a very solid, workmanlike effort,” Murphy said. “To be 4-0, we?...
...remains a strong favorite," said Kevin Leyden, associate professor of political science at West Virginian University in Morgantown. "Although ethics allegations have been thoroughly aired here, they haven't seemed to stick." Indeed, a Majority Watch poll of 1,003 registered voters conducted at the end of August put Mollohan up, 52% to 42%, with a margin of error of 3%. That's easy enough to explain after 24 years in Congress, said Mollohan's campaign manager, Gerry Griffith. "One man's pork is another man's job, another man's progress. People here on the ground can see, hear...