Word: polle
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...Portion of college Republicans in a poll who say religion is losing its influence on American life; about 87% of them say the apparent decline is a "bad thing...
...right? Few military or intelligence officials back the rosier assessments of Allawi and the Bush Administration. Neither does a majority of the American public: according to a TIME poll, only 37% say Bush has been truthful in describing the situation in Iraq, and 55% believe it is worse than Bush claims. Even White House officials acknowledge that the U.S. has lost control of swaths of Iraq, including parts of the capital, where insurgents roam with near impunity. While Allawi says 15 of 18 provinces are controlled by forces friendly to the new Iraqi government, that grip is shaky in Sunni...
...stay the course" until Iraq is stabilized. Kerry is trying to convince the public that he can turn things around fast enough to bring the troops home by the end of his first term--mainly by pursuing policies that Bush says he's already carrying out. In the TIME poll 46% say Bush is more likely to bring a successful end to the situation in Iraq, while 42% say Kerry would do a better...
...Still, the battering the Windsors took in the 1990s, especially the emotional gusts during the week after Diana's death when the Queen seemed to be a stonyhearted defender of a hollow status quo, has left the family permanently on guard. According to the Ipsos MORI poll, 81% think Britain will have a monarchy in 10 years, but only 32% think it will in 50. Says one of her senior aides: "One can never be complacent...
...saga has resonance with the public once more. She has become a matriarch in autumn, presiding over "a family happy once again, the more credible for the traumas they have been through." Her country is prosperous and generally content with her performance. According to a 113-page Ipsos MORI poll commissioned by Buckingham Palace in January and seen by TIME, only 19% would like to switch to a republic - one more percentage point than in 1969. "This is the most stable measure in British polling," says Robert Worcester, who presented the poll to palace staff. No matter how you break...