Word: polle
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...Students at Columbia, which once bred more officers a year than the U.S. Naval Academy, even went so far as to conduct a poll at all four of the university's undergraduate colleges on whether to bring back the military officer training program that was booted from campus in 1969 at the height of anti-Vietnam furor. While students voted 54% to 46% to keep the ban in place, ROTC advocates say the tenor of the debate was more revealing than the ultimate result. Take Learned Foote, for example, a sophomore who is gay but supports ROTC...
...Harvard will certainly have a lot to prove because for the first time in almost seven years, the Crimson has dropped out of the Top 10 in the national poll...
...dissent so the party machinery revolves less around the cult-like stature of their leaders. The military, for its part, has deployed some 50,000 troops to safeguard voting stations and intends to suspend civilian mobile phone signals on election day, which it claims will make mob takeovers of polling booths and vote-rigging - both hallmarks of elections in the past - more difficult. According to a poll by the Daily Star, a leading Dhaka English language newspaper, 95% of Bangladeshis believe they can cast their ballot without coercion...
...Rasmussen poll ranked Blagojevich the "least popular governor" in the nation. His approval rating among Illinois voters is around...
...decides against Kennedy, Paterson could name an upstate candidate with downstate appeal, like popular Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, an African-American Democrat who could win over liberal voters in New York City. (Brown garnered 6% overall in the Marist poll and 10% among upstate voters.) State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, besides polling even with Kennedy in the Marist survey, offers Paterson another benefit. The "accidental" governor - who replaced Eliot Spitzer after his resignation amid a highly publicized sex scandal - will have to run for his own office in 2010, and Cuomo could be a formidable challenger in the Democratic primary...