Word: polled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Henry Higgins, George Bush must wish a woman were more like a man. After all, men support Bush as much as they do Michael Dukakis, and in some places more. But women are another matter. The latest polls, like those of the past few months, show Bush trailing Dukakis among women voters by anywhere from 17 to 32 points. Even among Republican women, regardless of age or class, Bush does far worse than he does among men. Lamented a Republican political consultant as he pored over poll data from a solidly conservative district in Ohio last week: "Among women...
ACCORDING to the polls, the signal was detected. A poll conducted shortly afer the convention revealed that 81 percent of Blacks said they will support Dukakis in November...
That same poll can be seen as discouraging to soon-to-be Republican nominee George Bush and a big victory for Dukakis and Jackson. With the Black vote in the bag, the Democratic Party has a legitimate shot at knocking off the Republicans for only the second time in the last six elections...
Unfortunately, that pedagogical approach was thrown out with mandatory school prayer and other relics of the conservative, unmissed past. And the results of changes in educational direction are glaringly obvious from the poll's findings: American adults may have scored poorly on the survey, but Americans in the 18 to 24-year-old category did even worse, placing last out of nine countries, including Mexico, Canada, Great Britain and Japan...
...sign of the kind of momentum cheering the Dukakis campaign was a new poll taken in Texas by Peter Hart Research Associates...