Word: polled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when a Roper poll asked the baby-boom generation for its heroes, the rich and famous and superficial headed the list: Clint Eastwood and Eddie Murphy, celebrities standing in for real heroes. But the current wave of nostalgia for Bobby Kennedy may be a signal that the generation that retreated to self-absorption in the '70s and '80s may be ready to feel passion again. That Kennedy is a hero to them could be more than nostalgia; it may suggest a yearning, once again, to re-engage...
Network interviews with voters at the pollingplace indicated that Jackson won his customaryoverwhelming support among Black voters. TheCBS-New York Times poll said Jackson won onlyabout 15 percent of the white vote in Ohio andabout 10 percent in Indiana...
...said its poll indicated that about 60percent of Jackson's supporters in both statessaid they would vote for Dukakis over Bush in thefall campaign, with only 6 percent saying theyfavored the vice president...
...single imaginative political theme, has outlasted seven rivals. Barring acts of God, this candidate described by one of his own aides as an "earnest nerd" will be the nominee. Sighs of relief were audible among much of the Democratic establishment. Because Dukakis evokes wild enthusiasm? Hardly. A TIME poll last week conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman showed that only 34% of registered voters consider Dukakis an "exciting" candidate (vs. 66% for Jackson). Rather, the party has grown weary of a nominating contest that combined the worst elements of burlesque and trench warfare. Now at last the stable, competent craftsman...
...morning of the New York primary, Michael Dukakis flew back to Boston to pursue his favorite pastime: governing Massachusetts. As others sought out early exit-poll results, the Governor spent nearly two hours in his Beacon Hill office conferring with Top Advisers Hale Champion and John DeVillars. The gravity of the moment, however, was not lost on DeVillars, who was once Dukakis' student at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. DeVillars later marveled at the incongruity of discussing health insurance with Dukakis as it "dawns on you that a year from now this man may be sitting in the Oval...