Word: polled
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...percentage points in 1996, and Democrat Robert Torricelli won last year's Senate race by 10 points. Whitman is also learning how perilous life is these days for moderate, pro-choice, pro-gay rights Republicans like herself. Only 67% of New Jersey Republicans rated her favorably in a recent poll. Her veto of a partial-birth-abortion ban alienated many conservatives in this highly Roman Catholic state. The Christian Coalition plans to distribute 1 million election guides reminding voters of her stance. The beneficiary of alienated conservatives may be Libertarian candidate Murray Sabrin, who is targeting right-to-life voters...
...same, support is picking up among blacks, especially those in poorer households, and among younger voters, who don't share the automatic faith in government of the generation that fought the civil rights struggles. A recent poll by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which focuses on issues of concern to blacks, showed support for vouchers among African Americans up 10 percentage points since last year, to 57%. For blacks ages 26 to 35, the figure...
...came within one vote of establishing a publicly funded voucher program, the supporters included Ron Wilson, a black Democratic legislator from Houston. In Philadelphia, the logic of vouchers has hit Dwight Evans, a black state legislator who plans to run for mayor in 1999 and who has his own poll that shows strong black support for the idea. "We need to stop making the argument that we shouldn't be looking at options [besides the public system]," he says...
...schools are also acceptable to teachers unions, important Democratic allies that oppose vouchers in part because the private schools they foster generally pay lower salaries than public systems. Democrats hope they can defeat any drift toward vouchers among blacks if they can just make plain the implications. A recent poll conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an international education fraternity, found that most citizens oppose vouchers when the issue is framed as a matter of tax dollars subsidizing private-school tuitions. That finding is supported by a recent TIME/CNN poll that posed the question that way; support for vouchers...
This year's mayoral contest has totally failed to capture the attention of the city. A recent New York Times poll revealed that, after months of campaigning and extensive media coverage, 60 percent of those questioned had no opinion of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Democratic opponent, Manhattan borough president Ruth Messinger...