Word: polled
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...young Arkansas Governor who once promised "change vs. more of the same" now carefully guards the status quo. As long as the economy remains buoyant, so too will Clinton's poll numbers. Though hardly an objective observer, Speaker Newt Gingrich has a point when he accuses the President of dedicating his second term to the sole purpose of conserving his popularity. It's a shield against headlines like the ones last week over the missing videotapes. No wonder he is loath to risk...
...POLL DATA...
From a telephone poll of 1,282 adult Americans including 816 whites and 374 blacks taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 1 and 2 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Margins of error are +/- for entire sample, +/- 3.4% for whites and +/- 5.1% for blacks. "Not sures" omitted...
Americans distrust the cavalierism of modern-day health care and fear invasive medical intervention to the bitter end, or a lingering, undignified death while hooked up to life-prolonging technologies. A Gallup Poll conducted last April found that 75 percent of Americans believe that doctors should be allowed to end the lives of terminally ill patients by painless means if the patient requests it. Two appeals cases on this issue made it to the U.S. Supreme Court this summer; the Court ruled that there was not a constitutional right to receive physician aid-in-dying, thus effectively turning the issue...
From a telephone poll of 827 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Sept. 10-11 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Margin of error for subgroups +/- 5.5%-10.2%. "Not sures" omitted...