Word: polled
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Everett has had a large hand in crafting Stanford's meal plan, which has received poor reviews from students. In a poll conducted last spring by Stanford's student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, the school's meal plan received an average grade of C+ from 216 students. Thirty-four students gave the plan a D and four more gave it an F, while only 14 awarded their meal system some kind...
Gingrich's popularity has ebbed since the heady early days of the Contract with America. His 33% approval rating in a May TIME/CNN poll of U.S. voters was only 9 points higher than Nixon's was before he resigned the presidency. It is an anti-Newt backlash that, Georgia Democrats believe, has occurred back home as well. While a February poll by the Gingrich campaign indicated that 75% of likely voters in his district think the Speaker deserves re-election, the Coles operation claims that in its own surveys 47% of Gingrich constituents say he is not performing well...
Dukakis also criticized the national media for overplaying poll results and ignoring real campaign issues, but he offered one prediction for the presidential campaign...
...TIME/CNN poll of 1,004 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners found that 82% believed in the healing power of prayer and 64% thought doctors should pray with those patients who request it. Yet even today few doctors are comfortable with that role. "We physicians are culturally insensitive about the role of religion," says David Larson, noting that fewer than two-thirds of doctors say they believe in God. "It is very important to many of our patients and not important to lots of doctors...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole is in a bind. Just as he was planning on a hard campaign in Midwestern swing states, the Southern territory that Republicans have long taken for granted is slipping. A few days after the GOP rejoiced that Dole had closed the polling gap with President Clinton from the double digits to 6 percentage points, a New York Times/CBS poll shows that Clinton enjoys an overall lead of 6 percentage points in Dixie. "The only reason a few more Southerners, who are traditionally solidly Republican, are open to Clinton now is because he is a Southerner, regardless...