Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest TIME/CNN poll, conducted in the 48 hours after Dole's speech, the soon-to-be-ex-Senator's favorability rating jumped from 43% to 51%. But while a majority of Americans approved of Dole's action, more than three-quarters of registered voters said it would not affect how they would vote in November. Yes, they cotton to the old campaigner a little more now, but still not enough to vote for him. Bill Clinton held a formidable 22% lead over Senator Dole, a margin that suggests Dole was not exaggerating when he said he had a hard task...
...early May, however, party leaders were losing patience with Dole, who seemed to be getting trapped in a legislative spider web of the Democrats' making. Internal Republican polls showed independents tilting dangerously Democratic (only 28% of registered independents said they backed Dole in a recent TIME/CNN poll). Even voters who were disappointed with Clinton were not moving to Dole but shifting to undecided. In a series of private meetings and at various dinners, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour declared that Dole had to focus on the presidential campaign "to the exclusion of all else," a phrase he repeated...
...Anytime someone says the word poll to him, he says 'Greg Norman.'" --Press secretary Mike McCurry on Clinton and the lesson of the golfer who blew a six-stroke lead to lose the Masters...
From a telephone poll of 1,011 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on May 8 and 9 by Yankelovich Partners, Inc. Sampling error is plus/minus 3.2%. *Asked of 826 registered voters. Sampling error is plus/minus...
...Harris poll a while back, 73% of those asked said the memorial should include "visible recognition of F.D.R.'s disabilities." The National Organization on Disability, which claims to represent the interests of 50 million disabled Americans, thinks that to ignore F.D.R.'s disability in the monument is a major cultural blunder. "It would be unconscionable to have schoolchildren visit the memorial five years from now, or 500 years from now, and have no sense of the challenge F.D.R. faced," says Mike Deland, the organization's chairman...