Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Contrary to misleading advertisements, Pepsi is not the choice of a new generation of Harvard students. In fact, in a recent Crimson poll, 59 percent of students said they prefered Coke products, while a measly 14 percent chose Pepsi...
According to a Gallup Poll in 1992, 89% of those young people in the highest income bracket said they were in love, compared to 67% of those in the lowest bracket. Apparently, money can buy happiness, which is good news for lonely Harvard students contemplating their brilliant careers...
...ELECTION WERE HELD TOday..." That's what they say at the start of a lot of poll questions. The tricky part is, of course, that the election is not being held today. Talk to them now, and most people are not quite ready to tune in on the campaign season. But even in this politically somnambulant moment, when attack ads lodge fitfully between that part of the brain that stores miracle grapefruit diets and the part that remembers Valentine's Day, there is still a discernible trend. Its name is Steve Forbes. And what settles into the distracted consciousness...
...start over. He is luring voters from the ranks of weak Dole supporters, undecided voters and even some from Phil Gramm's camp. But Forbes is especially appealing to the upscale and the socially moderate. That is the upshot of the second installment of the TIME/CNN Election Monitor, a poll that returns periodically to the same large sample of people to ask them about their shifting view of the candidates and issues. For this one, 1,117 registered voters who identified themselves earlier as Republicans or as leaning that way were questioned last week about the G.O.P. primary field. What...
More than a third of Forbes' current supporters in the poll preferred Dole last November. Many of them cite Forbes' ideas and outsider status for their change of heart. "He's not looking over his shoulder at what somebody thinks about him," says Richard Riley, a retired geologist in Columbus, Ohio, and former Dole supporter. "Forbes energizes me." The next-biggest pool of new support for Forbes is among such people as Warren Snyder, a Suffolk, Virginia, phone-company worker who was undecided last fall. "I'm really against the people in Washington. I think Forbes might be refreshing," says...