Word: polled
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...elections. The president is traditionally the figure who Americans give credit to or blame for the economy, as Ford, Carter, and Bush all found out to their distress. Clinton will inevitably benefit from a growing economy as Reagan did. An astonishing 51 percent of Americans (in a CNN poll, Nov. 10) feel they are better off now than three years ago. These voters are hardly the ones to vote for a change. At the same time, Clinton has racked up a very impressive foreign policy record. During his administration, major peace initiatives have been achieved in the Middle East, Haiti...
Some columnists have argued that the Republicans, through control of the governorship in 31 states and having a strong base of support in states with large numbers of electoral vote, have a lock on the presidency in two-way races. But this is just not consistent with the latest poll data. Clinton is currently crushing le by 16 percent overall and lead. Role in every state except for a handful of states with few electoral votes (Time-CNN poll...
After the spectacular failure of Margaret Thatcher's poll tax in the United Kingdom, you wouldn't think that anyone would seriously discuss its equally evil twin, the flat tax, in this country. After all, we split with that now-defunct empire because we knew how to do all the taxation and representation stuff much better. But the flat tax, most recently championed by Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, has returned to the spotlight...
...publication of the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, registered a 3.7% rise in all charitable giving in 1994 over 1993, but the figure includes contributions to cultural institutions and other nonpoverty-related causes. Giving for "human services," the category most closely associated with poverty work, dropped 6%. A poll by Independent Sector found that voluntarism, which also saw a boomlet in the late '80s, declined 5% in 1993 from 1991. In the same poll, 73% of respondents worried about having enough money for the future, compared with 57% in 1988. Says Smucker: "People seem to be more insecure about...
...Steve Forbes has not been shy about bankrolling a campaign that is anything but polite. In the two months since he announced his candidacy, Forbes has inched up to second place in New Hampshire, where most polls show him with about 10% of the g.o.p. vote vs. front runner Bob Dole with 37%. And in Iowa, Forbes is tied for second with Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm at 7%, according to a poll of likely caucus participants by PSI, a research firm. That's largely because of message and money. Forbes, who heads the magazine-publishing company founded...