Word: polled
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Nevertheless, the vote did have a huge impact in its expression of widespread discontent with the status quo in Quebec. If anything, the referendum should be read as a credible opinion poll, and serve as an incentive for action in the years ahead. But by no means should it ever have been read as a serious challenge to Canadian sovereignty. But then, not all things make sense in the emotion-driven world of separatist politics...
Despite tales of dismal job markets and endless rat races, most college seniors are actually quite optimistic about their future financial outlook, a new Gallup poll reported this week...
Many Harvard students interviewed yesterday said they were not surprised by the poll's results...
Although seniors polled stressed future income and job prospects, 38 percent of seniors in the poll considered "having time to be with family" important to their quality of life...
...last few hours before the poll closings, the after-work turnout in Montreal itself turned the city into a kind of campaigning pandemonium, with long waits at the polls that are extraordinary and unprecedented in a country that has been used to 85 percent turnouts in precinct elections," McWhirter reports. "At Eddie O'Sullivan College in downtown Montreal, police cars diverted a full block of honking traffic so that voters could stand in freezing sleet waiting to take a number and go inside. They're being cheered on by passers-by just to give them a little solidarity in these...