Word: polled
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...prominence he hoped it would confer. For most of those who attended, however, the main point was comradeship, pride and rededication to a few core values. The march was also a partial antidote to what may be a creeping sense of despair among African Americans. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 56% of blacks questioned did not think discrimination against them would ever diminish. Only 27% of whites felt that way. While 65% of whites thought that race relations would eventually improve, only 44% of blacks agreed...
...considering that more than three years of war in the Balkans have barely managed to capture the attention, much less the conscience, of American voters. Last Friday, as news arrived that as many as 2,000 Muslims may have been massacred by Bosnian Serbs near Banja Luka, a TIME/CNN poll indicated that only one-third of Americans believe the U.S. has a moral obligation to stop the fighting in Bosnia. Despite public skittishness, however, last week's testimony made three things clear. When and if a peace agreement is reached, the President is determined to send troops to Bosnia. Congress...
...change? Democrats are looking at opinion polls that consistently show bipartisan majorities in favor of strong protections for the environment. In a recent TIME/CNN poll, 63% of those questioned opposed any reduction in protection for endangered species. Fifty-nine percent opposed the expansion of logging, mining or ranching on public lands. And 67% were against opening up the Arctic refuge to gas and oil exploration. One of the President's pollsters, Stan Greenberg, is advising Clinton that defense of the environment plays well with many Perot supporters, who are inclined to see any attack on environmental law as one more...
...Gingrich's presidential ambitions, the White House is salivating at the idea. Pointing to a poll indicating that 80% of Republicans oppose his running, a White House aide says, "Go ahead, make...
...last week provided a dose of reality. Twelve jurors may have acquitted Simpson of first-degree-murder charges, but according to a TIME-CNN poll, 56% of Americans still think he's guilty. The planned NBC interview prompted thousands of angry phone calls to the network. Demonstrators from the National Organization for Women and other groups massed outside NBC's Burbank, California, studios in protest. Advertisers refused to buy commercial time on the program, thus enabling NBC to take the high road by announcing that the interview would run without ads. (Simpson insisted in the Times that...