Word: polled
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...force the Republican Party and its elected officials to join his anti-affirmative-action crusade. In California and Washington his referendums won handily--54% and 58%, respectively--but Connerly had to do it with little institutional support. That pattern is being repeated in Florida. According to a recent poll, 83% of Florida's potential voters want to end racial preferences. But both Florida's Republican and Democratic political establishments have made it clear that they wish Connerly and his petitioners would just go away...
HILLARY CLINTON Fickle N.Y. has change of heart; she dives in new poll. There's never an intern around when you need...
Rival campaigns laughed when GEORGE W. BUSH's campaign paid $43,500 in a silent auction to rent prime space at next month's Iowa straw poll. "They took the bait," chuckled an adviser to Lamar Alexander. But Bush is laughing now. Rather than dip into his campaign chest, he had six donors cover the tab. Too clever, says Steve Forbes' team, which charges that the end run is a violation of campaign laws that prohibit individuals from giving more than $1,000 to a candidate. The Bush folks say that since the money went to the Iowa Republican Party...
Indonesia may have trouble persuading anyone to bother voting next time around. The country supposedly ended 34 years of dictatorship by going to the polls in early June to elect a new president. But the results were only announced last week, more than a month late ? and then, on Monday, the process was thrown into turmoil when the country?s Electoral Commission, two thirds of which must endorse the result to make it stand, nixed the poll. Although the five major parties all gave the thumbs-up, a plethora of smaller parties represented on the commission cried fraud...
Rival campaigns laughed when George W. Bush's campaign paid $43,500 in a silent auction to rent prime space at next month's Iowa straw poll. "They took the bait," chuckled an adviser to Lamar Alexander. But Bush is laughing now. Rather than dip into his campaign chest, he had six donors cover the tab. Too clever, says Steve Forbes' team, which charges that the end run is a violation of campaign laws that prohibit individuals from giving more than $1,000 to a candidate. The Bush folks say that since the money went to the Iowa Republican Party...