Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years that the Gallup poll has been canvassing voters in Britain has there been such a drastic swing in public preference for a political party. Three months ago, Harold Wilson's Labor government had been riding high with an 18% lead over the Conservatives. By last week Wilson's party had not only lost its handsome lead but had actually slipped behind the Tories...
...grander triumph back home. Now 60, he is the founding fatha of modern jazz piano. Yet for the better part of the past 15 years, he foundered as a forgotten jazz immortal swept aside by capricious tastes. Two years ago, his name was nowhere on the jazz popularity polls. Many fans thought that he had passed on to that big jam session in the sky. In this year's Down Beat International Jazz Critics Poll, however, he was voted the world's No. 1 jazz pianist...
Nine of the 13 appeared in the Connaissance poll of 1961. Bacon, Balthus, De Kooning and Rothko are the newcomers...
Despite such friendly statements, the mere fact that Sharp deemed it politically expedient to propose his bank ban is evidence of widespread Canadian dissatisfaction about the country's deep economic dependence on the U.S. Another sign: a Gallup poll last week reported that 53% of Canadians feel that their way of life is too strongly influenced...
...voters who inhabit swelling suburban developments in a crescent extending from Washington through Richmond to Norfolk, there is little loyalty to the old regime. In addition, tens of thousands of Negroes have been added to the electorate since passage of the 1965 voting Rights Act and abolition of the poll tax. Negro precincts and the largest metropolitan areas voted heavily against the Byrd candidates. Harry Byrd Sr., 79, was spared the bad news: on primary day he lay in a deep coma at his Berryville estate, suffering from a malignant brain tumor...