Word: polling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although a Student Assembly poll reported in January that 52 per cent of students responding believed students should take whatever steps would be necessary to change the library's name, the poll met no response from officials...
There was very little in the news to buttress the President's buoyancy. The latest Consumer Price Index showed that inflation was running at an annual rate of 13%-the highest such rate in more than four years. A new Gallup poll indicated that Democrats prefer Senator Edward Kennedy by a hefty 58% to 31% over Carter as the nominee of their party in 1980. The oil companies were pressuring Congress to gut Carter's proposal for a tax on windfall profits when oil prices are decontrolled in June. And though at week's end negotiations between...
Nonetheless, as the campaign entered its final week, most polls showed that the Conservatives' lead over Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor Party had dropped from 20% or more to less than 6%. At week's end yet another poll by Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) indicated that the Tory margin had shrunk to a bare 3%; a 6% lead might translate into a majority of 30 seats or more, but the MORI sampling of voters suggested that this Thursday's election had become too close to call. Beyond that, other polls indicated that Callaghan...
According to a recent CBS-New York Times poll, 69% of the public still believe that gasoline prices are rising not because there is an energy crisis but merely because the oil companies want to make more money. In a sentiment that is widely shared, Margaret Dadian, vice president of an Illinois sales company, complains: "There is a shortage all right, but not as serious as we are told it is. It is more a question of oil companies' holding back until they can get higher prices. We have Arabs of our own in this country...
Thatcher won because she and her party--like the New Right in the U.S.--managed to shift the consensus from the middle of the road. A revealing poll on issues in the British newspaper Observer showed a majority (and even a majority of Labour supporters) favouring Tory proposals on tax cuts, on getting tougher with the unions and strikers, and on reducing government involvement in the economy. Labour might have staked out a clear alternative to this on the Left with proposals for industrial democracy, more public ownership, and social service and welfare reform--all elements that have traditionally given...