Word: polling
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...hanging on to the bad old ways. In a report last July, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned Americans that they are still consuming too much saturated fat and that their cholesterol counts are too high. A basic problem is that many Americans -- 79%, according to a Louis Harris poll published earlier this year -- do not know what their cholesterol levels should...
According to a recent Gallup poll, 37% of the voters in last month's presidential election were dissatisfied with the choice between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Nevertheless, not many of them opted for any of the 17 other candidates who were also vying for the White House. Unofficial figures for the third-party alternatives released last week by the Associated Press show that the top vote getter was Libertarian Ron Paul with 409,412, followed by the New Alliance Party's Lenora Fulani with 201,430. "None of the above" came in eleventh by earning 6,923 ballots nationwide...
Over Mulroney's sputtered rejoinder, the Liberal leader's attack struck a nerve with the 6 million viewers who tuned in to the exchange. Turner's critics argued that he had fallen on the nationalist strategy not so much out of principle but out of desperation: down in the polls, they said, he faced ouster as his party's leader if the Liberal campaign failed. But the tactic worked: within four days, the Liberals enjoyed, according to one poll, a 4- point lead...
Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir directs former poll workers who returned for the special recount yesterday. The city hired 40 counters at $7 per hour...
...minimize the possibility of error, Thomureasked that the recount be conducted by hand.Yesterday, the Election Commission hired about 40former poll workers to count the votes, payingthem $7 an hour, said Commissioner Edward J. Samp,one of the two commissioners supervising theprocess...