Word: polling
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Robin Leeds, director of outreach at the Committee for the Quality of Life, which is campaigning against the question, said the poll asked respondents if they thought construction workers on state projects should receive the "union wage," and not the "prevailing wage," thus skewing the results...
...said a Boston Herald poll had opponents of the referendum ahead by 9 percent, so "we're not all that concerned about [the Globe's] poll...
Garv R. Orren, associate professor of publicpolicy at the Kennedy School and Peter H. Lemieux,lecturer of Political Science at M.I.T., conductedthe poll published in the Globe...
Orren said the poll was not meant to predictthe vote on the referendum, but "to tap theunderlying sentiment" of the voters. He said itwas "fairer to the public" to use the adjective,"union" instead of "prevailing," because it is"clearer to the people what `union wage' means."The polling question defined what is usuallycalled the prevailing wage but did not use theterm, Orren said...
...same poll has 51 percent of the 619residents contacted opposed to Question 4, whichwould close the state's two nuclear power plants.Joseph Kriesberg, spokesperson for MassachusettesCitizens for Safe Energy, called his campaign moreof a long shot, and said that if the referendumwins 51 percent, "it will be the poll upset of thecentury...