Word: polling
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...frontrunner Harvard (10-1-0 overall, 4-1-0 Ivy), ranked ninth in the coaches' poll, dispatched a struggling Princeton team (4-6-2, 0-2-2) in a 2-0 win at Princeton Saturday night. Junior forward Tom McLaughlin, the league's leading scorer, maintained his prolific ways, netting the game-winner in the 22nd minute of this emotional, rather physical matchup...
...accounted for the apparent discrepancy in his statement and most poll figures by referring to "people voting their conscience...
TAMPA: Try as he might to turn up the temperature of his campaign, polls show the same double-digit gap between Bob Dole and President Clinton that has existed for most of the election season. But Bob Dole continues to work for votes. "How low will the White House go?" Dole asked audiences in Florida, referring to a flurry of Democratic ads that claim Dole as President would cut Medicare spending. Polls now show that Florida, usually counted on by the GOP for 25 electoral votes, is up for grabs with Clinton and Dole running in a dead heat. Meanwhile...
From a telephone poll of 1,676 registered voters taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 10-11 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error plus or minus...
...point of all these metaphors, of course, is to prove that the community of the politically obsessed is regular guys and gals, who care more about a Jerry Rice catch or a Pippen-to-Jordan jam than the latest tracking poll or Aspen Institute Seminar. But voters are not fools; when they hear a talking head spout one of these lame efforts, they respond like an assembly of eighth-graders listening to an assistant principal quoting Beavis and Butt-head. They turn...