Word: polling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This has been the age-old question in American politics. With every election, the question is revisited. At times, the American people make a surprising choice, disregarding character issues and instead questioning policies. In a recent ABC News poll, 73 percent of American thought that a president who was empathetic and listened to the public was more important that a president with the "highest personal character...
...Republicans to support the Reform Party ticket. "When he knows he can't win, he asks us to bow out of the race," Choate said. Dole's dramatic overture, less than two weeks before the election, is further proof of his struggling campaign. A new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll shows President Clinton at 52 percent, Dole at 35 percent and Perot at 6 percent. Dole has spent the last two days canvassing the South, an area that has been solidly Republican but where Clinton is leading in many states. The Dole campaign, which worries that Perot will split...
...what actually happened? The Crimson got more than it ever could have hoped. Harvard blitzed Texas with three first-half goals on Friday, knocking the previously No. 21 Longhorns out of the poll, and on Sunday it beat Cal Poly by a larger margin than the 2-1 score would suggest...
...feel concern them, young viewers are clicking the nightly news goodbye. This election year provides a good indicator of the media generation gap. Only 15% of young adults (vs. 35% of Americans 45 to 59 years old) say they are following news about the presidential campaign "very closely," a poll by the Media Studies Center found. Moreover, their antipathy to news extends beyond politics, because most stories, written or broadcast, either shut out or distort young Americans' lives. Newspaper portrayals of 18-to-23-year-olds were tracked by a team of college students supervised by Nancy Woodhull, the center...
...there's that. Just because Canadians can't vote, though, doesn't mean that their poll results are not to be analyzed. In fact, given the reverse English now common to political spin, I can imagine the ineligibility of Canadians as being used to make a point...