Word: polling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After trailing Weld over the summer, a poll yesterday by The Boston Globe show Kerry now receiving support from 42 percent of Bay State voters, compared to Kerry's 38 percent. Milton resident Susan Gallagher, a right-wing third-party challenger, is pulling 2 percent...
...Ancient Eight, there's probably not going to be a patsy or a runaway favorite. Cornell took the crown last year, going 15-2-1 and earning a No.9 ranking in the Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America Poll. But the Big Red lost five starters, and Brown and Princeton have been tossed around with Harvard as possible overthrowers...
White respects Morris but is sore about his polls. White has told friends, "That boy came down here and said he had a poll that proves 70% of Texans are in favor of something. So we did it. Then he came down again and said 70% favored this thing over here. So we did that too. Another poll, another 70%, so we did it. By then I had 90% of the state pissed...
...years Morris was dogged by rumors that he made up his poll numbers and skewed his samples to support his own strategic arguments. "We got to the point where we didn't really believe his polls," says Roemer, who hired Morris during his upset 1987 victory over Edwin Edwards for Louisiana Governor. "We used another pollster. With Dick, numbers were never the point. Ideas were." Though Morris denies cooking his figures, he too may have realized that poll taking wasn't his strength. He became a general strategist and let professionals like Penn and Schoen do the polling...
...refused an FBI polygraph.) Finally the lawyers hit the interview shows, demanding that since the government wasn't accusing Jewell, it should clear him and apologize. Their week climaxed on Nightline's Viewpoint special, which showcased their criticism of the media's coverage of Jewell and aired a national poll indicating that only 19% of those asked thought Jewell was guilty. Said Jewell lawyer G. Watson Bryant Jr. to TIME:"These jerks [the federal authorities] need to get up off their butts and tell the truth...