Word: polling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McCain's bill, loves to say, "This issue has never defeated anyone in the American political process." Nor has it ever launched a presidential campaign. Back in January even McCain's top advisers hoped to persuade him that campaign-finance reform was a loser issue. They quietly commissioned a poll of G.O.P. voters in four key primary states to prove their point. But when the results came in, they showed 60% of voters saying campaign-finance reform was important, vs. just 15% saying it wasn't. "Voters want the system changed," says John Weaver, McCain's political director...
...adults cultivating gray hairs and worry lines for nothing? Could it be that the kids are alright? For the most part, yes, and don't be so surprised, say several child psychologists consulted by TIME on the poll results...
...after all, only kids get to play dress-up! And if kids seem to be growing up faster than they used to, the fault may lie partly with adults, especially some of those in the entertainment business. Says Nickelodeon president Herb Scannell, who commissioned the poll: "One of the problems we have in this industry is we make assumptions: kids don't want to see movies with kids; they want to see movies with teens, movies with aliens. We're not listening to kids...
From mid-May through June 1, just a few weeks after the Littleton, Colo., shootings, New York-based pollsters Penn, Schoen & Berland Assoc. sat down with 1,172 kids, ages 6 to 14, in 25 U.S. cities. The poll was conducted for Nickelodeon, the children's TV channel, and TIME. Kids from a sample weighted to match U.S. demographics were interviewed one-on-one and without their parents in a venue where most feel at ease: a shopping mall. Pollsters also interviewed 397 parents...
...Opinion polls show McCain trailing far behindBush among Republican voters. In a recentReuters/Zogby poll, McCain finished third with 9percent of the Republican vote, after Bush andrunner-up Elizabeth H. Dole...