Word: polling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Cellucci is the current frontrunner, his lead is tenuous at best. In a poll taken two weeks by the Boston Herald and WCVB-TV, 48 percent of voters supported Cellucci, with 38 percent backing Harshbarger...
...Baton Rouge, La., freshman Quincy Carter hit on 27 of 34 passes for 318 yards and two TDs as Georgia (4-0) surprised LSU 28-21. The Bulldogs moved from No. 12 to No. 7 in this week's AP poll and play host to No. 4 Tennessee on Saturday. LSU dropped from...
...great many Americans have already tossed it out. Public sentiment has been swinging in Clinton's favor since the release last Monday of his videotaped grand jury testimony. Republicans hoped the video would turn the public against Clinton; instead it solidified opinion in his favor. In the new TIME/CNN poll, 61% approve of the job Clinton is doing, and 67% say he should not be impeached. Only 37%, meanwhile, approve of the job the House Judiciary committee is doing in handling the impeachment matter...
...offer them a rationale for voting in a year when turnout promises to set a record low. Even in Oregon, where mail-in balloting makes voting convenient, two-thirds of those registered sat out the May primary. "This is the least interested electorate in my 20 years of polling," says independent pollster Tim Hibbitts. The numbers show, moreover, that the people most inclined to vote are disproportionately Republican. Recent polls give Democrat Wu a 6-point lead overall, but among those likely to vote, the G.O.P.'s Bordonaro has a 5-point edge. Nationally, in a TIME/CNN poll last week...
...problem isn't that politicians ignore the opinion polls. It is that the people who answer the opinion polls frequently don't vote. Yet the tremendous attention to polls seems to have convinced many Americans that their opinions should carry the day whether they turn out or not. During the 20 months from the beginning of 1973 until Richard Nixon resigned in August 1974, 128 polls asked Americans whether they thought the President should leave office. But in the mere nine months since the Lewinsky scandal broke, according to Don Ferree of the Roper Center, pollsters have asked that question...