Word: polls
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Lightweight coach Peter Huntsman, himself a member of the seeding committee, said yesterday, "I'm not really pleased about the way the seeding committee worked. They just took a quick coaches' poll. And solely on the basis of the comparative margins, I think Radcliffe should have been seeded first...
These are the principal findings of a poll conducted for TIME last week by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., the opinion-research firm. The results were gathered in telephone interviews with a representative, national sample of 1,011 registered voters in the two days immediately following the Pennsylvania primary. Most of the interviews were taken before Humphrey announced he would not actively campaign and all of them before Jackson dropped out, so that, if anything, the poll may underestimate Carter's strengths...
...poll also indicates that there is still some vulnerability in Carter's position. Even with Pennsylvania behind him, Carter was the choice of a minority of his own party (39%, v. 59% for some other candidate). If they were voting on the basis of economic, defense and foreign policy issues alone, more Democrats would prefer Humphrey over Carter...
...country out of its worst postwar recession relatively unscathed. Often Schmidt's opinions are the determining factor in Common Market decisions. At home, he does not elicit overwhelming warmth or emotion, but he is sufficiently respected to have won a 76% "approval" rating in a recent public opinion poll...
Katz said that a poll conducted for Fair Share by the Research Analysis Corp. of Boston found that 73.9 per cent of the registered voters interviewed favored the proposal...