Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American public, which has never really been in the contras' corner, has no appetite for such an extended commitment. A poll taken for TIME last month by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that 52% of 1,014 adults questioned favor cutting off all military support to the contras, vs. 26% who favor additional military aid and 22% not sure. The public is pessimistic about the course of events in Nicaragua: 62% believe it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that U.S. troops will end up fighting there...
...Nakasone's success has started to turn sour. Last week the L.D.P. suffered an embarrassing 64% to 30% defeat at the hands of the opposition Socialist Party in a special election to fill a Diet seat in a district long regarded as a ruling-party stronghold. A poll released last week by the daily Asahi Shimbun reported that support for Nakasone has dropped over the past three months from 39% to 25%. And in cities around the country, leftist unions have joined hands with conservative shopkeepers to braid hangmen's nooses that are used on effigies of the Prime Minister...
...hockey playoff action outside the ECAC, the University of North Dakota--the top-ranked team in this week's NCAA poll--will host Minnesota this weekend in a two-game, total-goals series to determine the winner of the Western College Hockey Association...
...poll, taken by the Boston Globe, showed that Flynn's widespread approval rests more in his "down to earth" personality than in the policies his administration has pursued...
State Rep. Salvatore F. DiMasi (D-Boston), explained the poll results as due to Flynn's positive public image. "Flynn is not intimidating, he does not ignore you, and the people really feel like they can talk to him," DiMasi said...