Word: polls
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Dukakis was trying desperately to reverse poll deficits in several large Electoral College battlegrounds at once. He ventured unexpectedly into N. W. Jersey, crooning, a la Bruce Springsteen, "I was born to run and born to win." But Bush, Reagan, Quayle and Co. were pouring it on in Ohio, where private polls continued to show a solid Republican edge...
Harvard undergraduates favor Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis over Republican Vice President George Bush by a nearly three-to-one margin, a straw poll conducted by the Institute of Politics revealed this week...
John Howard in Owensboro, Ky., set up a sort of drivethrough poll at his Crickets Classy Car Wash, and said the results were about even. Customers could drive into a bay named for the presidential candidate of their choosing. "It's very scientific," he said. "The margin of error is 100 percent...
Both Democrats and Republicans agreed Dukakis would win the poll. "We'd be foolish to expect a Bush win," said David R. Ackley '91, co-chair of Harvard Students for Bush...
...first IOP straw poll, in 1984, drew national attention when Democratic nominee Walter F. Mondale beat Ronald Reagan by 61 percent to 28 percent...