Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reluctantly decided that the resulting delay in reaching our readers would have drained much of the news value from our story. We're proud of that story, and for those of you who missed it, we recommend our report in this issue that, with the aid of a TIME poll, assesses the impact of the debate on the campaign...
...TIME poll taken by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman...
...them came close to panic during the debate, fearful that Bush's skittish performance would create a reaction that "could roll out of control," as one adviser put it. Their sudden anxiety turned out to be as baseless as Dukakis' new brio. By week's end a TIME poll flashed a different verdict: the public credits Dukakis as a debater but leans to Bush for President...
...might change their minds before Election Day. However, Bush's support is firmer than Dukakis': 88% of Republicans are committed to Bush, while only 73% of Democrats back Dukakis. The critical difference in party loyalty is among Democrats who voted for Reagan in 1984. In August's TIME poll, they tilted toward Dukakis 49% to 35%, but last week Reagan Democrats supported Bush 48% to 40%. Unless Dukakis can recapture that group and increase his support among independents, who favor Bush 49% to 33%, the Governor will spend 1989 cleaning up Boston Harbor rather than negotiating with Mikhail Gorbachev...
Campaigning in Texas, Bentsen said, "I was reading the paper this morning where George Bush said he thought Dan Quayle had won that [debate] and they...I'm very sorry," he said as his own laughter interrupted his sentence. "And yet every poll showed we won, and I'd say 'George, as President Reagan would say, facts are very troubling things...