Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president said he understood a recentpublic opinion poll showing a majority ofAmericans opposed the granting of compensation,but said, "I think that they have tied that to ourfeelings about the government and what it did withregard to our people in the embassy there [inTehran in 1979], when the Ayatollah [RuhollahKhomeini] came in [to power...
Florida, or your money back. Allies of Senator Bob Graham's are guaranteeing delivery of Florida if their guy is on the Democratic ticket. They have even paid for a poll that shows Dukakis-Graham taking the critical state by a comfortable 10-point margin...
ARENA, by contrast, has thrown its support behind Alfredo Cristiani, 42, the U.S.-educated scion of a wealthy coffee-growing family. A poll released last week by the University of Central America indicated that, as of now, Cristiani would defeat any other presidential candidate by at least 10 percentage points. That would amount to a repudiation of the Duarte record on at least two counts: Cristiani has said that he would return to private hands export industries run by the Duarte administration as state enterprises, and that he would roll back a land-reform program that turned El Salvador...
Overall, a Crimson poll showed more students picked Leverett first than any other house. Eliot, Quincy and Winthrop Houses followed Leverett. In a shake-up at the bottom of the list, Lowell House sank to 11th displacing all but one Quad House...
...Reporters doing voter interviews are amused to discover that some citizens say they prefer "Dukis" or "Duksis" to Bush. So far Dukakis has managed to impress liberals as a liberal and moderates as a moderate. Bush argues that familiarity with Dukakis will breed voter contempt. "When I see one poll saying that two-thirds of the public think Dukakis is more conservative than I am, I say, 'Hey, what in the world goes on here?' I guarantee you nobody will say that when this campaign is over...