Word: polls
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...night he lost a straw poll in Ames County, Iowa, Bush insisted that a lot of his supporters had been busy attending social events and "debutante balls." After the debutantes had helped him win 19 percent of the turnout, Bush easily outpaced Al Haig, Pierre duPont, and Jack Kemp...
According to a poll published in the weekly Le Point, the President could capture as much as 37.5% of the vote in the first round. Chirac and Barre, who had split a 40% share almost evenly in earlier surveys, collected about the same total in this one, but it was weighted in Chirac's favor, 24.5% to 16%. Moreover, while the survey results indicated that Chirac would lose to Mitterrand 48% to 52% in a two-way race, they also showed that Barre would fare worse, losing 46% to 54%. The Le Point findings represented a sharp setback for Barre...
...glow did not survive Super Tuesday, and last week they bowed to the inevitable and quit the race. More than 3,000 reporters covered the Iowa campaign. In the end it turned out to be less important than the Michigan Democratic caucuses, for which nary an exit poll was taken. Even Iowa's runners-up have done poorly: Pat Robertson and Paul Simon are likely to be the next to fold...
...more and more of them no longer seem willing to trust their safety solely to their husbands, their neighbors or the local police. Between 1983 and 1986, as gun sales to men held steady, gun ownership among women jumped 53%, to more than 12 million, according to a Gallup poll commissioned by gunmaker Smith & Wesson. Even more striking, the poll found that the number of women who were considering buying a weapon quadrupled, to nearly 2 million...
Some pro-divestment activists not on the Board said the discussion will be a straw poll of Board sentiment. But Overseers said the meeting will not necessarily determine the true sentiments of Board members...