Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated 1.6 million voters who will participate in the caucus, attendance will be decisive in the results of the straw poll. A low turnout will help Dukakis, who has maintained fairly constant support, while a large turnout will hurt him, because a surge of enthusiatic voters could come to the polls in support of Gephardt, Murphy said...
...Correspondent Ann Compton. "He is a lightning rod for the American people who believe the press is rude." CBS stations around the country were besieged by phone callers criticizing Rather (though pro and con opinions became more evenly divided as the week went on). A Times-Mirror Gallup poll conducted Wednesday showed that Rather's favorable rating among viewers -- already lower than that of either of his two network rivals -- dropped to 66%, from 73% last fall. Many journalists too criticized Rather for losing his cool during the session. Even Sam Donaldson, the pit bull of network correspondents, contended that...
...poll for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 42% of those who saw or read about the exchange said they believed that Bush came out ahead, while 27% said Rather did. (Republicans split 59% to 16% in Bush's favor, but Democrats split 40% to 31% in Rather's favor.) Yet when asked whether it was right for Rather to push Bush on his role in the Iran-contra affair, 59% replied that it was (including 46% of the Republicans and 72% of the Democrats). Moreover, 79% said they believed the Vice President knows more about the arms-for-hostages deal...
...Moines, this week, is a city of anxiety-filled foxholes. For the eleven campaigns in both parties actively contesting next Monday's Iowa caucuses, the emotions shift with each rumor, each leaked tracking poll, each new television commercial. Campaign chiefs monitor news reports like CIA analysts poring over satellite photos, searching for images that will give meaning to the muddled mosaic. By late this week an estimated 3,000 journalists will be in the state raising the fever pitch to Super Bowl levels...
...choice, there is no choice," shrugs Jerusalem Shop Owner Yermiyahu Levi, 53. Adds Uri Feinberg, a 16-year-old U.S.-born Jerusalem student: "The army had the choice of shooting people or beating them up. I think it's better to beat them up." According to a poll published by the daily Hadashot last week, 63% of the public fully supported the government's military policy, while another 27% found it too soft on the Palestinians...