Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential preference poll, once a curious way of measuring public opinion, has in recent years become so essential to the electoral process that it now exerts a harmful influence upon how we choose our nation's leaders. Rather than reflecting public opinion, polls--by narrowing our choices--have begun to shape...
Katie Boyle, deputy press secretary for the Dole campaign, admits that their latest in-house poll shows as little as a 3 percent difference between the two candidates--although most Iowa polls show Dole to be enjoying a wide margin of support over Bush. Media polls in caucus states, she says, "should all be taken with a grain of salt. They don't measure organization. Smart campaigns don't pay much attention to them...
...Gallup Poll of 187 Democratic voters most likely to take part in the caucuses showed Rep. Gephardt of Missouri ahead of Massachusetts Gov. Dukakis, 27 percent to 24 percent. The poll, released yesterday, showed Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois with 15 percent, followed by former Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado with 13 percent and former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt and the Rev. Jesse Jackson with 6 percent each. Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee failed to register significant support, and 9 percent were undecided...
When all 577 Democrats contacted in the telephone poll last weekend were considered, the Missouri congressman's lead widened to 32 percent compared with 19 percent for Dukakis, 15 percent for Simon, 13 percent for Hart and 6 percent for Babbitt and Jackson. Gore again failed to register, while 9 percent were undecided...
...poll commissioned by WEEIAM, WCVB-TV and The Boston Globe had error margins of plus or minus 9 percent regarding the Democrats and Republicans most likely to attend the caucuses and of plus or minus 5 percent for the overall Democrat and Republicans samples...