Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with Ken Robinson, publisher of the tiny (circ. 1,500) Bayard News. At a late-afternoon dress rehearsal at the Starlite Village hotel, adjacent to the auditorium, Robinson sat quietly while Dinsmore instructed Drake University students and a handful of other paid recruits on how to poll the 8,000 Democrats expected for the event...
...night of the dinner, Gephardt's local organizers seemed well positioned to win: they filled the auditorium with hundreds of red-capped supporters to counter reports of a stalled campaign. Gephardt admitted that he "would like to have a straw poll." Meanwhile his campaign's hirelings, posing as agents of the newspaper, handed out scores of buff-colored ballots to arriving Democrats...
That's when state party officials stepped in and ordered the police to disperse the unauthorized pollsters. Later a disappointed Dinsmore buttonholed a top Gephardt official inside the auditorium. "Our poll had to be aborted," he reported excitedly...
...first time in three years, the coaches--in their annual pre-season poll--did not pick Harvard to win the league title. The mighty Crimson had lost much of its scoring and defensive punch, and things looked bleak for the Cantabs...
...first time ever, Maine, the choice of both surveys, is ranked number one. ECAC-rival St. Lawrence is second in one poll and third in the other. Minnesota, despite having lost to Northeastern last week, is ranked second in the Coaches' Poll...