Word: polls
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National Political Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett, who analyzed the findings of this week's TIME poll on the candidates, crossed paths with Shapiro in Houston during the Democratic candidates' debate there in July. This early in the campaign, however, Shapiro and Barrett prefer to complement rather than duplicate each other's work. Being on the hustings always satisfies both the journalist and the graduate student in Shapiro. "It's a great opportunity to write about grand themes and also to be a bit irreverent," he says. "After all, if you can't be irreverent about the people running for office...
Five months before the Iowa caucuses, the campaign remains eerily formless and wide open. A TIME poll finds that many Democrats express doubts about the party' s candidates, while George Bush has regained lost ground among Republicans. -- Ultraconservatives pummel the President. -- In Pennsylvania, a controversial search for a rape suspect touches off a civil rights flap...
...White House that party loyalty would allow. But he was unable to generate continuing momentum when Bush was most vulnerable. While Dole divided his time between the Senate and the hustings, his campaign team was struggling to organize itself and raise money. Up to this point, the TIME poll indicates, Dole has been unable to establish a presidential profile strong enough to overcome Bush's advantage as the dutiful lieutenant to a President still adored in the party...
DESCRIPTION: A poll showing leading Democratic and Republican candidates for President and their ratings on various qualities...
American Catholicism -- huge, wealthy and influential -- is crucial to John Paul' s campaign to restore church discipline. But a TIME poll shows that most Catholics, while respecting their Pontiff, disagree with him on a number of key moral issues. -- Cities that will be host to the visit agonize about logistical problems, protests and tacky commercialism. See RELIGION...