Word: straws
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Last night's win by Buchanan followed his surprising victory in a January straw poll in Alaska...
Dole's Iowa campaign seems as half-hearted as his support. After Gramm surprised Dole by tying him in the Ames straw poll last August, Dole tried to beef up his statewide organization. His campaign now has local operatives in each of the state's 99 counties, but their quality is questionable. In the Le Mars area, the campaign wanted to enlist Mary Reynolds, a former g.o.p. county chairman and Dole fan. Reynolds refused when she realized she wasn't going to get the help she needed. "It was clear in our conversations that the Washington headquarters was pressuring...
This past Sunday night, Noah R. Freeman '98, vice-chair of the Student Affairs Committee, conducted an informal straw poll in an attempt to elicit the opinions of members of the council on the issue of the memorial to aid him in possibly writing a resolution...
Forbes is currently running second in New Hampshire behind Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) according to a WMURTV poll released October 30. In the more recent Florida straw poll, however, Forbes totaled less than one percent of the vote...
After cleverly engineering a string of 34 straw-poll victories throughout this year, Gramm hit a speed bump in Florida last Saturday at the single such contest he couldn't rig. His second-place showing (seven points behind Dole and only three ahead of Lamar Alexander) failed to meet his own hyped expectations and dents his overall strategy, which presumes his winning handily across the South. Now a Connally-size meltdown, while unlikely, cannot be ruled...