Word: voter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thomas D'Amore, a longtime Connecticut political insider, said Tsongas's successes so far may signal a change in voter attitudes...
ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, I sat in my room and stared at my Georgia absentee voter's kit wondering what to do. Not knowing anything about the Democratic candidates--and not having enough time to run to any Institute of Politics forums or to sift through back issues of news magazines--I didn't have the slightest idea how to mark my ballot...
...Arab-Israeli peace process last year during eight painstaking shuttles around the Middle East. As a seasoned political strategist, a former campaign adviser for Reagan and manager for Bush, he seems to have calculated that antipathy to foreign aid is a more powerful election-year force than the usual voter support for Israel. He also seems to be betting that if Israel does not come around on the settlements before its parliamentary elections in June, Shamir will be bounced by voters for alienating Washington with his intransigence...
Pity the poor Democratic voter in a March-madness state. If after months of mulling the candidates, nearly half the New Hampshire voters were still vacillating three days before the primary, imagine the misery of selecting a favorite based on a hastily glimpsed campaign spot, a few snippets on the nightly news and a handful of newspaper clips. Here is how the race looks as the candidates zoom from airport rally to hokey media event, praying they can get their message across amid...
Most of the early reports were based on an exit poll of 1,848 people by Voter Research and Surveys, the polling arm of the four major television networks. The survey overestimated Buchanan's support partly because the questioners did not expect so much of the Republican vote -- 10% -- to go to candidates other than Bush and Buchanan. In addition, Buchanan voters were far more eager than Bush supporters to talk to the survey takers, further skewing the initial estimates...