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...Pysarenko says statistics show that 75% of Ukrainians who use gambling establishments are university students or high school kids, and that up to 5% of large-town populations are addicts. A survey in May by pollster FOM-Ukraine showed that 55% of Ukrainians believe gambling leads to addiction in adults, while 46% say it breaks up families and 44% associate it with crime. And experts say that because of lax legislation, around 60% to 70% of Ukraine's gambling establishments were operating illegally. Pysarenko estimates that the industry is worth about $5 billion per year, only 2% of which made...
...another pollster, Daniel Lund of Mund Americas, says the campaign may be the beginning of major change in Mexican politics. While there may only be a small percentage of people who actually make the effort to go and annul their ballots, he predicts that the overall abstention rate will be a shocking 70%. "Politicians will not be able to ignore a level of turnout that low," he says. Lund says the voto en blanco supporters could then go on to form a new political opposition along with disaffected members of the main parties. "This movement is a response...
Politicians in Washington often speak with their own vocabulary. If they're Republicans, Frank Luntz helped write their dictionary. The influential GOP pollster and language guru has had a hand in framing the party's message since 1994's Contract with America, persuading Republicans to drop terms like "estate tax" and "oil drilling" in favor of the far more message-friendly "death tax" and "energy exploration" among other rebrandings. His latest project: the health-care debate. Relying on polling and "instant response dial sessions," Luntz penned a 28-page memo, leaked to Politico, giving Republicans the soundbites designed to spin...
...court was upholding a law introduced in 1993, which banned multiple surnames in Germany. Before this legislation, triple- or quadruple-barreled names were rare, but they existed: there is an East German athlete, for example, named Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, and a prominent pollster and political scientist who went by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann-Maier-Leibnitz until she dropped the second half of her name after her husband died. And members of the German aristocracy often carry extremely long names. (See pictures of Berlin...
...name was Adela Maria Gutierrez and she was 39 when she died, the first known fatality from the virus that swept through Mexico and into the rest of the world. A month before she took ill, she had just found temporary work, a government pollster job that sent her from door to door in the outskirts of Oaxaca, the city where she lived with her husband, a welder, and their three daughters, ages 21, 17 and 10. Her mother-in-law, whose house she lived in, says Adela worked very hard "from 8 in the morning until 11 at night...