Word: poll
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Polls are still showing the race incredibly tight. Nearly every national poll shows Bush ahead--but within the margin era. Estimates of which candidate would win the electoral vote are essentially split...
...mall at Ruby Tuesday, the television was tuned to pro bowling during the final debate, and after a couple of beers you couldn't tell the difference. Across the street, at the Waffle House between the Steak N Shake and Crabby Tom's Seafood, TIME magazine conducted a poll at least as scientific and useful as any of the others you get bombarded with daily. There were five diners in the room. Asked whom they like, one or two of them groaned. Pressed to answer, four took Bush; one liked Gore. Asked, Why Gore? he said, "I'd like...
...this moment: there's plenty of money, we can afford to give some back to you, you know best how to spend it, isn't this a great country? Gore tries to make a fairness attack, all those benefits going to the top 1%. But according to a TIME/CNN poll last week, Americans feel so hopeful that fully 19% of them think they are in that top 1%, and an additional 20% expect to be one day. It turns out to be Bush who makes a fairness case: Why shouldn't everyone who pays taxes...
...into electoral politics. Now the man whose 1965 auto-industry polemic, Unsafe at Any Speed, brought us mandatory seat belts is on a collision course with Al Gore. In the Bush-Gore race, Nader could throw the election to Bush by draining liberal votes from Gore. Even though Nader polls just 3% of likely voters nationally, according to the latest TIME/CNN poll, he runs much stronger in Oregon, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington and New Mexico. And Nader's supporters are enthusiastic: he has drawn crowds of 10,000 and more in Boston and Portland, Ore. He sold out New York...
What's the appeal? Well, he's not Bush or Gore. In a race short on enthusiasm for two Ivy League centrists, the Ivy League radical (Princeton, Harvard Law) has panache. Plus there's nothing poll-tested about him. He doesn't do focus groups. At 66, he's a generation older than boomers Bush and Gore, but he's tapped into youthful idealism. A bit of a recluse, he doesn't own a car and is known for his old clothes, even though his speaking fees and investments have left him with personal assets of close to $4 million...