Word: poll
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...five states for deer hunting licenses, and these guys (and gals) see anti-gun Gore as a threat to their Second Amendment rights. They are voting for Bush. OK, that's not surprising. But look at these numbers: In the state of Michigan, as of an October 25 statewide poll, those who own a gun or rifle and are members of the NRA identify themselves as 44 percent Republican, 27 percent Democrat and 24 percent independent. But those same people are voting 59 percent for Bush and 27 percent for Gore. Bush has picked up more than half...
...Unlike Yugoslavia, where the opposition had thrown its support behind a single candidate, two of the Ivory Coast's largest opposition parties had been banned from participating in the election, and their supporters had boycotted the poll. Opposition leaders say the turnout in Sunday's election was as low as 5 percent of the electorate. The popular opposition leader Alassane Ouattara is leading calls for a new poll. An attempt by former president Henri Konan Bédié to exclude Outtara from the last election had prompted General Gueï's coup, but the general had then held...
...force that the rest of the world (e.g. Yale) needs to reckon with, I am merely making a simple observation. It is hard, very hard, to get into this place. How hard? Go to the admissions office and have them give you the statistics or, better yet, take a poll among all your friends who didn't get in here and see what they say. Certainly, there aren't make many generalizations you can make about the Harvard student body, but you can make this one. Every undergraduate may not be breathtakingly beautiful or very nice or even remotely athletic...
...except computers are doing much of the work that ward bosses used to. At Gore headquarters, data come together in a computer-generated image called the G2K Targeting Map, on which cities and states that present opportunities and require immediate attention glow an intense blue. The computer factors in poll numbers, historic Democratic performance, dates of and voter response to previous visits by the candidate, his running mate, family members or other surrogates. It highlights places that may respond to a sudden infusion of ad money or to "free media" generated by a campaign visit. When Gore's top advisers...
...bikinied women in the name of high-volume pimping, but it draws its line in the moral desert at staying home on Election Day. I've noticed, however, that it has quieted down on the whole Rock the Vote thing ever since Jesse Camp won the Wannabe a VJ poll...