Word: poll
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Despite its bleak Ivy title hopes, Harvard still is very much alive for an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson's No. 18 ranking in the NFHCA poll and No. 16 ranking the NCAA poll will likely rise this week due to its 2-0 win at No. 13 Boston College on Wednesday...
...immigrant visas for highly skilled workers--important to business, but not the hottest of hot buttons for voters--while telephone calls from constituents went unanswered and party donors could not so much as get a ticket from his office for a White House tour. Going into 2000 with unspectacular poll ratings, he was targeted by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee as one of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents...
...Gore partisan of how Gore's consultants answer his concerns. "They say that stuff only appeals to the base." But Gore could use a little help there. Unlike Bush, who has 88 percent support from Republicans, Gore currently has only 83 percent of Democrats, according to a TIME/CNN poll...
...such, there exists no basis for making claims about what our opinions "tend to be." As the only person authorized to send messages to our e-mail list (which is the only means of contacting our large membership), I know that the Crimson did not take a poll of HSI membership. Therefore, the article must be basing this claim on assumptions or hearsay, neither of which has a place in an objective news article. Our members' views range greatly across the political and ideological spectra on all issues...
...enough that every poll zeroes in on the same group of wishy-washy swing voters. These same people are also corralled into post-debate interview sessions, answering questions in incomplete sentences and generally demonstrating a less than stellar grasp of the political process. Comments generally come in along the lines of: "I think Gore's ideas are good because Bush is a nice man." Oh, well thanks. That clears things right...