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This theory seems to be supported both by the fact that in a recent Internet poll, President Barlet ranks way above any of the current presidential candidates, and also by a report from The New York Times that "Bartlet for President" bumper stickers have been spotted throughout Los Angeles...
Unbeaten in the month of October, the Crimson (7-2,2-1 Ivy) has climbed to No. 19 in the latest national poll after falling from the rankings with a mediocre 3-2 record during the month of September...
...TIME/CNN poll of likely voters gave Bush a 2-point advantage, 47% to 45%, a statistical dead heat, after weeks when Gore looked as if he were cementing at least a narrow lead in most polls. In a race so tight, the debate was supposed to start shoving undecided voters into one camp or the other. "We thought it was going to come down to one debate," said retiring Ohio Republican John Kasich. "It turns out all three are going to be important...
Much of that stress, of course, comes from spending hours in stores looking for gifts soon forgotten, beating off crowds, whipping out plastic. According to a Yankelovich poll, some 70% of people claim that their favorite part of Christmas is being with family and friends; only 3% vote for holiday-gift shopping. Yet shopping is what nearly everyone does, buying more than 33 million trees and $184 billion worth of gifts...
Whatever the definition, a 1997 Roper poll found 8- to 12-year-olds were signing on to vegetarianism at twice the rate of adults. Helping set the tone are books--two in just the past year for teen veggies--and stories about celebrity vegetarians such as Chelsea Clinton, Paul McCartney and Alicia Silverstone. (TV-cartoon heroine Lisa Simpson is an especially vocal veggie.) With mainstream groceries carrying products like Boca Burgers, soy milk and tofu, and fast-food restaurants like Wendy's offering veggie pitas, meat-eating parents are having an easier time accommodating their kids and, in some cases...