Word: poll
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much to trim benefits, increase premiums or raise the eligibility age for future retirees in order to stave off the eventual bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security. He simply maintains that none of it will be necessary, as if wishing makes it so. "The campaign mechanics, with their poll tests and dial meters, don't encourage a robust, full-flowering debate on entitlement reform," says a Gore adviser who is frustrated with the candidate's lack of honesty on the issue. Gore the candidate is trying to get elected; Gore the public official knows the day of reckoning will come...
...pretty? Happy or famous? Is it better to be good or to be smart? For a while this race looked like a clean choice, more government or lower taxes, the Tin Man or the Scarecrow, the teacher's pet or the class clown. But with each freshly deadlocked poll, it is looking less like a clear choice than a hard one. And last week it became a real one as well, when voters finally got to watch Al Gore and George W. Bush, naked on the same stage, and come to grips with what it would mean to choose between...
...date; he called it a "job interview" and set out to show why he was the more qualified to lead, even if that meant behaving like a bully. The good news for Gore was that most people thought he won. A majority, according to a new TIME/CNN poll, agree with him on everything from education to Social Security to Medicare. The bad news is that they are no more likely to vote for him than before--and maybe even less...
...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 from the campaign 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...
...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...