Word: poll
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...athletes will take EPO in Sydney because they can. And some of them will take too much of it. In 1995 Olympic-caliber U.S. athletes were asked in a poll, "Would you take a drug that made you a champion, knowing that it would kill you in five years?" More than half said yes. So even if we forget about fair play and credibility and Olympic ideals, we are left with this: the athletes must be protected from themselves and the pressure...
...bounce any more. Twelve days after Al Gore's "I am my own man" speech and ten weeks before November 7, the presidential race is in what the pulse-takers call "a statistical dead heat." Remember those words, "statistical dead heat," meaning all leads are within the poll's margin of error - you'll probably be hearing them all the way to Election...
...TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken this weekend showed Bush leading Gore 46 percent to 45 percent among likely voters, as opposed to Gore leading Bush 47 percent to 46 percent a week ago. Newsweek's poll (which Gore was quoting for months this spring when it was the only one that gave him a chance) now finds the veep ahead 46 percent to 42 percent. By some calculations, the election's just getting warmed up. Voters at large generally don't pay much close attention to the presidential race until after the conventions - which is now. On the other hand, the candidate...
...America still likes George better, and in the USA Today poll he's regained a 44 percent to 36 percent lead among independents, a crucial group in an election some are calling as the closest since Nixon lost to Kennedy by a single Sam Giancana in 1960. Having been robbed by Gore/Lieberman of his own big convention vision - replacing Clinton/Gore with better men - Bush needs to figure out a new theme with which to sell his policies by the time the debates roll around...
...beyond exhorting its OPEC colleagues to join in. And since the United States only holds about 4 percent of Nigeria's debt, its ability to reduce the other 96 percent, beyond Clinton's rhetoric, is marginal. While the Nigerian government may know that, the people don't: A recent poll in a Lagos daily paper said 79.6 percent of those responding believe Clinton's visit would result in "huge benefits" - primarily debt relief - to Nigeria. Billboards, posters and T-shirts all urged Clinton to "Cancel Nigeria's Debt...