Word: poll
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard was ranked No. 52 at the last ITA poll and improves...
Bush likes to say that kind of thing. "I don't really care what the polls say; I'm not a poll-driven politician," he said later the same day. "If people don't agree, that's all right. We'll go fishin' in Texas." But what once sounded charmingly normal--I can take this or leave this--was starting to sound arrogant. When he appeared Saturday afternoon in Milford with brothers and sister and parents in tow, at an event in, of all perfect places, an indoor tennis club, wearing a Texas Rangers jacket with an imperial gold star...
...campaign-finance reform and his opposition to whopping tax cuts mean he has abandoned his ideals. The argument is designed to shore up Bush's right-wing support in South Carolina, but it wasn't working so well last week, as McCain inched past Bush in the TIME/CNN poll. Yet Bush and his surrogates aren't the only ones wondering whether McCain has morphed into some strange new breed of politician. The New Republic recently put McCain on its cover next to the headline, THIS MAN IS NOT A REPUBLICAN...
...encounter group led by his brother Joe McCain on a bus tour of Carolina. The men on the bus are some of the nation's most decorated war heroes, and they draw gracious, even reverent crowds, especially in conservative areas where McCain is weakest. Yet in the new TIME/CNN poll, veterans who plan to vote in the G.O.P. primary say they favor Bush over McCain, 58% to 30%. In some other polls McCain seems to be faring better among veterans, but he can't count on them to deliver the state. So he's working other avenues...
OLYMPIC GOLD A Harris Interactive poll reveals that U.S children ages 6 to 17 prefer the Olympic Games to any other major sporting event. More kids say they like the Olympics than the Super Bowl, the World Series, the soccer World Cup and even the youth-oriented X Games. Because a Summer or Winter Olympics comes only once every two years, the pollsters believe that enthusiasm for watching the Games is passed down as a family activity by parents or older siblings...