Word: poll
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...Democratic contest in Iowa, Gore leads Bradley by 56 percent to 28 percent, according to the latest poll. Bradley has spent $2 million dollars in the state. His campaign hopes for a stronger showing than the predicted by the polls. A stronger-than-expected showing in Iowa could give Bradley a "bounce" in New Hampshire's primary nine days from now, where he polls evenly against the Vice President...
...thing, he no longer looks like a sure loser in New Hampshire. Some polls last week even showed him with a narrow lead over his rival, Senator John McCain. "Before Christmas, the Bush campaign was in a lot of trouble," says New Hampshire pollster Dick Bennett. "But they made some changes. The slide has stopped." And that is in New Hampshire, where McCain has campaigned almost nonstop for months. (To lower expectations, Bush aides are predicting that they might lose New Hampshire, even as they work flat out to win it.) In Iowa, where McCain is not participating, Bush...
...Hampshire. "You can't run to the left on taxes in this state and win the Republican primary," says New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, Bush's state chairman. Gregg may be right about his home state but wrong about the rest of the country. In the TIME/CNN poll, Republicans by more than 2 to 1 say they would rather have a smaller tax cut with more money going to Social Security and debt repayment than a larger tax cut that left less money for those two priorities. The results are similar to ones pollster Bill McInturf found when he tested...
...that poll an anomaly? Not exactly. Four years earlier, on the eve of the New York primary, the New York Daily News showed Carter with a 55-37 lead over Ted Kennedy. Actual results: Kennedy 59, Carter 41. What happened? Pollster Lou Harris explained that "Kennedy benefited from the light vote...
...These numbers reflect the ability of the media to get the voters' attention," said Thomas E. Patterson, coordinator of the Shorenstein Center poll and Bradlee professor of government and the press at the Kennedy School of Government...