Word: polle
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...because he's got to keep climbing the impossibly steep cliff that stands between him and the nomination. His next jagged ledge on the way up: the Feb. 19 primary in South Carolina, where he trails Bush by a 20-point margin, 52% to 32%, in the latest TIME/CNN poll. That's down from a 47-point gap just two months ago, but Bush and his advisers are so sure they can squash McCain in South Carolina that they're playing it safe in New Hampshire. Where McCain's events in the state last week were crowded with believers...
...McCain's plan to use most of the surplus to reduce the national debt and shore up Social Security, he adds, "I don't believe our party, especially in South Carolina, is ready for a candidate whose plan is endorsed by Clinton-Gore." In fact, the TIME/CNN poll suggests that a majority of South Carolina Republicans--74%--agree with McCain and Clinton that the country would be better off with a smaller tax cut and a larger pool of money devoted to debt reduction and Social Security...
...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...
...campaign's best asset. And while it's not a strategy that's destined to make the Harvard alum our next president, it has won him a devoted following. Even those who would never vote for him are wowed by his oratory; a majority of respondents to a poll after the first Republican debate declared him the winner. Despite his meager funds, he finished a surprising third in the Iowa Caucuses, behind only Texas Governor George W. Bush and Forbes Magazine Publisher Steve Forbes...