Word: polle
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Even though the New Hampshire primary has officially kicked off the 2000 presidential campaign, it is not surprising that a recent Kennedy School of Government poll found that Americans, by and large, are uninterested in this presidential season. One reason is that times are good and the candidates are nibbling at the edges...
...part, McCain prepared to stretch the momentum of his victory as far as possible. His camp set up a team of fund-raisers in New Hampshire and began phoning potential supporters across the nation as the poll reports were in. But McCain still trails Bush by a wide margin in most parts of the country. Bush has big-name supporters in virtually every state; McCain doesn't. What's more, in most states, registered independents - who overwhelmingly favored McCain over Bush in New Hampshire - aren't allowed to vote in party primaries. At the same time, Bush is much more...
...John F. Dickerson(At the McCain campaign headquarters following the win): "Everybody's obviously thrilled. They thought at best they'd win by 5 or 6 percent. Now they hope this turns into money across the nation and into poll numbers in South Carolina...
Said "gee whiz" yet? Don't. Campaigning still takes place in the real world--on doorsteps, soapboxes and televisions. In a TIME/CNN poll, only 17% of adults in the survey said they use the Internet to gain access to politics. But digital democracy 2.0 is showing hints of just what politics will be like when most of America has faster hookups: town halls held in a hundred living rooms, where voters can interact with their representatives...
...sunny day last week, aides to Bill Bradley could still persuade themselves that their man had a good chance to win the nomination from Al Gore. After a lousy start--aimless events in New Hampshire, a botched debate in Iowa, sliding poll numbers just about everywhere--Bradley enjoyed an epiphany of sorts on Wednesday, and some of his advisers thought it might be the turning point he needed. It happened in New Hampshire, when a working mother with no health insurance described how her son had come down with strep throat and then apologized to her as she wrote...