Word: polle
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...claim such popular ideas as ending the marriage tax penalty," says Branegan, "and that leaves the Republicans with the choice of either kvetching that he stole their ideas and looking churlish, or broadly supporting him. You can also be sure that whatever big-spending programs he's proposed poll-tested well with voters." That leaves the GOP facing a challenge of picking their battles against his legislative spending agenda in a way that differentiates them from the Democrats while appealing to moderate voters. The biggest beneficiary of Clinton's glowing account of the administration's achievements is Vice President Gore...
...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...
...things considered, the 1999 holiday season "was an enormous success," says Allen Weiner, vice president of analytical services at NetRatings, an e-commerce tracking firm. Jill Frankle, director of retail research at Gomez Advisors, agreed. An online poll her firm conducted the week after Christmas that showed 86.2% of online shoppers were at least somewhat satisfied with their experience; 46.5% were very satisfied, 25.7% were satisfied, 14% only somewhat so. Less than 2% of the 1,000 survey respondents said they would never shop online again...