Word: polled
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Frustration with the Palm Beach ballot had begun to go public even before the polls closed. At the Lucerne Point residence community, poll workers were so overwhelmed by complaints that they had to draw a diagram showing where each ticket's punch hole was located. Theresa LePore, the Palm Beach County election supervisor who had signed off on the ballot design, soon arranged for a flyer to be distributed at polling places around the county that would help voters decipher it. LePore, a Democrat, told reporters that day that she had favored the design partly because it permitted larger type...
...sense, the media have done with their business what Bill Clinton did with the presidency: tarnished it with transgressions but in the process also demythologized it. Even the election-night debacle may have, perversely, done a public service by undermining the credibility of exit polls and electoral projections. Media critics have long argued that networks should not call races until all polls have closed to avoid affecting turnout. It's a moot argument: information will out, not least because people want it. Tuesday afternoon, web surfers overwhelmed the Drudge Report, where Matt Drudge had posted exit-poll results...
...state like Florida looked good a few days ago. Now I see a poll that shows us behind. How can that be? I wonder, are we lulling ourselves into a premature sense of false victory and complacency? It is a terrible time, a really awful feeling inside. The national polls show George ahead, and yet state by state, they show him behind. How can that...
...turned my anger at the sleazy politicians who were making the disclosure - not an October surprise, but a November surprise. The timing reminded me of the release of the (Iran-contra independent counsel Lawrence) Walsh indictment of Cap Weinberger late in the game in 1992. One CNN poll had us closing the gap. But that's all it took. From there on, things stayed the same...
...Gore camp tried to get a sense of where the public stood, how long it could fight on. But officials said they were not able to poll the issue because there is no money to pay for it. As of 5 p.m. Friday, the campaign ceased to exist legally. Everyone was ordered to turn in cell phones, laptops and pagers...