Word: polled
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Many proposed reforms have gained national popularity of late: voting on the weekend, declaring a voting holiday, extending voting hours and instituting simultaneous poll openings and closings between all time zones. But while these policies might have changed the outcome of the current election by bringing more and different people to the polls, none of them would have solved the current problem introduced by archaic and inconsistent voting procedures. Neither would any of them increase the reliability and rapidity of recounts...
Harvard is still present in the national hockey rankings, despite the weekend split. The USA Today Men's Division I hockey poll found the Crimson holding the No. 13 spot in the top 15. Yale falls two below the Crimson with a No. 15 ranking, while Union, the only ECAC team ahead of Harvard, is sitting pretty...
...characters on the show potentially walk amongst us. I can't sit through an hour of "Justice" without thinking, "Is Montgomery Burns modeled after Professor Michael Sandel? Yes--look--he's doing the finger thing." I am not the only student asking myself this question. In a straw poll of a "Justice" class this year about 85 percent of the students voted "The Simpsons" a higher form of pleasure than Shakespeare. One of my roommates claims that the Simpsons is one of two things that make him proud to attend Harvard--and hes always working when "Late Night with Conan...
...result, you would have had no problem learning the latest presidential poll numbers from watching one of Boston's local newscasts, but you would have had some difficulty if you were curious about the substance and potential effects of the state's ballot questions. The PEJ survey gives credit to WBZ for having the least amount of horse race political coverage of Boston's three stations, but in Boston's market, relative success should not be mistaken for anything like actual success...
...This was supposed to be the endgame. George W. Bush, pausing for different reporters in Austin before picking up his first CIA intelligence briefing, said he was ready to "seize the moment." In a fresh NBC poll, 63 percent believed Bush won, 59 percent believed Gore should concede. The Florida legislature is cooling its heels...