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Word: polled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...News-Washington Post poll found that 60 percent of Americans believe Gore should give up now that Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified Florida for Texas Gov. George W. Bush on Sunday...

Author: By Margaretta E. Homsey and William M. Rasmussen, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Pressure Mounts For Gore To Concede | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

...consul funded the satellite link to the CBC, Canada's largest national television network. Because Canadian law prohibits election results from being broadcast in any region before the 9 p.m. poll closings, attendees tuned in to CBC stations in a number of Canada's six time zones throughout the night...

Author: By C. MATTHEW Macinnis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Enjoy Canadian Elections, Beer | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

...Barak beat in 1999 to take back the government for the party of the right. Indeed, the prospect of being eclipsed by Netanyahu may have been weighing heavily on Sharon's mind Wednesday when revived the possibility of joining Barak in a national unity government, which might delay the poll - but it's not clear whether he was speaking for himself or for his party, or whether Barak would seriously entertain the offer at this point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Barak's Election Gamble | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

...clock on election night two weeks ago, and poll watchers in the small Georgia town of Dallas had a problem. The weather was humid and rainy. Now their vote-counting machine was rejecting thousands of punch-card ballots because the cardboard had warped in the damp night air. What to do? Break out the blow-dryers! "As weird as it sounds, it's standard procedure," says Fran Watson, election superintendent for Paulding County, where Dallas is located. "We blow a hair dryer over them, and then they'll go through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Is This Any Way To Vote? | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...much time does he have? A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll making the rounds before the speech reported that 56 percent of Americans - including 36 percent of Gore supporters - say concede. Rest assured Gore is watching growing numbers like that, but he wasn't about to resist a quick scold of the Bush camp's impatience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore Keeps It Simple — and Fast | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

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