Word: polled
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...looks set to provoke new street protests in Lima - and a painful decision in Washington. Opposition candidate Alejandro Toledo withdrew late Thursday from the May 28 presidential runoff election against President Alberto Fujimori, after Fujimori's government refused to comply with a call by election monitors to postpone the poll. The monitors of the Organization of American States, with Washington's backing, had expressed grave reservations over irregularities in the first-round ballot - won by Fujimori, but without a sufficient majority to avoid a runoff - and urged postponement in order to resolve problems including candidates' access to the media, monitors...
...most recent national polls, including one released yesterday by CBS News and the New York Times, show Texas Gov. George W. Bush beating Gore by more than seven points. Still, the Times/CBS poll shows that while voters favor Bush's personality, they are more comfortable with Gore's policy proposals...
...Poll: Enough Punishment for Bobby Knight...
...since Bill and Hillary Clinton served up more than 1,000 pages of health-care-reform proposals for their opponents to pick apart in 1993, pols have erred on the side of vagueness (not that this was an entirely undiscovered path to political success). In 1994 Newt Gingrich used poll-tested platitudes to sweep Republicans into power. A year later, when Gingrich got down to the prosaic details of governing, like offering specific Medicare-spending controls, the public--egged on by Clinton--rebelled. The lesson: be vague. There's a corollary: if you must be specific, then be inoffensive. That...
What exactly is the moral meaning of a crowd? Does a crowd have claims to legitimacy? Does it have more political significance than, say, a Zogby poll? If one person expresses a strong opinion on a subject, does the opinion become 200,000 times more valid if 200,000 people gather in the same place to proclaim...