Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Student newspapers at five Ivy League universities conducted the 1980 Ivy League Presidential Poll, which was coordinated by the staff of The Daily Princetonian...
...statistical sampling error of about four or five points should be allowed for most of the figures in the Harvard poll. Thus, the race between Carter and Anderson is too close to call for Harvard students--who favor Anderson over Carter by a statistically insignificant 40 per cent to 35.7 per cent...
...sample of 501 undergraduates at Harvard conformed to the general population of students in categories of year, sex, race and religion, but off-campus students may have been slightly underrepresented due to difficulties in conducting the poll...
...folks down home. Carter made a two-day tour of the South-time he would rather have invested elsewhere-to try to solidify his besieged base. With the exception of Virginia, the region was for Carter four years ago, giving him 40% of his electoral vote. But a poll by Atlanta's Darden Research Corp. last week of eight states in the heart of Dixie, excluding Virginia, shows Carter and Reagan running even. Says Pollster Claibourne Darden: "If Carter does not do better quickly, he's through." Concerned with the economy, national image and moral issues, many Southern...
...poll in yesterday's Boston Globe shows majority of Bay State voters support the measure, which will slash property taxes in many cities and towns. The predicted margin of victory for the referendum appears smaller, now, however, and many of those questioned said they had yet to decide...