Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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About 60 students, one-third of the club's total membership, attended the meeting. In addition to voting to support Reagan, officers conducted a poll on eight positions in the Republican presidential platform...
...poll showed that a majority of the club's membership favors draft registration, the Equal Rights Amendment, increased military spending and the Kemp-Roth tax-cut plan. Most of the membership is against a constitutional amendment to ban aboritons, government subsidies for abortions for the poor, a constitutional amendment to require a balanced federal budget, and court-ordered busing to achieve racial integration in public schools...
Hedrick Smith: Mr. Reagan, a recent New York Times/CBS poll indicates that you are now running neck and neck with President Carter. In view of the fact that just six weeks ago, you were rated in some polls as 15 points ahead of Mr. Carter, how do you explain the volatility of the American electorate...
...Unity Campaign. We are eligible for federal funds. We have been endorsed by the N.Y. Liberal Party. Nationally televised debates are coming and we stand our first bona fide chance to gain national prominence. But right now we are vulnerable. Until we pass up Carter in a national poll, we will be the object of much derogation. Until then no one will believe that only John Anderson, and not Jimmy Carter, can beat Ronald Reagan in November...
...typical national poll will question fewer than 1,500 people in the entire country. This week 1,000 people in New York State will be interviewed in person for an hour each. The interviewers have been known to fire as many as 150 questions at each subject. The reason: Caddell is trying for a full understanding of the mind-set of the typical voter, and even more, searching for small clues as to what could change...