Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...College-wide opinion poll conducted this month by the assembly shows that about 64 per cent of the students favor those changes...
Next week, the general counsel's office will release a poll on security and police services. We urge students to think carefully about improvements in the University's security programs and to take the necessary time to respond accurately to the survey...
...loss of popularity. As indicated by Senator Edward Kennedy's defeats last week in the Kansas and Wisconsin primaries, few Democrats and independents look on him as an alternative to Carter. Kennedy's acceptability as a candidate has improved to 41% in the latest poll, up from 33% in the previous week. But the Senator still lags behind Carter in important qualities such as trust, and he would be clobbered in a race against Reagan: by a margin of 22 points in the late March survey, 53% to 31%. Chappaquiddick remains one major reason. It seems...
...with incomes of more than $25,000. But only 32% of the people surveyed would like him to run as an independent candidate if, as now seems certain, he cannot wrest the Republican nomination from Reagan; 48% would not. And if he were to run as an independent, the poll indicates that he would finish third in the general elections, with 20% of the vote. The rest would be divided almost evenly between Carter and Reagan...
Talmon's harsh judgment is apparently shared by many of his countrymen. According to a public opinion poll published last week by the Jerusalem Post, Begin's right-wing Likud coalition would be easily ousted from power by the opposition Labor Party if the elections were held today. (They are not scheduled until October 1981.) Reaching similar conclusions, Pollster Mina Zemach attributed Begin's dramatic drop in popularity largely to domestic issues, but the settlement policy was clearly a factor: 50% of those polled were opposed to allowing Jews to settle in the Arab city of Hebron...