Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...want to elevate expectations beyond my ability to perform," Bush, whom a recent Boston Globe poll predicted would win the primary, said at a press conference at the Park Plaza Hotel...
...opponents came out of Iowa in tatters. California Governor Jerry Brown did not win a single delegate and does not appear to be in much better shape in Maine, where the Democrats will caucus on Feb. 10, or New Hampshire. In the wake of Kennedy's defeat, the polls show Carter beating him almost everywhere, including New Hampshire. In a poll published this week in the Boston Globe, Democratic and independent voters in the Granite State gave Carter a healthy 54% to 36% lead over Kennedy. Sensing disaster, prominent politicians, like New York's Governor Hugh Carey, were...
...itself. Rather than depend on just a blackboard, for instance, he decided to set up his own slide projector to display the returns on a screen. He also jokingly mentioned his scheme to send one of George Bush's most articulate supporters out to phone in the straw-poll results. "While he's gone," chuckled Kalal, thinking how he might then snatch up all the delegates for Reagan, "I'm going to move very rapidly...
...leader. The internecine squabbling has led to fear that the party could split into two irreconcilable segments: a centrist group of Social Democrats, some of whom favor an alliance with the Liberal Party, and an openly leftist party that would tolerate the Red Moles and other extreme Marxists. A poll by the London Times showed that 54% of Britons favor a new centrist party in the political lineup. The N.E.C.'s high-handedness may have galvanized the moderates into action. Leaders of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers immediately mounted a campaign to elect moderates to its 1 million...
...lecherous professor is a standard figure at most colleges, as much a part of the campus scene as ivy-covered brick or the statue of the founder. In one informal poll at a California college, a quarter of the faculty members said they had been sexually active with students, and another fourth said they would like to be. A more ambitious survey of American women with degrees in psychology reported that 10% of the women said they had had sexual contact with their educators. For women who earned those degrees in the past six years, the figure was an astonishing...