Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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President Carter did not lose, the public did. The fat cats and the poll cats delivered us a dead fish...
...British Labor Party suddenly turned and joined the aggressive left wing to elevate Michael Foot, 67, to the post of party leader to succeed James Callaghan. Foot handily defeated Denis Healey, 63, the party's right-wing standardbearer, by a vote of 139 to 129 in a poll of Labor Members of Parliament. A militant socialist, Foot is not only an opponent of Britain's terms of membership in the European Community, but also an advocate of unilateral nuclear disarmament, who has vowed to send U.S. cruise missiles "back to Washington." Not since the Depression in the 1930s...
...Commons drew some derisive cheers from the Tories for a different reason. The Conservatives welcomed his election, because they calculated that a Foot-led Labor Party would have less chance of defeating them in the general election that must take place by early 1984. Healey, whom every poll had shown to be the Labor candidate preferred by voters, had consistently been regarded as a formidable challenger by the Tories. Thus they were surprised when the first post-election poll that pitted Foot vs. Thatcher showed Labor's new contender five points ahead of the incumbent as the people...
...stalemate when those at neither end of Pennsylvania Avenue know what they really want; when, at both ends, officials and lawmakers are wallowing in symbols and photo opportunities and other media gimmicks, trying to ride a poll or catch a headline...
...have Government by poll, we hardly need a President...