Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Joseph A. Ujhely Esq., Lorain County Democratic chieftain, head of Ohio's 1976 delegation to the Electoral College, son of a steelworker and a running guard for Ohio State, dismisses the poll as a lot of crap. The purple-and-yellow tie with the silver sheen ripples as Ujhelyi conducts an experiment to see just how far he can lean back in his chair and still see the visitor over the paunch. Each word is an effort, a patented statement issued forth from the right side of his mouth. The left seems almost hermetically sealed...
...recent Boston Globe poll shows the measure's backers have the slight edge, particularly among people who don't know much about the issue. On paper the measure looks ideal--it would bring the state closer to the national average in property taxes--a move several high-technology industries say is necessary for them to induce new employees to settle in the state. Not only would the reductions save homeowners and businesses money, many backers hope the cuts would be so staggering as to force the legislature to develop a more progressive tax system...
...fact is, entering the final round of the campaign, they have fought each other to a draw. The latest poll for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., shows Carter leading 42% to 41%, with 12% for Anderson and 5% undecided. But Carter's lead is so small, well within the range of a possible sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, as to be almost meaningless, particularly since it is not the popular vote that determines who shall be the next President. A "national" election, of course, is really an amalgam of elections...
...TIME poll shows the slightest shift could swing the election
...unmoved by anyone in the race. Although this remains a somewhat grim and unhappy election, the fact that the decision will at long last be reached next week has heightened national attention and made even more important the presidential debate this week. Slowly, quietly, the patterns are changing. The poll indicates that President Carter is reclaiming traditional Democratic support. He is now backed by 66% of the Democrats, compared with the 59% who were for him in September. Most of this new strength comes from party members who had once defected to Anderson but who have come home to their...