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His audiences laugh, yes, but polls show that the British still support the concept of a monarchy.

This led to its formal disbandment, and a split, with a breakaway group contesting the polls.

It comes out of a place called the Gallup Organization. You know they do polls right?

Earlier this week the USDP was asked by an election candidate to ensure it had severed ties with the ruling junta prior to the polls.

A coordinated torrent of praise from the main foreign missions in Afghanistan began to gush a few hours after polls closed.

Many news organizations conduct "issue polls" to see what topics are of great interest to the public during an election year.

The polls do not reveal how much of the president's shrivelling approval is caused by rising petrol prices.

With only a week to go, the polls show that the two candidates are running neck and neck. The race is still so.

With two weeks to go until the election, the polls showed me with a twenty-point lead, and 55 percent of the vote.

Backers of a similar amendment that would forbid gay marriage in Florida appear to be ahead in the polls as well.

But with opinion polls showing his popularity diving, on November 5th he said he would not stand for re-election.

"You would not have had a Thatcher government if you listened to opinion polls, " he said.

Brazilian correspondents have fanned out to Colorado, Nevada and New Hampshire, offering daily coverage of every shift in the polls.

Polls conducted over the past three years show that less than 20 percent of the public currently says it favors possessing such a deterrent.

"Online polls tend to be brutally honest, " said Simpson, noting that there was no one on the other end of the phone to deal with.

WITH a seven-point lead in the polls a few days before voting, the race for America's presidency is now Barack Obama's to lose.

Final polls in many of those states, from Virginia and Ohio to New Hampshire, Colorado and Wisconsin, also find the race too close to call.

i saw that lady's car in the first polls out. . . but she did not put up the right signal light and came out.

Polls come and go, as politicians like to say, but the two big parties seem to be trading fairly consistently at around six points apart.

Earlier this year, Chatham House, a think-tank, commissioned twin polls of the general public and a group of "elite opinion formers" .

In past polls this might have been a sign of rigging but this time apparently not.

Mr Ahmadinejad has made a hash of the economy, so there is at least a chance he could be defeated at the polls by a more pragmatic figure.

Just a few weeks ago, polls showed Mr Tedisco with a double-digit lead over Mr Murphy.

The Democratic Party have mobilized behind their candidate Kerry who seems to be level-pegging with Bush in the polls.

That result was more in line with previous opinion polls showing Mr. Kan overwhelmingly favored by the general public.

On the front end, users can navigate through a list of polls, vote on which answer they like best, and see a graph of the results.

An unusually personal ( "very difficult" ) television interview on February 14th seems to have done him some good in the polls.

The media talked a lot about Xavi and Iniesta being favourites, and all that talk had left me a little bit out of the polls.

In other public opinion polls over the years, climate change has ranked near the bottom of the list of pressing problems.

It was one of several good moments for Mr Biden, a senator from Delaware who has run before and who has little support in the polls.

So it is no surprise that opinion polls show voters ready to punish the Republican party.

Ahn himself had considered a run for mayor amid polls showing him to be the favorite if he had indeed entered the race.

Polls show that up to half of Americans support the demonstrators or at least believe they reflect public opinion.

And neither kind of supposedly strong government was more likely to survive at the polls within two years of a bout of budget-slashing.

Reduced to a minority, Congress is now looking for other allies to help it to hobble through to the polls later this year.

As polls closed at 10 p. m. in London on Thursday, Mr. Brown received another rude shock, this one from a member of his own cabinet.

National governments seem to lurch from complacency to hostility depending on the state of the economy, and opinion polls.

His reputation as a womanizer did not seem to hurt his chances; he was ahead of President Nicolas Sarkozy in the polls.

On Thursday, Abhisit told Thai television that there was no reason for him to resign and call snap polls.

But the news since the polls closed has been so bad that this future cannot be taken for granted.

Opinion polls, too, imply that the former IMF boss is no longer considered the messiah for a left otherwise devoid of economic credibility.

By the end of April, several published polls had him running ahead of the President, with me in third place.

But it seemed as if the number of troops was determined by opinion polls, rather than the mission in hand.

The Republican candidate came out of the party conventions three or four points ahead of Mr Obama in the opinion polls.

Even though Americans don't like politics, polls show that mothers (and fathers) believe their children can grow up to be president.

Before the election, Senator Biden said the United States should cut military aid to Pakistan if the polls were rigged.

But Reagan did at least manage to keep control of the message and head off the expected disaster at the polls.

With Cain now high up in most polls, other candidates will likely attack his tax plan, as well as his lack of government experience.

Polls show that many Americans already think, erroneously, that the size of China's economy has surpassed that of their own.

And the point is, we need to carry on increasing well-being. No one can go to the polls and say that quality of life is going to reduce.

Yet polls clearly show that their diet, sleep, and exercise efforts are among the poorest of any single occupation in the country.

As long it was, Mr McCain remained close to his rival in the polls.

The president continues to try and rebuild support for a war that public opinion polls say a majority of Americans believe was a mistake.

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Qpinion polls suggest that the level of interest many Americans have in the war on terrorism is beginning to dwindle.

Earlier this year, when he was up against all Republican contenders, he was down in the polls.

Viewer polls taken after this second debate, which focused on foreign policy, showed there was no runaway victor.

In recent polls and focus groups he has found that Brazilians, including the poorest, have woken up to the fact that they pay high taxes.

In opinion polls before the vote, there was as much scepticism about its policy manifesto as there was about the LDP's.

One ominous sign is the withdrawal of independent monitors who would be able to observe and protect voters at the polls.

Last week, Clinton came in third in the Iowa caucuses, and most recent polls projected that she was far behind Obama in New Hampshire.

Opinion polls conducted among relocated families have been positive, he said.

He resigned as chairman of his company and continued to rise in the polls.

Tina: That's a bit surprising. All the opinion polls are predicting that your party is going to lose.

Polls show widespread U. S. public support for Obama and optimism about the coming four years of his presidency.

Dean had been promised support by more than 130 high-profile delegates, including Gore, as he rose in the polls ahead of the Iowa caucus.

A string of opinion polls shows that Californians are ready to embrace gay marriage.

Polls already suggested that she might make it into the second-round run-off, just as her father, Jean-Marie, did in 2002.

Mondale's pick gave him a sudden 15-point boost in the polls, but within weeks, the numbers returned to where they were before.

Bush confirmed his standing as a strong leader, an area that public opinion polls suggest is a strength for him compared to Senator Kerry.

Polls are just a fancy way of systematically predicting what's going to happen.

Even before the polls closed, opposition parties said the outcome was pre-determined to ensure Mr. Aliyev keeps a firm grip on power.

Much of this increase is directly or indirectly down to immigration, a hot topic in this election as it was in polls past.

Japan's media conducted next leadership polls after its Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, announced to step down in the near future.

True, the president conceded that he had received a "shellacking" at the polls, and that "some election nights are more fun than others. "

Nearer to the close of polls the Republican also saw Iraq, Namibia, Congo, Sudan, Algeria and a few other countries offer him support.

So it might seem strange that some of the same countries take some trouble preventing thousands of citizens from going to the polls.

But there is a good deal of evidence that in this White House polls are the search for America.

Mr Brown finally succeeded Mr Blair, and clever tactics and conducive circumstances gave him a giddy bounce in the opinion polls.

In France, aides to President Nicolas Sarkozy point to the rising cost of food and fuel as the key to his slump in the polls.

The recent general election in Finland propelled a loan-refusenik party, the True Finns, to third place in the polls.

Having looked at gut reactions to him in focus groups and opinion polls, they are convinced that he fails the blink test, and quite badly.

Obama's approval rating in public opinion polls has recently sunk to its lowest point of his presidency.

Recent public opinion polls show that Obama's job approval rating has sunk to about 44 percent, one of the lowest rates of his presidency.

Obama also got some good news in national polls as he and Clinton prepare for a debate later Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio.

The researchers found that this Twitter rating tracked more formal opinion polls closely.

Exit polls suggest that it was the defection of independents from the Democrats that sealed the Republican victory.

And again, as in 2006, the cash dished out will be close to Polling Day. That year, it was one week before citizens went to the polls.

Most polls show more Americans oppose Obamacare than approve of it, though that may be changing a little.

They will not have found a clear answer: such polls may be a landmark on the road to peace or a roadblock.

There is expected to be a second referendum on this in the autumn, and recent polls show a two-to-one majority in favour.

As the Election Commissionprepared for polls, the public watched nervously to see whether Mr Koirala orMr Prachanda would blink first.

But opinion polls showed ordinary Germans want just as little to do with the Libya conflict as their foreign minister.

He dismissed earlier opinion polls carried out this week which said the public demanded harsher conditions in prisons.

Back-room negotiations between parties have been ongoing, providing daily material for local news media since the polls were concluded.

One of the main sponsors of the bill, California Senator Dianne Feinstein, says polls show most Americans support an assault weapon's ban.

Mr Bainimarama insists that sweeping electoral reforms have to be enacted before the next polls.

Mr Chabot is still a recognised figure in the district, and a smattering of polls give him the edge.

He has now drawn even with her in the polls here and in Ohio, both states where she had been in the lead only a few weeks ago.

The best way for Nigeria to show leadership is to help its neighbours to stop rigging their polls.

As he enters the second half of his five-year term, President Nicolas Sarkozy will remain unpopular in the polls.

Polls suggested Mr Castle was more likely to defeat Mr Coons in November's general election.

In exit polls, Obama won a majority among voters making under $50, 000 a year and a formidable two-thirds of all male voters.

Although his overall popularity slipped again this month, polls suggest that voters approve of his expulsion of the illegal Romanies.

But analysts said the immediate focus was on the opinion polls.

But the polls have at least allowed a tiny flicker of pluralist light into the murk of Burmese totalitarianism.

Polls show Democrats largely remain united behind President Obama for 2012 while Republicans are eager to turn him out of office.

Few analysts expect Gillard to lead Labor into the next election, if the opinion polls continue to look so bleak.

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Obama, seeing the polls shift slightly towards him as a result of the economic upheaval, was campaigning in North Carolina yesterday.

There was an authority on public opinion polls in the elementary-school children, and asked what the most popular school.

Consensus might be developed through discussion and polls, but more often it develops through established practice.

More polls do include a sampling of mobile-phone respondents and these seem to show a marked leaning towards Mr Obama.

With less than two days to go before voting, the controversy seems unlikely to have a significant impact on his lead in the polls.

Not enough candidates have been disqualified or made to re-run polls to stop the election winners taking office.

But political experts have really taken notice of several recent state polls that seem to show Obama surging.

As little as a week ago, the polls, on average, put the Democrat 7% behind.

Two international organisations monitoring the elections in Sudan say the controversial polls failed to meet full international standards.

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By the first of November, he was moving up in the polls, though still down by about four points.

Labor has a strong lead in opinion polls; McClelland is expected to serve as foreign minister if the party wins power.

He had led early opinion polls but, unless the case against him quickly crumbles, his presidential ambitions appear to be in tatters.

Public-opinion polls in Latin America show far higher approval ratings for President Obama than those of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Opinion polls show that the majority of Russians, particularly the young, do not consider bribery a crime.

One of his advisers, however, points out that most other politicians score even lower in the polls.

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His approval ratings in opinion polls have leapt over the past few months, as have those of his boss, Michelle Bachelet, Chile's president.

By Tuesday night, if the polls are to be believed, a member of a new generation will become president-elect.

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Clearly, Norwegians headed for the polls are going to ask themselves, what kind of society do they want to live in?

Polls show that the party has also seen an increase in popularity across the more nationally minded west of the country.

When the allegations of a rape first surfaced, polls showed that 60% of French voters thought it was a political conspiracy against him.

We live, after all, in an age of opinion polls and Facebook, cable news and Twitter.

Such polls indicate that the Wall Street protestors reflect the frustrations of large swaths of American society.

Neither side wants that to happen. Republicans, with a nervous eye on the polls, may be more anxious for a deal than they let on.

But opinion polls have found that up to 20 per cent of the population regard burning ghost money as "absolutely necessary" .

Polls suggest that only a minority approve, and that less than 20% would consider subscribing.

The EU and the Carter Center said the polls were below international standards.

Opinion polls in the U. S. show more than 60 percent of Americans oppose the construction of the project near the attack site.

Still, his pitch seems to be working: he enjoys a 25-point lead in the polls.

As parliamentary and presidential polls this autumn draw near, politicians are again tempted to turn to the supernatural for help.

Now Mr Giuliani finds himself a poor third in the Florida polls, and behind to Mr McCain even in his home state of New York.

The polls indicate that Americans will turn out to vote in huge numbers on Tuesday; the election may well be a cliff-hanger.

When these polls were later analyzed, it turned out that the pundits and prognosticators had overstated their case a bit.

If no announcement is made, the polls shall be deemed to have closed upon the final adjournment of the meeting.

Danish politicians have created some of the most stringent immigration laws in all of Europe, and continue to score high for it in polls.

At present the public appears ambivalent: polls suggest mixed feelings on both free trade and a higher consumption tax.

The Conservatives continued to maintain a lead in opinion polls.

The Democratic Party, which trails the GNP in national polls, has failed to capitalise on the president's unpopularity.

All the opinion polls suggest that Mr Reid is in deep trouble in his home state of Nevada.

Against that, the Tory grassroots are increasingly environmentally conscious: polls show them to be greener than average voters.

Opinion polls suggest that entrepreneurs see a good as well as a bad side to the recession.

Opinion polls suggest Democrats might be in a position to retake control of one or both chambers of Congress in the November elections.

Meanwhile, Jin Canrong also pointed out that the polls in Utah Huntsman still a little behind, which he is a very good news.

Polls show Americans generally view Obama as the candidate who most represents change and a break from the status quo.

His Oval Office upbraiding of Mr Obama and his adulatory reception in Congress may have given him a bounce in the polls.

Exit polls in Portugal suggest the centre-right opposition Social Democrats have won the general election.

DONALD TUSK has become the first Polish prime minister in history to be democratically re-elected for a consecutive term, exit polls show.

Polls suggest he would not win an election, but he would certainly fight hard.

Public opinion polls show an overwhelming majority of black Americans believe help would have come quicker if those stranded were white.

Public opinion polls show less than one-third of Americans approve of the way the president is doing his job.

With the explosion of cable news networks and other new media, there has been a proliferation of public polls.

Yudhoyono may win an overall majority in next month's election, avoiding the need for a second round of voting in September, polls show.

NEXT month Liberia is due to go to the polls, almost exactly eight years after the end of a civil war that wreaked havoc across the country.

John McCain's fans note that in head-to-head polls against Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, their man is the only Republican who wins.

Mr Giuliani may be weak in the early-voting states, but he leads national polls of Republican voters, albeit increasingly narrowly.

Candidates must fundraise effectively and win public support in opinion polls to be considered viable.

Some polls have shown that the Republican candidate, Scott Brown, is doing surprisingly well in what should be a safe Democratic seat.

So far this year, the Wall Street bank that has most accurately forecast prices is J. P. Morgan, based on data collected in Reuters polls.

I would need to campaign and then wait to see if people would vote for me on Election Day at the polls.

The polls show her beating Mr McCain in the last two of these, while Mr McCain beats Mr Obama in all three.

When Mr. Romney started out in 2007, few voters knew who he was and he registered in the single digits in national polls.

Polls so far suggest that the BNP will do no better than the 5% it won four years ago, too little to secure a Strasbourg seat.

Some polls suggest that her approval rating remains over 80% (Chilean law bars presidents from running for a second consecutive term).

The ruling party is languishing in third place in the opinion polls .

Opinion polls show much stronger support for the formation of a coalition government than for holding snap elections now.

However, American news organizations invest substantial resources to "call" states as soon as possible after the polls close.

But polls suggest Mr Kirchner would win even more easily than his wife.

No doubt it will be repeated, probably via cellphone, after the polls close Tuesday night.

Opinion polls show a resurgence of support for a Eurosceptic outfit, the United Kingdom Independence Party.

However, these same polls indicate there is one thing on which many Americans agree: It is time for a change.

The president himself has pointed to polls from a government-linked outfit, GIS XXI, which gave him 51% support.

Today, telephones are the means of choice to conduct timely state or national polls.

Public-opinion polls show the U. S. electorate fairly evenly split between Democratic and Republican-leaning voters.

Polls, however, suggest the Japanese are crying out for leadership on the issue, not pusillanimity.

New polls suggest that in Iowa, at least, we have already passed peak Gingrich.

With polls indicating that most Japanese favour his resignation, Mr Ozawa has changed tack and agreed to be questioned by prosecutors.

He said people, particularly in rural areas, fear they will be butchered if they do not have a pink little finger when polls close.

Now, with the trend in the polls running against her, she has opted to toss caution to the wind.

Crucial to maintaining residents' support for the Games, polls suggest, is convincing them that their dollars will not be spent.

Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno Aquino III led the last polls with a 42% preference rate.

Juan Manuel Santos, his former defence minister, who leads the opinion polls, says that security policy needs to be adapted to new threats.

He was echoing similar words from Raila Odinga, Kenya's prime minister, whose own victory at the polls was stolen a few months ago.

The Tories' once-commanding lead in the polls has narrowed in recent weeks and there is now a real contest for power.

He must get tough, not because populist rage polls well, but because his leadership depends on challenging those who challenge him.

Despite their decline in numbers in recent years, the red telephone box regularly tops polls as one of Britain's most iconic structures.

Yet polls show that most people, on both sides, continue to believe that unification was the right idea.

Such moves seem to chime with early public-opinion polls.

Hillary Clinton won the Kentucky primary by 35 percentage points. According to exit polls, she did well among women and white voters.

Yet polls suggest that Canadians, still grappling with the after-effects of recession, do not want another election.

The polls consistently show the parties of his coalition well ahead of Kadima, Labour and the other dovish parties combined.

The Soviets can read public opinion polls, and realized that they would have to deal with Ronald Reagan for four more years.

Despite all this, opinion polls suggest that Egyptians remain broadly hopeful of the future.

And for congressional Democrats, who face daunting odds at the polls, it provides an economic issue they feel will resonate with voters.

If Hillary does lose in the Super Tuesday II polls, then this could signal the loss of support that delegates have for her.

electoral system for parliamentary elections, the last batch of opinion polls make very grim reading for the Yes camp.

Yet as Europe goes to the polls, left-leaning parties across the continent are looking likely to falter.

Recent polls show that around two-thirds of registered voters want to bring the troops home within a year.

Even the precise shade of her skin colour may have helped him at the polls.

And the polls, far from being wrong before the vote, were a better guide to public opinion than was the result itself.

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Polls show increased anxiety about trade among American workers, and trade has appeared as one of the significant 2008 campaign issues.

Disillusionment with the political class is a more powerful factor that will keep people away from the polls.

It shows up in politics, in opinion polls and focus groups.

Riding high in opinion polls, Obama was careful to include a sober assessment of the economic emergency in his first speech to Congress.

More self-interestedly, they worry that much of the opposition's substantial lead in the opinion polls may be due to Mr Visco's exactions.

Polls this week confirmed that the party would get more votes at a general election under a different leader.

They may well have another chance this year, with a budget battle looming in March that could send Canadians to the polls again.

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Though the opinion polls were initially heavily in his favour, his campaign was a disaster from the outset.

Political experts say the focus on the U. S. financial crisis has helped Obama surge past McCain in public opinion polls.

The president's conciliatory words come as Kashmir, the disputed Muslim-majority Indian state, goes to the polls in state elections.

Most Palestinians who voted for Hamas also, judging by a raft of opinion polls, actually support the notion of two states.

The legacy of Mr Khodorkovsky's oligarchic past is still evident in the ambivalent attitude revealed by opinion polls.

According to polls, if the election were held now, it would be the second-largest party, just two seats short of the Christian Democrats.

This also makes political sense, given that Congress would not have triumphed at the polls without the support of the rural poor.

Citing six polls, Pipes says Americans support an attack today and will "presumably rally around the flag" when the bombs fall.

Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U. S. on a world map. Why do you think this is? -I personally believe. . .

Opinion polls suggest the Social Democratic Party would win the most seats in an election, though probably not a majority.

McCain continues to trail Obama by an average of about six points in national polls.

Thompson entered the Republican race to great fanfare last year and for a time was near the top of the national polls.

The weekend violence was the most serious since the polls.

For some time, one of the most interesting numbers in US politics has been one not found in the opinion polls' exit survey.

The last polls have Senator Obama with a defining lead over Senator McCain.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the American daily the Los Angeles Times conducted one of the first polls in Eastern Europe in 1990.

With security as a major concern in the elections, polls have hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party in the lead.

Far from delivering a bounce in the polls, the overhaul of health reform that Mr Obama pushed through in March has incensed many voters.

exit polls, she did well among women and white voters.

Since the voters hadn't been aware of that issue, my apology ad didn't immunize me from it, and I dropped behind Tucker in the polls.

Polls in Kaduna and Bauchi, deemed the most volatile states, were postponed by two days to let extra troops be deployed.

He's going to fight right to the end and he's very efficient. So even if the polls are low today, it doesn't mean a thing.

Florida's polls closed first, sending the two candidates on a triumphant march across the South.

That Mr Obama went for broke despite polls showing a plurality of voters opposed to his plan strikes some as bold; others as rash.

Segal says he believes the early interest in each party's primary elections will bring voters to the polls in November's general election.

For this purpose the class coordinator will conduct a number of informal polls at several times during the semester.

But with the greater number of polls comes some additional responsibilities for pollsters, the public, and the media.

Even Mr Advani's Bharatiya Janata Party quickly said it did not want early polls.

Public happiness, assessed by opinion polls, is being introduced as a new criterion for judging local leaders' suitability for promotion.

With heavy voter turnout expected on Election Day, both parties are amassing thousands and thousands of lawyers to keep an eye on the polls.