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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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This tool takes all the lines out of the polls and pollresponses tables where the data is relevant to whatever poll is being dropped.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The weekend violence was the most serious since the polls.

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

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.

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

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

Yet from the Baltic to the Balkans, even politicians facing the most startling accusations of corruption seem not to suffer at the polls.

The polls have bounced back to give Labor a tight lead over the conservative coalition opposition (see chart).

Today, votes in an election are usually known soon after the polls close, but this tradition continues.

A few weeks ago Mr Toledo was comfortably ahead in the polls. But he has come under fire for his personal failings.

The polls released in the run-up to the anniversary were damning.

But it did not stop Mr McCain's slide in the polls.

Anxiety is likely to be mounting in the White House, because the polls keep worsening.

To be sure, Mr. Aso's recent rise in the polls is no guarantee of victory.

South Africans went to the polls in the fourth general election since the beginning of black-majority rule in 1994.

The chores are all finished, Olive. Shall we goes to the polls? -Popeye, I'm casting my vote for you.

The chair of the meeting shall announce at the meeting when the polls close for each matter voted upon.

Is increased uncertainty about Obama's faith a factor contributing to his overall slide in the polls?

John McCain, meanwhile, claims that the polls are inaccurate and that his opponent's lead is much narrower.

The polls show people around the world favor New Energy and Energy Efficiency even at higher energy costs.

Several parties which plan to run in the polls are already critical of the official process.

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On November 4, as the polls began to close after 7P. M. and the votes were counted, Obama emerged as the winner!

But most of the policies he plans to pursue before going to the polls, most likely next spring, are now apparent.

Obama led the polls for months. But in the last few weeks, McCain has come on strong and now leads in several surveys.

Now Democrats appear more ready to go to the polls.

Republican John McCain told a crowd in Missouri not to count him out , even though Democrat Barack Obama is ahead in the polls.

Politicians will hesitate to anger immigrant groups who can be influential at the polls.

The Asia-Pacific region exerts more economic and strategic influence each time the US goes to the polls.

This hardly sounds like a man shy of an early dash to the polls.

Party won a convincing victory at the polls with an overall majority of ninety-seven seats.

The most active ones will be deployed to get the unreliable voters--whether MyBO members or not--to the polls.

The governor has enjoyed a huge surge in the polls in the wake of the last week's convention.

So far in Kentucky, the polls show a close race between Mr Fletcher and Mrs Northup.

In 1984 Geraldine Ferraro at first achieved a bump in the polls for her running mate, Walter Mondale.

Some political experts believe that McCain's attacks on Obama's tax plan may be narrowing Obama's lead in the polls.

Confidence that the polls will change anything for the better is draining away.

The words were brave, but I was dropping in the polls like a rock in a well.

Thus any feeling that an American politician is too "European" in his outlook can cost him at the polls.

He is among what polls say is an unprecedented number of Israelis who, just hours before the polls open, are still undecided.

Senator McCain also campaigned in Ohio, and he focused on the economy, which the polls show is the number-one issue in the election.

He has long trailed in the polls, but the gap appears to be narrowing, giving his government a fighting chance of re-election.

In Latin America's democracies presidential relatives benefit, in part, simply from name recognition at the polls.

And survey after survey shows that conservatives are far more enthusiastic about going to the polls.

These reforms would pave the way to a return to the polls, in a country which will, hopefully, be less worried about its future.

However, questions were asked about how 40m Iranian votes had been counted and the results announced so soon after the polls closed.

With the U. S. unemployment rate at a lofty 9. 6 percent, a tough stance on China could play well at the polls.

On Super Tuesday, the polls on the Democratic side were wrong in California, Missouri, Massachusetts, Georgia and Alabama.

The Democrat Party trailed in the polls and struggled to convince voters that it could revive a slowing economy.

If the polls are reflective of what happens today, they'll proudly display this on their vanity shelf.

All three are hoping for a good showing on Tuesday, when voters in almost half the U. S. states will go to the polls.

Democrats hope the presence of such initiatives on the ballot will lure their supporters to the polls.

Speaking from a polling booth in Abuja, Corzine said it was too soon to draw any conclusions about the quality of the polls.

Female political candidates, for instance, tend to fare better in surveys about their appearances than at the polls.

And uh, the election? I guess, people are saying now that it's a foregone conclusion. I guess the polls indicate. . .

Obama heads into the election campaign with a slight lead in the polls.

Plowing's all done. Now, to the polls! -Ooh! I almost forgot! That hay must be put in the hay loft!

His campaign suffered from fundraising and organizational problems, and he lagged in the polls in throughout summer of 2007. But Sen.

The new leader will have his work cut out to avoid a drubbing at the polls.

Both candidates made a final push for votes Tuesday, almost until the polls closed.

Obama surged in the polls amid a national financial crisis, campaigning as the candidate of change.

In Florida, the polls say Mr Rubio would beat Kendrick Meek, the likely Democratic candidate, by nearly ten percentage points.

The campaigns have dispatched volunteers and paid canvassers to push supporters to the polls ahead of election day.

The NLD overwhelmingly won at the polls in 1990, which presumably would have made Suu Kyi the nation's Prime Minister.

Back in 2008, the polls suggested that his promise to improve America's standing in the world swayed many voters.

As for the recession: until Mrs Thatcher, unemployment and standing in the polls seemed more or less to correlate.

Instead, Mr. Huntsman will vie for the New Hampshire primary, where he believes independent voters will flood the polls for him.

His ruling party claimed to have won 57 percent of the vote, but the opposition boycotted the polls.

After the polls close, no ballots, proxies or votes nor any revocations or changes thereto may be accepted.

The same goes for Virginia and Ohio, states where the polls have predicted a down-to-the-wire race.

Voters in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin are at the polls in that state's primary.

Turnout has been steady across the state, with a big jump in participation in the late hours before the polls close.

And don't forget, folks - when you goes to the polls today, a vote for Popeye means free ice cream for all the kiddies!

As Election Day approaches, canvassers from both parties will be making an intense effort to get their voters to the polls.

Alejandro Toledo, the president in 2001-06, led the polls with 28% six weeks ago, but took just over half as much in the election.

But if the polls are any indicator, the new president best be prepared for tough negotiations during his long stay.

When someone read him the latest news about Davis, the polls and Palin's tepid reception at the UN, he wants to change the subject.

One finding that stands out in the polls is that most Americans distrust government strongly.

And it may be at the polls where the reasons for "going green" matter most.

Many voters arose before dawn to make it to the polls.

Europe goes to the polls next week as the continent fights the world's first global financial recession.

If you look at the polls, the American public would like more domestic production here at home.

The issue has helped Obama pull ahead of his rival in the polls.

I was still more than twenty points ahead of my opponent, Frank White, in the polls, so how could I be hurt?

The polls were one of the world's most complex ever and Sudan's first multi-party elections in 24 years.

When the polls bounced she called an early election. But as the campaign's second week closed she stumbled.

The prime minister's men are tracking the polls carefully, and are encouraged by recent by-election victories.

The polls are closed, the votes are counted, and we know who will be the next president of Venezuela.

In addition, the candidate China is widely believed to prefer, Ma Ying-jeou of the Nationalists, has had a commanding lead in the polls.

Morgan Tsvangirai claims he beat President Robert Mugabe at the polls earlier this month.

It broke off from Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) to contest the election. The NLD boycotted the polls.

Yet if the election were held today, the polls say he would lose.

But occasionally politics demands leadership that rises above the polls.

Thousands are heading to the polls, expressing hope that elections will bring freedom and the stability they have long waited for.

Most pundits expected them to be trounced at the polls.

XOOPS keeps a list of the polls published in a site even if they've expired.

"The part I" m looking forward to most is the part where it energised our campaign and her selection put us ahead in the polls.

But a month later, with 25 days before Americans go to the polls, no one is playing down the severity of US economic woes.

Others in his party are desperate to avoid losses at the polls.

If elections were held today, the polls suggest the SPD and the surging Greens would oust it from government (see chart).

But as a public-relations exercise the polls make the movement look democratic and efficient.

Today, the conservative movement is not just reeling after a loss at the polls.

Residents say they had threatened to boycott the ballot if police were sent in during the polls.

Tribal sheikhs there accused incumbent Sunni politicians of rigging the polls.

His opponent, Jim Webb, who had been trailing in the polls, won a close election and the Democrats now control the Senate by a 51-49 margin.

This page provides a detailed listing of all the polls, plus a link to the creation, drop, and vote tools.

The first lady has enjoyed a steady positive approval rating over the past four years, even at times when her husband sank in the polls.

But something tectonic has shifted. The party ahead in the polls is promising cuts.

I haven't been paying much attention to the polls out on the Coast.

There was a huge turnout, election officials in Venezuela say more than 80% of voters went to the polls.

The upshot of all this is a dramatic decline in the polls for both the governing parties and the DPP.

The Umma party, the strongest northern opposition group, boycotted the polls.

According to the polls, over 60% of the public does not support any political party.

True, he was surging in the polls, but should they take his chances of becoming president seriously?

Its powerful left-wing parties campaigned against liberalization and got their worst drubbing at the polls in 40 years.

Clinton is favored in Sunday's vote in Puerto Rico, while Obama has an edge in the polls in Montana and South Dakota.

THE Republican Party has already begun an inquest into what it expects will be a heavy defeat at the polls this week.

The VVD, which has never before led a Dutch government, finds itself top of the polls, with 25% support.

Kenyans are set to go to the polls anytime this year or by March of next year. The exact date is still not set.

At "Famous Amos's barbing salon" and the "Failed State business center" , patrons discuss the polls.

History indicates that a bad performance, particularly a telling gaffe, can badly damage a candidate in the polls.

Indeed, even before a single vote was cast, the polls were hampered by a host of roadblocks.

His government was already losing ground in the polls after a scandal over public-works contracts.

The polls were carried out by Gallup between the beginning of 2008 and the end of 2010.

Judging by the polls, such efforts are likely to fall flat.

His support has been slipping, and he hopes this bus tour will help him rebound in the polls.

In Texas, Democrats vote first at the polls and then, if they choose, again at caucuses after the polls close.

In the polls the Socialists are 16 points behind the conservative opposition People's Party (PP) of Mariano Rajoy.

Israelis went to the polls in a tight parliamentary election whose outcome could determine the course of Mideast peace.

But the initiative would have passed, barely, even if not a single African-American had shown up at the polls.

Despite long delays caused by new automated voting machines, millions of Filipinos have headed to the polls to choose a new president.

Hillary Clinton won, even though the polls had given Obama big leads.

Nowhere is such cynicism more apposite than in military-ruled Myanmar, formerly Burma, which goes to the polls on November 7th.

The Congress party's ruling coalition had won an emphatic victory at the polls.

More striking is the FDP's tumble, from 14. 6% of the vote last September to less than 7% in the polls now.

The main reason it is in the news is that the state goes to the polls early next year.

Bulgaria's leaders, meanwhile, hope the discovery will lead to a miracle in the polls.

Obama is planning a major address in Saint Paul, Minnesota, shortly before the polls close later tonight.

Otherwise Mr Harper may choose to send Canadians to the polls this autumn, for the fourth time in seven years.

Cynics think Mr Bayh was also worried about being beaten in November (though he was ahead in the polls).

Voters in Pakistan are set to go to the polls Monday in elections for the lower house of parliament and the four provincial assemblies.

And the more used Democratic activists feel, the less likely they are to rush to the polls to castigate the Republicans.

The polls showed Buchanan hadn't helped Bush, but I disagreed.

It has also named a 16-member independent commission to oversee the polls.

Now, just remember your old pal, Bluto, at the polls today, fellers! And take an extra cigar for each and every vote you give me. Yes, sir!

The likeable former pizza mogul faded in the polls when it emerged that a succession of women had accused him of sexual harassment.

Labour Party is running neck and neck with the Conservative Party in the polls.

So why are the polls saying the upstart might replace him?

He added that the polls reflect only the opinions of people who choose to take part.

IRAQ'S Kurds go to the polls on Saturday July 25th to vote for a regional assembly and a president.

If so, it first inserts a new record into the polls table and gets back its unique ID.

It may be that the polls, for the first time since 1974, produce no outright winner.

The polls, for what they are worth, are tight, showing Mr McCain in a tie with Mr Romney .

The polls portend heavy losses for the Democrats, who currently enjoy a 39-seat majority there.

Kenyans headed to the polls Wednesday to approve a new constitution.

Victory in the end came as easily as the polls had predicted. -- The Guardian, UK.

BRITAIN goes to the polls on Thursday May 6th for what should be the closest election in many years.

Concede e. G. The losing candidate conceded at midnight after the polls had closed.

Turning from ratings in the polls to actual performance in elections.

Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will head to the polls to elect governors.

This week he dissolved parliament ahead of the polls.

One day after rallying as Americans went to the polls, stocks dropped amid more evidence that the economy is stumbling badly.

The polls, too, have given evidence of disgust with the old ways.

According to the polls, Americans are more willing to tolerate the use of torture than are Chinese.

Labour is running neck and neck with the Conservative Party in the polls.

Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, is doing well in the polls.

In the weeks before the Democratic national convention, the polls put Obama and McCain head to head.

There is, however, another way in which Mr Gingrich's high standing in the polls is improbable.

An Islamist party, Nahda, has won a handsome victory at the polls.

Both of the candidates are close together in the polls .

The losing candidate conceded at midnight after the polls had closed.

For most of this year, the polls have suggested her block would win some 95 seats to the ruling coalition's 80.

According to the polls, the National Action Party is hovering just above the 10 percent threshold required to enter parliament.

the polls suggest it could fall to third place, behind Fine Gael and the Labour Party.

If the polls are right, however, trust is dwindling anyway.

It may be the polls for the first time since 1974 , produce no outright winner .

The ruling party insists the polls were transparent and fair with nearly 700 candidates competing for the 125 seats.

Until the polls close and the final votes are tallied , nothing is certain in Campaign 2008.

Anti-choicers in South Dakota tried to ban abortion in 2006, but the non-misogynist population turned up at the polls and beat the ban back.

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They suspected monkey business at the polls.