Polls Quotes

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Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the… — Bill Frist
I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks,… — Simon Hoggart
Iâ€™m searching for some exit poll data from California. Iâ€™ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the… — Dan Savage
A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times, — Andrew Denton
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that… — James L. Buckley
Youâ€™re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. Theyâ€™ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life… — Lee Kuan Yew
Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If… — Charlie Cook
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played… — John T. Flynn
Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their… — Mark Mazower
If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama… — Nate Silver
Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell… — Joost Meerloo
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet… — James Surowiecki
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. — Winston Churchill
These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly… — Jacques Delors
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in… — Herbert Turnbull
Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data. — Linda Chavez
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in… — Jay Roach
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters… — Lane Evans
According to the latest L.A. Times poll, 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. And 60% of Californians are so… — Jay Leno
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled. — Elizabeth Kolbert

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