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    1. Any change of heart now would drive their poll ratings into the floor


    2. would drive their poll ratings into the floor


    3. A poll tax upon slaves is altogether different from a poll-tax upon freemen


    4. After all, I recall seeing a recent poll that gave Donald Trump 68% to Obama"s 13


    5. Thus, the results of a recent poll conclude that only 16% of voters believe that congressional incumbents should be re-elected


    6. Besides, the issue went away with the Thirteenth Amendment and the abolition of slavery…except for the poll taxes and other shenanigans promoted mainly by one of our political parties


    7. Enron scandal of 2002 had prompted Time magazine to call for an opinion poll


    8. “This is a push poll!” Orb announced


    9. grow long; they shall only poll their heads


    10. [Selected “Readers Favorite” in a poll at the launch party for The Classic Rockers Reunion of Death]

    11. He returned to his kingdom and began to poll everyone: the princess, the priests, the wise men, and even the court jester


    12. Yet the 2009 Gallup poll annual survey showed that when asked whether they considered themselves liberal or conservative, 40% said conservative, 35% said moderate, and only from 17-20% said liberal


    13. Twitter does not have built-in tools that you can use to create a poll to, but you can create a poll using a web-based tool such as Twtpoll (www


    14. You can also share the poll results on Twitter


    15. God help the student who was both! The last brick in the wall for my case was the straw poll for the 1968 presidential election held after McCarthy and RFK spoke in Greene Lounge


    16. A Gallup Poll said that Christians in the United


    17. The Gallup Organization took a poll in 2000 asking this question: “Please tell us how you would rate the honesty and ethical standards of people in these different fields?”


    18. same poll asked readers if they thought the first question was


    19. But the poll was never released because the governor of California stepped in and calmed the protesters by opening a nudist beach in Northern California


    20. This time, Lanai decided to join Clarity in her quest to reveal the poll, and Cynthia and Taimi stayed in the car

    21. All four main television networks ran morning news specials covering the poll, the hippie activity which led the mayor to poll Malibu residents, and most importantly, the reasons of the mayor for not revealing the poll to the public


    22. The mayor of Malibu issued a brief statement around seven thirty apologizing for the delay in revealing the results of the poll but denying any wrongdoing


    23. And now, with this scandal about the secret poll, much less


    24. Given the sensitive nature of the poll on naturism in public performed several months ago in the city of Malibu and the importance of the decisions which will stem from any implementation of resulting laws, I believe that this matter affects not only the city of Malibu but the state of California as a whole


    25. To hide his poll or dye it of a mentionable shade;


    26. Bill’s protégé had moved through the ranks just one step behind him all the way up the greasy corporate poll


    27. Now that would be a poll worth reading although I’m


    28. Their leader, a burly scouse thug called Derek Weatherall, but who had changed his name by deed poll to Jack Mosley, admitted to the shootings and the car bomb as soon as he was collared


    29. We have composites posted on every telephone poll in the city


    30. A new Gallup Poll a few years ago said the following and shows how the plight of religion attendance is shrinking in this country

    31. Another Gallup News Service poll recently shed some light on a new finding and this will not be a shock to a lot of people


    32. Citrin says,”the poll found that an employee’s job satisfaction is the key determinant of their happiness and their effectiveness inside that organization


    33. on every telephone poll, television, the internet, and in post


    34. There was a tall individual in the boat with a long poll


    35. The ferryman lifted his poll towards James


    36. Do they ever have a “gallop poll” at the racetrack?


    37. It is from a poll:


    38. In 1954 he was New Star of the Year in the Down Beat poll and was inducted into their Jazz Hall of Fame in 1972


    39. This indicates that you can assemble a poll in order to show anything you want


    40. Once manipulation is a part of the process, one wonders what the sense of the poll is anyway

    41. Another is the presidential election exit poll, which asks few questions that no one would probably avoid


    42. We invite you, the GNN listeners, to participate in an electronic instant poll, the results of which will be published on our evening news program today at 22:00 hours, universal time


    43. If your own evening poll turns out in favor of the Time Patrol, then the government may have no choice but to run a snap global election for the position of Global Chief Administrator


    44. Where is the accounting of their revelations? I would recommend organized religions to poll their people for revelation, to correlate the results, to prioritize the lessons learned, and then publish the results and adopt them as their best guess as to God’s will for their flock, while humbly respecting others who have separate beliefs that do not interfere with the operations WITHIN their faith


    45. Maybe every 6 months voters could list their preferences in a computer poll where the voter’s voting address and access key are only known to him


    46. Then poll results could be published so that every address showed the vote made by the authorized voter for that address, each voter getting a separate access code and voter address to cast his vote (see Appendix 1 section 13)


    47. One of his attorneys went to a rural poll site and “borrowed” the register and wrote in a couple hundred false entries of non-existent Hispanic voters


    48. The poll workers suddenly disappeared (forever) and the poll register was lost in a fire when voting authorities went to see it again on an investigation


    49. This book covers the disappearance of 3 poll volunteers who witnessed a change in the books at one polling site that threw the election to Johnson in the ’48 Democratic primary for the senate


    50. He knew the attorney who cooked the books, and later when the heat was turned up the book was burnt and the poll workers were never found














































    1. 26 And when he polled his head, for it was at every year's end that he polled it, because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he


    2. polled it, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight


    3. In 1932, Norman Thomas, running on the socialist ticket, polled more


    4. group found 76 per cent of those polled agreed that such festivals should be banned,


    5. Mortimer Feinberg, president of BFS Psychological Associates, polled thirty corporate presidents and board chairmen, he found interesting facts about motivations, habits and actions of the American corporate hierarchy


    6. This up from 70%, from last year when people were polled


    7. Rather than having a representative who never represents his electorate in the exact ratios on every issue, for lack of knowledge of these details or by choice, why not have the preferences of the electorate known on a regularly polled basis


    8. polled had a negative perception of the Maynwarings in the aftermath


    9. polled sample of citizens favored improvements in Carson City


    10. Out of the 282 seats that the BJP won, in 137 it secured more than half of the total votes polled; moreover, in 169 seats the party’s vote share was greater than the vote shares of parties that finished second, third and fourth put together

    11. In six states, the BJP secured more than half of the total votes polled


    12. 66 per cent of the total votes polled, hence losing their security deposit


    13. Out of the 432 seats which AAP contested, in 414 the party’s candidates secured less than one-sixth of the total votes polled, hence losing their security deposit


    14. AAP candidates secured less than one per cent of the total votes polled in as many as 265 seats


    15. Of those polled, 70% said it hadn’t


    16. When Barbara polled the women of THE VIEW if they


    17. How many of those polled expressing approval of a man who for over twenty years has slipped and slid his way out of dirty situations with word games, would allow the Pope the same leeway in his publicly-demonstrated moral standards? Non-Catholics, at least, would be shocked and outraged if he acted the same way, making no allowances whatsoever for all the "good" he supposedly does in between lapses of holiness


    18. “4tune recently pulsed polled the Wii on its Non gamershow, Weal of 4tune, where one out of forty million competitors still gets a chance to win immortality by capturing the consciousness of their virtreal mortal co-gamers for safari-inloading, the question: 'IT's preference? Nizi's or Nagger's?' So, IT, what is IT's repulse?”


    19. Science is data driven and ethic as socio-demographic would be reduced to a normalcy mean – “R-World has been polled and psychalized and the global majority feel x is a”, e


    20. Though many of them were stranger to each other, if they had polled themselves, they would've realized the stranger was the only one none of them knew

    21. Polled: To cut hair from the head


    22. It stated that 66 percent of those polled would favor bombing and blockading North Vietnam for six months


    23. And by that way wend the herds innumerable of bellwethers and flushed ewes and shearling rams and lambs and stubble geese and medium steers and roaring mares and polled calves and longwoods and storesheep and Cuffe's prime springers and culls and sowpigs and baconhogs and the various different varieties of highly distinguished swine and Angus heifers and polly bulllocks of immaculate pedigree together with prime premiated milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling, cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, rumbling, grunting, champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of Lusk and Rush and Carrickmines and from the streamy vales of Thomond, from the M'Gillicuddy's reeks the inaccessible and lordly Shannon the unfathomable, and from the gentle declivities of the place of the race of Kiar, their udders distended with superabundance of milk and butts of butter and rennets of cheese and farmer's firkins and targets of lamb and crannocks of corn and oblong eggs in great hundreds, various in size, the agate with this dun


    24. They make it easy to be a contrarian by, say, turning bullish when 50 percent or more of those polled express bearish views


    25. Contrary to the popular conception, odd lotters seemed to act more rationally than the investment advisers polled nowadays by Investors Intelligence: They grew more bullish as prices dropped and less bullish as they advanced!


    26. Broyles’s request that the jury be polled was a demand, and the judge complied


    27. A group of economists polled by the Brazilian government predicted Brazil’s GDP would grow by 1


    28. Institutional investors in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s global fund manager survey are polled on the equity risk premium they use to assess equity valuations


    29. Ivo Welch has polled hundreds of finance professors about their view on the equity premium on four occasions: 1997–1998, August 2001, December 2007, and January 2009


    1. The first election to be held in conjunction with State and local polling, and Committee members shall be required to serve terms of two years


    2. Before too long all the submissions were gathered up and she dismissed the meeting with the promise to provide the results of the polling two days hence when they met again


    3. The turnout of voters was very large, most polling places had lines all day long


    4. The people who work at the polling places are mostly older people they were complaining a lot about how much work they were doing and for very little pay


    5. But what was even more vicious than violence at polling stations was the new phenomenon of racist lynchings


    6. He felt confident, from internal polling, that sixty-three percent of Queenslanders were happy with his boys and girls in blue


    7. Every now and again they would throw the same handful again! Couple this with biased polling and bogus voting, and you could go a long way toward creating the “reality” of


    8. A total of 150 drivers were stopped at the site, located about 2 miles from the polling precinct and 18 warnings were issued, a dozen to white motorists


    9. There was a recent article by Jim Citrin, on Yahoo Finance website, that stated that the Gallup polling organization compiled after doing a workplace interviews


    10. Some combination of their access code and address with their intended vote on a piece of paper would be their proof of the change needed to fix that vote in the tally for a regular polling and elections

    11. This book covers the disappearance of 3 poll volunteers who witnessed a change in the books at one polling site that threw the election to Johnson in the ’48 Democratic primary for the senate


    12. You see, it was polling day and the police


    13. A central station would pick 6 letter voter identification codes in a shuffle and remove process, that would not allow the code to be chosen again, and store these, each with another randomly chosen letter sequence for access, in a buffer for distribution to Hub stations, and eventually down to the polling station


    14. on polling figures for the following year’s elections—local, state, and


    15. The BJP’s treasurer Piyush Goyal had commissioned the leading global market research and polling agency, Penn Schoen Berland, to do a nationwide survey ahead of the December 2013 assembly elections


    16. Campaigning had ended in 121 seats in twelve states, but Modi knew the interview would be carried across all the channels which subscribed to the agency just ahead of the polling


    17. When Tamil Nadu was going to the polls, he spoke to Tamil channels; when Bengal was going to elections, the preference was for regional Bengali channels; and when his home state of Gujarat was polling, Gujarati news channels were targeted


    18. By holding up the election symbol designed to look exactly the way it looked on the EVM (in black and white and not saffron) and by associating his face with it (for those voters keen to vote for Modi, if not the BJP), Modi had put into the public space an image both viral-worthy and politically communicative (in fact, Modi would use the black-and-white lotus symbol as a lapel on his kurta in all public interactions from 7 April 2014, the first day of polling, if only to reinforce the party’s logo in the eyes of potential voters)


    19. The manifesto release coincided with the first day of polling when parts of the north-east, including Assam, were voting


    20. It was a really big polling day—117 seats were polling across twelve states

    21. Did a live roadshow of Modi in Varanasi while polling was on in other places constitute an election law violation? It was an open question


    22. Or from meeting Tamil superstar Rajinikanth in April 2014, just ahead of polling in the state


    23. The 24th of April happened to be the sixth phase of polling, with 117 seats at stake across twelve states and union territories


    24. Central UP, too, was polling that day, apart from the whole of Tamil Nadu, Mumbai and parts of Rajasthan, MP and Bihar


    25. Prannoy and Dorab took polling seriously and had developed the concept of Index of Opposition Unity (IOU) as a statistical measure


    26. ‘Whether out of fear or bravado, people sometimes can tell a lie outside a polling booth as to who they have voted for—they are less likely to do so in their homes,’ was Yogendra’s logic


    27. Number of polling stations: 12 Fixed, 7 Mobile


    28. morning so that they could be first in line at my polling place;


    29. Behind her, a markerboard held a running tally of total number of voters going through each polling station


    30. While we were at the polling booth, I observed that the box in which we cast our votes resembles the ones brought into our premises earlier in the morning, stuffed with something like white papers, the type we used in casting our votes, and carried away with waiting buses

    31. One after another, Carton rammed home the facts of the case, the fraudulent registration and voting, the use of the names of dead men to pad the polling lists, the bribery of election officials at the primaries--the whole sordid, debasing story of how Dopey Jack had intimidated and swung one entire district


    32. In a very patriotic address to the nation, Mr Papandreou warned; “I beg you to make the right decision at the polling station in a few weeks’ time


    33. The former World War II navy pilot and his wife have allowed their house to be used as a polling place for more than two decades, and it is here that the Reagans will cast their ballots


    34. He cast his ballot at the Wealthy Elementary School polling place at 7:33 a


    35. A hurried meeting of the Liberal Three Hundred was held, and a deputation sent to London to find a candidate but as there was only a week before polling day they were unsuccessful in their mission


    36. Monday was the last day of the election - polling day - and in consequence of the number of motor cars that were flying about, the streets were hardly safe for ordinary traffic


    37. Cohen, began a weekly polling of newsletter writers and other investment advisers about their current stock market views


    38. • Duration/ID (2 bytes) In control frames used for power-save polling, this field contains the association identity (AID) of the station transmitting the frame


    39. • Transmit Active Monitor Present frames Every seven seconds, the active monitor (AM) transmitted an Active Monitor Present MAC frame that initiated the ring polling process


    40. • Monitor ring polling The AM had to receive either an Active Monitor Present or Standby Monitor Present frame from the node immediately upstream of it within seven seconds of initiating a ring polling procedure

    41. If the required frame did not arrive, the AM recorded a ring polling error


    42. Ring Polling Ring polling was the process by which each node on a Token Ring network identified its nearest active upstream neighbor (NAUN)


    43. Group polling where any member can pose a poll to the community is another feature that members requested and got


    44. It is as if the marketplace were continuously polling all the participants to come up with a consensus volatility for the underlying contract for each expiration


    45. One problem is that the app uses polling to detect when money has arrived


    46. Polling constantly checks the status of Bitcoin Core by interrogating the software every five seconds


    47. Automating Bitcoin Core with JSON-PRC is a bit of a hack, and for this reason, we may run into limitations, such as needing to use inefficient polling


    48. Another survey (polling individual investors on what they consider respectable rates of return on their investments) documents even more extreme exuberance during the end of the tech boom: The Securities Industry Association’s annual survey reports that between 1999 and 2003, median, year-by-year “respectable” stock returns were 30%, 33%, 19%, 13%, and 10%


    49. IBD also has an extensive public polling operation, conducting monthly surveys on economic confidence, presidential leadership, and major national issues year-round and daily tracking polls in election years


    1. Within a few months we were famous, and opinion polls showed a positive change in attitudes towards the project


    2. The English speaking white South Africans were never supporters of Apartheid and also never constituted a threat for even a pooled English vote would not have stopped the Afrikaners at the polls


    3. The Civil Rights Act finally put an end to violence and intimidation at the polls


    4. This would be the result that several polls had indicated prior to the elections and as the absentee votes would prove that gave in fact a 13% victory to the Partido Popular over its opposition the PSOE


    5. According to polls, a great percentage of women, who in the past voted Democrat en mass, will vote for the president this time


    6. In addition, I do not believe that polls have considered the strength of the Evangelical Christians who this time have decided to vote, and will do it in defense of traditional values and against same sex marriages, embryonic research, abortion and the Democrat’s opposition to the selection of well qualified judges whom the president has submitted for senate confirmation”


    7. The most successful third party candidate since the Bull Moose Party in 1912, Perot at several points was leading in the polls


    8. His loss in the polls during that episode was roughly equal to the margin he lost the election by


    9. The election was, electorally, a landslide, with the polls almost never changing


    10. Let us look in more detail as to why, what those rankings in polls mean, and what other rankings of presidents by scholars and the public should reflect, but often do not

    11. A way to use this 1/3 analysis in today‘s world is to look at the polls attempting to show a President‘s Popularity


    12. Lincoln wasn’t guided by polls


    13. they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of


    14. When the Supreme Court invents new law there is no consideration by elected representatives, no open debate, no decision made in the light of day, no one to be held accountable at the polls


    15. In the ensuing weeks the theme of Kennedy’s lies, the charge that Judge Bork was morally insensitive and intellectually dishonest, newspaper and TV ads by left wing opponents, polls based on loaded questions, and similar attacks were driven into the public consciousness like jungle drums beating out the cry for blood


    16. Similar polls report virtually identical results


    17. Polls show that only approximately half of Tea Party people call themselves Republicans


    18. But how many, even of the twenty percent who identify themselves as liberals in national polls, really want to betray their country? The Tea Parties and those they inspire give hope that the alarm has sounded in time


    19. ” Putting aside that this is not a crisis of cultures, but rather a question of justice that must be meted out against a group of terrorists without borders, the fact remains that all the polls in the United States approve of Bush’s actions in this matter with more than 90%


    20. · Polls: People on Twitter like airing their opinions, and polls are a great way to allow your followers to do so

    21. 2 Take you the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;


    22. 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls


    23. 20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war;


    24. 22 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go out to war;


    25. showed up at the polls, including stationing police near the precincts to intimidate minority voters


    26. It has been shown in polls and surveys, that the American public,


    27. Is it any wonder that the current polls show that the people of the country holds the members of Congress in such low esteem? As stated previously by


    28. - the results of the surveys in the newspapers (web or written), the polls are


    29. government until the defeat of Japan, but the increasing popularity of the Labour Party in the polls caused it to insist on earlier elections


    30. The polls predicted it months before the election: Therefore, it was no surprise

    31. the century! He was still the most popular person on all the polls and they waited


    32. Polls favored, if you could call it that, Senator Wilbur Henry Rottenberger, the


    33. The popularity polls wavered


    34. was still way out front, but the polls also indicated the undecided were wavering


    35. In this group I will post links to current presentations I used in class, polls


    36. Clarity and the girls saw through progressive news briefs on television conducting public opinion polls that the letter had hit the publicś sentiment right on target


    37. By eight, the polls had closed and the vote finished


    38. Your readers can even leave comments or answer polls


    39. Have polls, message boards, interactive games, news items, guest books, item of the


    40. “The party will nominate Brendan and he’s been a great VP, but he will get absolutely clobbered in the polls

    41. The earth is at a higher elevation generally speaking at the equator, thus when the rain occurred it caused a rise in the water table and created glaciers in the extreme polls, which are not as elevated


    42. Polls in Israel have been showing for months that the Israeli electorate, while averse to a first strike on Iran if not supported by the United States, would be squarely in favor of a strike if assured of American support


    43. Polls are one type of study, sometimes related to health


    44. Over the last few years, these polls in the United States have been extremely reliable in determining the winner before all the votes are counted


    45. Bush and John Kerry, exit polls clearly indicated that Kerry was the winner


    46. However, the exit polls in this outcome may have indicated some finagling by higher ups to ensure four more years


    47. Whether you’re concerned with surveys, studies or polls, they all come down to the same scenario


    48. One may almost conclude that polls or surveys are worthless, since they prove nothing


    49. I used the idea in the beginning of my novel, in which the candidate who was behind in the polls just before the election eventually became the president – all on a lie


    50. Exit Polls, Election Fraud, And The Official Count by Steve F














































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    Synonyms for "poll"

    poll poll parrot crown pate canvass opinion poll public opinion poll pollard voting vote ballot roster panel consensus count tally survey tabulation canvas sample interview question list examine collect gather

    "poll" definitions

    an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people


    the top of the head


    the part of the head between the ears


    a tame parrot


    the counting of votes (as in an election)


    get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions


    vote in an election at a polling station


    get the votes of


    convert into a pollard