Polls Quotes - Page 2

• There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

  Michael Howard

  Election, Opinion, Election Day

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• America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

  Christine Pelosi

  Math, America, Males

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

  Lucy Powell

  Numbers, Mps, Trends

  "Despite Sarah Palin, the glass ceiling for women in politics remains" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

  Marco Rubio

  Leadership, Years, Perspective

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• Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

  John Podhoretz

  People, May, Desperate

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• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  Nancy Reagan

  Cells, People, Research

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• In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Country, Facts, Spite

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

  John Podhoretz

  Winning, Thinking, Political

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• Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

  Dennis Prager

  Persons, Left

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• The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Firsts, Exit, Disappointing

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• You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

  Rand Paul

  Looks, Term Limits, Republican

  "Rand Paul on 'Tea Party Tidal Wave'". Interview with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2010.

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• Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

  Al Sharpton

  Guy, Bills, Kind

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• For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS.com, it's a company called Rasmussen Reports. We poll thousands and thousands of people for each question, a real cross section of the United States.

  Drew Carey

  Real, People, United States

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• A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Believe, Abortion

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• I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Two

  Dick Cheney during Vice-Presidential Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

  Dick Cheney

  Want, Driven, Asks

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• You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

  Chris Christie

  Numbers, Teeth, Alternatives

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• Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

  Ron Fournier

  Summer, Forgotten, Rating

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• I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Odds, Looks

  "Gingrich's Unconventional White House Bid: A Retrospective". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Winning, Games

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• I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

  Jeb Bush

  Decision, Political, Term

  "'Hannity' Great American Forum: Jeb Bush". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2011.

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• The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

  Ed Koch

  People, Four, Firsts

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• Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Couple, Worry, Election

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• When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Tendencies, Disregard

  "The Emotional Poll Roller Coaster". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

  John M. McHugh

  Years, People, Voting

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