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• What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.

  Rick Warren

  Advice, Determined, Popularity

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• Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party. Conservative movement and tea party movement... People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man!'” Garofalo hypothesized. “Look he’s polling well and won a straw poll!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Stupid, Party, Gay

  "Janeane Garofalo To Keith Olbermann: ‘Herman Cain Hides The Racist Elements Of The Republican Party’" by James Crugnale, www.mediaite.com. September 29, 2011.

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• In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Children, Thinking, Two

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• 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 disillusioned, they're thinking about moving back to Mexico.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Believe, Moving

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• 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 put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Lane Evans

  Cutting, Issues, Names

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• Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

  James D. Watson

  Religious, Technology, Cells

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• 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 both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

  Jay Roach

  Editors, Track, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Rain, Aggravation, Hours

  "History in the Making: Dems Force Debate on Ohio Voting Irregularities". www.democracynow.org. January 7, 2005.

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• The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

  Heather Wilson

  Matter, Election, Happens

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• Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

  Alan Dundes

  Taken, Past, Trying

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• The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.

  Donna M. Loring

  Kids, Playing Games, Law

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• A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

  David Rolf

  Political, Support, Minimum Wage

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was "the Brexit Effect." I think there's a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn't any question about it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Thinking, People

  "The Old Rules Don’t Apply to Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 24, 2016.

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• You know, trust in the press, polls show - from Pew and other places - have gone down significantly over the years. Maybe the press doesn't have that much ability to frame people's decisions.

  David Folkenflik

  Years, People, Decision

  "What Is - Or Should Be - Media's Role In Donald Trump's Rise?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 2, 2016.

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• You need to identify the values that come out of that kind of belief system, because I don't see them. All the polls I look at say, for example, that adultery is committed as much in the Bible Belt as in any other part of the country. The same goes for abortion, child abuse, spouse abuse or murder.

  John Shelby Spong

  Country, Children, Abortion

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I'm a counterpuncher. I don't have a choice. If you look what they say about me, it's terrible. I mean, they say terrible things about me. Bobby Jindal - I mean, you talk about lightweights, this guy is a real lightweight. And he hit me - I don't even know this man - and he hit me because - and they're not hitting me on fact. They're hitting me in order to try to pick up something in their polls.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Mean, Men

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

  Noam Chomsky

  Acceptance, Government, Rejection

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• The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, Democracy

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• There's a big difference between poll workers and pole workers. Sadly.

  Dana Gould

  Differences, Bigs, Workers

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• Ted Cruz who`s been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump`s plan saying simply it is not his policy.

  Chris Hayes

  Iowa, Would Be, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at the opinion polls, those sentiments are now quite widespread also in continental Europe.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Running, Europe, People

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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• Brexit suggests that there IS some level of non-vocal group who supports positions like those espoused by [Donald]Trump that polls are missing.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Support, Missing, Groups

  "The Fix Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Junuary 24, 2016.

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• What happened in Ukraine? The coup d'état in Ukraine has led to a civil war, because, yes, let's say, many Ukrainians no longer trusted President Yanukovych. However, they should have legitimately come to the polls and voted for another head of state instead of staging a coup d'état. And after the coup d'état took place, someone supported it, someone was satisfied with it, while others were not. And those who did not like it were treated from the position of force. And that led to a civil war.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Should Have, Ukraine

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• I don`t understand why President [Enrique] Pena has offered this opportunity. I think it`s nothing more than a political stunt. Trump is using Mexico, is using President Pena to boost his sinking poll numbers.

  Vicente Fox

  Opportunity, Thinking, Numbers

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews, Transcript". www.msnbc.com. August 31, 2016.

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• German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who's been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state.

  Rachel Martin

  Home, Careers, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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