That it struggled to hold a parliamentary seat against an absent opponent bodes ill for a general poll.
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The March 4 election was the first general poll since the disputed election.
The March vote will be the first general poll since violence left hundreds dead after a disputed election in 2008.
The last general election poll of polls -- released May 15 -- showed Obama leading McCain by five points (48 percent to 43 percent) and Clinton leading McCain by four points (48 percent to 44 percent).
In CNN's national general election "Poll of Polls" released Wednesday afternoon, Obama was leading McCain, 50 percent to 42 percent, with eight percent unsure.
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In a CNN general election national poll of polls out Wednesday, both Obama and Clinton lead McCain by two points: 46 percent to 44 percent.
In mid-December Prakash Karat, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)--the largest element in the Left Front issued an ultimatum to the government demanding that it withdraw from negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency by the end of December or face an early general election (a poll is not due until May 2009).
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Toward the end of his four-year stint as surgeon general, in an informal poll that I conducted, only five of 60 experts in public health and public policy could identify the current surgeon general, even when offered a multiple-choice format.
The poll echoes what this General Manager is experiencing, large numbers of qualified prospects disengage then return some time later to buy.
The poll showed Giuliani receiving 47 percent of votes in the hypothetical general-election matchup with Clinton, who scored 46 points -- a statistical dead heat given the poll's 2.5 percent margin of error.
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Whereas the Socialists took 34% of the vote in Wallonia at the last general election in May 1995, an opinion poll in June this year found support for them had fallen by half to a mere 17% putting them level with the Greens, and well behind the liberals.
The legislation limits the prime minister's power to call an early general election, setting the date of the next poll as 7 May 2015.
But a recent Marist poll puts Kennedy tied with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as among the top picks to replace Clinton.
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In an appearance before the NAACP in Houston, the attorney general likened the voter ID law in Texas to a poll tax, the fees once imposed across much of the South that made it impossible for many African Americans to vote.
Christine Blower, the NUT's general secretary, said Mr Gove could soon face his "poll tax moment".
The party secured 47% of the vote at the 1995 poll, a result which eclipses even their 1997 general election landslide.
Harry Wilson, the Republican candidate for comptroller, and Dan Donovan, the Republican candidate for attorney general, were tied with their Democratic rivals in a recent poll.
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According to the first big poll on the issue carried out in Chile since General Pinochet's arrest in London, almost two-thirds of respondents believe that he did indeed commit crimes during his 17-year dictatorship.
Over lunch in Matara a few days before the poll Mr Rajapaksa accurately described this, while admitting that General Fonseka's campaign had struck fear into his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).
In an interview with the BBC's Glenn Campbell, the one-time United Nations deputy secretary general said people in Scotland would face a choice at the autumn 2014 poll that could have a lot of ramifications.
This fear probably exaggerates their options: given their dismal poll ratings, the Lib Dems have no interest in provoking a general election any time soon.
Both the Florida poll, conducted from Sept. 11-12, and the Ohio poll, conducted Sept. 13-15, surveyed 600 likely general election voters in each state and have a margin of error of 4 percent.
Mr Cameron earlier brushed aside suggestions his party was not building up the sort of opinion poll lead it will need to be confident of victory at the next general election.
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Mr Cameron said a poll would be held if the Conservatives were returned to power at the next general election, which is expected in 2015.
The poll also suggests that voters overwhelmingly want the prime minister to press ahead with the general election on 7 June.
Harris polls conducted for the National Council on the Aging last year found that 73% of those questioned generally opposed reductions in COLAS.Those responding to a March Gallup poll, however, voted narrowly in favor of lower COLAS as part of a general hold-down on federal spending, 48% to 44%.
Since the mid-1980s, the MQM has won every poll it has contested in Karachi and it did so again in last Saturday's general election.
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The big-ticket U.S. Senate battle in Connecticut between Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Richard Blumenthal is the most expensive in the country, though the latest poll from Quinnipiac University released Monday gives Mr. Blumenthal, the state's attorney general, a nine-percentage-point lead.
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In the weeks after last month's general election, the leader of the Czechs' main left-wing party, which won the poll, and the leader of the main right-wing one, which came second, both failed to gather up enough allies to form a government.
The film topped a poll of cinema-goers at January's festival in Tehran, and is now on general release.
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