"Like the poll tax, it is a big change being forced through too fast and, like the poll tax, there is not a consensus of support behind it, " he concluded.
So what does a poll like this actually tell you?
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It reads like a pastiche of ideas that poll well (especially in the Base).
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It is like a huge, real-time confidence poll of all things material.
It seems like every day now, a new Web poll asks readers whether they think the US Postal Service can survive, now that the magnitude of its financial hole is becoming more obvious to everybody.
To get the best answer I would suggest you to go to tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple and conduct a poll among software engineers to find out what they think about Facebook as a product.
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Half those interviewed in a poll published this week said they would like to leave, many saying they could not live any more with constant fear.
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Her public approval rating was 73 percent in a December poll by CNN and she'd like to keep it there.
' And now we take a poll every night and, you know, just like Fox, we have our own jury-rigged group of people that are being polled, but everybody screams in unison.
When a poll asked French teenagers which company they would most like to work for, the top three responses were not, as in the past, French state enterprises, but Apple, Microsoft and Google.
It works like this -- a voter comes to the polling place, the poll worker cannot find his or her name, but instead of sending the voter home or to a different polling station, the voter would be given a provisional ballot and allowed to vote right then and there.
Irrational Games has a poll asking fans which reversible cover for BioShock Infinite they like best.
Many Germans agree with his sentiments: around three out of four, according to a poll by the Allensbach market-research institute, would like to eat more food that is produced naturally.
With opinion-poll ratings like these, Mr Brown's Labour would seem a shoo-in at an early election.
Many in the centre of Italy's political spectrum would like Mr Monti to lead them to the polls, even though a recent opinion poll indicated that his approval rating has dived to just 35% from over 50%.
"I can never remember a run like this, " says Steven Greenberg, who runs the Siena College poll and has watched Albany politics for three decades.
Impossible's also looking into other handsets and currently has a poll on its Kickstarter page where you can vote for ones you'd like to see.
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But our poll question included only a straight up choice without pointing out any specific spending programs like infrastructure, school renovations, or alternative energy development.
It's silly to conclude that because one poll found 90% support for "background checks, " that translates into a like level of support for this particular piece of legislation.
In a March poll conducted by Angus Reid Strategies, 48 percent of those surveyed said they'd like the bulk of Canadian troops to be withdrawn before 2011.
According to a recent poll published by academics at Bahcesehir University, 43 percent of Turks said they would not like to live next door to American neighbors.
Compiled by PwC during the last three months of 2007, the poll suggests a "tale of two worlds", with business confidence slumping in developed economies like the United States and many European countries.
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