More likely, his aides would give him his latest public-opinion rating: 8.5% support last week.
We'll also learn which of the dozens of public-opinion polls were right and which ones were way off base.
Look at public-opinion polls, and you can see that the religious right is a balloon waiting to be pricked.
Arab and Muslim Americans are now routinely profiled in their places of employment, in housing, for public-opinion polls, and in the media.
More recently, the EPA has proposed the use of public-opinion surveys with hypothetical scenarios that boost the alleged benefits of its proposed regulation by nearly 14, 000%.
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Public-opinion samples indicate that, while many Americans are deeply worried about Iran, they recoil from the idea of undertaking any additional combat responsibilities and the associated losses.
Public-opinion surveys have shown that a queue is regarded as the least-worst way to deal with non-urgent cases given the finite resources of a publicly funded health service.
Whether this indicates a public-opinion tipping point is anyone's guess.
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Whereas only a decade ago public-opinion polls showed Americans opposing gay marriage by a two-to-one margin, new polls show that slightly more than half of Americans are in favor of it.
In Islamabad the British high commission noted a secret public-opinion survey of 2005 that showed that Mr Musharraf, the West's Pakistani ally against terrorism, would lose the next election to Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.
Some 86% of Americans surveyed believe that sex-selection abortion should be illegal, according to a 2006 Zogby poll. (The data is the latest available because the question is so rarely asked in public-opinion surveys.) It is, by far, the most-popular proposed limitation on abortion.
Microsoft moved quickly to appeal Judge Jackson's ruling--to Congress and to the court of public opinion--and it seemed to be working.
While Republicans don't want a repeat of last year's disaster aid battle -- which they lost in the court of public opinion -- they expressed frustration that "emergency spending" could eat away at the projected budget surplus.
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Twitter -- the closest thing to an instant barometer of public opinion -- exploded with reaction.
For over a decade the ecologically damaging aspects of flying have been acknowledged and publicized, and the airline industry -- partly of its own volition, partly under pressure from governments, green lobby groups and public opinion -- has taken significant steps to address the issue.
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It's a short-term win for public opinion against long-term damage to the environment.
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Officials will always leak, because leaks affect public opinion, and public opinion rules in a poll-saturated democracy.
Deibert noted, however, that the court of public opinion--primarily, shareholders and Wall Street--likely won't buy Yahoo!'
And if the players union had resisted, Selig could easily have rallied public opinion--and Congress--to his side.
The problem is that public opinion - particularly in Germany - has hardened against further aid for Greece or elsewhere.
Local elections are a major test of public opinion - but can they tell you who will win the next general election?
He said public opinion - often more in favour of custody - also had to be taken into account when dealing with individual cases.
But this time round the public, opinion-makers, members of parliament are better informed and they will not just line up behind another Brussels rescue package.
Clearly, Armstrong Williams is used to not being in the mainstream of African-American public opinion.
Some even say that the Perruche ruling has been misinterpreted, and that the government is legislating to supersede it under the pressure of an ill-informed public opinion.
It also, as a matter of record, for those who consume public opinion data -- I think most of you do -- has broad public support across the political spectrum.
Far more significant is the strategic message that in spite of the Baker-Hamilton report, and notwithstanding the growing pressure from public opinion and a Democrat-controlled Congress, this president will not in his remaining two years concede defeat and abandon Iraq to its fate.
He astutely read the tea-leaves of public opinion but had no grand vision.
His own deputies, fearful for their jobs at next year's parliamentary election, do not want another show-down with public opinion.
Pro-lifers bewailed this movement, but at least it was progressing democratically--and if public opinion had changed, the laws could have been reversed.
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