Straw polls are kind of like political junk food.

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Straw polls are notoriously overrated.

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Opinion polls are hard to come by, but a straw poll of 28 people in and around Port-au-Prince this week revealed that, while most knew there were elections due, only seven knew which month, and just five knew what kind they would be.

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He came in second in a straw poll this weekend at the Values Voters Summit and he's running third in several Iowa polls.

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And I think for some people this financial crisis is basically the last straw, that we know people want change, we've been seeing that in all the polls.

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