Bush learned of the poll as he was campaigning through New Hampshire on Wednesday.
While Mr Souter hailed the result as a "clear message to the executive", ministers attacked the poll as "flawed and undemocratic".
The pork-barrel king of Tipperary North, Michael Lowry, topped the poll as an independent although he was lately sacked as a minister, and from Fine Gael, in a cloud of sleaze.
The voting barriers that King and the civil rights movement battled in the 1960s had their historic origins in such 19th century measures as the Mississippi Plan of 1890, in which the state instituted the poll tax as well as the requirement that a voter be able to read or interpret any section of the new Mississippi State Constitution.
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The same order of top three finishers in the straw poll were the same order as the top three finishers in the national poll, and so to those skeptics who were concerned about the accuracy of the straw poll, the national poll provided empirical evidence that it was a pretty good representative sample of what's going on.
Those who regarded the poll tax as an evil abomination will, equally, neither forgive nor forget.
If the Tories poll as much as 6% more than Labour, they might still not.
Italy of Values, a rule-of-law party, drew 6% in the poll, as did the Left Ecology Liberty party.
But several opposition parties boycotted the poll, as did Berber activists in the Kabylie region, who called a three-day strike.
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.
The poll comes as Republican lawmakers, many elected on promises to slash federal spending, have focused mostly so far on cuts to non-defense, discretionary programs.
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As contrarians, we were put off by the bullish increase in the latest II poll, as well as the fact that the market showed some weakness following the last occurrence in 2008.
Obama noted the political challenge as well as the poll numbers.
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Whether the southern poll would, as in the case of the Good Friday Agreement, have to be held at exactly the same time as a northern referendum is less clear.
The results of the poll are released as a week to highlight stress among teachers and how to tackle it begins on the government-funded channel.
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Next, vote returns come in from the same sample precincts as the exit poll after the voting has finished in those precincts.
This indicated that the poll is almost as bearish as it was in July, when the market was just emerging from the pullback earlier in the year.
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The poll numbers come as Clinton prepares to debate her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination at the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Thursday night.
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The poll is seen as one of the most reliable indications of pop groups' fortunes - and the party gives 14, 000 fans a chance to scream at the heart-throbs of the moment.
The caucuses did not automatically decide which candidate receives Maine's delegates at the Republican National Convention in August, and the poll was largely viewed as a beauty contest, reports the BBC's Jonathan Blake in Washington.
Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, was not on the ballot, but the poll was widely seen as a referendum on his eight-year rule - including his alliance with the United States in the war on terrorist groups based in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan.
Lord Jenkin told BBC Radio 4's The World at One he was not proud of having "dreamt up" in the 1980s the Community Charge - which became known as the "poll tax" and faced mass protest and a central London riot before being replaced by the Council Tax.
Crowds roared at the center-left candidate's campaign headquarters as the exit poll results came out Sunday evening.
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Against all precedent under the Fifth Republic, the prime minister's poll numbers have climbed as the president's have tumbled.
The American people are demanding action as every poll since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School has indicated.
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Talk that Japan's prime minister may call a snap election for parliament's lower house at the same time as the upper-house poll in July will not die away.
Among other interesting rankings of the countries around the world in 2012, there is the Gallop poll that officially labels Ukraine as one of the most stoic and reserved nations of them all.
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Just 29% want a delay while 71% want the poll to go ahead as is planned - probably.
Its optimism is untinged, so far as the poll reveals, by existential doubt.
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