Two former prime ministers, Jan Fischer and Milos Zeman, are the frontrunners according to opinion polls.
It is fashionable to decry the regard that politicians pay these days to opinion polls.
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Devolving more powers to Holyrood is popular, according to opinion polls, but the proposal has lacked a clear sponsor.
Voters already back Labour's view that the economy is too fragile to bear such austerity, according to opinion polls.
Basque nationalists, who have rule the region for 21 years , face losing power in the elections, according to opinion polls.
But about 90% of Greeks, according to opinion polls, are against the war, including the unruly barons in Mr Simitis's party.
But Mr Panetta's words, intended primarily to pander to opinion at home, can only have given them encouragement and stiffened their resolve.
The result of the February election remains highly uncertain with more than a third of voters still undecided, according to opinion polls.
According to opinion polls, most voters assume that he is a toff.
He tells the crowd that he never looked to opinion polls to see what was right, and that he has his head held high.
According to opinion polls, his approval rating is still over 40%.
Even with the usual caveats attached to opinion polls, a 65% to 17% majority for Northern Ireland remaining in the UK suggests little room for doubt.
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"This is not about abdicating policy-making to opinion polls, but national strategy must appreciate what sort of country the public aspires for the UK to be, " Mr Jenkin said.
This idea enjoys broad popularity, according to opinion polls.
They detect a lack of presidential leadership on the war that could squander hard-won gains, and hint the White House is simply responding to opinion polls that show deteriorating support for the military campaign.
The Socialists' need for an electoral pact with the europhobic Communists (who, according to opinion polls, command about a tenth of the vote) has led them to dilute their previous support for the single currency.
According to opinion polls, this means there is a good chance that Ms Park could become the first female president of a country where only half of women work and a tenth of politicians are female.
But more moderate Democrats are nervous about such crude confrontationalism, recalling what happened to Newt Gingrich when he tried to go head-to-head with the president and pointing to opinion polls which show that the majority of people want a return to civility in Washington.
In the U.S., the government pays attention to public opinion and they know how to promote a policy through opinion leaders.
It's certainly likely that some of the people around him will read it, because they are extraordinarily attentive to public opinion, and to the extent that "The Bush Dyslexicon" succeeds in reaching people, it will certainly concern the Bush team enough to get them to start reading it.
On May 19th he was to fly to Washington to rally American opinion to this viewpoint.
Someone who defies conventional wisdom needs to explain his views well enough to bring public opinion to his side.
Ethnocentrism and cultural xenophobia are merely tools used by illogical people to sway public opinion to achieve political aims.
But in this case it appears to be part of a wider trend: Myanmar's leaders seem prepared to pay more heed both to popular opinion at home and to pressure from the West.
Contrary to public opinion, which tends to regard foreign investment by German companies as a job-killing act of economic treachery, the car company says that the increase is due partly to its new factory in the United States.
According to the opinion, Pace similarly failed to document the business purpose of meals and travel.
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The last thing Chinese officials want to do at this moment is to give in to global opinion and allow the market to determine the value of their currency.
Obviously, this was yet another clumsy attempt by Beijing to influence opinion in the west, and because they were not aware of the traditional tools of public opinion, they were doomed to fail.
That perception leads to a more concerned response to poor opinion polls: that Europe needs to be explained to ordinary people.
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