But Mr Assadi he accepted that that was not the only indication of voting intention.

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But, as with voting intention, the various polls on independence point to the nature of the campaign itself, to the two visions of independence.

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By cross-referencing data on things like age, health, occupation, personal finances and property with voting intention, the parties are able to make informed guesses about where their support is and where they might pick up more votes.

ECONOMIST: The election

The gap between Labour's opinion-poll ratings and its performance in the mid-term ballot box may be embarrassing for Tony Blair, but it is not necessarily evidence that the polls are wrong about voting intention in a general election.

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Majority Leader Reid says he has no intention of voting on it.

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It does state clearly that the Pritzkers have no intention of giving public shareholders voting control of the company.

FORBES: Hotels

Dozens of Conservative backbenchers had announced their intention to join Labour MPs in voting against the government's programme motion, which would have restricted line-by-line, committee-stage scrutiny of the bill to ten days.

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For instance, she says, some Americans were worried about voting for Bill Clinton in the early '90s, knowing that Hillary had no intention of being a quiet, stay-at-home wife.

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