Poll Quotes (page 5)

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• leaving
• polling
• majority

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously. William Odom

• good
• reading
• decision

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. Barack Obama

• people
• crazy
• old

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information. P. J. O'Rourke

• positive
• focus
• party

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion. Stephen Harper

• world
• acquire
• overeating

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world. Lee H. Hamilton

• knowingly
• knowing
• down and

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable. Chris Christie

• good
• thinking
• war

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad. Dick Cheney

• vote
• unionism
• president

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data. Linda Chavez

• party
• saying
• political

There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties. Frank Luntz

• worried
• doings
• admitting

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it. Rosalynn Carter

• tendencies
• disregard
• whacked

When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it. Rush Limbaugh

• missing
• mistake
• new

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake. Nate Silver

• kindness
• thinking
• space

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. Nate Silver

• game
• baseball
• polls

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. Nate Silver

• wellness
• thinking
• good times

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline. Nate Silver