#polling

I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#get #i #i think #instant #manipulative

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#close #countries #heightened #i #i think

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by 'better' such things as more capable in negotiation, more imaginative in executive skill, more knowledgeable about international affairs, more understanding of the interrelations of economic systems, and so on. The reason has, almost entirely, to do with 'image.' But not because politicians are preoccupied with presenting themselves in the best possible light. After all, who isn't? It is a rare and deeply disturbed person who does not wish to project a favorable image. But television gives image a bad name. For on television the politician does not so much offer the audience an image of himself, as offer himself as an image of the audience. And therein lies one of the most powerful influences of the television commercial on political discourse. ↗

— Neil Postman

#campaigns #debate #democracy #discourse #elections

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#entire #information #old #old people #our

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#enough #friends #get #i #latest

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations. ↗

— Imran Khan

#getting #having #here #most #people

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#date #day #finishing #get #good

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose. ↗

— Paul Begala

#bill clinton #clinton #comfortable #final #going

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appealing #capitol #capitol hill #find #hill