public opinion poll

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A public-opinion poll released last week found that more than half of Hong Kongers surveyed strongly supported the U.S. bill and fewer than a quarter strongly opposed it.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2019

Monti’s popularity fell four percentage points to 58 percent after presenting the measures, according to a public-opinion poll published yesterday by IPR marketing.

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 14, 2011

The public-opinion poll, says Reporter Bagdikian, is not a cross-section poll but merely what Facts Forum calls a device for exerting a "powerful psychological force for good" on news organs and members of Congress.

From Time Magazine Archive

The blurred argle-bargle of private thoughts is so much less interesting than even the most preposterous oratory; Drury's people are so ordinary that they could be sold to a public-opinion poll as an instant sample.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pulse of democracy; the public-opinion poll & how it works.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office