Posts Tagged ‘polls’

Santorum surges in Iowa polls

The GOP hopeful’s support among likely Iowa caucus voters has more than tripled since the start of December, putting him in third place with 16%, according to a CNN/Time/ORC poll released Wednesday.

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Exit polls: Putin’s party losing support (AP)

Elizaveta Semenova is helped by her daughter to fill in a ballot paper at her home in the village of Oster, 380 km (237 miles) west of Moscow, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. The ballot box has a sign reading: 'Election' and the Smolensk region emblem. Russians cast their ballots with muted enthusiasm in national parliamentary elections Sunday, a vote that opinion polls indicate could water down the strength of the party led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, despite the government's relentless marginalization of opposition groups. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP – Exit polls cited by Russian state television showed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party with less than 50 percent of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, a significant drop reflecting Russians’ growing weariness with his rule.


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Long lines at polls as Egypt holds landmark vote (AP)

Egyptian women wait at a polling station to vote in the country's parliamentary election in the Zamalek neighbourhood of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians on Monday began voting in their nation's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a giant step toward what many in the country hope will be a democratic Egypt after decades of dictatorship.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP – Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians turned out in long lines at voting stations Monday in their nation’s first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, a giant step toward what they hope will be a democracy after decades of dictatorship.


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Polls close in tight NY House special election (AP)

AP – Democrat David Weprin faced an unusually tight race against Republican Bob Turner in a special election Tuesday in New York’s heavily Democratic 9th Congressional District, where voters unhappy with President Barack Obama could elect a Republican for the first time.

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Thai exit polls show big win for ousted PM’s party (AP)

Opposition Pheu Thai party leader Yingluck Shinawatra greets upon her arrival at a polling station to cast her ballot in a general election in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, July 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP – The opposition party allied to ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was poised for landslide victory Sunday in fractious Thailand’s elections, easily garnering the majority needed to form a new government, according to two respected exit polls.


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Thai exit polls show landslide victory for ex-PM (AP)

AP – Exit polls in Thailand are showing the party allied to ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won an absolute majority in the fractious country’s tense election.

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Polls open in Thailand; big parties deeply divided (AP)

Opposition Pheu Thai party leader Yingluck Shinawatra greets upon her arrival at a polling station to cast her ballot in a general election in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, July 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP – Five tumultuous years after a military coup divided this Southeast Asian kingdom, Thailand held pivotal elections Sunday that will determine whether it can end the long-running political crisis that has shattered its reputation for stability.


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