Polling Quotations

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever.

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.

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.

Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.

New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.

Polling done for the purposes of publicizing results is meaningless. And I think the media are guilty of spending too much time on polls People don't vote based on polls.

Polling indicates that 90 percent of the electorate opposes eminent domain for economic development. And that's without pushing. If you push, it goes to 98 percent.

Polling is not allowed. That?s an attempt to formulate public policy. It?s obvious that would be an attempt to circumvent the law.

Polling tells us that this generation is very interested in doing public service, but they're more likely to look to the non-profit sector to scratch that itch.

Poll workers are a crucial element of the election process. You can buy new machines, you can educate voters, but really the poll workers are the bridge between the polling place and the voter.

One of the key items we will have is a flag that flew over a polling booth in Iraq that was donated by a soldier.

When I made a motion to open two more polling sites, Levi Phillips said that would be discriminating against other polling sites.

On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.

No campaign materials are allowed inside the polling place. Either on the person or signs.

If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters.

much more vernacular polling style to make sure we talk to people in a way that makes sense.

Missourians should never have to face harassment when they go to cast their vote. That is why it is important that we move campaigners further from polling places and increase the penalties if they cross the line and harass voters.

If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel elections, one in the mail and one at the polls, is very expensive.

There are numbers of polling stations whose electoral material was looted by gunmen, and voters at the polling station in many areas in this area were targeted by gunmen wearing military and different uniforms.

Please be reminded that there are 3,070 polling places from which information must be compiled. The entire process is expected to take between 3 and 7 days,

Our polling shows over 60 percent who say it wasn't worth it, ... Iraq has become Vietnamized.

Our polling shows that Congressman DeLay has lost more than 50 percent of his base support from 2004.

Our internal polling has been showing that we're up by 20 points.

I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media.

I think the White House is very frustrated. There's been good data on gross domestic product, employment and business spending, and even oil prices are receding. But it's not reflected in the polling data on Americans' views.

Results from 1,177 polling places of the 3,070 polling stations have been counted and tallied, accounting for 378,008 of the votes cast so far,

Our results are still under process. We have gone ahead and received results from over 50% of the polling stations through our party agents. By tomorrow (today), we shall have three-quarters of the total polling stations.

I think most polling shows that most Americans agree that when it comes to employment that, you know, people should be really judged by, you know, their competency and not, you know, who it is they choose to love or who they're in a relationship with.

We have tens of thousands of people outside some polling stations, huge numbers. Sometimes they get unruly, but most are waiting patiently.

Voters will be surprised when they show up at their polling place and find they aren't on the rolls. There are a lot of things we don't feel comfortable with.

We have information that groups of people were bussed from one polling station to another.

We have instructed all our supporters and cadres to go the polling stations in their areas and do whatever they can to stop voting.

Whereas we typically see a new year's increase, our polling indicates that workers are approaching this year with a 'wait-and-see' attitude. This is not a great cause for concern, though, as worker sentiment remains essentially unchanged from December, which showed increased optimism overall.

When you're not having to deal with all those polling sites it simplifies one's life considerably,

We're not finished with the expenditures for the storm. We're considering what we call polling the towns, which is when we go all night and take the snow out of the village, so that would be more expense.

The polling shows there's a very clear gender gap on this. It shows 52 per cent of men support more nuclear power while only 30 per cent of women want more nuclear power.

When I get data back from a polling experiment, I look at it as a legitimate experiment in public policy, ... The idea is to make games that have an agenda. I'm trying to advance people, not as an entertainment form but as a social commentary.

We would have ended up with a dual system - optical scan plus electronic machine in each polling place for handicapped voters - and still had to buy the machines. We decided to replace the entire system.

We need to do something about antiquated voting machines, ballots that confuse rather than clarify, and overcrowded polling places.

We've collected tens of thousands of voter signatures. And our polling is strong all across the state.

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

We were also denied a total of 116 results forms from different polling stations in 11 rural constituencies.

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

While many polling stations around the country opened late -- and maintaining the secrecy of the vote was not always achieved -- polling procedures were generally followed by election officials.

We believe we had developed an approach that first protects the rights of New York voters, while also providing disability access at polling sites.

When you start polling the world for where major oil companies can do business, you have West Africa, Russia, the Middle East and Latin America. What they all share is that they're becoming more and more difficult operating environments.

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

Every lap top becomes a possible polling station.

When you have had a big lead since polling began and all of a sudden you are being seriously challenged and perhaps being passed in the horse race, it is difficult to adjust and get back on message.

We will cancel the results of any polling center, inside or outside of Iraq, if it has been proven that there was fraud in there. To this day, I don't think there is a reason to cancel the entire elections.

U.S. and Afghan forces are setting up polling stations in crowded areas which if attacked will cause big losses.

Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.

Once we receive the equipment, we have to have the staff trained on this and get our election judges trained. We'd also like to take it around the county and demonstrate it to the voters so that when they walk into the polling place for the first time it's not the first time they've seen the equipment.

Some polling workers didn't show up for work, so we're going to grab people from the crowd, give them some quick training and get them in there.

That's why this has been put forward. This is a polling event,

A lot of polling stations opened late and it took time to prepare and then the rain definitely caused problems.

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

There are an awful lot of floating voters who make up their minds three seconds after they enter the polling booths.

In all those instances, the people had come into the polling places and were unhappy about Proposition 200 before they got there.

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.

In general, we didn't find in the polling that casinos were all that favorable, but that doesn't mean that some form of slots wouldn't be acceptable.

I'm a registered Democrat and, like a lot of my species here in Connecticut, I don't know whom I'm going to vote for in August. If I had to vote tomorrow, I'd vote for Ned Lamont, but I'd leave the polling place shaking my head, wondering what the hell happened to Joe Lieberman.

I must have, in each polling place, a piece of equipment which enables disabled people to vote. Sight impaired people are going to be able to vote on this piece of paper totally unassisted and in private.

In some polling stations, blank ballots totaled a quarter of the votes, and in some others, one third of the votes.

If you ask, in general, whether people are in favor of amnesty, the polling drops.

The NHL has been polling our fans, who have consistently told us that when we come back it should be in a big, bold way. To do that, the NHL, together with its players, recruited an exceptional creative team.

It's our goal to make polling places available so that the preponderance of that approximately 500,000 would in fact have the opportunity, ... It will be safe. It will be secure.

Exit polls are highly accurate. They remove most of the sources of potential polling error by identifying actual voters and asking them immediately afterward who they had voted for.

The farther you can get votes away from the polling place, the easier it is to manipulate them.

Their polling must be telling them that he's a drag on his own initiative. How have the mighty fallen.

The fact they finished level, both polling more than twice as many votes as the player in third place, reflects their massive contributions to international cricket during the voting period.

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.

They can be on campus, but must be 100 feet away from the polling station.

I have such fond memories of going to my polling place, ... and not only seeing my pollsters, but my neighbors.

He's extremely vulnerable. Any time any incumbent is polling below 50 percent, that's a sign of trouble.

By and large, I would have to say that the process was extraordinarily orderly, the level of violence was unexpectedly low and the polling station committees, considering the fact that they had never done anything like this before, did, I think, a commendable job,

The voters are not going to have people asking them to sign petitions, they're not going to have candidates right outside the polling place like they used to.

There was a misunderstanding of the PEC statements. The PEC allowed civil society monitors to visit the polling booth and not to monitor the electoral process. This means that monitors were allowed to enter for a few minutes and not stay throughout the whole day.

They will be doing polling so that we can get a scientifically valid representation of the feelings of the community about the library.

The most important thing for them is to go to the polling stations to test their real power and to train their members in preparation for the parliamentary elections (later this year).

All of a sudden, she's become the immigration governor. That's because they have the same polling as the Republican Party does.

The increased online polling stations I think really contributed to the high turnout and quick voting turnaround time.

This is a community referendum that's most important. Let's make every effort to give every citizen the chance to express their views. The more sites, then we don't have people walking away from a site that historically had been a polling place angry because they couldn't vote.

The numbers aren't final but we have sampled out polling stations and the trend shows voter turnout will be about 70 percent.

The observer mission has termed the elections free and fair. Party representatives were present in, I believe, just about every polling station and they signed off on the records.

Anyone who is eligible and in line at the polling place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday will be entitled to vote.

This poll shows how important it is to capture the youth response in polling initiatives. Since CLX uses PollCast to instantly poll people through the youth-oriented medium of text messaging, the opinions of the younger generation can actually be gathered effectively. As this poll shows, the youth response can no longer be taken for granted,

There were polling places in places like Houston, Detroit and other cities...to give Iraqis in the United States the chance to vote in person, not by mail, not by Internet, not by any form of electronic or distant communications. The failure of the state, in this regard, to establish satellite voting outside of Louisiana makes no sense and invites problems, confusion and perhaps even more than that.

We might have some impact, but we're conducting long-term research, and it takes quite a long time for new technology to make it into polling places.

It is very much like voting at a precinct polling place.

We want to go ahead and (get) the voting system that will make us compliant. We won't change our primary system. We'll have maybe one device in each polling place, maybe one touch screen or auto mark device. It takes a hard ballot, slides up into this unit and it marks the hard ballot. Earphones can tell the voter what's on the ballot, and there are (oversized) keys for the blind folks. They push a button and the ballot comes back out.

The relatively high voter turn-out and the fact that the polling was conducted in a largely free, fair and peaceful manner attests to the determination of the Congolese people to participate in deciding their nation's future.

There will be 35 polling places on the day of the election. And early voting starts 20 days prior.

I don't see any impropriety of polling people who used to be grand jurors,

Go tomorrow to vote. Be vigilant, be there at every polling station to oversee the vote.