Article: Past Iowa caucuses show shaky foresight; Party, voters don't always mesh.(NATION)

Article: Gore and Bush in Statistical Dead Heat in New Newsweek Poll ---- 57 Percent of Nader Voters Would Stick With Him Even If It Helps Bush ---- Majorities Approve Third-Party Candidacies, Doubt Next President Would Be Seriously Hurt By Capturing Electoral College But Not Popular Vote.
PR Newswire;  November 3, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Poll, with Green Party candidate Ralph Nader at 5 percent and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan...with less than one percent. Among likely voters...Newsweek Poll, 52 percent say third-party candidates are a...dissatisfied with the major party candidates a way...their ...

Article: Freeman wins DFL nod after long battle; The Hennepin County attorney led Hubert Humphrey III from the first ballot, but it wasn't until the 10th that he secured the 60 percent backing needed for the party's endorsement.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ......first ballot, drawing 52 percent of the delegate votes to Humphrey's 41 percent, and increased that lead haltingly. Freeman received 59.6 percent on the ninth ballot and went...the top on the 10th with 61 percent. By securing the endorsement...other assistance from the party, giving him a ...

Article: New Poll Rates Support for Canada's Ruling Party at 40 Percent
Xinhua News Agency;  November 13, 2000 ;     129 words ...Canada's ruling Liberal party maintains 40 percent of support among decided...largest Canadian Alliance party acquires 28 percent, according to the Ipsos...debates, before which the party stood at 26 percent of support. Among the three...

Article: Greek ruling party posts 3.4 percent lead in opinion poll
Xinhua News Agency;  July 8, 2007 ;     269 words ...Greek ruling party posts 3.4 percent lead in opinion poll ATHENS...percent, the Popular Orthodox Rally party at 6.4 percent in the latest poll, the Coalition...the Left, Movements and Ecology party at 4.9 percent. Some 63.3 percent were 'not...

Article: Kerry gaffe loses independents for his party; Pew poll finds 18 percent have 'serious doubts' on Democrats.(NATION)
The Washington Times;  November 7, 2006 ;     428 words ......according to a new Pew poll. The poll found that 18 percent of independent voters considered pivotal in today...Democrats now lead Republicans among independents by 44 percent to 33 percent, compared with 47 percent to 29 percent in mid-October...

Article: ROAD CONTRACTORS PROVIDE 40 PERCENT OF PARTY DONATIONS.(NEWS)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  February 2, 2000 ;     408 words ......and engineers contributed more than 40 percent of the $1.3 million that the state Democratic Party collected in the last half of 1999. The...559,300. They accounted for at least 42 percent of the party's contributions, and the figure could...

Article: AGAINST ONLY 50.6 PERCENT IN 1993. ACCORDING TO THE PARTIAL RESULTS OF PARTY LIST VOTING, WHICH
Xinhua English Newswire;  December 18, 1995 ;     260 words ......tonight that the Communist Party led by Gennady Zyuganov took...of the vote. A total of 65 percent of the 105-million electorate...vote. Women of Russia (4.5 percent), the Congress of Russian Communities (4.3 percent), the Communists -- Working...For the Soviet Union (4.2 percent), and the ...

Article: Among voters, a restlessness about choices: The Christian Science Monitor/TIPP Poll: One of every 4 likely voters - and 42 percent of independents - has seriously considered voting for a third-party candidate.(USA)
The Christian Science Monitor;  October 24, 2000 ;     700+ words ......voting for a minor-party candidate. Among independent voters, 42 percent have toyed with the...Nader, who got 4.5 percent support in the Monitor...poll. (Libertarian Party nominee Harry Browne and the Reform Party's Mr. Buchanan each got less than 1 percent.) Nationwide, 16...

Article: Poll shows governing Fatah party taking 50 percent of vote in Palestinian elections, Hamas 32 percent
AP Worldstream;  December 11, 2005 ;     424 words ......s governing Fatah party capturing 50 percent of the vote in January...Mahmoud Zahar and 8 percent for the current prime...activists swept the party's troubled primaries...showed the ruling party capturing 53 percent of the vote, compared...

Article: Merkel's party slightly ahead in German elections with 80 percent of districts counted
AP Worldstream;  September 18, 2005 ;     101 words ......with votes counted from 80 percent of districts, the national...and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, had 36.5 percent of the vote after 241 of...partner, the Greens, 7.9 percent. The pro-business Free Democrats had 9.8 percent and the new Left Party 7.9 ...

Article: Greek opposition party says 2004 deficit could surpass 6 percent of GDP
AP Worldstream;  October 14, 2004 ;     532 words ......deficit risks surpassing 6 percent of gross domestic product...the opposition Socialist party said Thursday. Three former...2003 deficit stood at 4.6 percent of GDP, compared to previously reported 1.7 percent, while its public debt was...

Article: NovaCare Employee Services Announces $.09 Per Share for Third Quarter; Net Income Up 74 Percent; Third-Party Revenues Up 54 Percent.
PR Newswire;  April 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ......more than offset a 17 percent reduction in related-party revenues. The third...contributed to 54 percent growth in our third-party customer base. At March...worksite employees. Third-party clients accounted for 58 percent of total revenues in...

Article: Over 50 percent of Japanese say they will vote for ruling party: survey
AP Worldstream;  September 3, 2005 ;     320 words ......respondents _ up 2 percentage points from a poll...Liberal Democratic Party candidates for...compared to 33 percent who said they supported...largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan. For the...candidates, 53 percent of respondents...

Article: Indonesia's Ruling Party Wins 74 Percent of Votes
Xinhua English Newswire;  May 31, 1997 ;     170 words ......indicated that the ruling party Golkar had won 74.16 percent of the votes counted. The United Development Party (PPP) gained 22.84 percent and the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) clinched 3 percent of the 107,613,316 votes counted...