The candidates adopt poll-tested stump speeches and canned answers designed to appeal to what they believe their listeners want.
States and localities adopted poll taxes, literacy tests, "white primaries," "malapportionment" — drawing district lines to give a small number of rural voters the same representation as a large number of urban voters — and restrictions on student voting.
In 1889, Florida became the first state to adopt a poll tax, charging $2 annually with full knowledge that poor blacks would be disproportionately affected.
Mary doesn't adopt the "polls feh!" spin of the Limbaugh-Morris crowd, instead attributing a shift in the numbers to "Democrats coming home and closing a 20 point enthusiasm gap [after their Convention].
Although the Fifteenth Amendment was never interpreted to prohibit poll taxes, in 1962 the Twenty-fourth Amendment was adopted banning poll taxes in federal elections, and in 1966 the Supreme Court ruled in Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966) that state poll taxes violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
The letter states: "The referendum did not set a threshold necessary to leave the EU, commonly adopted in polls of national importance, eg, 60% of those voting or 40% of the electorate.
The self-styled maverick had been driven by polls to adopt the issues, if not the precise stands, that Bill Clinton and the Democrats championed.
A poll by Mnet found that 69% of 1,300 respondents were in favour of Harisu's decision to adopt, while in a similar poll by Daum, 58% of 8,094 respondents were against the idea.
Foreign forces are expected to adopt a low profile on polling day, out of sight of polling stations where their presence could be provocative, officials said.
Her mother's great-great-grandfather Stephen had declared in his will that any and all descendants and descendants' spouses or beneficiaries were to be christened, or to adopt the name by deed poll, Stephen or Stephanie.
The German social democratic leadership may be committed to the sort of "third way" politics some would like Labour to adopt, but in the latest poll they languish at 22%.
