Mr. Bush's most trusted adviser, Karl Rove, helped draft a poll financed by cigarette companies devised to thwart a lawsuit against the industry by the State of Texas.
Although the young protesters may have been the most vocal in their dissatisfaction with the draft, opinion polling from the time shows that the public overall had grave concerns about how the draft was implemented...
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In early 1996 in Texas, however, Karl Rove, Governor Bush's longtime political adviser and the chief architect of his presidential campaign, helped draft a push poll, financed by the tobacco industry, that was used in an effort to thwart a planned state lawsuit against the tobacco companies.
Other candidates in the kind of trouble he was in last winter in New Hampshire over Gennifer Flowes and the draft (his own polls showed him in a free-fall) might not have made it--and he almost didn't.
The general public seemed satisfied with the draft system in polls before Vietnam...
An election commission recently produced a draft law for a poll set for the summer.
Just as journalism is the first draft of history, exit polls let us take some first stabs at understanding public opinion.
With the decision to boycott the referendum, the opposition signaled that it had given up hope that it could defeat the draft charter at the polls, and had opted instead to try to undermine the referendum's legitimacy.
The National Education Association, the other national teachers union, which has been implacably critical of the law, said it would withhold comment on the draft until it finished polling its local delegates.
