Sentence examples for he polled for from inspiring English sources

But there are things he won't do: he polled for Tom Golisano's 2002 campaign for governor of New York, and when his results showed Golisano coming in second, he says, the campaign's advisers wanted him to fiddle with the numbers lest they persuade Golisano to drop out; Zogby said no, and the campaign hired someone else.

Nicholas then quotes Pat Caddell, now 59, who came into the public eye as pollster for Jimmy Carter--while still at Harvard, he polled for George McGovern--and over the years has been sharply critical of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and other establishment Democrats.

As he polls for Bill Clinton -- with the Democratic National Committee picking up the tab -- Penn is also helping Bill Gates run a campaign against the court-ordered breakup of Microsoft instigated by Clinton's Justice Department.

He polled the audience for their response.

Mr. Teeter was a moderate Republican whose own politics did not always fall in line with the party or even with the candidates for whom he polled.

He polls audiences for their choice of encore.

Stan Greenberg, one of America's most experienced pollsters, sums up the key lesson he learned polling for Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Ehud Barak and Tony Blair: "Bold leaders in tumultuous times always have at least one crash".

When he was polling for Jimmy Carter, Caddell, then 29, was the impetus behind Carter's disastrous "malaise speech".

He has done independent advance polling for the past three Mongolian national elections, two of which involved major changes of political power, and, in each case, his results predicted the winner to within fewer than 2.8 percentage points.

At low points, he was behind Mitt Romney in polling for the state's presidential primary.

First, let's examine polling for Minnesota's marriage amendment.