Mr. Oslon's company is one of several that conducts expensive, data-intensive polls on behalf of the Kremlin and other government agencies, including an extensive "georating," a regular survey of 60,000 Russians, as well as a weekly poll of 3,000 which includes confidential questions shared only with Mr. Medvedev's and Mr. Putin's teams.
Intensive exit polling would do triple duty.
On both sides, the intensive efforts reflected polls that showed races still too tight to call.
Elections are labour intensive, requiring thousands of poll clerks, all of whom can earn a tidy sum on election night.
(Kashmir News Live) West Bengal: Fifteen women who became noteworthy in the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's intensive lobbying for statehood, have been given poll tickets in three hill municipalities slated to go to polls on December 11 , 2011
Although his election was assured, he spent the year between his nomination and polling day carrying out an intensive campaign.
After an infant's need for a maternity unit failed to shift the polls sufficiently, a sick baby in intensive care was deployed instead.
By late September, just as Prop 71's intensive television campaign began, a Los Angeles Times poll found that voters supported the measure fifty-four per cent to thirty-two per cent; fourteen per cent said they remained undecided.
The old-fashioned, labor-intensive tactics that parties use to deliver voters to the polls -- doling out leaflets, pounding on doors, driving voters to their polling stations -- have largely become afterthoughts to the most powerful and cost-effective tool of the technological age: the 30-second attack ad.
He has lagged in polls here, climbing no higher than fifth or sixth place despite intensive campaigning.
It is a tacit admission that there is little hope now of reversing the Tories' lead before polling day, leaving everything resting on the final weeks of intensive campaigning.
