Nearly two-thirds of 52 economists polled said interest rates would be held steady on Thursday.
Banks that have made Swiss-franc loans in Poland and hoping to get their full value back will be watching the polls with interest.
If not, he said, "you will be buffeted and blown back and forth by polls and interest groups and voices whispering in your head.
It's the question in the poll that interests commentators most because it tries to pin down the effect of voters' second preferences for mayor as well as their first under the supplementary vote system.
It's easy to chalk that reaction up to embarrassment, as if Congress members had been caught paying lip service to constituents while voting in accordance with other influences: party leadership, polling, lobbyists, interest groups, donors, the dictates of conscience.
He talked about the art of compromise, popularity polls, special interests, prison investigations and the atrium outside his Sacramento office, where he is able to smoke his Cuban cigars -- 20 feet from the entrance as state law requires.
The new buttons allow XIHA friends to translate content to over 55 different languages (courtesy of the Google Translate API), making it possible to read updates, polls and interests in one's native language regardless of the original language of the status update.
Using large purses to fund complex and/or hot button issues, sometimes simply to drive a specific voting bloc to the polls, special interests have worked to create a fourth estate of politics - one not beholden to standard checks and balances.
But city residents in the poll expressed little interest in traveling upstate to visit a gambling destination.
(AP) POLL PREDICTS WANING INTEREST About 4 in 10 Americans say they have no plans to watch any of the national political conventions, a poll has found.
