Governments normally get punished at the polls when prices rise faster than wages.
Mr. Chirac and Mr. Jospin were already suffering in the polls when the latest scandal broke.
Mr. Ashcroft generally led in the polls when his opponent was alive.
Mr. Romney still did well in the poll when it came to his No. 1 campaign theme of the economy.
But it does not do any good to pretend there is a consensus in the polls when there isn't.
"He only had 5 per cent in the polls when we started", one proud supporter told us.
7 Which MP for Aylesbury was expelled, but later headed the poll when he stood for Middlesex?
"I've never worked for anybody who was ahead in the polls when I signed on," Ms. Shaheen said.
Angola's ruling party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), swept the polls when the country's third legislative elections were held on Aug. 31, 2012.
The likeable former pizza mogul faded in the polls when it emerged that a succession of women had accused him of sexual harassment.
Wellstone was slightly ahead of Coleman in the polls when, eleven days before the election, Wellstone, his wife, their daughter, and five others died in a plane crash.
