I never heard of a poll being taken on the question.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

Board members indicated Monday night this would be done by an advisory poll to be taken on Nov. 15, the same date as a $581,000 bond election for the construction of three new elementary schools.

The poll was taken at the Center's annual builders' intentions conference.

But she was also a hit with the critics ; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

A Lebanese public opinion poll taken in August 2006 shows that most of the Shia did not believe that Hezbollah should disarm after the 2006 Lebanon war, while the majority of Sunni, Druze and Christians believed that they should.

In a poll of Lebanese adults taken in 2004, 6 % of respondents gave unqualified support to the statement " Hezbollah should be disarmed ".

Results of a controversial poll taken in 2006 stated that over 35 % of Russians would vote for Stalin if he were still alive.

As the convention opened in Philadelphia on June 24, Gallup reported that in a poll taken a few days earlier, Willkie had moved up to 29 %, Dewey had slipped 5 % to 47 %, and Taft, Vandenberg, and former President Hoover trailed at 8 %, 8 %, and 6 % respectively.

This change was also reflected in a later poll taken by Gallup but not reported till after the convention: Willkie had pulled ahead among Republican voters by 44 % to only 29 % for the collapsing Dewey.

In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton ( who had now taken his teacher's surname but would not change it by deed poll for several years ), was allowed into Exeter College, Oxford for a special term of six months study, made possible because he was an air force cadet obligated to later military service.

He was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken in the baseball centennial year of 1969.

According to a poll taken by USA Today in 2005, majority of Americans support affirmative action for women, while with minority groups though, it is more split.

A Leger poll taken in 2010 finds 59 % of Canadians oppose considering race, gender, or ethnicity when hiring for government jobs.

In a poll taken by the Bureau of Justice Statistics between 1980 and 2009, “ a 30-year period ... rates for drug possession or use doubled for whites and tripled for blacks .”

One such poll is taken at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit.

A poll taken in the wake of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee found that support for the monarchy is at a twenty-five-year high.

At first he was not taken seriously until the day the Sunday newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, published a poll on 14 December 1980, crediting Coluche with 16 % of voting intentions.

A poll taken one week after Norris withdrew from the presidential race, showed a large increase in public support for his Presidency if they were given the choice to vote for him ( topping the poll by a considerable margin ) with 40 per cent of respondents now saying they would vote Norris number one in the proportional representation electorial system and 50 per cent saying they would give him a vote.

In Israel, there is lasting support of the Camp David Peace Accords, which have become a national consensus, supported by 85 % of Israelis according to a 2001 poll taken by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies ( Israel based ).

In December 2009, it was voted # 11 top Irish album of all time by a poll of leading Irish musicians taken by Hot Press magazine.

A poll taken in November indicated that 55 percent wanted a tougher war policy, exemplified by the public belief that " it was an error for us to have gotten involved in Vietnam in the first place.

In 2005, the sketch was chosen by a poll taken in Britain as the 15th greatest comedy sketch of all time ( and one of 5 Monty Python sketches in the top 50 ).

He consistently kept this attitude until the poll was taken on 3 June 1898.

She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

In 1967 Fulcher became known as Barney Bubbles, though he did not change his name by deed poll for several more years.

Deeds poll are used for this purpose in countries including the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore.

In the United Kingdom a deed poll can also be used to change a child's name, as long as everyone with parental responsibility for the child consents to it.

The nominees for alumni trustee are determined by a poll of the members of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College, selecting from among names put forward by the Alumni Council or by alumni petition.

In 2001 " American Pie " was voted No. 5 in a poll of the 365 Songs of the Century compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The dog tied for first in the reader poll with four other characters-K. K.

Before Kaye had been on the air a year, he tied with Jimmy Durante for fifth place in the Radio Daily popularity poll.

Nonetheless, a poll has suggested over 9 % may have voted differently if the conservative candidate was a man from the West, although this does not clearly show if such a candidate would have gained or lost votes for the conservatives.

Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam war and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time.

In November 2002 OSNews conducted a poll to determine the most popular Gecko-based browser, which included several browsers for Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Linux, but didn't include Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Suite.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

A July 2006 USA Today / Gallup poll found that 83 % of the 1, 005 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 66 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

Later, Urquhart blames Party Chairman Lord Billsborough for the leak of an internal poll showing a drop in Tory numbers, leading Collingridge to sack him.

In Australian and British English, a halter is a rope with a spliced running loop around the nose and another over the poll, used mainly for unbroken horses or for cattle.

In the 1994 European Parliament election Patricia McKenna topped the poll for the Dublin Constituency and Nuala Ahern won a seat in Leinster.

By this time, public opinion had softened on the new installation ; a poll found a fifty-six percent approval rating for the pyramid, with twenty-three percent still opposed.

According to a 2012 poll, 51 % of the Turks in Germany, who account for nearly two thirds of the total Muslim population in Germany, believe that homosexuality is a sickness.

Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.