" The annual poll tax was only $ 1. 50.

In 1799 all special tolls were abolished, and in 1802 the poll tax was removed.

As he was leaving office, a CNN / USA TODAY / Gallup poll revealed 45 % said they would miss him.

However, in the same poll, when respondents were asked to name the worst president since World War II, Clinton was placed number three behind Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

From a poll conducted of the American people in December 1999, Clinton was among eighteen included in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th century.

In 1986, in a poll conducted by GOAL magazine, he was named the most overlooked talent in hockey.

In January 2011 Charlton was voted the 4th greatest Manchester United player of all time by the readers of Inside United and ManUtd. com, behind Ryan Giggs ( who topped the poll ), Eric Cantona and George Best.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

Though the merger process was traumatic and the new party suffered a few years of extremely poor poll results, it gradually found much greater electoral success than the Liberal Party had done in the post-war era.

However, in a 2005 poll by British film magazine Empire, Braveheart was # 1 on their list of " The Top 10 Worst Best Pictures ".

* In 2002, on a UK poll broadcast by the BBC, Chaplin was ranked number 66 on a list of the 100 Greatest Britons.

In 2004, he was voted the greatest British prime minister of the 20th century in a poll of 139 academics organised by MORI.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by the Dan yr Ogof caves.

In his first season, Brown was the NFL's leading rusher with 942 yards in a 12-game regular season and was voted rookie of the year in a United Press poll.

In a 1982 poll, she was voted fourth most recognisable woman in Britain, after Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II and Diana, Princess of Wales.

In May 2001, " Don't Dream it's Over " was voted 7th in a poll of the Best Australian Songs of Alltime by the Australasian Performing Rights Association.

In Australia, name change was formerly accomplished by deed poll but now is done by completing a Change of Name form.

Dino Zoff was born in Mariano del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia ( Italy ), and was elected in a poll by the IFFHS as the third best goalkeeper of the 20th Century-after Lev Yashin ( 1st ) and Gordon Banks ( 2nd ).

" In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was placed at number 29.

In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, he was ranked 29.

It was voted # 1 in an Australian youth radio poll ( the Triple J Hottest 100 ).

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.

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.

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.