poll

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Public approval for labor unions reached 68% in a Gallup poll last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Those companies then have to poll their suppliers for price and production estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Big majorities said the ballot was easy to understand – the same result found in every poll of Maine voters over the last several years.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

The poll of 8,578 registered California voters was conducted between May 19 and 25 online in English and Spanish and has a margin of error of about 2 percentage points in either direction.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

During the Jim Crow era, African Americans were denied the right to vote through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and felon disenfranchisement laws, even though the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander