- present participle of poll.
polling
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High-tech assistance doesn’t relieve those of us in polling of the need to get the basics right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
As Sergio García-Ríos, Univision’s director of polling, highlighted to me from his recent survey of Texas races, Hinojosa—despite being a Latina—wasn’t performing as well with Hispanic voters as the Democratic Senate candidate, James Talarico.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
By contrast, the city attorney’s race remains all but unknown: More than two-thirds of likely voters are still undecided, versus about a third who remain uncommitted in the mayor’s contest, polling showed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
"People in the Donbas, as well as in Bryansk, and Belgorod near the Ukrainian border, hear this kind of thing every day," says a voter called Viktor, who has exited the polling station.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The polling samples were biased toward those who thought the broadcast was real, and the statistical analyses of the data were flawed.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
On March 30 the first elections took place, and the first pollings on the day following.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
