This shift, in turn, is possible because at long last, polling data is genuinely accurate.
Residents have been encouraged to cast absentee ballots to avoid long lines and polling place problems on Tuesday.
Andy Kohut, who directs the Pew Center for the People and the Press, has looked at long-term polling and finds that sentiment has been slowly growing for a change of direction.
The commission extended the voting hours until 6 p.m. because of long lines at many polling stations.
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To be fair, tax cuts have long scored badly in polling data.
He said the delays are due to high voter turnout, a large number of contested seats and long travel times for polling officers.
Long queues were reported at several polling stations, The Times of Malta reported.
Voting began at 08:00 (06:00 GMT), and throughout Wednesday long lines of voters were seen outside polling stations around the country.
In Peru this week, the gathering of presidential election returns (long delays in getting ballots from the polling places to the counting house, for example) has created a widespread suspicion that Fujimori has put in the executive fix against his opponent, Alejandro Toledo.
And recent polling data indicate that once a long-shot candidate, Pollak is steadily closing in on Schakowsky's lead.
Technically, the lieutenant governor has merely allowed storm-affected voters to act as absentee voters, who have long been allowed to email their ballots to polling places.
With his daughter Judith he queued up at a polling station in Bulawayo and prepared for a long wait.
All of which adds up to a growing suspicion in some quarters that Mr Preval may be seeking ways to keep postponing polling day, little by little, just long enough to ensure that the polls coincide with the presidential one due in December 2000.
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Because of extra polling stations, there were none of the excessively long queues so common last time.
Our polling as Obama took office found voters expressing patience about how long it would take for the economy to improve.
And that doesn't really have much of an effect, I imagine, on today's polling data, but it does have an effect on our long-term economic viability.
"There is a gender gap on this question, with most men saying Obama is taking too long and most women willing to give him more time, " CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
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Indeed, polling in many states suggests that the measures will pass easily so long as they can get on the ballot.
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In sharp contrast, polling stations in urban Zvishavane, Gweru, Kwekwe and Redcliff have long queues outside - some up to 2km.
One polling boss argues that it is quite possible to govern effectively so long as one's popularity does not drop below 40%.
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But also, there were no polling stations within Tiger-held territory, and would-be voters faced long journeys over bad roads to government-controlled areas.
And in some states, you as a voter can go into the polling place with campaign T-shirt or a button, and vote as long as you're not hanging around campaigning for the candidate and doing other partisan campaigning activities, that's fine.
As many as 100, 000 voters were expected to cast pre-Election Day votes, but long lines were the order of the day Thursday and Friday, particularly at the six polling places set up in Broward County, with early birds waiting up to two hours to cast their ballots.
Rock the Vote, which has been mobilizing young voters, reported that a polling place closest to Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg had been consolidated with another miles from campus, causing long lines that spilled onto a highway.
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