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straw poll
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straw poll (chiefly US, Canadian, and NZ), vote
an unofficial poll or vote taken to determine the opinion of a group or the public on some issue


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On the other hand, given the murky electoral procedures, no one yet knows whether those in opposition either have vetoes, or would be prepared to cast them if they have, since the straw polls, and all other votes, tend to be secret ballots right up until the final vote.
Straw polls by a Tampa-area paper matching Hogan against President Clinton and just-elected Florida Gov.
The activity began on Saturday - as droves of members voted in AOL's special localized online straw polls conducted in the ten states where the elections were the expected to be the closest.
 
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