11.   Few polls have been taken and those that have carry the usual caveat that they were conducted for candidates.

12.   Exactly four years ago, someone took a poll of Republican delegates in Houston at the end of that miserable, meanspirited convention.

13.   Garden clubs lobbied, florists took polls and the names of such rose growers as George Washington and several first ladies were invoked.

14.   Glick then took a poll of the men on the plane and told his family they had voted to confront the hijackers, according to the report.

15.   He confesses to taking a poll in March that included a ballot test against the Speaker.

16.   Henry Adams never walked a precinct nor took a poll, but he understood voter turnout.

17.   How seriously should these polls be taken?

18.   However, the poll was taken before Daley indicated interest in running.

19.   However, if Roberto Alomar plays the lottery, takes polls or watches television he is a disgrace to those great American pastimes, too.

20.   However, that poll was taken last week, when a runoff was still in the works.