1.   A variety of polls this year suggests that even Republican voters were opposed to a constitutional ban on abortion being included in the platform.

2.   But polls this year show him steadily losing ground to Frist.

3.   But Republicans have steadfastly ignored the polls all year.

4.   In a poll this year, the University of Nebraska found widespread discontent about the disparity in subsidies.

5.   Indeed, two national polls this year indicate that blacks favor vouchers more than whites.

6.   Mexico has been awash in polls this year.

7.   Normally a fund-raiser for the state Republican Party, the informal and absolutely unscientific poll this year shapes up as something more serious than usual.

8.   Penn State has remained unbeaten but has slipped steadily in the polls all year.

9.   Payne expressed confidence that not even rain on Election Day would keep hard-core Democrats away from the polls this year.

10.   Political observers wondered whether the congresswoman would suffer at the polls this year.