31.   Early newspaper polls have indicated that the Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata are running neck and neck in popularity.

32.   Meanwhile, two newspaper polls showed that public support for the government appeared to be waning.

33.   Newspaper polls published Monday showed that Japanese voters are losing faith.

34.   Newspaper polls also indicated that about half of voters had no allegiance to any party.

35.   On Sunday, a newspaper poll showed Kennedy in a statistical dead heat with two state senators also vying for the seat.

36.   Recent newspaper polls indicate that party-unaffiliated voters have swelled from about one-fourth of the electorate four years ago to about half last year.

37.   Slightly more than half of Taiwanese believe that the United States will help defend the island if China launches an unprovoked attack, a newspaper poll reported Monday.

38.   The exit poll results were also similar to those of newspaper voter polls last week.

39.   The newspaper poll was done just days after U.S. President George W. Bush pledged during a visit to Beijing to help defend Taiwan if the island is provoked.

40.   The Yomiuri survey follows another newspaper poll released Monday.