1.   Despite the violence that preceded the elections, reports say that polling was orderly and peaceful.

2.   Polling was reportedly peaceful, but opposition parties alleged voter intimidation and electoral irregularities on the part of the PDCI.

3.   And Pollin was the wrong person at whom to vent such criticism.

4.   At its best, polling is a superficial capturing of momentary, unreflective reaction or sentiment, a search for the common denominator floating amid the demographic confusion.

5.   But polling is not an exact science, especially in such a turbulent atmosphere as that in Russia.

6.   Even more revealing was what polling and focus groups told the two men not to say.

7.   For significant periods of this entire issue, there has not been polling going on.

8.   However, polling is new to China.

9.   Polling is a particularly inexact science in Russia.

10.   The reason for this uncertainty is that polling is as much art as science.