The polling concern said the margin of sampling error was plus or minus three and a half percentage points.

Nelson Rising, Bradley's campaign chair, spoke of having warned Bradley long before any polling concerns arose that endorsing the ballot initiative would ultimately doom his campaign.

One recent survey by a polling concern called Insight Canada found that more than 40 percent of Canadians believe that indigenous people have only themselves to blame for their troubles.

Local independent NGO groups have applied for accreditation as observers, given their understanding of the Creole language and their knowledge of districts and past polling concerns.

"People believe that it's now a party of opportunity rather than equalization," noted Robert M. Worcester, chairman of the polling concern.

Alone of all major polling concerns, he predicted in 1993 that the ultranationalist Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky would do surprisingly well in parliamentary elections.

He built Market Opinion Research, a long-established Detroit company that produced marketing and political polls in Michigan, into the dominant Republican polling concern in the nation.

The bishops have also engaged a politically connected polling concern in Washington, the Wirthlin Group, to help in the nationwide project.

The plan involves employing the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton and the Wirthlin Group, a polling concern known for test-marketing political positions.

The polling concern is known for its skill in test-marketing policy positions, using polling methods to frame political positions in such a way that they win broad public support.