``ABC7 Eyewitness News'' and SurveyUSA Sweep L.A. Mayoral Polls.Business, Metro and Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2001 With its exclusive "Eyewitness News Eyewitness News is a local television newscast format, widely used in different markets across the United States. It is also the name of a very popular music package offered by Gari Communications. " Poll conducted by SurveyUSA, "ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. 7 Eyewitness News" was the most accurate in projecting the outcome of the runoff election for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Mayor. In a poll of 1,000 likely voters released the day before the election, ABC7 and SurveyUSA projected City Attorney James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California to defeat former State Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. by a margin of 53% to 43%. The actual June 5 totals were 54% to 46%. "ABC7 Eyewitness News" and SurveyUSA began tracking the runoff election in April, capturing the high-stakes battle in seven separate surveys. This tracking poll showed a swell of support for Villaraigosa in mid-May and documented Hahn's successful effort to rebound using an advertising blitz in the last two weeks of the campaign. Earlier this year, only "ABC7 Eyewitness News" and SurveyUSA accurately projected Villaraigosa as the winner of the primary election for Mayor of Los Angeles. That poll of 1,200 likely voters showed Villaraigosa leading with 31%, Hahn in second place with 22% and businessman Steve Soboroff trailing in third place with 18%. The actual tallies were Villaraigosa 30%, Hahn 25% and Soboroff 21%. Both polls had a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. "ABC7 Eyewitness News," Southern California's No. 1-rated station for news, will continue to track local and state elections, providing unmatched television coverage of Southland politics. SurveyUSA is the nation's largest local opinion pollster poll·ster n. One that takes public-opinion surveys. Also called polltaker. Word History: The suffix -ster is nowadays most familiar in words like pollster, jokester, huckster, , conducting breaking news polls, election polls and market research for more than 40 television stations and media outlets nationwide. In the 2000 election it delivered 462 election polls in 112 races across 26 states. In Los Angeles SurveyUSA operates under an exclusive agreement with ABC7. |
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