straw vote
straw poll

The panel took a straw vote to sort out the leaders.

The big event is a straw vote on the candidates.

At the caucus, Democrats rejected the idea of taking a straw vote, insisting they knew too little even for that.

The board took straw votes on it in September, two months before the Presidential election.

Tagliabue said the matter may come up for a straw vote.

The straw vote, he said, will be "the most defining political event left in 1995."

The Republican version is done with a straw vote of those attending the caucus.

The council's action was only a preliminary straw vote and is not binding.

Only a week earlier, the congress had agreed in a straw vote to retain the Indian mascot.

The justices conference again during the week of an argument sitting and take straw votes on the cases they have heard.