By agreement this showed a maximum pass with exactly three-card support for spades.
Opinion polls of contenders for the Democratic nomination showed Gravel with 1 percent or less support.
South tried one spade, West jumped to three diamonds, and North showed a powerful hand with four-card support by raising to game.
Responder is expected to show support with 3-card support, indicating an 8-card fit.
Despite this, October polls showed Layton only four points behind Rowlands, with 36% support.
A local newspaper poll of 600 registered voters showed 75 percent in favor, with support even higher among women, the poor and minorities.
Early polling in September 2006 showed the party with 27% support, its highest recorded level since 1992.
Though she is no longer the heroine of 1986, polls taken just before the attempted coup showed her with nearly 60 percent popular support.
After Blair became leader, these talks continued - despite virtually every opinion poll since late 1992 having shown Labour with enough support to form a majority.
A poll published last week showed him with 42% support among likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, and Gingrich on 15%.