Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Gallup, it is the mostunpredictable presidential election in his four decades as a pollster. Says Daniel Yankelovich: "Voters are in complete conflict. They will tell you one thing today and something else tomorrow." Muses Louis Harris: 'The voters out there are trying to tell us something." From all indications, their message may not be at all clear until they take part in the poll that matters most...
...Inner Conflict. Yankelovich stresses that a few days' difference in the polls can account for sizable variations. He also contends that there are two types of electorates: one that makes its mind up and stays put, as in 1972, when 60% of the voters had decided to support Richard Nixon before Labor Day; and the 1976 voters, who "are very unsure," torn by "inner conflicts" and who thus respond to a Ford gaffe one day, a Carter gaffe the next. "People are uneasy about Carter and find Ford an acceptable alternative," says Yankelovich. He emphasizes, as do Gallup...
Powell also conceded that Carter is loathe to take sides in a conflict between two "fine, outstanding electoral vote" blocs, Ohio and New York states...
...success ? or failure ? of the effort to bring about a peaceful transfer to majority rule in the last country in southern Africa ruled by a white colonial regime would directly affect the prospects for racial concord or conflict in another, much more important African tinderbox, South Africa. Already, the emotionally charged issue of the future of southern Africa's two white-ruled regimes was reflected, in varying ways, in passions and politics among the 136 million blacks in all of the 16 states in the tier of black Africa south of the equator (see box page...
Holding both seats would not be a conflict of interest, and would make her a more effective legislator for Cambridge, Graham says...