Word: gallup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the country, the law-abiding are in a punitive mood. A Gallup poll last spring showed 62% of Americans in favor of the death penalty. The public sense of justice, of the simple fairness and fitness of things, is frayed. The nation's crime rate has risen 300% in the past 18 years, though a part of the increase merely reflects greater attention to reporting crimes. These were precisely the years when society was at its greatest pains to humanize the justice system, make rehabilitation programs work and allow indeterminate sentences to relax the law's supposedly...
...bloom is off the rose of the tax credit" as a result of a recent Roper Organization survey that shows that given a choice between expanded grant and loan programs and tuition tax credits, people prefered the expanded programs. A New York Times-CBS poll and a Gallup poll show, however, that the tax credit is more popular than expanded grants programs...
...performance in office, the Republicans might be expected to exploit such traditional issues as high taxes and Government spending as a means of winning the coming congressional elections. Yet all across the country, Democrats are displaying considerable strength at the midsummer point in congressional races. Indeed a recent Gallup poll found that Americans by 59% to 41% planned to vote for Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans. In Washington, moreover, top officials of both parties foresee no major Republican comeback in either the House or the Senate this fall. Democrats now control the House by 287 seats...
...results of this survey contradict the results of two other recent polls. In April, The New York Times and CBS News found that 83 per cent of their sample favored a tax reduction to offset the costs of college tuition. A Gallup Poll taken in the spring showed 51 per cent of those surveyed favored tax credits, while only 34 per cent supported Carter's plan...
...already lasted too long, according to a number of veteran observers, and he has too far to go before he becomes a skillful practitioner of Washington politics. Public opinion surveys have chronicled a fairly steady slide in presidential popularity-from a peak of 75% of those queried by the Gallup poll approving his handling of the presidency in March 1977 to only 44% approving this May. With growing frequency, Washington insiders speculate that Jimmy Carter may in fact occupy the White House for just one term...