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Polls show that the public is thoroughly confused by Carter's proposal for a net cut of $25 billion in individual and corporate taxes. Though a Harris poll in March turned up a 55% majority in favor of the program, people questioned earlier by Gallup pollsters declared 9 to 1 that it was more important to control inflation than to trim taxes. As a result, strong pressure is building in Congress to reduce the cut to $18 billion or $20 billion, and perhaps to delay it by three months as well, making it effective Jan. 1. Those two moves...
Callaghan's main accomplishment has been to turn the economy around, a feat that was aided by both the expected gush of North Sea oil and his success in holding the line on wages. According to Gallup, the electorate now believes that Labor can do a better job than the Conservatives in controlling inflation. Even such a stalwart establishment organ as the Financial Times praised Callaghan for giving Britain "almost as good a conservative government as we are likely...
Even before the Tory leader spoke out, another Gallup poll showed that 59% of the British public felt that immigrants were "a very serious social problem in Britain today." To 46%, race relations were getting worse, while 49% wanted the government to offer immigrants financial help to leave the country. Unquestionably Mrs. Thatcher had seized an issue of particular appeal to traditionally Labor blue-collar workers, who see the immigrants as a threat to their jobs, and to a large segment of the British public who resent the intrusion of a different culture...
...have Americans so ignored the energy crisis? The most common reason seems to be the lack of any motive to do otherwise. In spite of the convincing arguments of experts, most Americans simply do not believe an energy crisis exists. In a Gallup poll last summer, only 38% of the people were willing to call the energy situation "very serious." A recent New York Times-CBS poll found that fully 57% of Americans just do not share President Carter's concern...
...recent Gallup poll indicated that the more Americans know about the treaties, the more likely they are to favor ratification. Hoping that grass-roots approval will be reflected in Washington, the Administration has sent Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz on the road to drum up support for the treaties. The Panamanians have said si, but for the U.S. Senators it's still wait...