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...latest Canadian Gallup poll the Liberals, who won 43% of the vote in the 1974 election, were held in favor by only 29% of the electorate, v. 47% for the rival Progressive Conservatives. If an election were held now, the Liberals would be out of power for only the second time in 40 years, with their strength confined mainly to French-speaking Quebec, Trudeau's home turf...
...SOUTH. Gallup's soundings confirm Carter's optimism: he leads Ford 64% to 28% in the area. The President faces long odds in two big states that he hopes to win: in the primaries, Texans gave Carter 2% times more votes than Ford and Reagan combined; and in Florida, Democrats outnumber Republicans 2% to 1. Virginia may be dicey for Carter, but he now has a slight advantage that should be increased by the voter registration drives. Another Ford problem: Southern Republicans were solidly for Reagan, and many still bear grudges...
...although not necessarily on the merits of his arguments. Radio listeners, for example, sometimes rated Nixon as having done better. On TV, Kennedy was generally seen as the clear winner of the first debate, a narrow loser of the third, while the other two meetings were tossups. In the Gallup poll, Kennedy picked up three percentage points after the debates and Nixon one, as the number of undecided voters declined. The net effect was to pull Kennedy from one point behind Nixon to one point ahead. Since Kennedy finally won the election by only .2%, any gain...
McCarthy's strategy is to focus on some 20 states-eight in the Northeast, seven in the Midwest and five in the West. His support will draw partly from Carter's liberal electorate and could hurt the Democratic nominee in a close election. A nationwide Gallup poll, taken from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9, gave McCarthy 6% of the vote. That figure could be larger in some crucial Northern states-enough to tilt them out of the Democratic column. In California, a Mervin Field poll, taken between July 24 and Aug. 3, gave McCarthy 7% of the vote...
BLACKS. "Mr. Roosevelt, he was de po' man's friend," goes a Georgia fieldworkers' song, and for four decades blacks have voted overwhelmingly for the party of F.D.R. and the New Deal. With Carter's popularity among blacks at 83% in the latest Gallup poll, this year promises to be no different. Blacks are drawn to Carter by his fair treatment of them as Governor of Georgia, his Baptist evangelicalism, which echoes their own language of love and trust, the presence of several high-ranking blacks in his campaign, and his support of programs like welfare...