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...bare-knuckle assessment of what had gone wrong with his presidency. During the year of transition from the trauma of the Nixon Administration, his open and candid manner had calmed and reassured the nation. But then his fortunes had changed. His popularity fell to a low 47% in the Gallup poll late in October. His tireless campaigning for election drew yawns from even the party faithful. Ronald Reagan was challenging him on the right and moving up in the polls. More and more Americans were complaining that Ford's presidency lacked purpose and direction. Thus, at the private strategy session...
...movie star was acting again, it was a persuasive performance. Ronald Reagan sounded angry and dismayed by last week's events, and yet he could only feel helped by President Ford's clumsy handling of the Cabinet shake-ups and his diminished credibility. A Gallup poll of 339 Republicans taken two weeks before last week's firing showed Ford ahead of Reagan, 58% to 36%, but an NBC poll of 245 Republicans taken just after the shifts put Reagan out front...
...they probe, prod, tickle and test opinion, the pollsters never run out of questions about American political choices, product preferences and psychological hang-ups. But what do the people think about the pollsters? Inevitably, the Gallup poll took a poll - and discovered that 15% of the respondents had participated in earlier public surveys and that 67% felt that the country would be better off if national leaders heeded the polls' results. Alas, those results may be harder to get in the future...
Officials at Gallup and other orga nizations are growing worried that many Americans are simply refusing to answer survey takers' questions when the bell rings. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Twenty years ago we could count on getting 85% [of a selected sample] with reasonable effort. Now we're hard-pressed...
...pineapple milkshake, patting the beefy flank of a prizewinning steer, comparing a wooden porch swing to the one owned by "a girl I used to court." But the brief Western trip had its serious side. The President's approval rating had dropped to 45% in the Gallup poll and to 38% in the Harris, so he was intent on explaining his policies wherever he went: touring an oil-shale plant with a hard-hat on his head or mingling with crowds at the Iowa State Fair with a button saying HOGS ARE BEAUTIFUL in his lapel...