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...course of George McGovern's presidential campaign apparently has turned a corner of sorts-at least in the public-opinion polls. He is beginning to narrow the huge lead held by Richard Nixon. Both the Gallup poll and Harris survey now place McGovern 28 percentage points behind Nixon, a gain for the Democrat of six points since the previous surveys by both polling firms...
...whose polling techniques did not screen out probable nonvoters, the apparent discrepancies seem to be largely a matter of timing. Taken over a period of 21 weeks (Aug. 25-Sept. 12), the Yankelovich study, for example, showed a slight upswing for McGovern in its last week. The most recent Gallup and Harris polls, conducted in late September, confirmed that some pro-McGovern shift in sentiment was taking place...
...those who object to having their opinions computerized, the discomforting truth is that the major polls have been astonishingly accurate in predicting presidential elections ever since the miscalculations of the Harry Truman upset of Thomas Dewey in 1948. Since that time, however, the largest discrepancy between the final Gallup reading, for example, and a presidential-election result was the 4.4 points by which Gallup underestimated Dwight Eisenhower's voter popularity in 1952. After that, Gallup's biggest miss was the mere 2.7 points by which he overestimated Lyndon Johnson's 1964 edge over Barry Goldwater. The average...
...empted the frankfurter's place on many Eastern city streets. On both coasts, the Mexican taco has become a short-order staple. Soul food has gone national. Colonel Sanders' finger-lickin' Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets now number 3,500. The pizza, according to a Gallup Organization poll, is the No. 1 favorite snack of 21-to-34-year-olds. (Any of those foods many contain additives, too, but they have not yet been in the Nader pressure cooker...
...analyzing the attitudes of youth since 1945, and made its latest findings available to TIME. In personal interviews in August, the Gilbert organization found that the political views of 1,094 youths in the 18-through-25 age category show a much narrower gap between the candidates than does Gallup. Nevertheless, Nixon leads 51% to 44.5%. As expected, McGovern holds a large lead (59.9% to 43.3%) among college students, and Nixon's margin is almost precisely the same (51.1% to 35.4%) among youths not in school. The fact that of the 25 million potential new voters, about 18 million...