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Nevertheless, the odds against the first successful challenge to an incumbent President in 84 years may be growing shorter. This week's Gallup poll shows Kennedy pulling ahead of Johnson in popularity among Democrats 44% to 41%, after having trailed him 44% to 45% the week before announcing his candidacy. Mervin Field's California poll showed that in a three-way race in the June 4 primary there, Kennedy would draw 42% of the vote, Johnson 32% and McCarthy 18%; in a two-way race, the survey shows Bobby shellacking the President...
...when both may be needed to cope with disorders in the cities; higher taxes; perhaps even wage and price controls. The effects on Johnson's political future would be no less profound, for support of the war has reached an alltime low within the nation. According to a Gallup poll released this week, 49% of Americans-the highest total ever-believe that the U.S. made a mistake in sending troops to fight in Viet Nam, while only 41% approved...
...Still, a Gallup poll last week showed Nixon the choice of 51% of G.O.P. voters, followed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (25%) and California's Governor Ronald Reagan (8%). Romney was in fourth place with 7%. Another Gallup rated Nixon even, 42 to 42, with President Johnson among all the nation's voters...
...Viet Nam have failed to rally Congress, the public at large seems to be reacting differently. Opinion polls show that approval of Johnson's handling of the war remains low. Support of the war itself, however, seems to have risen since the Communists' Tet offensive. The Gallup survey periodically asks people to classify themselves as hawks or doves. Since January, the self-described hawks have increased from 56%, to 61%, and the doves have decreased from 28%, to 23%. The latest Louis Harris survey found that those expressing general support for the war have increased from...
...Gaulle's mischievous ways also got their comeuppance in the U.S. last week. For the first time in history, a Gallup poll showed that a majority of adult Americans-51%-look upon France as a "negative" and unfriendly country; ten years ago, 68% considered France a friend...