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Early this month the National Opinion Poll gave Labour a lead of 12.4 per cent and the Gallup Poll forecast an 11 per cent Labour margin...
Compared with 1964, Gallup is discerning a four and a half per cent shift to Labour which would be enough to win Labour 77 seats now held by the Conservatives and to give Wilson a majority of 167. The National Opinion Poll is showing a swing to Labour of five and a quarter per cent, enough to give Labour a majority over the Conservatives of around 190. If the swing is 4.3 per cent or more, Heath will lose his own constituency of Bexley...
Whether the showing of his harder and sterner side to more people has helped Humphrey to improve his "image" is hard to say. Humphrey's main problem is no secret: he is simply not so popular as Robert Kennedy. The confidential memorandum, after all, was precipitated by a Gallup Poll which showed that many more Americans would like to see (and could imagine seeing) Robert Kennedy than Hubert Humphrey as President of the United States...
Indeed they were. Only the day before, the Prime Minister had done what his party had hoped he would. Capitalizing on the average Briton's unparalleled prosperity and Labor's soaring popularity, he called a general election for March 31. The Gallup poll forecast that Wilson would win a 165-seat majority in the 630-seat House. London bookies made Labor a 6-to-1 favorite...
...Catholic world. He was seconded by many liberal Catholic officials in the Boston area who articles redefining the Church's role in a pluralistic society and urged the Church not to impede non-Catholics' freedom of choice. Catholic thinking in general seemed to have changed: in a nation-wide Gallup Poll, 78% of the Catholics questioned had a lenient attitude toward making birth control information available (up from 53% in '63). Active opposition on religious grounds came only from a few "old-guard" Catholics, such as Senator William X. Wall and Representative Smith, who have always been strongly antagonistic...