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Some national polls reflect a dramatic jump in approval. Gallup has Bush at 70%, up 14 points since May, 10 points higher than Ronald Reagan when he approached the six-month mark. A TIME/CNN poll taken last Wednesday shows Bush cruising along at 63% approval at a point when the presidential honeymoon usually comes to an end and a slide begins. Pundits have called this a "second honeymoon" and "Teflon II." Neither seems quite right since we now know that Bush takes showers with his dog -- hardly the stuff of romance...
...across as a kid struggling gamely with an adult role. While some surveys have shown a modest improvement in the public's general perception of him, he still gets negative marks on the critical question attaching to any Vice President: Is he qualified to assume the presidency? A May Gallup poll reported that 52% of Americans think...
Nonetheless, there seems to be substantial public support for the notion that a woman should be held accountable for her actions during pregnancy. A Gallup poll conducted for Hippocrates magazine last year found that 48% of those who responded agreed that a woman who smokes or drinks during pregnancy should be legally liable for damage to her infant...
Strikingly, it is often Jane rather than John Q. Public who is the first- time gun buyer these days. Guns have long been viewed as a symbol of male sexual power and arrogance, an attitude captured by the Beatles' song Happiness Is a Warm Gun. Yet surveys by Gallup for Smith & Wesson, the gunmaker, show that the number of women purchasing firearms increased 53% between 1983 and 1986, while the number thinking of buying one quadrupled, to nearly 2 million. Many of those plans have undoubtedly turned into purchases, though no updated figures are available...
Voluntary national service has long been widely popular; in an early 1988 Gallup poll, 83% of those surveyed endorsed the concept. The problem is that given free choice, few 18-year-olds are likely to sign on at subsistence wages to empty bedpans or monitor naptime in day-care centers. Existing state and local programs that foster community-service apprenticeships have been unable to tap the wellsprings of middle-class idealism; in 1987 almost all the 7,000 ! young adults enrolled in such programs came from low-income families. The sad truth is that any major commitment to national service...