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American consumers are increasingly concerned about the safety of their money in the bank. In a poll taken in July for American Banker newspaper, 36% of the people surveyed said their confidence in banks had fallen. According to Gallup polls, the percentage of Americans who profess a high degree of faith in bankers dropped from 60% in 1979 to 51% last year...
...July 1983, Hunt led Helms in statewide public opinion polls by as much as 19 percentage points. Thirteen months later, a September Gallup Poll showed Helms leading Hunt by four points, a 23-point reversal. Today, with less than a week to go before the election, the race is a tossup, with Helms showing a slight, statistically insignificant lead. Even in Wilson, the governor's home county in eastern North Carolina, a local newpaper poll shows Helms leading Hunt, 46 to 42 percent. But the poll's 4.5 percent margin of error makes the race a dead heat...
That, too, is not in dispute. A recent Gallup poll on abortion, taken in the summer of 1982, shows that 64% of U.S. Catholics oppose "a ban on all abortion." That is almost as large as the opposition among all Americans (69%) and all Protestants (70%). Even "evangelical" Protestants, Gallup found, oppose an abortion...
...likely to heal for the moment the divisions within the party. "Most of us are big enough to look beyond schisms in the past and look toward defeating Reagan," said Alabama State Senator Michael Figures, a Jackson supporter. "Jesse's message helps Mondale immensely." In a Gallup poll released last week by the Joint Center for Political Studies, 88% of blacks said they would vote for Mondale...
...chosen to head the Conservative Party it enjoyed a comfortable lead of 55% to 27% over the Liberals in the polls. By the time the Liberals held their convention last June, the polls put the Liberals out in front of the Conservatives by 48% to 39%. The latest Gallup survey shows the Conservatives back in the lead with 46% to 32%. New Democrat Broadbent, who could serve as a powerbroker should either of the two major parties fail to win a decisive majority, did particularly well in the poll, improving his standing by seven points...