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When Big Jim Thompson voted on Tuesday morning, a winner's smile flashed across his broad face. Only two days before, a Gallup poll showed the bluff 6-ft. 6-in. Republican Governor leading his mild-mannered opponent, Adlai Stevenson III, by 16 points. But when Thompson went to bed at 2 Wednesday morning, the corners of his smile had turned downward: he was leading by just over 1%. By midday Thursday, as votes were still being tabulated, he was wearing a full-fledged frown of dismay: with more than 3.5 million votes cast, the once confident Thompson...
...says the liberal civil rights establishment--and he counts [Julius] Chambers and [Jack] Greenberg among its members--is pushing busing policies on Whites and Blacks that neither of them want." First, it is incorrect that most adult Blacks oppose busing, but it is correct that most Whites do. A Gallup survey in 1980 found 82 percent of Whites opposed to busing, but 67 percent of Blacks favored busing. But data on Whites who experienced busing show a more differentiated situation. In a 1979 survey of White parents, whose children had been bused for integration, that asked--"How did the busing...
...economic difficulties, worse than those of the U.S., are having their political consequences. A recent Gallup poll showed that the Prime Minister, now in his 14th year in office, and his Liberal Party would be soundly defeated by the opposition Progressive Conservatives if elections were held today. Three weeks ago, the Liberals suffered humiliating defeats in three parliamentary by-elections in Ontario, leaving Trudeau with a mere ten-seat majority (146 to 136) in the House of Commons...
...other hand, White House aides are baffled by polls showing that voters approve Reagan's policies of cutting Government spending, fighting inflation and lowering taxes, but that they still intend to vote for Democratic congressional candidates in impressive numbers-56% to 44% according to the latest Gallup poll...
Perhaps this is why we are becoming a half-informed country. Gallup, testing whether the public supported Reagan in his opposition to the Soviet pipeline, discovered that only half the people had even heard of the project. The Washington Post-ABC poll finds that only four of ten Americans followed the news from Lebanon closely. To news junkies who try to keep up on events (perhaps a declining breed), TV speaks in some depth and detail only in the off-hours...