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...most of the nation, politics today has become a slick package of computer predictions, gallup polls and flashy ad campaigns. But none of these innovations have yet invaded Martin County, Kentucky, and politics there proceed with a familiarly and lack of restraint that has changed little in remembered years...
...something has happened in the press. The stories have softened. There has been a backlash in favor of the resolute First Lady with the Adolfo pattern. After writing a particularly harsh piece, a Washington Post columnist was deluged with mail expressing outrage-at the columnist, not Mrs. Reagan. George Gallup polled Americans and found her the woman they most admired...
Since longitudinal surveys were rare in the Revolutionary Era, and George Gallup was still several generations distant when Old Hickory sat in the White House, Huntington concentrates on the 1960s and 1970s, a span lotted up and graphed more completely than any in our history. His contention that the 1960s closely resembled the other "creedal passion periods" in the degree of adherence to traditional American political values is not so much wrong as incomplete. Certainly, adherence to some "American creed," especially in the early years, is a current that runs through much of the writing from the New Left. Mario...
...from Labor disgusted with the party's swing left and Tories equally fed up with the intransigence of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's archconservatism. This fall, the S.D.P. forged an alliance with the Liberal Party to fight the next general election due by spring 1984. The latest Gallup poll showed that if an election were held now the S.D.P./Liberal alliance would get 43% of the vote, Labor 28% and the incumbent Tories only...
...study done for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Gallup polls in September, 55% of consumers said that now was a bad time to buy expensive items for the home. In June only 48% felt that way. Says Paul Reardon, associate chief economist for the chamber: "Things have fallen apart since September. It is just the idea among consumers that they might be laid...