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...President remained calm. He seemed to snap back from his depression after losing Nebraska. "We've got to keep our cool," he told an agitated aide. Ford could still take heart from the latest Gallup poll, completed May 3, showing that Republicans favored him 60% to 35% over Reagan. The President was putting his faith in the basic instincts of Republicans when their hands were finally on the voting lever. Wild as they may be about Reagan, most Republicans know that they will probably have a better chance of winning in November with Ford...
Various Yankelovich, Harris, Gallup and University of Michigan surveys place the percentage of voters who consider themselves Republican at between 18% and 25%, v. between 42% and 50% who consider themselves Democrats (the rest are self-styled independents). While Reagan backers insist that their man is now showing he can attract independents and Democrats, his following so far seems to be a narrowly based conservative bloc. "If Reagan succeeds in putting this coalition together," observes Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "it's not going to be a new majority, it's going to be a new minority...
...voters seek to escape fevered controversy, there are also positive qualities in the prevailing mood. Even though only a third of the voters tell Gallup pollsters that they are thinking "a lot" about the election, the primary voting turnout is only slightly down from 1972. Rather than abandoning politics, voters seem to be demanding more from the candidates...
...public is beginning to share that belief. A Gallup Poll last month reported that only 36% of those polled thought that too much was being spent on defense, down from 44% in September 1974. The growing worries about U.S. military strength have been skillfully exploited by Ronald Reagan, who has caustically attacked Ford's defense policies (see story page 19). For his part, Ford has adopted "peace through strength" as his campaign slogan and promised last week to take the unprecedented step of vetoing any Pentagon budget that is much lower than what he has proposed. Senators and Representatives...
Apparently, Brown's candidacy did not strike that many people as unpleasantly unorthodox-without campaigning, he finished higher in the Gallup Poll than either Henry Jackson or Morris Udall...