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...Those moves, Dutton reasoned, would enable McGovern to pick up a net gain of some 13 million youthful voters over the Republicans and provide the margin of victory against Richard Nixon in November. Last week Dutton and the entire McGovern campaign received another rude jolt from the polls. George Gallup reported that those millions of young voters actually favor the re-election of President Nixon by an astounding margin...
...both parties accelerate their drive to capture a youth vote that seems to offer McGovern his best chance for an upset, officials in both campaigns doubt that Nixon has any such decisive advantage. Gallup concedes that his sample was small, including only 221 potential voters under the age of 30, and that on purely statistical grounds it could be as much as 8 points in error -which would still yield at least a 9-point Nixon edge. What the Gallup findings do indicate is that a segment of the population that once seemed trimly tailored to a McGovern candidacy...
...that both candidates-whatever their moral scruples-are miscalculating the issue's political reverberations. Last week a Gallup Poll found that 64% of all Americans are actually in favor of legalized abortions, with Republicans more in favor (68%) than independents (67%) or Democrats (59%). Even Catholics in the sample approved by 56%. Three years ago, only 40% of those polled favored legalized abortions...
...Richard Nixon. He had better stick with that." But there are mystifying crosscurrents moving at this stage of the campaign. Even as a Harris poll was showing that the Eagleton affair had sent McGovern to a miserable 34% rating behind Nixon's 57% in voter preference, a Gallup poll disclosed that 53% of Americans believe that the Democratic Party can handle the problems that most concern them better than the Republicans. The reverse was true when Humphrey began his campaign against Nixon in 1968; yet Humphrey very nearly won as Nixon's once commanding lead evaporated down...
...Pigs, had to obey this law. Although he resisted advice to commit a large force to Viet Nam, he still had to send enough troops to ensure a stalemate. That the escalations of subsequent Presidents were made after considerable pessimistic advice and with one eye on the Gallup poll leads Ellsberg to dismiss the general belief that the U.S. sank slowly in the East like some hapless woolly mammoth in a tar pit. Perhaps Presidents overestimated the consequences of clear-cut withdrawal not only because of the advice they received but also because of their own timid estimates of what...