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...Miami Beach badly split over McGovern's brand of populism and the reformist zeal of his insurgents in taking party control away from its veteran power brokers. At the same time, national approval of Richard Nixon's conduct as President is running at 56%, and a preconvention Gallup poll puts him 16% ahead of McGovern in a two-way race. His sensational summitry has earned widespread praise, even from Democrats. Nixon has skillfully used his presidential powers to take action that could attract traditional Democratic blocs to his side, including his stand against busing and abortion...
Against the potentially fractured Democrats, the Republicans will be united behind a President whose approval rating in the Gallup poll is now up to 60%, just short of a two-year high. Arthur Bremer's pistol seems to have ended or seriously diminished the threat from the right of a third-party George Wallace candidacy. But above all, Nixon has the presidential power and political freedom to zig and zag. In his press conference last week, for example, the President announced that the Paris peace talks will resume next week -during the Democratic Convention. Thus the prospect of negotiations...
...Many state laws not only permit the use of corporal punishment in the schools, but appear to prohibit local school boards from banning it, and eight states, including Michigan and Virginia, have enacted statutes since 1958 explicitly legalizing the practice. Both parents and teachers seem to approve: a 1970 Gallup poll reported that 62% of parents queried believed in modest use of physical punishment, and a 1969 National Education Association poll found that 65% of elementary teachers favored the "judicious use" of physical punishment in the classroom...
Wallace, too, runs far behind his Florida primary victory and his strong Wisconsin showing in the national polls to date. Muskie topped the national lists until last month, when he fell behind Humphrey in the Gallup poll...
...represent "a microcosm of the whole country." He cites the factor of heavy Republican crossover voting in the Wisconsin Democratic contest, mostly for Wallace and McGovern. Such a cross-over is not reflected in Harris polls, since only Democratic and independent voters are tabulated. Similar polls taken by Gallup are limited to Democrats alone...