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...Harris poll showed Muskie tied with Nixon in popularity; both got 42%. In that Harris survey, George Wallace scored 11%. Last week, in a Gallup poll of Democratic voters, results for the first time since the Chappaquiddick episode showed that Muskie was the popular choice over Ted Kennedy 32% to 27%. Another Gallup poll, excluding Kennedy, gave Muskie 39% to Hubert Humphrey...
...death penalty. By now, 14 states have outlawed executions completely (or with narrow exceptions, notably for killing an on-duty policeman). Still, American juries continue to impose death penalties at a rate that has remained relatively constant for a decade: 100 per year. Moreover, while a 1966 Gallup poll showed that a narrow plurality of 47% opposed capital punishment for murder, the most recent survey found that, with growing fears about crime, 51% of Americans now favor the death penalty...
There remains the Muskie view that a ticket with a black person on it is not yet electable. In this connection, one may want to ponder a series of six Gallup polls taken from 1958 to this past fall. White Americans were asked, "If your party nominated a generally well-qualified man for President and he happened to be a Negro, would you vote for him?" The number saying yes rose from 38 per cent in 1958 to 70 per cent today. That is encouraging, of course. Yet polls are not infallible, and people will often behave quite otherwise...
...course party politicians. Humphrey, who lost the presidency to Richard Nixon in 1968 by a mere half-million votes, insists that his chance for a second nomination is good. He eagerly points out that he has consistently been ranked "no worse" than third, and in the last Gallup poll, he was tied with Kennedy behind Muskie. He says that he is not alarmed by the competition. He explains: "I'm not so sure one man dominates the scene completely...
...once again seeking support for a presidential primary drive. No one--not even McCarthy--knows whether he is actually seeking the nomination for himself. Lawrence O'Brien said a few weeks ago that he did not yet recognize McCarthy as a candidate for the Democratic Party Nomination; and he Gallup poll does not include McCarthy in its standings. Martin Peretz, one of the major contributors in '68 and now again in '72 said in last week's Time magazine that he would not give McCarthy full financial support "until Gene shows the determination to make a hard and serious effort...