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...moral of the latest Gallup poll seems to be that the harder they run, the bigger they fall...
...Gallup stacked Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge against President Johnson in a series of trial heats. On a nationwide basis, Rocky fared worst: he drew 16% of the votes to Johnson's 77% . Goldwater was hardly better off, with 18% to Lyndon's 75%. But, in an impressive demonstration of the importance of being coy, Non-Candidate Nixon got 24% of the votes against 71% for the President, and Lodge-who is even more of a non-candidate-did best of all, with 25% to Johnson...
Wide-open Atmosphere. Thus everybody talks about the current sexual situation; but does everyone know what he's talking about? No new Kinsey report or Gallup poll can chart the most private-and most universal-of subjects. What people say does not necessarily reflect what they do, and what they do does not necessarily show how they feel about it. Yet out of an aggregate of words and actions, every society makes a statement about itself. Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles sums it up: "The atmosphere is wide open. There is more promiscuity, and it is taken...
...thick of the battle." His main concern, he said, was to see that the G.O.P. gets the "strongest possible candidate," and to that end he was "prepared to make any sacrifice"-which most observers took to mean that he would give up his law practice and run. Meanwhile, the Gallup poll showed him leading all others as of now. >Before Washington's National Press Club, Michigan's Governor George Romney was asked if he would accept a draft. "I have no way of knowing whether such a demand might develop. It would be presumptuous to assume that...
...where would it all lead? The Gallup poll last week conducted trial runs between Johnson and Nixon and Johnson and Goldwater, found that the President had overwhelming leads-69% to 24% against Nixon, 75% to 20% against Goldwater. But such polls are patently absurd so early in any election year. And despite growing talk that Johnson can't lose, some ready, willing and eager Republicans were plainly ready to prove it wrong...