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...hopeless cause to give the President a political issue. The Senators also recognized something else that Kennedy did not: medicare is not so overwhelmingly popular an issue as the President seems to believe. Letters ran heavily against medicare after Kennedy's appearance in Madison Square Garden, and a Gallup poll showed that its popular support had dropped from 55% last March to 48% in June...
...Ontario, coincided with the June 18 national election, put his Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (center) and Liberal Opponent Lester Pearson (holding the lion) in the motley of a couple of Shakespearean comics. He didn't try to indicate the winner, which, to judge by Canada's latest Gallup poll, is a risky business...
...mere four months ago. Today, in a turnabout remarkable even by the volatile standards of U.S. politics, Rocky gets cheers from Republican regulars around the land. Almost everyone agrees that he is the man to beat for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1964. This week the Gallup poll (which takes Richard Nixon at his word that he will not be a candidate) reported that among rank-and-file Republicans Rocky has a handsome lead for 1964, with 32% as opposed to 23% for Barry Goldwater, a surprising 14% for Milton Eisenhower, and a mere 8% for Michigan...
...about a new Trans-Canada highway and a national power grid, side issues kept claiming the headlines: a feud between Diefenbaker and the press over the head count at his rallies, a tongue-lashing to a reporter who described a lackluster rally as a burst "Diefenbubble," attacks on the Gallup polls that showed the Liberals ahead. "What can they tell from a sampling of 1,700?" asked Diefenbaker. "I've been all across this great country, and I know what Canadians are thinking...
...belief that prices and profits will not rise enough to give him a chance for good investment gain. The businessman's notable lack of confidence reflects his fear that the President may further interfere in the normal workings of a free market. As measured by the latest Gallup poll, President Kennedy's popularity has dropped four points, to 73%, since he pounded back the steel industry's price hikes...