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...Republican Party is unmistakably a minority party and cannot win the 1960 presidential election without capturing an overwhelming majority of the independent votes. So, in effect, reported the Gallup poll this week after a sampling of 9,415 voters; only 30% said they considered themselves Republicans, as against 47% who said they were Democrats and a remarkable 23% who classified themselves as Independents. (Back in early 1956, the Gallup poll estimated the party leanings at 40% Republican, 52% Democratic, 8% Independent or undecided. An estimated 15% of the Democrats voted for Ike that year, plus about 70% of the neither...
Today, more professional and business people and more college-trained voters are Republican, according to Gallup, but in all other categories the Democrats lead. The anatomy of the electorate...
...important domestic issue of the 1960 campaign. But so far it has had little impact on public opinion. As the public sees it, the No. 1 economic issue by far is the high cost of living. Paradoxically, the public feels, by a margin of 8 to 5 in a Gallup poll, that the Democratic Party, rather than the Republican, is more interested in trying to hold down prices. In public opinion, apparently, the long spell of price upcreep beginning in 1956 cancels out the Administration's stress on the goal of sound money...
Last spring the Gallup poll undertook to find out what, if anything, people thought the Federal Government should be spending more money on. Topping the list: education. The Gallup finding indicates that federal aid to education will be one of 1960's most important domestic issues. Johnson, Humphrey, Kennedy and Symington all favor more of it. Vice President Nixon's efforts to take hold of the education issue ("Inadequate classrooms, underpaid teachers and flabby standards are weaknesses we must constantly strive to eliminate") are hindered by the fact that President Eisenhower has drawn back from his first-term...
...itself, unrelated to differences between the two parties, lurks the bristly issue of religion-meaning the religion of one particular Democratic hopeful, Roman Catholic John Kennedy. In a Gallup poll last year, one voter out of three in the South and one out of five in the rest of the U.S. said that he would not vote for a Catholic for President even if the nominee was "generally well qualified" (but only 47% of the voters polled knew that Jack Kennedy is a Catholic). Hence Kennedy's Democratic rivals may try to convince convention delegates that a Catholic cannot...