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...even know that Berlin is surrounded by Communist East Germany), but there is clear agreement that the U.S. must stand fast against Russian threats. The U.S. is no more disposed to retreat from Berlin than it was during the 1948 airlift. At that time, the Gallup poll reported that 80% thought the U.S. should remain. Last week a Gallup poll showed an almost identical result: 81% favored a strong stand "even at the risk of war"; only 11% wanted to pull out while 8% had no opinion. What the voters told the first returning Congressmen confirmed the poll. In Boston...
Through a year of recession, unemployment, and some essential naysaying, Diefenbaker has managed to keep the voters on his side. The Gallup poll reports that 54% of the Canadians like the Tories-exactly the same proportion that voted for them a year ago. Reasons (as reported by Gallup) for the Tory popularity: old-age pensions, the government's record, and the buoyant, aggressive personality of John Diefenbaker...
...approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?" In response to this standard Gallup poll question, a nationwide cross section of U.S. citizens contradicted the Democratic image of a declining and increasingly unpopular President. In the Gallup sampling reported this week, 59% approved and 26% disapproved (15% had no opinion...
...results showed a comeback in Ike's popularity since his alltime low in recession-ridden April, when 49% approved and 35% disapproved. Ike's all-time high on the Gallup popularity scale: 79% at the time of the Geneva summit meeting in July 1955, and again at the start of his second term in January...
...comparison, Franklin Roosevelt's Gallup rating ranged from 84% to 34%, Harry Truman's from 87%, soon after he succeeded Roosevelt, to 23% at the scandal-marred, Korea-scarred end of his second term...