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...course, would be horrified by such tactics. It is their freedom to pray, they insist, that has been taken away by a zealous cadre of secularists, and they are only trying to reclaim it, without coercing anyone. Polls have consistently shown heavy majorities in favor of school prayer; Gallup reported last September that 81% of respondents who had followed the issue supported an amendment that would permit "voluntary" prayer, vs. only 14% opposed. Says Dan Alexander, president of a Mobile, Ala., organization called Save Our Schools: "We've allowed a small, very vocal minority to pick away...
...late February a CBS News poll found that Hart had the support of 7% of Democrats for the nomination; by last week that figure had shot up to 38%. A Gallup poll completed last Tuesday, ages ago by the speed-of-light standards of this race, found that among all American voters, Gary Hart was preferred over Ronald Reagan by 52% to 43%. In the same Gallup sampling, Reagan beat Mondale (50% to 45%) and Senator John Glenn (52% to 41%). Of course, the voters scrambling to support Hart might leave him tomorrow, or next week in the important Illinois...
...said Kaufman, "a retraction may serve as a more realistic balm for ravaged reputations than does monetary compensation." Libel plaintiffs may agree, according to Gilbert Cranberg, Gallup Professor of Journalism at the University of Iowa. In his study of some 114 cases, he says, plaintiffs show "great interest in vindication rather than money...
Those initiatives, however, were not enough to offset voters' growing weariness. In January a Gallup poll found that only 32% of the electorate favored the Liberals, with 52% for Mulroney's Conservatives. After Trudeau's resignation was announced, the Toronto stock market rocketed 16 points. In Washington, where differences of style and ideology with Trudeau have grown pronounced under Ronald Reagan, there were also sighs of relief...
...suppose, asks one young researcher in this fantasy, that Mondale's nomination became inevitable way back then? That Gallup, Kirkland and the media rallied behind Walter Mondale without even knowing...