Word: gallups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficulties inherent in Court campaigns go on and on. Should a Justice take stands on specific issues, thereby prejudicing himself in future cases? Should Justices look to Gallup polls in deciding cases to insure that they do not lose touch with the will of the people? And should a Justice prostitute himself to PACs in order to raise money to hire political consultants and run campaign ads? A Justice who campaigns may find it difficult to serve with integrity; but without a campaign, it may be difficult for a justice to serve...
...committee members seem blinded by their would-be candidate's extraordinary popularity. A Gallup poll found that the only public figures more highly esteemed in America are Ronald Reagan and the Pope. A poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman shows Iacocca as the first choice for the Democratic presidential nomination among 18% of Democrats and Independents. The Chrysler chairman's ranking was second only to that of Colorado Senator Gary Hart. There is some doubt, however, whether his standing -- which rests primarily on name recognition -- could be converted into real voter support in an actual campaign...
...about Reagan soothes and unites--even though the effects of his programs may repel. He softens the meaner edges of conservatism with populist effusions, reaching outside the rigid framework of ideologies to the pool of shared American experience, to our dreamy nostalgias. Two landslides and six years on, the Gallup poll gives Reagan a 68% approval rating, the best he has done since May 1981, after he was shot and responded gallantly to the ordeal. Pollsters say Reagan has consistently higher ratings over a longer period than any other second-term President since polling began...
...hierarchy. In a colorful ordination Mass, combining standard Catholic liturgy with the chants and dances of the Navajo, Pueblo and Apache tribes, Donald Pelotte, 41, an Abenaki from the far-off Algonquin nation (the Northeastern U.S.) became bishop of the 45,000-member New Mexico and Arizona diocese of Gallup...
Most Americans apparently agree with Donaldson. In a 1985 Gallup poll, 62% of tobacco users and 85% of abstainers thought smokers should refrain from lighting up when nonsmokers are around. That agreement, say tobacco foes, is the result of well-publicized, though controversial, studies on the dangers of secondhand smoke. Explains John Banzhof of the Washington-based Action on Smoking and Health (ASH): "The burning issue in cigarette smoking now is not the harm you can do to yourself but the harm to others...