Word: mcgoverns
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OCTOBER is the month of the underdog, the time for a candidate who is trailing badly to make his most serious bid. This George McGovern is doing, but the bid does not seem strong enough. According to the latest poll conducted for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich Inc., the Democratic candidate has narrowed the gap with President Nixon, but has regained only the ground lost since the disastrous aftermath of the Eagleton affair. He remains far behind...
...states constituting 62% of the total electoral vote found Richard Nixon ahead, 57% to 27%, with 16% undecided. That lead of 30 points during the Oct. 1 to Oct. 10 period is nine points smaller than the Nixon margin in the same type of Yankelovich survey one month earlier. McGovern has narrowed the contest in four big states-New York, California, Michigan and Pennsylvania-but the latest findings are close to the results of the first Yankelovich Poll for TIME, taken in late July and early August. In effect, George McGovern has returned to "Go" with only one month remaining...
...McGovern is recapturing some of the Democrats who were earlier thinking of voting Republican. In the last TIME Poll, Nixon held a three-point lead among Democratic voters; now McGovern is ahead within his own party, 45% to 36%. McGovern has also gained ground on issues usually favorable to Democratic candidates. On such questions as which candidate would do more to close tax loopholes, would pay more attention to "the needs of the little man," and would do "more for minorities," McGovern now has respectable leads-as he did in late July and early August...
...foreign and military affairs, Nixon remains solidly ahead. When asked if the President is doing "everything he can" to end the war in Viet Nam, 62% said yes, 54% viewed Nixon as the "peace candidate"-a cruel irony for the Democrats because it was Viet Nam that first brought McGovern to prominence. The poll, however, was concluded on the day that McGovern made his major Viet Nam policy speech and does not reflect whatever impact the TV talk had. On the question of which candidate could "deal more effectively with Russia and China," 71% chose Nixon...
Yankelovich asked this question: "Now, forgetting politics, whom do you find more attractive as a personality-Nixon, McGovern or neither one?" The result: Nixon, 34%; McGovern, 26% ; neither one, 32% ; not sure, 8%. By this measure, McGovern is only eight points behind Nixon, a contrast to the 30-point spread on the main question of whom the voters pick for President. Obviously, the electorate prefers Nixon for reasons other than his personality. He may turn out to be the least liked man ever to win by a landslide...