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...Reagan by an even greater 55%-32%. The latest Gallup pairing, taken in late May, had a similar result: Carter over Ford, 52%-40%, and trouncing Reagan 55%-37%. An earlier Harris survey also showed Carter beating Ford by smaller margins than he would top Reagan. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "I'm hard-pressed to rate Carter worse than even in any of the 50 states, and he is clearly the favorite in 25 to 30. It's difficult to diagnose anything other than a sweep...
...polls, Ford generally fares better than Reagan among all voters. In fact, in a Mervin Field poll published last week, Ford trailed Carter in California only 41-40, while Reagan was eight points in arrears?46-38. But both appear threatened by serious Republican defections to Carter. A New York Times/CBS survey of voters in Ohio and California and a Times survey of New Jersey voters showed that an astonishing 35% of Reagan and Ford supporters plan to vote for Carter if their own favorite fails to win the G.O.P. nomination. This percentage would seem certain to shrink as passions...
California Pollster Mervin Field interpreted the election results as a "checkerboard pattern." Property owners, the elderly and people on fixed incomes voted for Barbagelata. Minorities, renters, and the relatively young opted for Moscone. The election, said Field, shows two kinds of tides. "One is the ebbing tide of traditional liberal, labor and cultural concepts-the idea that government can do it for you. Against this is the rising tide of the 'new conservatism'-which is related to fear about crime, the inability to get services from government, and fiscal responsibility." Both candidates agreed that the election showed...
That dialectic has made Brown, for the moment at least, the most popular Governor in California history. By a margin of more than 7 to 1, voters polled recently by Mervin Field approved his performance - a level of support well above Ronald Reagan's at his peak. Brown was interviewed by TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook in Los Angeles at El Adobe, an unpretentious restaurant featuring the Jerry Brown special (arroz con polio). His thoughts on a variety of topics...
Candidate Ford can dangle prospects of a vice-presidential nomination to induce various Republicans to back him. Mused California Pollster Mervin Field: "Ford has a wide-open dance card because he's not coming to the prom with a girl of his own." Among the contenders are three members of the Administration's new "team": Rumsfeld, Bush and Elliot Richardson (see page 30), who was named to succeed Rogers Morton as Secretary of Commerce. Morton is expected to take over leadership of the President's campaign from Director Howard ("Bo") Callaway, who has been blamed by many Republicans...