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...ever the Republicans had a chance I to make political capital," says California Pollster Mervin Field, "it is now." With the latest polls showing that only 30% of the voters approve of Jimmy Carter's performance in office, the Republicans might be expected to exploit such traditional issues as high taxes and Government spending as a means of winning the coming congressional elections. Yet all across the country, Democrats are displaying considerable strength at the midsummer point in congressional races. Indeed a recent Gallup poll found that Americans by 59% to 41% planned to vote for Democratic congressional candidates...
...more knowledgeable about national issues. They see many more facets of a problem." That can of course be a disabling kind of sophistication. So can the fact that Americans have been schooled since the early '60s to a certain cynicism about in formation from their leaders. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "In the past 15 years the public has learned to live with the idea that accepted authority figures really can't be believed. The public would not be traumatized if Carter failed...
...Christian ideas on promiscuity. If anything, he showed himself much less arrogant than Ford. Ford said [in a Ladies' Home Journal interview] his daughter would never have an affair. That was pretty dumb. Carter was being truthful with all due humility." The reaction that most intrigued California Pollster Mervin Field was expressed by his 16-year-old daughter Melanie as she watched television news accounts with her father. When the Carter-Playboy story was concluded, Melanie asked: "Dad, is Jimmy Carter a weirdo...
...neck and neck in Oregon and Colorado and is close to Carter in Washington. Jerry Brown, wooed by Carter and eager to establish his good-soldier credentials for the future, has pledged to stump hard to help the Democrat carry the biggest prize, California's 45 electoral votes. Pollster Mervin Field feels Carter leads by six to eight points, but warns that the margin is soft...
...could hurt the Democratic nominee in a close election. A nationwide Gallup poll, taken from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9, gave McCarthy 6% of the vote. That figure could be larger in some crucial Northern states-enough to tilt them out of the Democratic column. In California, a Mervin Field poll, taken between July 24 and Aug. 3, gave McCarthy 7% of the vote...