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Selected by the social-research firm of Daniel Yankelovich Inc., the 200-member panel is a cross section of citizens by geography, age, sex, education, employment, income and political affiliation. The participants were asked their opinions on such issues as Viet Nam, busing, crime, taxes and the economy. Unlike subjects in a typical political poll, they were encouraged to respond thoughtfully and at length. The TIME panel members will be interviewed again at later stages of the campaign to find out how their opinions are being affected by the candidates and by current events. Other panels will also be formed...
...Citizens Panel is just one of the many lenses through which we are observing politics this week. Our cover story, written by Keith Johnson, examines McGovern's political history and reports on why his candidacy has flourished while Edmund Muskie's has wilted. Reportage and analysis by TIME staffers are supplemented by a second Yankelovich poll. In this one, Pennsylvanians were questioned about their presidential preferences as they left the voting booths, but before they knew the election's outcome...
...monitor the changeable voter mood this election year, TIME has commissioned Daniel Yankelovich Inc. to select and periodically interview members of a TIME Citizens Panel. The panel consists of 200 citizens chosen at random out of a carefully selected larger sample of 2,000 people who are a cross section of the national voting-age population. Here is the first of seven reports on the American mood this election year...
CREDIBILITY. A majority of the panel are skeptical about much of what they hear from the President, journalists, politicians and labor leaders. Many on the panel doubt that Nixon has told the truth about Viet Nam or that his Administration is believable when it contends that large contributions to the Republican Party do not influence Government decisions. They distrust labor leaders' statements about the economy and reporters' comments about the news, especially those made on television. They doubt that Governor Wallace really puts the interests of "the little man" ahead of his own self-interest...
...majority of Americans. They do not believe that the two-party system leads to the election of the best possible man to the White House. There is, however, at least one man they tend to trust more than those now in high office or running for President. Half the panel has confidence in Ralph Nader and the charges he levels at Government and business in behalf of consumers and environmentalists...