Word: polled
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...will be something less than a referendum on Vietnam policy; the results will also depend on normal partisan alignments, differences on domestic policy, and personal popularity, that the general public can be separated into neat groups of hawks, doves, Administration backers and "peacenicks." Actually, the most through public opinion poll, conducted late last winter by political scientists at Stanford and Chicago, shows the majority of Americans to be profoundly ambivalent about the war. Fifty-six per cent opposed even a gradual withdrawal, 61 per cent approved President Johnson's actions, but 54 per cent opposed a continuation...
...fact catches even an agile politician like Lyndon Johnson in a dilemma. He can act within a relatively wide range of alternatives, and be sure that the public will approve of what he does; but the same public will almost inevitably dislike the out come. Since the Stanford-Chicago poll was taken the conflicts between the Ky government and the Buddhists, plus the steadily rising number of casualties, have discredited the President's policies. In the latest nationwide poll, only 47 per cent supported Johnson's actions in Vietnam...
...there has been no mention of the avowed "peace candidates." The omission is deliberate. Third party candidates running on peace platforms will be no more successful than they have been in the recent part; in other words, they will poll so few votes that they will only underscore the weakness of their cause. Nor are the people who are running in Democratic (or occasionally Republican) primaries against pro-Administration Congressmen likely to achieve many victories. Howard Morgan's decisive loss in Oregon suggests that opposition to an admittedly unpopular war is not enough to overcome the advantages held by incumbent...
...more unpopular. However, he also knows that the more harmful unpopularity comes from those who prefer escalation so withdrawal. If the present policy were ruled out as an alternative, the public would prefer expansion of the war to withdrawal by a 2-1 margin, according to the Stanford-Chicago poll...
...best organized and most extreme group, there was the American Independence League, the Youth Committee Against War, and the Harvard Anti-War Committee. If the massive rallies planned by these groups did always materialize, it was not because they had no supporters. In November of 1939 a Student Union poll of 1800 undergraduates revealed that per cent opposed immediate intervention on in the European war, and 78 per cent would oppose U.S. participation even if Britain and France were the point of being defeated...