Word: polled
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Whether the showing of his harder and sterner side to more people has helped Humphrey to improve his "image" is hard to say. Humphrey's main problem is no secret: he is simply not so popular as Robert Kennedy. The confidential memorandum, after all, was precipitated by a Gallup Poll which showed that many more Americans would like to see (and could imagine seeing) Robert Kennedy than Hubert Humphrey as President of the United States...
...weather vanes shifted largely as a result of Viet Nam. The war is already uppermost in the minds of an impressive number of voters. A poll conducted for the Republican National Committee by New Jersey's Opinion Research Corp. indicates that fully 33% of U.S. voters consider it the nation's No. 1 problem, while an additional 20% regard such closely related issues as the threat of world war or the menace of Communism as dominant. By comparison, only 19% of the voters consider the most important domestic issue, civil rights, to be the nation's chief...
Nonetheless, its basic strategy is suggested by a Lou Harris poll showing that only 49% of the voters currently approve Lyndon Johnson's handling of the war, v. 66% in December. This does not by any means suggest that the argument will resemble the familiar dove-hawk controversy. Many Republican campaigners will undoubtedly urge intensified bombing of North Viet Nam, particularly "source" targets in the Hanoi-Haiphong industrial complex, which have been spared on the President's orders. The Administration may also be criticized for not calling up the reserves-or, if they have been mobilized by November...
Indeed they were. Only the day before, the Prime Minister had done what his party had hoped he would. Capitalizing on the average Briton's unparalleled prosperity and Labor's soaring popularity, he called a general election for March 31. The Gallup poll forecast that Wilson would win a 165-seat majority in the 630-seat House. London bookies made Labor a 6-to-1 favorite...
...order to propel his close-knit cast through a long, fragmentized narrative, Director Lumet has to bob around a good deal, ticker-taping a chatty alumnae newsletter across the screen like subtitles in a foreign movie, sometimes cutting from character to character as though he were taking an opinion poll. Linking political and social history to the girls' private affairs also creates momentary strain, since the audience cannot really profit much from learning that the German army has attacked Poland just after good ole Pokey (Mary-Robin Redd) delivers her second set of twins. Although The Group...