Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worst Grade. But how to beat Lyndon Johnson? In current opinion polls he is running better than two-to-one ahead of any and every G.O.P. contender. Still, Republicans had a new poll of their own that gave them hope. They had asked people across the U.S. to check a series of phrases they thought best fitted the President. Johnson did pretty well in such categories as "has warm personality" (35% thought he did), "has good judgment" (26%) and "is dignified and statesmanlike" (24%). But Lyndon's worst grade came under the heading, "has strong convictions": only 11% thought...
...battle." His main concern, he said, was to see that the G.O.P. gets the "strongest possible candidate," and to that end he was "prepared to make any sacrifice"-which most observers took to mean that he would give up his law practice and run. Meanwhile, the Gallup poll showed him leading all others as of now. >Before Washington's National Press Club, Michigan's Governor George Romney was asked if he would accept a draft. "I have no way of knowing whether such a demand might develop. It would be presumptuous to assume that it will. However...
Shriver did no better than fifth in a recent vice-presidential poll among the nation's Democratic county chairmen, and that apparently wasn't good enough for Johnson. So last week, to a surprised group of women reporters at a White House reception, he said apropos of nothing in particular: "I regard Sargent Shriver as one of the most brilliant, most able and most competent officials in government. I regard him as one of my real confidants." And that sent the Shriver balloon soaring up into the stratosphere...
...where would it all lead? The Gallup poll last week conducted trial runs between Johnson and Nixon and Johnson and Goldwater, found that the President had overwhelming leads-69% to 24% against Nixon, 75% to 20% against Goldwater. But such polls are patently absurd so early in any election year. And despite growing talk that Johnson can't lose, some ready, willing and eager Republicans were plainly ready to prove it wrong...
...Assurances." There was still some talk that Barry Goldwater might drop out of the running altogether. His poll ratings had slumped; in 13 Southern states where he had consistently led President Kennedy by a big margin, the Gallup poll now found him trailing Lyndon Johnson 78% to 19%. But Goldwater's backers remained loyal. Insisted Peter O'Donnell Jr., chairman of the National Draft Goldwater Committee, quite accurately: "Senator Goldwater has more announced delegate strength than any other Republican." And J. Drake Edens Jr., South Carolina's G.O.P. state chairman, let it be known that Barry...