Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HUMPHREY-TED KENNEDY. A Harris poll showed that a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket could easily defeat Nixon and Percy, Rockefeller and Reagan. Ted Kennedy would reconcile many of his brother's former supporters to the Vice President's cause...
Though his stature as a jurist hardly matches that of such colleagues on the Circuit Court as Albert Parr Tuttle and John Minor Wisdom, Thornberry took generally progressive stands on civil rights and free-speech cases. In 1966, he wrote the decision that struck down Texas' poll tax. Last year he sided with an 8-to-4 majority that ordered Southern schools to speed school desegregation. This year he overturned a local Louisiana ordinance restricting picketing with the words: "In an open society there must be the ability to advocate views in the hope of changing existing preconceptions...
...Difference. Despite Richard Nixon's long lead in the delegate count (see box), Rocky was drawing big and often enthusiastic crowds. Encouraged by last week's Gallup poll showing him trailing Democrat Eugene McCarthy but leading both Hubert Humphrey and Nixon, the Governor told a Boston press conference: "I was just flying over your race track and I saw the horses coming into the stretch. If I could get into the lead in the stretch, believe me, that would be tremendously helpful." In Maine, he reminded audiences that he had been born in Bar Harbor and cried...
...ebullience, Rockefeller knows that without a big break his chances may be doomed. There were a few hopeful signs, but nothing that was important enough to slow down Nixon's momentum. The South Dakota poll showed Rocky as the strongest candidate for President, despite Nixon's victory in last month's uncontested primary there. He got a good word from Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, who called him the best candidate still on the political scene...
...direction, purpose, and leadership skills." (The New York Times is helpful here and notes that an overwhelming majority of those who have been under fire say that they have benefitted from the experience and are more confident because of it. Note, that there is no mention that the poll was administered only to those who survived...