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Meantime McCarthy could cheer himself with the results of "Choice 68," a computerized presidential-preference poll of U.S. college students. Sponsored by Time Inc. and Sperry Rand's Univac Division, the poll was the largest nationwide pre-election sampling ever taken, with more than 1,000,000 students voting on 1,450 of the nation's campuses. Last week, after computers tabulated results, McCarthy won, with 285,988 votes, followed by Kennedy with 213,832 and Nixon with 197,167. Rockefeller, who was not an active candidate at the time of the voting late last month, collected...
With only two days remaining before this May 7 primary, the big question is the size of Robert F. Kennedy's vote. One source high in the New York Senator's staff confided Saturday that their latest poll shows Kennedy reaching over the 50 per cent mark for the first time...
...April. In this year when political bettors would be best advised to try the ponies, it was altogether typical that the expected spring showers of support for Kennedy never fell. Most indicators, to be sure, showed Bobby ahead, but his lead is far from decisive. In the Louis Harris Poll among Democrats, Kennedy actually dropped two points after Johnson's renunciation, to 37%, and Humphrey came in second with 24% while his candidacy was still in the open-secret stage. McCarthy trailed with...
Eshkol's cabinet, meantime, is divided over how much of the occupied territory it will be willing to bargain over in any negotiations, some wanting to return none at all and others willing to give part; nobody wants to give it all back. The results of a poll by Israel's Dachaf agency last week show that an overwhelming 87% approve the government's policy of refusing to give back any territory until the Arabs agree to direct talks with Israel. Surprisingly, 78% are willing to give back one or more pieces once negotiations begin...
With only 129 seats in the 259-seat House of Commons, Trudeau's Liberals are two votes short of a majority and therefore - like Canada's two previous governments since 1962 - dependent upon minority party support to get legislation passed. But the latest Gallup poll gives the Liberals 42% of the vote, their highest rating in 27 months, compared with 34% for the opposition Tories. Besides, though he will be with out a Parliament, Trudeau will continue as a highly visible Prime Minister until the elections...