Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clearly, they are not. Last week an Associated Press poll of 84 Senators showed only 44 willing to grant the President a broad policy endorsement on Viet Nam. Forty-including some who advocated intensification of the war-opposed present policy...
...Gallup poll last week found that 53% of the electorate think the Republicans have a good chance of winning the presidency in 1968. Another Gallup report and the Louis Harris poll agreed that the percentage of Americans who approve of Johnson's conduct in office is down to 39%, the lowest figure any President has scored in the Gallup sampling since Harry Truman's 31% in 1952. For Johnson, the popularity tumble was rapid. After his June meeting at Glassboro with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, he enjoyed a 52% approval rating according to Gallup, 58% according to Harris...
...Gaulle was obviously bothered by his falling popularity. The latest public-opinion poll shows that only 55% of the French electorate approves of his policies-a sharp drop from 65% in June. It was understandable that his speech touched only lightly on two of his more recent decrees, which hold no promise of improving his standing. To bail out the nation's cumbersome social security system, which is $600 million in the red, French workers, he said, will now pay more taxes and receive fewer benefits. In addition, he announced, he has imposed compulsory profit sharing on all French...
...Name of God." The critics could point to some statistical support for their stand. A Gallup poll completed in mid-July reported last week that for the first time, a majority of Americans (52%) disapprove of President Johnson's handling of the war. The poll showed that 41% believe the U.S. should never have sent troops to Viet Nam in the first place, a percentage that has risen steadily from 24% in August 1965, and that 56% think the allies are stalemated or losing the war. Only 34% said they believe the allies are making progress...
Furthermore, the abolition of the poll tax has benefited many poor whites--the most race-conscious of all Mississippians--as well as Negroes. In fact, the number of newly registered white voters equals the number of newly-registered Negroes. Of the 675,000 expected to vote at the Democratic primary today, less than 30 per cent would be Negroes even if every registered Negro in Mississippi showed up at the polls. And, as was true in the Georgia elections last year, Negro voting will not increase nearly as sharply as did registration, especially since the Freedom Democratic Party is urging...