Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poles-Apart Polls. Impartial opinion samplers do not agree that this inquiry will necessarily disclose an irresistible ground swell for Romney. A Gallup poll of Republicans reported that they think Richard Nixon would be the better candidate; the spread was 52% to 40%, with the balance undecided. On the other hand, Louis Harris assayed Republican and independent sentiment and found Romney ahead of Nixon...
...rate, the California Poll reported this month that 52% of the citizenry approves a reduction in state spending on higher education and 51% favors the imposition of tuition at state campuses. Reagan himself maintains a cheerful mien, admits that he is "stingy" and "stubborn." When his staff celebrated his 56th birthday last week by giving him an "economy" cake that had a 10% slice missing and only 90% of its proper allotment of candles, the Governor could only agree that it was nice to be 50.4 again...
...even the Germans are beginning to realize that they have gone too far, and compulsive handshaking is finally on the wane. A recent poll showed that 23% of all German adults are against handshaking as the normal way to greet people. Germany's largest tabloid daily, Bild Zeitung, recently denounced handshaking in a front-page story, declaring that "not only is handshaking unhygienic and impractical but it also wastes too much valuable time." West Germany's unquestioned arbiter of social grace, the Expert Committee for Good Manners (a branch of the German Dancing Teachers League), has joined...
While Kennedy was abroad, a new poll by Lou Harris found Bobby trailing Johnson as the 1968 presidential favorite, 44% to 56%-a complete reversal of the same survey's finding in November. The later report was based on a Jan. 14-22 sampling, a period in which the Manchester controversy was hottest. The Gallup poll taken two weeks earlier found Kennedy still ahead by nine points. That Kennedy's standing has sagged is evident, although the damage can undoubtedly be repaired long before the Senator has to test himself again at the polls. Meanwhile, trips like...