Word: polling
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Inexact & Erratic. The Gallup Poll, oldest of the national polls, reported that L.B.J.'s "popularity has risen from his October low" and that 48% of the people now approve of him, v. 44% in October. (In New York State, a recent survey by Pollster John Kraft showed that more New Yorkers said they liked Johnson (66%) than said they liked Bobby Kennedy (56%). That was news calculated to help the President recuperate, but the pollsters did not stop there. Pollster Lou Harris weighed in with quite a contrary finding: "Confidence in the overall job the President is doing...
...supported the proposal, Ford explained, partly because it was impressed by signs of widespread undergraduate support for a pass-fail system. A recent HPC poll of 1648 students found that 74 per cent would take a pass-fail fifth course...
...ranked 12th nationally in the UPI poll, is now 5-0. Harvard...
With a Cabinet full of fresh faces, Sato hopes to restore confidence in the Liberal Democratic government-a confidence that has fallen from a high of 47% popular support in 1964 to a scant 25% according to last week's Asahi Shimbun poll. Though the Liberal Democrats' opponents have been fragmented for a decade, Sato wants to take no chances that his troubles might unite them before the elections...
During the last two years, however, certain social forces have been at work to undermine the traditional political power blocs. With the abolition of the poll tax in federal elections, registration surged and people began to vote in unprecedented numbers. Not only Negroes, but many whites. Young Harry Byrd, campaigning last summer to fill out the unexpired Senate term of his late father, even had to appeal to his audiences for a large voter turnout to offset the power of "pressure groups"--that is, Negroes...