Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student Poll...
Underriding. Increasingly, the pollsters are finding evidence that the nation once again is at least beginning to turn its back. Last week's Gallup poll reported massive "resistance of whites to measures for improving the lot of Negroes," noted that 52% of them think the Administration is pushing integration "too fast"-as against only 32% when the first survey was conducted in 1962. Pollster Lou Harris warned that "the white backlash could be the decisive issue on Nov. 8" and could "tear the Democratic Party apart at the seams in the North...
...also learned that the Radcliffe Government Association will submit a modified version of the HUC poll to Cliffies to get their opinions for Faculty consideration...
...poll will also elicit student views on the equity of student deferments in general, the possibility of the substitution of a lottery for the present draft system, and the use of the Selective Service Qualification Test as a partial factor in granting student deferments...
After the pathetically rigged Liberal convention, Alex Rose told reporters that his own polls showed that, even if Roosevelt won 500,000 votes, O'Connor would still beat Rockefeller by 600,000. He was, in effect, trying to save his own political skin by doing what he knew in his heart was wrong. He was also recognizing, sadly, the shift of political leverage in New York state from the city liberal to the Upstate Kennedy block. All that remains to be said is that Rose's poll was accurate enough, and that with or without the city liberals, O'Connor...