Word: polling
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...Uninvited. In view of Romney's past record of running as a loner, Griffin had scant hope for help. But things are different this year. Romney now has realistic hopes of winning the Republican presidential nomination. His prospects were advanced last week by a national poll that gave the Governor only 2% less support than Lyndon Johnson. In another survey, top Republican "citizens" (as opposed to party professionals) rated Romney a heavy, 40%-to-29% favorite over Richard Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. presidential nomination. As Romney well knows, the national Republican powers would consider him a leading candidate...
...commission since mid-August, when he underwent a painful operation for kidney stones; he has been even more pained by his doctor's continuing insistence that he spend most of each day in bed. All the same, Williams says he is not worried about last week's poll: "The only thing that counts is the poll on Nov. 8. When the people compare our records, they will understand what a retrogressive character Griffin is." Williams intends to accentuate the negative in Griffin's congressional record-votes against poverty bills, aid to lower education, rent subsidies, the "demonstration...
...being supported by many a candidate for the state legislature, men who tend to hear their constituents loud and clear. As one high elective official in Southern California puts it: "If you say you're against CLEAN, you automatically become a 'dirty.' " According to a statewide poll taken for the Long Beach Independent-Press-Telegram, Proposition 16 is favored by 63.7% of Californians. Whether they fully understand the potential extent of the proposition, the poll cannot...
...remnant of last year's concern is the Harvard Undergraduate Council's plan to poll students on their attitude toward the draft. Even if the results of the poll reveal mass dissatisfaction with the use of grades, it is not clear what action the University will then take--for, as Monro points out, if a local draft board doesn't have information about a student, whether he is from Harvard or not, it will probably classify him 1-A. In that case, says Monro, a man could conceivably sue the University for the information...
...with Secretary of Defense McNamara's now-famous speech in Montreal, the country was made aware of a desire to change not only the specific form of the draft but also the concept of national service. The extent of public discontent was revealed in early July when a Gallup Poll was released showing only 43 per cent of the American people thought the current draft system "fair" -- the lowest percentage ever registered during a war period. At the same time pollsters found that parents favored, 4 to 1, a plan calling on all 18-year-old men to serve...