Word: polling
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Most galling of all to the Administration was last month's nationwide Gallup poll. In February, Lyndon led Bobby by a comfortable 2 to 1 among Democrats. Six months later, the Democratic ratings were 40% for Bobby to 38% for Lyndon, and 38% to 24% among independents-a result that prompted Gadfly Bill Buckley's crack that the Kennedy clan must have purchased the Gallup poll...
...candidates are edging closer in other respects as well. Back in June, the California Poll gave Reagan 52% of the state's vote v. 37% for Brown and 11% undecided. Since then, many Democratic voters who supported Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty in the Democratic primary have been trickling back to the Brown fold. As a result, the latest California Poll shows that Reagan now holds only a hairsbreadth lead, 46% to 43%. A more direct popularity test came last week when both candidates and the usual panoply of show-biz celebrities rode in a parade commemorating Los Angeles...
...widely criticized, moreover, for its refusal to allow television in South Africa-a restriction in tended both to keep out foreign "liberalist" programs (such as I Spy) and to protect the Afrikaans language against the incursions of English (there are no packaged shows in Afrikaans). A recent opinion poll showed that two-thirds of all white South Africans want TV, but Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Albert Hertzog, one of the most powerful men in the Nationalist Party, refuses to budge. "No, not, and never," he says, adding that TV is "the greatest destroyer of family life in the Western...
Despite all the mistrust, hostility and open hatred that scar relations between white and black, a July Gallup poll showed that only 34% of the whites questioned would consider moving out if Negroes moved next door. Three years ago the figure was 45%. The fact is that few whites are likely to face the problem for years. "If there were open housing all over the nation tomorrow," says Chicago Sociologist Philip Hauser, "it would still take over a generation for the present housing pattern to change. The majority of Negroes don't want to live in white areas...
British viewers are shocked by scenes of Americans bearing away their own dead; film clips of G.I.s in the jungle remind older West Germans of ruthless Nazi anti-guerrilla tactics in France and Russia, which were not only unsavory but unsuccessful. A current poll shows that 30% of Frenchmen think Lyndon Johnson is more dangerous than Communist China's Mao Tse-tung; 35% of West Germans favor ending the bombing of North Viet Nam. Says West German Vice Chancellor Erich Mende...