Word: polling
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Such Democratic losses cannot be that the general public can be separated into neat groups of hawks, doves, Administration backers and "Peacenicks." Actually, the most through public opinion poll, conducted late last winter by political scientists at Stanford and Chicago, shows the majority of Americans to be profoundly ambivalent about the war. Fifty-six per cent opposed even a gradual withdrawal, 61 per cent approved President Johnson's actions, but 54 per cent opposed a continuation of the war at its present intensity. Fifty four per cent favor free elections, even if the Viet Cong win, but almost exactly...
...fact catches even an agile politician like Lyndon Johnson in a dilemma. He can act within a relatively wide range of alternatives, and be sure that the public will approve of what he does; but the same public will almost inevitably dislike the outcome. Since the Stanford-Chicago poll was taken the conflicts between the Ky government and the Buddhists, plus the steadily rising number of casualties, have discredited the President's policies. In the latest nationwide poll, only 47 per cent supported Johnson's actions in Vietnam...
...victim of changes at home. The civil rights movement and the end of the poll tax are adding Negroes to the voting rolls, while the old Harry Byrd machine, of which Smith is a prize cog, faces attack from all sides. Smith's district has been reapportioned to his disadvantage since the last election, now includes a large segment of liberally inclined Fairfax County, a suburb of Washington. Nonetheless, Smith's cause, like his equanimity, is far from lost. Much of the district is still rural and conservative, and there is considerable affection for the Bible-quoting, foxy...
...California Republicans, cheered by a poll showing Ronald Reagan well ahead in his race to unseat Democratic Governor Pat Brown, dropped $300,000 into the party coffers at a Los Angeles lovefest. Though the affair's main speaker was ex-Californian Richard M. Nixon, Reagan earlier announced that he did not need campaign help from outside the state-a message clearly meant to dissociate himself further from Barry Goldwater. "This campaign is for the people of California," said Reagan, "and I personally would like to keep it that...
Whatever the President's aim, there is ample evidence that Americans remain uneasy over Viet Nam. A Michigan poll showed that, while 62% approved Johnson's overall handling of the presidency, 62% also disapproved of his conduct of the war; in Virginia, 53% liked the way he was doing his job, while 53% disliked the way he was doing it in Viet Nam. Yet another poll -one the White House does not discuss -indicates that the voters may want a different man for the task. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register reported that while the President led Michigan...