Word: polling
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...Kennedy strategy plainly requires as broad a Southern voting franchise as possible. The National Committee, at "the request of local districts," is cooperating in registration drives throughout the South. Both the Administration and the National Committee are urging state legislatures to adopt the anti-poll tax amendment to the Constitution. Attorney General Kennedy's trip was part of the overall effort. By knocking down the barriers against Negro voting, the Administration can not only help strengthen Negro rights, but-if the attempt pays off-make the South's Democratic Party more to the New Frontier's liking...
Macmillan's final decision on the election date will be influenced by the Gallup poll percentages, which in April showed a fractional slip in Labor's massive lead, now 49.5% to 34%, over the Tories. Other omens will be the results of three spring by-elections necessitated by the deaths of Hugh Gaitskell and two other Labor M.P.s...
Examination of the first theme occurs in a lengthy lead editorial, which interprets a recent poll of Catholic students at Harvard. The poll, mailed to over 800 members of the University (and answered by 176), asked three questions: "I. How would you characterize your intellectual background in religion when you arrived at Harvard? II. While at Harvard, how has your religion been affected--helped or hindered... III. Conversely, how has your religion affected--helped or hindered-- your own intellectual development, social situation, and moral life?" The editors have not attempted to give a statistical breakdown of replies to the poll...
Eighty-four per cent of Harvard students favor one or more measures for increasing the power of the United Nations, according to a poll distributed by the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists on February...
...undergraduates who responded to the poll 47 per cent favor a standing police force, 45 per cent support universal membership, and 51 per cent would give the United Nations judicial powers through the International Court of Justice. Fifty-six per cent favor U.N. legislative and executive initiative "in matters affecting the maintenance of world peace...