Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upset Richard Nixon in his drive for the G.O.P. nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller must combine near-solid support of moderate-to-liberal Republicans with a strong showing in the polls. Last week the poll sters produced a mixed bag of returns. Louis Harris found Rocky lagging be hind both Democratic candidates and nearly tied with Nixon, but Gallup showed him leading both Nixon and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and just behind a surprisingly strong Senator Eugene McCarthy...
...voted the government down overwhelmingly, Labor might well demand abolition of the upper house, which he believed it would not dare do without calling a general election. Since the government has lost all but one of the last nine by elections for the House of Commons-an Evening Standard poll last week showed the Tories running 16% ahead of Labor-a general election now would almost certainly produce a Tory majority in the Commons and catapult Ted Heath into 10 Downing Street...
Indications such as the Harris poll reinforced the prevailing feeling in Washington that the national mood is one of anger and frustration compounded by a sense of disorientation. Congress, which senses these things with the politician's instinct for self-preservation, sees divergent trends. It discerns a conservative swing in the country-a swing accentuated, paradoxically, by the murder of one of the nation's most articulate liberals. The rationale is that the majority of Americans, the white and the relatively affluent, now crave a return to a kind of ordered normality that may in fact never again...
...anyone with "general objections" to capital punishment. By a 6-to-3 vote, the court ruled such a practice unconstitutional; Witherspoon had not been tried by a true cross section of the community, since only 42% of the nation favors the death penalty according to a 1966 Gallup poll, said the court. His conviction stands, but his sentence does not. "Whatever else might be said of capital punishment," said Justice Potter Stewart in the emotional climax of his opinion, "it is at least clear that its imposition by a hanging jury cannot be squared with the Constitution...
Rockfeller and Kennedy won the poll--both of them, you might remember, were considered completely out of the 1968 race at the time. Most students, it appeared, did not want to see political reality. The poll seemed to indicate the alienated view from which many politically active students students as well as others viewed the electoral process...