Word: polling
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Personality Issue. In any case, Nixon is still the man to beat at the convention. In a poll taken last spring, G.O.P. county chairmen overwhelmingly endorsed him, 1,227 votes to 341 for Romney, 233 for Reagan, 119 for Percy and 67 for Rockefeller. He is the favorite of grass-roots party workers, and even those who concede that he might not be the ideal standard bearer say nonetheless that they will vote for him in Miami Beach in deference to his experience and unflagging service. Nixon himself rejects the idea that any man should get the nomination in payment...
...involvement in Viet Nam; but a few nights later, 73% voted in favor of escalating the war. Said Program Director Dean Borba: "We're not quite sure what that means." James Pederson, secretary of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, feels that it means that "the polls aren't worth anything." He should know: he voted 80 times in a poll that pitted Johnson against Reagan-and the President still lost...
...initiative petition is to enact a law, not express an opinion, McCarthy argues. The CNCV resolution is clearly beyond the legislative domain of the City of Cambridge, and therefore it is not a proper subject for an initiative petition, he reasoned. "If they want to hold a public opinion poll, they should go talk to WBZ," McCarthy said last week...
...thing for a President to do-to ask anyone for a penny out of a dollar to pay for a war that is not popular," Johnson told savings-and-loan officials in an off-the-cuff talk. "If I were concerned only with my own popularity or my own poll, that wouldn't be the way I would go about it-to suggest higher taxes or more wars. But you have to do what is responsible, and you have to do what is right if you sit in this place...
...doubt. While everyone agrees that Wilson faces severe problems with Britain's low productivity, featherbedding unions and stodgy managements, a feeling persists that he has failed to come up with any grand plan that might produce a lasting solution. According to the London Daily Mail's latest poll, 80% of the electorate feels that the government is not doing well on the economic front. Wilson's own popularity has fallen to its lowest level since he took office. If elections were held today, so the polls say, the Tories would win by almost as huge a margin...