Word: polling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's approval rating spurted eleven points in a New York Times-CBS poll, to 37%?the first upturn since a survey last March. Even critics who faulted his energy program as too timid regarded it as a much needed beginning (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Said Democratic National Chairman John White, who thought he saw the makings of a re-election winner in 1980: "I took down my 'for sale' sign this morning...
...William Miller likes to tell the story of a mythical poll in which the American people were asked to define what the Federal Reserve actually was. According to Miller, 23% of them said it was an Indian reservation, 26% thought it a wildlife preserve and 51% identified it as a brand of whisky...
...causes. With Jimmy Carter having his troubles in Washington, Brown has the luxury of waiting, and of not wearing out his welcome any further. Carter's declining popularity has boosted Brown's relative strength with no assist from the Governor himself. The New York Times-CBS poll recently showed Brown actually running slightly ahead of Carter in a direct pairing. Both men, of course, trail far be hind Ted Kennedy among Democrats surveyed...
...Kennedy's sins are apparently quite forgiveable. Americans insist today to the Gallups and the Harrisses that they believe in the Senator from Massachusetts; in poll upon survey upon test vote, they register their approval of his painfully obvious candidacy...
...monstrous regiment of lawyers has rarely been more resented. In a recent Harris poll about public confidence in various institutions, law firms ranked eleventh on a list of 13. Even when lawyers are miraculously transformed into judges, they do not regain total trust. In the same poll, the Supreme Court came in sixth, while TV news (somewhat surprisingly) ranked first and the press in general ranked fifth, thus nosing ahead of the august court...