Word: polling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK--Although the public disapproves of President Carter's handling of the Soviet brigade in Cuba, concern over that matter has not changed American sentiment about Carter's overall foreign policy, an Associated Press-NBC News poll says...
Even the 50 million American Catholics harbor attitudes that must be deeply disturbing to their Pope. An Associated Press-NBC News poll released on the eve of John Paul's visit showed that most of the Catholics questioned were rejecting parts of what the church and the Pope were preaching. Of those surveyed, 66% would like the church to approve the use of artificial birth control, 63% believe it is all right for a couple to get a divorce even when children are involved, 53% think that priests should be allowed to marry, 50% even tolerate abortion on demand. Those...
TODAY IN MIAMI--where it has never snowed in October--more than 10,000 elderly voters will be piled into buses and driven to the Joseph Caleb Community Center. The center is the only polling place in Dade Country at which Democratic voters can cast their ballots for delegates who will attend a November 18 state political convention. Voters will also go to the poll in 66 other Florida countries when it's all said and done, they'll have picked 879 delegates...
...with broad hints that he is available to run, the Senator has so far refrained from openly challenging the President and thus risking a bloody party brawl. He would prefer to see Carter pushed out of the race by pressure from the party and the dismal evidence of the polls. Late last week the President was hit with the most staggering poll news to date: an Associated Press-NBC News survey indicated that only 19% of the Americans polled thought Carter was doing an excellent or good job. That was the lowest approval rating for any President since such polls...
...never for Kennedy. Democratic Party leaders think they need him more than ever before; he must heed their call or risk mortally offending them. Democratic officeholders are showing signs of panic at the prospect of running on a ticket headed by Carter. A New England poll indicates that there would be a 16-point difference in the number of Democrats who turn out to vote if Kennedy is at the top instead of Carter. Democratic Senators, in particular, feel endangered. Next year 24 of them are up for re-election out of the 34 seats at stake, and many...