Word: polling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy were declared a candidate in New Hampshire's primary, he could win 65 per cent of the vote, compared to 20 per cent for Carter, a Boston Globe poll showed. If Kennedy were only a write-in candidate, he would still receive 58 per cent of the vote, compared to 28 per cent for Carter and 11 per cent for California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., the survey showed...
...YORK--Americans now give President Carter the lowest job rating of any president in nearly three decades, according to the results of an Associated Press-NBC News poll released yesterday...
Nineteen per cent of those surveyed last Monday and Tuesday rated Carter's work excellent or good, the poll showed. That approval rating was down six points from Carter's previous low in July. The 19 per cent rating is the lowest any president has received since the poll began in the 1950s...
Connally still has a long way to go. The Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. poll for TIME shows that he stands fourth among Republicans, well behind Front Runner Ronald Reagan. One of his difficulties is that some Republicans think he still lacks legitimacy and are embarrassed to support him openly. "There are still a lot of myths about me," Connally told TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian. "I've got to clear them up." But his ability to excite crowds and raise money causes many political experts to believe that if he can surmount those "myths," the tall Texan...
...worse in the long run may be American resentment. Although a recent Gallup poll found that 57% of those questioned said that refugees would be welcome in their communities, a call-in poll sponsored by the San Francisco Chronicle found that 73% of 24,000 phoners opposed the influx of boat people...