Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Observed Mervin Field, whose California poll gives Carter one of the lowest ratings in the past 30 years: "Pushing the international button is less effective than in the past because people are so concerned about domestic problems...
...revolution in Iran, had cut off half of Israel's oil supply and brought new strength to the Palestinians. And Carter was no longer the hero of Camp David, but a weakened leader, beset by upheavals from Viet Nam to Iran to Africa. A New York Times-CBS poll showed that a mere 30% of those asked approved of his handling of foreign affairs...
...National Governors' Association as a forum for his nascent campaign. Although he did manage to make it the dominant subject at the conference, he made no headway at all in pushing his peers into backing the calling of a constitutional convention to require a balanced budget. A U.P.I, poll showed that 26 Governors were also opposed to thus amending the Constitution. Brown did not even dare introduce a resolution to endorse his new pet project. He did not want to risk the same kind of setback he had suffered the week before when his own California legislature rejected...
...Jews, blacks and labor unions. Here too, as in foreign affairs, Carter seemed to keep saying that there were limits to what he could do. Finally one former presidential adviser summed up the feelings of the group. Said he: "The President has a terminal case of meekness." The Harris poll reflected this view in its latest measurement of Carter's popular standing. Only 36% of those surveyed gave the President an overall favorable rating. When he goes to California this week in an effort to drum up support, Carter will find some Democrats openly hostile. Not only...
...floats did not roll. The few that did were forced to move to Kenner or some other shopping-center suburb, since Morial could not guarantee order in the downtown area. As Mardi Gras Day drew nearer, public support for the police waned, down from 67% in a local television poll two weeks ago to 17% last week...