Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elliot L. Richardson '41 and ran a poor third in another race for the governorship. However, Bellotti would not quit campaigning. It was his life. He talked to local clubs and groups, he shook more hands and remembered people's names. His comeback has been impressive; a recent poll ranked him as the second most popular Democrat in the state, following Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54. Now, the PCM scandals and what Weld has made of it threaten to wipe away his monumental effort to ressurrect himself...
...face. But "If it weren't for the private life thing--and by that I mean the money, not the family stuff--I think Brooke would be a sure bet," William Schneider, associate professor of Government, explains. Forty-nine per cent of the people questioned recently in a Massachusetts poll feel that Brooke "has not been honest and above-board in his personal affairs." A mere two per cent say the same for Tsongas. Says fellow Rep. Michael J. Harrington '58, "Tsongas is accessible, humble, sincere, unassuming, but there is an inner strngth there...To the extent that integrity...
...Democratic opponent Edward J. King is over. Dick Mastrangelo, Hatch's not-so-very-confident and slightly overweight campaign manager, raises his hand for silence. "Now, we're all very proud of Frank. He did a real good job tonight. You heard him. But you also heard those poll results. That's what I'm looking at. As far as I'm concerned this race starts today, and it's a dead heat now. Five days and 10 hours. We have to get out there and work. If he loses, it's our fault...
...local headlines that he wanted; read one in the Boston Globe: PANEL ABSOLVES BROOKE ON ALTERATIONS OF RECORDS. Next day Brooke picked up the pace of his campaign back home, where he lags behind his opponent, Democratic Congressman Paul Tsongas, 37, by eight percentage points in the latest poll. Brooke's most difficult task will be winning back the votes of liberal Democrats, who once supported him but are now drifting to Tsongas, and mollifying the Republicans whom he alienated by supporting busing to desegregate schools, federally paid abortions for poor women and the Panama Canal treaties...
Griffin, 54, may come to rue re-entering the campaign as much as he now regrets getting out in the first place. The latest poll shows him trailing his Democratic opponent, former Detroit City Council President Carl Levin, by 3 points, largely because of the absences...