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...Texas liberals, who can be counted on to poll a solid 30 per cent of the vote just about any time, have learned their lesson. In 1961 hordes of them defected to vote for a small-time Republican political science professor named John Tower, thinking a good liberal could beat him easily the next time around. But Tower was shrewder than they had expected--he managed to build up a base of support that has sustained him in office. This election year marks the most serious challenge Tower has faced since he first went to Washington...
...MOST RECENT POLL shows Krueger with a three-point lead over Tower, but 17 per cent of the voters are still undecided. Tower, with a two-to-one fundraising advantage, will have an edge in the last weeks of the campaign as he launches a media blitz. But Krueger, who has been campaigning like a whirling dervish since last year, might just pull out a victory. Even if he does, the nation is unlikely to see any substantial change in Texas's leadership on economic issues. And Lone Star liberals will still be waiting for the knight on a white...
Taxes, taxes, taxes! Ever since the resounding triumph of California's Proposition 13 last June, the nation has been shuddering with a kind of tax-cutting fever. Even at a time of prosperity, with the economy humming along at a trillion-dollar rate, poll after poll shows Americans in a mood of irritation and resentment about the amount of money they have to spend on the public needs. Tax-cutting measures of all sorts have sprouted in state legislatures and on local ballots. And as Americans prepare to go to the polls next month in the quadrennial confusion...
These are among the main findings of a national telephone survey of 1,034 registered voters taken for TIME by the public opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White over a four-day period ending Oct. 8. The poll does not indicate any overwhelming sense of national anxiety. When asked a general question - "How do you feel that things are going in the country these days?" - 50% were willing to answer with a mild "fairly well" (only 5% thought things were going "very well"). Fully 76% felt the future would eventually bring prosperity, and 40% thought that their...
When voters were asked to grade 17 areas of Carter's performance on a kind of report card, he won his highest mark 90%, in the area of "advancing the cause of peace in the world." This was an increase of 21% since a similar poll wa taken last June...