Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Democratic candidates have been carefully and sometimes bluntly keeping their distance from the leader of their party, Jimmy Carter, because of his low rating in the polls, though this seems to be changing. An ABC-Harris poll last week gave him a 42% approval rating, up from 30% in August. In Texas, where the President is especially unpopular because of his natural gas bill, Rosalynn made some campaign stops over Labor Day weekend, the first of several appearances scheduled for the First Lady this fall. Cool, poised and unflappable in the wilting Texas heat, she explained that the White...
...steps taken since the 1969 tax reform to remove inequities in the system. Long pointed out that much of the push behind reform derived from public fury in the late 1960s over some widely publicized reports about people with huge incomes who paid no taxes. Indeed, he said, one poll shows that many still think that more than half of all high-income people pay no income taxes. In fact, he insisted, because of reforms already put on the books, there is no longer anyone in the country with a net income of more than $200,000 who dodges federal...
Across the country, the law-abiding are in a punitive mood. A Gallup poll last spring showed 62% of Americans in favor of the death penalty. The public sense of justice, of the simple fairness and fitness of things, is frayed. The nation's crime rate has risen 300% in the past 18 years, though a part of the increase merely reflects greater attention to reporting crimes. These were precisely the years when society was at its greatest pains to humanize the justice system, make rehabilitation programs work and allow indeterminate sentences to relax the law's supposedly...
...Associated Press poll reported that 48 Senators were in favor of the bill, 39 against it, and 13 undecided...