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Chappaquiddick. It is supposed to be the big hurdle between Ted Kennedy and the presidency. But a new TIME poll shows that 79% of American voters think that the time has come to put aside the incident and judge the Senator on what he has done in the nine years since then. More than 75% state flatly that Chappaquiddick would not be enough to sway their vote against him if they felt that he were the best man. Despite Kennedy's denials, a majority of the voters think he will run for President. Moreover, Democrats currently favor him over...
These are the findings of a national telephone sampling of 1,004 registered voters conducted for TIME on Aug. 2 and 3 by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. The poll shows that if Democrats were given a choice now, 58% would pick Kennedy and 30% Carter as their nominee. The Senator also would win a three-way race that included California Governor Jerry Brown. The outcome, as indicated by the poll: Kennedy 49%, Carter 21%, Brown 19%. The support for Kennedy ranges broadly among all types of Democratic voters...
Kennedy, the poll shows, would handily beat Gerald Ford in an election today by 47% to 41%, but Carter would lose to Ford by 44% to 35%. Kennedy would carry the South; Carter would not. Of those who voted for Carter two years ago, only 60% say they would do so now, but 70% of them would vote for Kennedy...
...poll augurs badly for Jerry Brown. Even in the West, he would get only 20% of the Democratic and independent vote in a three-way battle for the nomination, with Kennedy getting 48% and Carter 15%. Brown has particular problems getting the votes of blacks and women. Brown would be acceptable as President to only 36% of those surveyed and unacceptable to 34% (29% say they have no opinion about Brown). Interestingly, he is least liked in his own backyard: he would be unacceptable to 49% of those in the West...
When will the Mediterranean madness end? On Sunday night, Sept. 3. So far, all attempts to alter the ironclad European attitude toward July and August vacations have failed. Meanwhile a recent poll commissioned by the Paris daily Le Figaro has shown that workers would rather have more vacation than the equivalent extra pay-something that has ominous implications for the Med in the future and also for anyone trying to get a hotel room on its shores...