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...sits in on many of those White House meetings, says Carter's first instinct is to see if there is some way the private sector can help solve problems. "That was what he always did as Governor," insists Kirbo. In Carter's musings with people like Pollster Pat Caddell, his commitment to sound dollars often crops up. "We've got this freak inflation," said Caddell last week. "It hurts the poor and the middle class the most, the very people we are trying to help." So Carter has intensified his drive for Government restraint...
Hard Attitudes. Peres, in his election campaign, can scarcely take a more pliable tack on establishing settlements and holding on to territory. The latest survey by Israeli Pollster Hanoch Smith indicates that even if there were true peace with the Arabs, 63% of Israeli voters would want to hang on to the Golan Heights, and 40% would want to keep the West Bank...
...more resistance to sweeping energy saving in the Midwest, where farms grow on gas and the auto industry looms large, and in the South, where cold is rarely a concern and tourism means money. Yet even in fuel-rich Texas, presumably set in its freewheeling ways, local Pollster John Staples found after Carter's presentation that more people approved his energy approach than opposed it. Nearly half said they would buy a smaller car if the price of gasoline were to rise from its present...
...Greening of America, Charles Reich offered the giddy prediction that the values of the 1960s counterculture would remake America. Although his thesis was vastly overstated, those values are indeed becoming widespread. In 1974, Pollster Daniel Yankelovich reported that America's noncollege youth were adopting the counterculture values of sexual freedom and self-fulfillment, and were increasingly rejecting patriotism, respect for authority and material success. Last week the results of another Yankelovich poll indicated that this shift in values "seems to be reshaping the nature of the American family and its child-rearing practices...
...division among women has made it easier for state legislators, many of whom are older, conservative males, to vote their predilections-or, as one battle-weary activist put it, "their instincts." Some 62% of Florida voters favored the ERA, according to a survey by Jimmy Carter's pollster, Pat Caddell; yet even that margin was not sufficient to sway enough members of Florida's senate. Like legislators elsewhere, some were impressed more by the viewpoint espoused in the road-show tactics of Phyllis Schlafly, an Alton, Ill., housewife and an active Republican, who wrote the right-wing treatise...