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...Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc.-the most comprehensive poll to be published since Carter took office-shows a majority of Americans support his criticism of Soviet human rights violations, approve of his informal style and think that he can be trusted (see following story). Carter's own pollster, Patrick Caddell, finds that the President is making "major inroads" among groups of voters who gave him lukewarm support during the election, including Jews, blue-collar ethnics and small businessmen. Carter could pick up still more support after NBC broadcasts on April 14 a tape of one of his days...
Jimmy Carter's approach to leadership so far is the most important thing about him. His ideas, while often good, are not new. His promises, while sensible, are not revolutionary. His administrative progress is modest. George Gallup, the pollster, in assessing personal responses from 1,600 adults across the country, found the American people liked Carter's energy policy and his economic program. But there is no Carter energy policy yet, and not a single unemployed person has been put back to work through Carter's programs. Gallup's experts figure Carter's 71% approval...
...achieve a kind of personal relationship with many Americans-including a number who voted for him with trepidation or even backed Gerald Ford. After the President's celebrated phone-in, when some 9.5 million people tried to get his ear, a telephone survey of 1,184 people by Pollster Albert Sindlinger found that 73% liked what they heard, while only 22% did not care for the show (5% had no opinion...
...Pollster George Gallup Jr. feels that Carter is managing to get across the idea that he is "the people's President." Adds a colleague. Burns Roper: "I expect his people-to-people campaign will be highly successful. Historically, all polls show that the No. 1 attribute people seek in a President is honesty and openness. That was true before Johnson and Nixon, but it is even more true...
...national willingness to see a new President make good is traditional. Pollster Burns Roper found, for example, that during the period between election and inauguration, 64% of those reached in one survey described themselves as Carter supporters-"a measure of the good will he commands." Yet the really tough decisions, the ones that will divide people, lie ahead...