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...National Convention, and by 9 points in late June. In a parallel shift of perceptions, voters by 44% to 40% now expect Ford to win on Nov. 2. In late August, the voters by 57% to 34% predicted a Carter victory. These are the findings of a nationwide telephone survey of 1,308 registered voters, conducted for TIME by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., from Sept. 25 to Sept...
...standoff turned up by the survey resulted from asking those polled to choose between the two main candidates. When the Yankelovich analysts figured in the effect of the minor candidates, Lester Maddox and Eugene McCarthy, Ford pulled ahead of Carter by 42% to 40%. Maddox is a negligible factor, polling only 1% of the vote at this point. But McCarthy draws 7%, down from 12% in August but still enough to tip the election to Ford...
...presidential races in U.S. history. Making the present situation even more volatile, the Yankelovich study found, 52% of the voters still have not firmed up their final voting plans, in part because so many are unenthusiastic about both major candidates (see box below). Said Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "Our TIME survey suggests that the race will seesaw back and forth until the very last minute, reflecting the voters' agonized and disappointed frame of mind...
...survey also shows that 26 per cent of the students doing graduate work chose to attend Harvard schools, while 53 percent of them enrolled either in Ivy League schools, MIT. Berkeley, Chicago, Michigan or Stanford...
...survey does not include Radcliffe graduates from that class because women's career plans today are probably closer to those of the men in the class of '71 than to the women of that class, he said...