Word: yankelovich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel Yankelovich, pollster for the New York Times, yesterday said that the recent boost in Americans' confidence in President Nixon is due to a belief that he has eliminated the danger of the Vietnam...
Speaking before an audience of 150 at the Business School. Yankelovich said that Nixon's 28 per cent lead over McGovern can be explained by the relatively calm aftermath of last May's mining of Haiphong Harbor. Since no nuclear confrontation occurred as a result of the mining. Yankelovich said Nixon had effectively diffused the danger of the war by isolating it--by divorcing it from the relations with China and Russia...
...reception of Nixon (for the summit talks) resulted in a psychological climate as if the war had ended," Yankelovich continued...
...Yankelovich said he views the 1972 campaign as "peculiar" because Nixon's "vulnerability" on specific campaign issues does not appear to change voter opinion...
...badly from public dismay over a jobless rate that had just hit 5.6%. Yet in this year's campaign, with the rate also at 5.6%, unemployment has practically disappeared as a political issue. Only 13% of the likely voters queried in the latest TIME Poll conducted by Daniel Yankelovich Inc. listed it among their worries...