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...part of a distinct minority in the nation. But his fears have spread so widely that, just as congressional subcommittees begin serious debates on health care, polls for the first time show more people against the President's plan than for it. A TIME/CNN poll last week by Yankelovich Partners disclosed 45% against, 41% in favor -- a startling swing from 50% for, 33% opposed as recently as January. Some apparent reasons: 70% now think Clinton's plan would make them pay more for medical care; 55% believe that they would have less choice of which doctor...
Love Farrakhan or hate him, the inescapable fact is that he touches a nerve among blacks as almost no one else can. A TIME/CNN poll of 504 African Americans by Yankelovich Partners last week found 73% of those surveyed were familiar with him -- more than with any other black political figure except Jesse Jackson and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas -- and two-thirds of those familiar with Farrakhan viewed him favorably. Some 62% of those familiar with him said he was good for the black community; 63% said he speaks the truth; and 67% said he is an effective leader...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 503 African Americans taken for TIME/CNN on ^ Feb 16-17 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...
...argument and let readers judge him for themselves. We dispatched correspondents to mosques, college campuses and inner-city neighborhoods to examine the appeal that both the Nation of Islam and more orthodox forms of Islam hold for many blacks. We commissioned a poll of black public opinion by Yankelovich Partners to , determine precisely how much support Farrakhan really has among African Americans. And we invited six distinguished writers and thinkers -- three who are Jewish, three who are black -- to explore the thorny moral and social issues raised by the controversy that began with Muhammad's speech...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 503 African Americans taken for TIME/CNN on April 16-17 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...