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With the Reagan Administration suffering its worst woes since taking office, increasing numbers of voters are coming around to the view that 1988 might be the time for a change in political direction. A poll taken last week for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman* indicates that 41% of Americans think "it would be better for the country" if the next President were a Democrat, 31% & think the next President should be a Republican, and 19% say it makes no difference. That is a sharp gain for Democrats since last September, when only 33% agreed that after eight years of Ronald...
...questionable whether the White House emphasis on Reagan's lack of culpability will really help defuse the scandal. In a poll for TIME last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 58% of the respondents said that what bothered them most about the Iran-contra affair was that the public had not been told everything that happened. More than three-fourths of the public believe that Reagan is still holding back what he knows...
Adults do not think they are doing a very good job of teaching their children about the facts of life: 69% of 1,015 Americans polled for Time last week by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman* said parents are not doing as much as they should to educate their children about sex; 39% of the parents who were polled admit they have had "frank and open" discussions about sex with their teenagers only a few times or not at all. Those questioned overwhelmingly support sex-education courses in school, and 47% of them said they wished they had been better informed about...
...naysayers on the defensive and increased the odds that comprehensive sex education will at last overcome its critics. For years, surveys have shown that about 80% of Americans favor sex education in the public schools. In the wake of Koop's dramatic report, a poll for TIME by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman found that instruction is now favored by 86%, perhaps the highest number ever; 89% want such courses for children age 12 to deal with birth-control information, and about three-quarters say homosexuality and abortion should be included in the curriculum (see box). "AIDS will definitely change the nature...
...week's end the Administration had reason to believe that its publicity campaign was paying off. In a poll for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 45% of the respondents thought Gorbachev was primarily to blame for the failure to reach agreement at the Iceland summit, while only 14% said Reagan was mainly at fault. A thumping 69% said the President was right in refusing to restrict Star Wars as the price for a deal that would reduce nuclear arms. Day-to-day surveys taken for the White House by Richard Wirthlin showed Reagan's general approval rating jumping sharply from...