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...emphatically clear: "I consider myself a part of the liberal majority," he said in a recent interview at his home on Francis Avenue. And he obtains exactly the reaction he seeks, Liberal majority in the age of Reagan? Galbraith, intimidated neither by the President nor the latest news from Gallup, then proceeded to a lucid and convincing evocation of liberalism as the true doctrine of most Americans--"a pragmatic adjustment to circumstance"--and conservatism as the ideological dogma of unrealistic purists...
...topic is of great concern to many Americans. A Roper poll last year found that 80% of those interviewed want the number of immigrants allowed into the country legally each year to be reduced. A Gallup poll showed that 76% would ban the hiring of illegal immigrants. "There is anger out there," contends Roger Conner, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a Washington-based group leading the battle for more restrictive policies. "There is fear. There is outright paranoia...
Despite the optimism about the future of public education and education schools, administrators acknowledge that a large number of people have doubts about public education. As part of a recent series about public education in Newsweek, a'Gallup poll showed that almost half of the respondents thought public schools were doing only a fair or poor job. Fifty-nine per cent said teachers should be better trained. But in the first sentence of its article. Newsweek acknowledged that "the odd thing is that the public schools are probably getting better...
Americans themselves are profoundly discouraged by the handguns that seem to breed uncontrollably among them like roaches. For years the majority of them have favored restrictions on handguns. In 1938 a Gallup poll discovered that 84% wanted gun controls. The latest Gallup finds that 62% want stricter laws governing handgun sales. Yet Americans go on buying handguns at the rate of one every 13 seconds. The murder rate keeps rising. It is both a cause and an effect of gun sales...