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Just after President Kennedy sent troops to Ole Miss, his popularity, as measured by the Gallup poll, hit a low of 61%-with only 51% of Southerners approving his performance in office. Then came Cuba, and in its wake Kennedy's popularity has soared back to 74%, with a 14-point jump to 65% in the South...
Looking beyond this week's elections, the Gallup poll asked Republican voters about their preferences for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1964. Leaders...
...been the question of whether there should be nuclear weapons on Canadian soil. Canadian and U.S. airmen consider it vital to equip Canadian interceptors with nuclear-tipped air-to-air rockets, even more important to arm U.S.-supplied Bomarc antiaircraft missiles with atomic warheads. The latest Gallup poll on the subject shows that 61% of Canada's citizens agree. But Canadian External Affairs Secretary Howard Green, a staunch advocate of disarmament at the U.N., has long argued against the idea on the theory that the fewer countries with nuclear bases the better. And Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, ever...
...Gallup poll's "semifinal" check of congressional preferences across the U.S. found 56% of those "most likely" to vote backing Democratic House candidates, 44% supporting Republicans. In the off-year election of 1958, Democrats got 56.5% of the vote, elected 283 of the 435 House members...
...patient about strikes. Yet there was some grumbling fortnight ago. when the railwaymen brought trains throughout the country to a dead halt and millions of commuters skipped work rather than try their luck on the highways. Slowly but surely, disenchantment with the unions is growing. In a 1954 Gallup poll, only 12% of the British public considered unions bad-by 1959 the figure had nearly doubled to 23%; Says ..George Woodcock, one of the leaders of the Trades Union Congress: "We have lost the general sympathy that the public usually reserve for the underdog. Trade unions came into existence...