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Stephen W. Mamus '76, coordinator of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Amnesty, yesterday called the referendum a "glorified Gallup poll...
...public popularity has plummeted as well. The Gallup poll found that 50% of those surveyed in late September, shortly after Nixon's pardon, approved of Ford's performance as President, down 21 points since a similar poll conducted about a week after he took office. It was the most precipitous two-month drop in 35 years...
Veto-Proof. The opinion polls offer the G.O.P. no comfort. A Roper survey delivered last month revealed that only 21% of U.S. voters considered themselves Republicans (v. 48% Democrats and 26% independents). The Gallup poll, meanwhile, shows that the percentage of Americans who consider themselves Republicans has dropped from 28% in 1972 to 23%. Another Gallup survey out this week discloses that voters plan to back Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a margin...
...protest was not of Nixonian or Johnsonian proportions or acidity, but it was in sharp contrast to the near-universal era of good feeling that characterized Ford's first four weeks in office. A Gallup poll commissioned by the New York Times last week showed an alarming drop in Ford's popularity. From a rating of 71% approval three weeks before the pardon, he had skidded so that only 49% rated him as doing either a "fair" or "good" job. Unlike Nixon's White House aides, Ford's staff reported the extent of adverse telegrams and mail. More than...
From Labor Day onward, intense, highly secret discussions went on in the White House. Some of Ford's closest advisers warned him that granting a pardon would greatly damage him in the eyes of the public. Aides pointed to the Gallup poll released last week showing that 56% of the public believed that Nixon should be tried for possible criminal charges arising from Watergate, while only 37% opposed such action. But the President said, with an edge to his voice, "I don't need to read the polls to tell me whether I'm right...