Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...final tally showed that Carter, who never left the White House, won 49% of the votes, vs. Kennedy's 38%. No matter how good a face Kennedy put on the outcome, it was still a bitter blow. Last September, early in the draft-Teddy boom, a Boston Globe poll showed Kennedy leading Carter in New Hampshire by better than 2 to 1. But when the Senator became an announced candidate, he plummeted in New Hampshire as elsewhere in the country. Voters questioned his stands on issues, wondered over his inept campaigning and brought up old doubts about Chappaquiddick...
...father to her eleven children. Nonetheless, surveys showed that many voters opposed Kennedy mostly because of questions about his personal life and integrity; because of similar doubts, 24% of the Democrats across the country would not vote for him under any circumstances, according to a New York Times-CBS poll...
...Illinois, Kennedy now lags far behind Carter, by 13% to 66% according to a poll made public last week by the Chicago Sun-Times and WMAQ-TV. Kennedy has the backing of combative Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne. But elsewhere in Illinois, most Democratic pros are working for Carter. In downstate Morgan County, for example, when Democratic Chairman Leonard Kramp, a Kennedy fan, was stripped of control over hiring local census workers, he was told by Regional Census Director Manker Harris: "You're a nonperson. You decided to back the wrong man for President. You understand politics, and this...
...Wacker, Master of South House, said that the rise in popularity is partially due to the new athletic facility open to Quad residents, adding that the House has good spirit because the people assigned in the past two years "were a good cross-section of Harvard." Crimson Housing Poll (figures are percentages of freshmen polled who picked House as first choice) Lowell 15% Dunster 14% Adams 13% Kirkland 11% Winthrop 11% Leverett 9% Quincy 8% Eliot 7.5% South 5% Currier 3% Mather 3% North...
After eight years marked by low turnouts, Harvard students have suddenly become involved in the last two elections, and Tuesday so many of them showed up to vote for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.) that the poll warden was still counting the ballots five hours after the polls closed...