Word: polling
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...move," and on the cover of every major newspaper in the country, not to mention Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine and countless political journals. When the media discovered George Bush, so did the people. The fallout from the Iowa publicity has been a meteoric rise in the polls. A Newsweek poll conducted a week before the caucuses showed Reagan annihilating Bush, 45-6 per cent nationwide. Two weeks later, with the caucus history, a second poll showed Bush trailing Reagan 36-27. In what many believe to be strong Reagan country, a Boston Globe poll shows...
...ultimate variable--the candidate's contact with the people. In his last full day of Granite State stumping, Bush, to the consternation of the press, arrived at each destination five minutes early. The candidate was fully briefed and flawless. At a local high school he cited a poll from the previous week and at the Rochester Elks Club he knew the names of all the Big Elks and even some of the little ones. In each town, Bush referred to the times he'd visited during the previous year. By the end of the day, the reporters were wondering...
...Manchester for the winter. A nice dream, but it hasn't happened. Brown's late effort in the Maine caucuses brought him 13 per cent of the Democratic vote. Supporters say he's got to pull at least that much in tomorrow's contest. But the latest Boston Globe poll finds the California governor a distant third with a measly 6 per cent. It is time, as the Brown people will tell us Wednesday morning, to reassess the campaign: facing the inevitable might be a better description...
...discouraged and shocked," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. "I'm sick," declared Congressman Robert F. Drinan, who served on the Judiciary Committee that had voted in 1974 to impeach Richard Nixon. The actions of that committee were so impressive that 48% of Americans, according to a Gallup poll at the time, said that they approved of the way Congress was performing. Assaulted by more recent charges, including President Carter's repeated claim that Congress is a captive of special interest groups, the legislature's approval rating fell to a lowly 19% last summer...
Though there is some opposition to nuclear development-two weeks ago, 20,000 marchers and 15 sheep descended on Plogoff in western Brittany to symbolize the resistance of local farmers to plans for a reactor there-the pro-nuke momentum will be hard to break. A Harris poll conducted after the Three Mile Island accident indicated that 57% of Frenchmen supported their government's nuclear program. Still, Giscard is taking no chances that people might forget the advantages of the atom. Last month he announced a 15% electricity discount to anyone living near a nuclear plant...