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Despite the tightness of the race between Carter and Reagan, the poll suggests that the President has more to gain in the closing days of the campaign than the Governor. The 13% of the sample who say they are unsure how they will vote acknowledge, when pressed, that they are leaning more toward Carter than Reagan (34% to 21%). Five percent of the total remain truly undecided. Carter's early advantage among women voters has widened slightly (49% to 33%) just as Reagan's advantage among men has grown (49% to 36%). Women fear mainly that Reagan would...
Reagan has also slightly widened his margin among independent voters, leading Carter 41% to 33%. Among young voters, Reagan is now favored, 42% to 36%. One of the most remarkable findings of the poll is that Anderson, for all his appeal on college campuses, is backed by only 14% of the young. Among voters over age 65, Carter and Reagan are tied...
Although there is a small drift to ward Carter, the race quite clearly is virtually even. The key variable may be the degree of turnout among the sup porters of the two candidates, which the Yankelovich survey makes no attempt to predict. But the poll did ask whether voters were looking forward to Election Day or whether they wished they did not have to make any choice at all. Thirty percent say they would rather avoid making a selection. That figure, moreover, rises to 55% among the undecided, the very group now tending toward President Carter. What is more, fully...
...Americans are still struggling to decide which of the three major candidates is the least objectionable and hence should get their reluctant vote. TIME National Political Correspondent John Stacks sought out more than a dozen people in the key state of Pennsylvania, all previously identified by a Yankelovich poll in late August as being "undecided," and asked them to describe how they were coming along in making up their minds. His report...
...will a voter know if he or she lives in a key precinct? One way is to ask poll workers if there is anyone from a network (CBS or NBC) or from the League of Women Voters (ABC) lurking around. In Atlanta, for instance, CBS will station vote reporters in nine precincts. They range from the all-black, heavily Democratic, low-income Precinct 10-T, whose voters will cast their ballots at Turner High School near the Perry Homes Public Housing Project, to Precinct 8-E, with polls at the Margaret Mitchell School on Atlanta's affluent northwest side...