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...thus risking a bloody party brawl. He would prefer to see Carter pushed out of the race by pressure from the party and the dismal evidence of the polls. Late last week the President was hit with the most staggering poll news to date: an Associated Press-NBC News survey indicated that only 19% of the Americans polled thought Carter was doing an excellent or good job. That was the lowest approval rating for any President since such polls began in the 1930s - including Richard Nixon's 24% just before his resignation...
Judging by opinion polls, Kennedy is enormously popular at the moment (62% to Carter's 24% in the latest Yankelovich, Skelly & White survey). But he knows he is a liberal running in a conservative time, and he is beginning to fashion his defenses. Says he: "Labels don't mean much any more. I introduced the airline deregulation bill with Jim Buckley, who was then one of the most conservative members of the Senate. I don't disagree much with Carter's spending levels. I wanted $4 billion more for social programs and that...
...center is based on an assessment by his advisers that the former California Governor has the Republican nomination just about sewed up, and that he should begin courting middle-of-the-road voters for next fall's election. Certainly he is far ahead in the polls. The Harris survey shows him leading Jimmy Carter, 51-44 (while Reagan's principal Republican opponent, John Connally, trails the President, 44-52). Therefore his staff is creating what it calls an "expanded" or & "more reflective" version of the old Reagan. Says his national political director Charles Black: "We must demonstrate that...
...Globe conducted the telephone survey of 2017 people who said they were registered New Hampshire voters between Aug. 15 and 18, before Kennedy said his family had dropped objections to his possible candidacy...
Forty-nine per cent of the Iowa Democrats questioned favored Kennedy among eight possible candidates, a survey by the Des Moines Register showed. Carter had the support of 26 per cent of those surveyed, the Register said...