DOCSLIB.ORG

Voters Overwhelmingly Positive On

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Voters Overwhelmingly Positive On The Harris Poll b For release: Sunday AM, July 17, 1988 1988 W57 ISSN 0895-7983 VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE ON DUKAKIS NOMINATION: GOVERNOR RATED MORE PCSJTIVELY THAN BUSH ON LEADERSHIP SCALE By Louis Harris As Governor Michael Dukakis prepares for his nomination as the Democratic candidate for President, he is more positively perceived by the voters than nearly any Democrat in many years. For example, a substantial 77-17 percent majority of the voters say they feel positive about his upcoming nomination this week in Atlanta. Even a 66-26 percent majority of Republicans say they are reacting positively to his being named, as does a higher 81 percent of Democrats who left their party four years ago to vote for the President. A just finished Harris Poll, taken by telephone between July 7th and 12th, asked a cross section of 1,252 voters nationwide to rate the two current candidates and Presidents Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and John F. Kennedy as "leaders," on a scale of 1 to 10, with one the most negative and 10 the most positive. These results reveal how well Dukakis stands on the eve of the Democratic convention: L -- A dramatically high 81-15 percent come up positive on President Kennedy as a leader. -- A substantial 65-34 percent are positive about Ronald Reagan as a leader. -- Close behind Reagan comes Dukakis, rated positively as a leader by a 55-38 percent margin. -- Vice President George Bus\ emerges on this same measurement at 50-47 percent negative. -- Finally, the American people give President Jimmy Carter a 61-37 percent negative rating on his leadership capabilities. These results are revealing, for they point up the fact that Kennedy clearly is viewed as a model of what presidential leadership should be, with Reagan up there but not in the same league. Jimmy Carter brings up the rear. Dukakis' showing is significant because for a person about whom most voters know relatively little, he obviously is scoring well, coming up with a positive response by a convincing 17 point margin. By contrast, George Bush is negatively perceived by a narrow 3 point margin. The key group differences across the country are also significant, with Dukakis outscoring Bush in every region, including the South, where the prospective Democratic nominee is 54-39 percent positive, while Bush is 53-43 percent positive. In the West, Dukakis is 50-42 percent positive, while Bush is viewed negatively as a leader by 55-40 percent. In the East, Dukakis comes up 59-35 percent positive and Bush 54-43 percent negative. Finally, in the Midwest, Dukakis is 55-38 percent positive, while Bush is 49-47 percent negative. BY any measure, Michael Dukakis is riding high in esteem, while George Bush seems flawed. Bush is not as negatively perceived as Jimmy Carter, but is also far behind - Reagan and the ultimate point of comparison, John F. Kennedy. ( over ) THE HARRIS POLL July 17, 1988 TABLES Between July 7th and 12th, the Harris Poll asked a nationwide cross section of d 1,252 voters by telephone: "The week after next, the Democrats will meet in Atlanta, where Governor Dukakis will be nominated for President. How do you feel about the nomination of Governor Dukakis by the Democrats -- positive or negative?" DUMIS NOMINATION Not Pcritive Negative Sure % % % rnAL Republican Democrat Independent "How would you rate (READ EACH NAME) as a leader, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the worst and 10 the best?" RATINGS OF VARIOUS LEADERS Not (**)Positive Negative Sure % % % Former President Kennedy President Reagan Governor Dukakis Vice President Bush Former President Carter (**)Positive = 6-10 on the scale Negative = 1-5 on the scale METHODOLOGY This Harris Poll was conducted by telephone within the United States between July 7th and 12th, among a cross section of 1,252 voters nationwide. Voters are defined as those adults who voted in the 1984 presidential election, or who are now 18 to 20 years of age and say they are absolutely or probably certain to vote in the 1988 presidential election. Figures for age, sex, race and education were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. In a sample of this size, one can say with 95 percent certainty that the results have a statistical precision of plus or minus three percentage points of what they would be if the entire adult population had been polled. This statement conforms to the principles of disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls. 881203 7b, 8a (c) 1988 Creators Syndicate, Inc. 1554 South Sepulveda Blvd. Los Angeler, CA 90025 .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • S:\OHP\Tames, George Oral History\Tamespreface.Wpd
    George Tames Washington Photographer for the New York Times PREFACE In 1846, an unknown cameraman took the first photograph of the United States Capitol, a view of the East Front. Thereafter the Capitol, from all angles, became the subject of countless amateur and professional photographers. During the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth most photography took place outside the building, due both to its dimly lit interior and to the antipathy many committee chairmen felt about the distractions of flash powder and bulbs. Eventually, photographers moved into the building, shooting everywhere at will, except within the Senate and House chambers. By the 1980s, television cameras penetrated even this haven. Nearly a century after that first photo, George Tames began photographing the people and events of Capitol Hill, first for Time-Life and later for the New York Times. During the course of a long career that ranged from the 1940s through the 1980s, Tames developed access to, and captured the likenesses of more significant members of Congress, and had his work reproduced more widely in influential publications than any other photographer in American political history. He developed a style contrary to the "herd instinct" that led other photographers to group together outside a closed door waiting for a standard shot. Instead, his pictures demonstrate an artistic eye, an intense sense of place, and a special intimacy with his subjects. George Tames was born in the shadow of the Capitol Dome, in a Washington alley house on January 21, 1919, into a Greek-Albanian immigrant family, and "born into the Democratic party" as well.
    [Show full text]
  • Electoral College Reform: Contemporary Issues for Congress
    Electoral College Reform: Contemporary Issues for Congress Updated October 6, 2017 Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov R43824 Electoral College Reform: Contemporary Issues for Congress Summary The electoral college method of electing the President and Vice President was established in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution and revised by the Twelfth Amendment. It provides for election of the President and Vice President by electors, commonly referred to as the electoral college. A majority of 270 of the 538 electoral votes is necessary to win. For further information on the modern-day operation of the college system, see CRS Report RL32611, The Electoral College: How It Works in Contemporary Presidential Elections, by Thomas H. Neale. The electoral college has been the subject of criticism and proposals for reform since before 1800. Constitutional and structural criticisms have centered on several of its features: (1) although today all electors are chosen by the voters in the presidential election, it is claimed to be not fully democratic, since it provides indirect election of the President; (2) it can lead to the election of candidates who win the electoral college but fewer popular votes than their opponents, or to contingent election in Congress if no candidate wins an electoral college majority; (3) it results in electoral vote under- and over-representation for some states between censuses; and (4) “faithless” electors can vote for candidates other than those they were elected to support. Legislative and political criticisms include (1) the general ticket system, currently used in all states except Maine and Nebraska, which is alleged to disenfranchise voters who prefer the losing candidates in the states; (2) various asserted “biases” that are alleged to favor different states and groups; and (3) the electoral college “lock,” which has been claimed to provide an electoral college advantage to both major parties at different times.
    [Show full text]
  • Why Obama Probably Can't Win--But Romney Could Still Lose July 24, 2012
    Why Obama Probably Can't Win--But Romney Could Still Lose July 24, 2012 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L.Young It’s known as Ockham’s razor. Attributed to 14th-century philosopher William of Ockham, it advocates seeking the simplest explanation necessary to make sense of things. The popular acronym KISS captures its spirit—“keep it simple stupid.” Alas, Ockham’s adage finds few takers today among contemporary electoral analysts. Amid the pundit literati predicting presidential elections, the slogan might be, “seek complexity, lots of it.” This criticism applies particularly to the various and sundry “models” used by the “punditocracy” to predict who will win the next election. These models usually include dozens of variables using arcane statistics to make electoral predictions. Complex and convoluted, they use bazookas to hunt flies when a good, serviceable fly swatter works just as well. But the even more serious problem with some of the presidential predictions models is that they ignore much of the enormous changes in the history of presidential elections since the end of World War II. Not well understood is that American electoral history divides sharply into two very different eras. The first era now largely irrelevant to modern elections ranged from 1800-1945. During this period, one or the other of America’s two major political parties tended to dominate presidential elections, sometimes for decades at a time. From 1800-1856, the Democrats dominated, winning 13 of 15 elections while opposition Whigs won only two. Then from 1860-1928, the Republicans had their turn, winning 18 elections while holding Democrats to just two presidents, each winning two terms.
    [Show full text]
  • All of That Aside, All the History Aside, It Really Is a Place, and I'm Going To
    All of that aside, all the history aside, it really is a place, and I’m going to say something that’s going to sound a little bit supercilious, and that is, it’s like Comic-Con, and for those of you out there, students who know what Comic-Con is, it’s just the same thing. It’s a bunch of people, instead of comic books and action figures and movies, it’s politics. It is a massive love, of the process. It’s meeting people who you haven’t seen sometimes in 4, 8, and 12 years. The 1992 Clinton, New York convention, there was a huge party for those of us who worked on Bobby Kennedy’s campaign in ‘68, I hadn’t seen some of those people in 20 years. And both parties, it is an opportunity for people who are in the business of politics in 50 individual states to find one moment in time when they can all come together and basically say, “aren’t we lucky we chose the best business in the world to be in?” People don’t think of conventions as being internal, they think of conventions as being external, because they are external in the sense of sending a message. But they’re also internal, Republicans find other Republicans and they say, “Oh my god, I am right. Look at all the people who agree with me.” Democrats do the same thing. So, there’s a lot of subset things that are going on at these conventions, that aren’t going to be picked up by television and aren’t going to be taught by the teachers.
    [Show full text]
  • Speaker Biographies
    Speaker Biographies Philip W. Johnston to 2017, Phil served as Chairman of the University Chairman, of Massachusetts Building Authority Board of Massachusetts Directors. He was recently elected Vice Chair of Health Policy Forum the University of Massachusetts Foundation. In 1984, Governor Phil has served on the Board of Directors of Blue Michael S. Dukakis Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts since 1998. In appointed Phil the 2002, he was appointed to Chair the Board of the Secretary of Health Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Human Services in Massachusetts. As Foundation, which has an endowment of $115 Secretary, he was responsible for the million dollars and provides grants to administration of seventeen state agencies in the Massachusetts nonprofit organizations, which health and human services field, which work in the healthcare field on behalf of low- comprised over fifty percent of the state income citizens. In addition, Phil is the Board budget. Just prior to his appointment as Chair of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, Secretary, Phil had begun his fifth consecutive an organization funded by Massachusetts health term as an elected State Representative from the providers and payors, which serves both as a Fourth Plymouth District of Massachusetts. health policy research organization and as a convenor of key players in the health field to In 1991, Phil served as the Executive Director of address key health policy issues confronting the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in Washington, state and the nation. The Forum has a close D.C., an organization established by the Kennedy affiliation with Brandeis University. family to continue to carry on Robert F.
    [Show full text]
  • Another Milwaukee Icon Falls Victim to COVID-19
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 26, 2021 Contact: Rob Hullum, 414-278-4285 Another Milwaukee Icon Falls Victim to COVID-19 MILWAUKEE – Supervisor Joseph J. Czarnezki released the following statement on the closure of Serb Hall: “Like many in Milwaukee – especially those on the Southside – I was saddened by the news that Serb Hall has become the latest business to fall victim to the COVID-19 pandemic. “American Serb Memorial Hall was completed and dedicated in September 1950, in honor of the Serbian Orthodox men who served in the United States Armed Forces. “Over the last seven decades, Serb Hall hosted many political events over the years, from Presidential visits to my own political fundraisers and election night gatherings. “Among the many political figures who have visited Serb Hall are: John and Jackie Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Jerry Kleczka, Tommy Thompson, John Norquist, Henry Meier, and Clement Zablocki. “Serb Hall was also the home of one of Milwaukee’s most famous fish fries, including my favorite, Serbian fish. I hope the St. Sava community will find a way to continue to provide this Serbian delicacy to the community. “Serb Hall was an important gathering place for Milwaukee’s Serbian community as well as many other community groups and organizations. It will be remembered for its extraordinary hospitality. “I am proud to have represented the people of the St. Sava neighborhood in the State Legislature, as County Clerk and on the County Board.” ### .
    [Show full text]
  • On the Commander-In-Chief Power
    Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2008 On the Commander-In-Chief Power David Luban Georgetown University Law Center, [email protected] Georgetown Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 1026302 This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/598 http://ssrn.com/abstract=1026302 81 S. Cal. L. Rev. 477-571 (2008) This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub Part of the Constitutional Law Commons ON THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF POWER ∗ DAVID LUBAN BRADBURY: Obviously, the Hamdan decision, Senator, does implicitly recognize that we’re in a war, that the President’s war powers were triggered by the attacks on the country, and that [the] law of war paradigm applies. That’s what the whole case was about. LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong? BRADBURY: It’s under the law of war that we . LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong? BRADBURY: . hold the President is always right, Senator. —exchange between a U.S. Senator and a Justice Department 1 lawyer ∗ University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University. I owe thanks to John Partridge and Sebastian Kaplan-Sears for excellent research assistance; to Greg Reichberg, Bill Mengel, and Tim Sellers for clarifying several points of American, Roman, and military history; to Marty Lederman for innumerable helpful and critical conversations; and to Vicki Jackson, Paul Kahn, Larry Solum, and Amy Sepinwall for helpful comments on an earlier draft.
    [Show full text]
  • Dukakis Holds 18 Point Lead, with Gop Still to Be Heard
    The Harris Poll For release: Thursday AM, July 28, 1988 1988 #60 ISSN 0895-7983 DUKAKIS HOLDS 18 POINT LEAD, WITH GO? ST1LL TO BE HEARD FROM By Louis Harris The very temporary bottom line from the Democratic convention is that Governor Michael Dukakis took a three point lead into Atlanta and came out with a big and gaudy 18 point margin over Vice President Bush -- by 57-39 percent. While this is one of the biggest leads for a Democrat coming out of their convention in 24 years, two caveats are imediately in order. First, the Republican convention is yet to be held in New Orleans next month. Second, while Dukakis added to the positive impression, Bush did not became more unpopular. According to this Harris Poll, taken by telephone between July 22nd and 25th, among a national cross section of 1,268 voters, the number who said they would vote for Dukakis rose 7 points from 50 to 57 percent, while the number committed to George Bush dropped from 47 to 39 percent, a decline of 8 points. This means the lead of the Massachusetts Democrat shot up from 3 to 18 points. Significantly, the message that emanated from Atlanta was that it is time for change. The number of voters who now opt for the next president starting with new kpolicies increased from 57 to 64 percent, precisely the same 7 points that Dukakis gained. The number who want the country to head in the same direction dropped from 38 to 31 percent from just before the Democratic convention.
    [Show full text]
  • H. Con. Res. 413
    IV 109TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. CON. RES. 413 Expressing appreciation for the life and service of Lloyd Bentsen and expressing sympathy to his family. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 23, 2006 Mr. HINOJOSA submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing appreciation for the life and service of Lloyd Bentsen and expressing sympathy to his family. Whereas Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., was born in Mission, Texas, in 1921 to a prominent Danish immigrant Rio Grande Valley family; Whereas he served in the Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945 and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his heroism in flying over 50 bomber missions in Eu- rope during World War II; Whereas Lloyd Bentsen graduated from the University of Texas Law School and worked in a variety of successful enterprises including insurance, ranching, and financial services; VerDate Aug 31 2005 00:59 May 26, 2006 Jkt 049200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HC413.IH HC413 ycherry on PROD1PC64 with BILLS 2 Whereas from 1946 to 1955, he served the Rio Valley com- munity as a judge in Hidalgo County; Whereas Lloyd Bentsen was elected to the House of Rep- resentatives in 1948 and served until 1955, when he chose to return to his business career; Whereas during his service in the House of Representatives Representative Bentsen championed the underserved and the underprivileged and fought to help his community and the people of the State of Texas; Whereas Representative Bentsen was
    [Show full text]
  • Dukakis Summer Fellows Program
    Office of CAREER ADVANCEMENT The Michael S. Dukakis Governors’ SUMMER FELLOWSHIP Montana South Carolina Colorado PREPARING Massachusetts Minnesota LEADERS North Carolina in State Government Hawaii Oklahoma Oregon Maryland Through the generous support of Marilyn and Calvin Gross (Harvard College 1956), the Michael S. Dukakis Governors’ Summer Fellowship Program exposes talented Harvard Kennedy School students who aspire to leadership roles in state government to the unique challenges of state-level public service. Dukakis Fellows serve in the executive offices of governors across the country during the summer between their first and second years of graduate study. Students get an up-close look at the challenges and opportunities that define the highest levels of state government and have first-hand involvement in addressing those challenges, particularly in the areas of policy and budget. “Since 2007, our sponsored fellowship, honoring the career and wishes of Governor PREPARING Michael Dukakis, continues on a non- LEADERS partisan basis to assist governors and states in State in solving major problems. Through the Government program, we engage educated and talented fellows and inspire them to pursue careers in the higher echelons of state government.” Marilyn and Calvin Gross, donors The Michael S. Dukakis Governors’ SUMMER FELLOWSHIP The Challenge How does a graduate school prepare leaders to address the complicated public challenges we face? At Harvard Kennedy School, we believe in the value of experience. The Michael S. Dukakis Governors’ Summer Fellowship Program is an opportunity for our students to work with proven leaders. Through this funded, nonpartisan fellowship, students develop the leadership and analytic skills to tackle critical state-level policy issues in health care, education, economic development, public safety, and other areas.
    [Show full text]
  • National Party Convention Balloting and Results Larry J
    National Party Convention Balloting and Results Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball Election Party # of ballots First Ballot Leader Ultimate Nominee Party # of ballots First Ballot Leader Ultimate Nominee 1832 Democratic 1 n/a Andrew Jackson National Republican 1 n/a Henry Clay 1836 Democratic 1 n/a Martin Van Buren (Multiple) Whigs n/a n/a William Henry Harrison/Hugh Lawson White 1840 Democratic 1 n/a Martin Van Buren Whigs 1 n/a William Henry Harrison 1844 Democratic 9 Martin Van Buren James K. Polk Whigs Acclamation n/a Henry Clay 1848 Democratic 4 Lewis Cass Lewis Cass Whigs 4 Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor 1852 Democratic 49 Lewis Cass Franklin Pierce Whigs 53 Millard Fillmore Winfield Scott 1856 Democratic 17 James Buchanan James Buchanan Republican 2 John C. Fremont John C. Fremont 1860 Democratic 57 Stephen Douglas (Deadlock) Republican 3 William H. Seward Abraham Lincoln Democratic 2 Stephen Douglas Stephen Douglas 1864 Democratic 1 n/a George McClellan Republican 1 n/a Abraham Lincoln 1868 Democratic 22 George Pendleton Horatio Seymour Republican 1 n/a Ulysses S. Grant 1872 Democratic 1 n/a Horace Greeley Republican 1 n/a Ulysses S. Grant 1876 Democratic 2 Samuel Tilden Samuel Tilden Republican 7 Rutherford B. Hayes 1880 Democratic 2 Winfield Hancock Winfield Hancock Republican 36 Ulysses S. Grant James A. Garfield 1884 Democratic 2 Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland Republican 4 James G. Blaine James G. Blaine 1888 Democratic 1 n/a Grover Cleveland Republican 8 n/a Benjamin Harrison 1892 Democratic 1 n/a Grover Cleveland Republican
    [Show full text]
  • Iowa Caucus Results
    ELECTIONS 377 CAUCUS RESULTS Democrats Note: Delegate strength figures are projections by the Iowa Democratic Party of the percentage of state convention delegates each candidate controlled as a result of strength shown at the caucuses. In 1972 and 1976, the Iowa Democratic Party also projected the national delegates won based on the strength shown at the caucuses. In 1984 and 1988, the News Election Service (N.E.S.) also conducted straw polls. Since both the Iowa Democratic Party and N.E.S. results depend on volunteer reporting, the results are never complete. In 1992, a N.E.S. straw poll was not conducted. In all years, information was never reported from some precincts. 1972 Delegate Strength National Delegates Won Uncommitted ......................................................... 35.8% ................................................................18 Edmund Muskie .................................................... 35.5% ................................................................18 George McGovern ................................................ 22.6% ................................................................10 Others .................................................................... ....7%.............................................................. .0 Hubert Humphrey ................................................ 1.6% ..................................................................0 Eugene McCarthy ................................................ 1.4% ...................................................................0
    [Show full text]