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'Warmonger — Capitalist! And didn’t you bring any more filthy U.S. dollars?’ jljjjluu Jiwyu ucgau oaiu|/uug voter sentiment more than 35 years ago. Since then, the art has grown into an almost-exact sci ence. Therefore, a person may be forgiven a jaundiced eye when political polls are publish ed that contain holes larger than a ballot box. Take the poll George Gallup released a couple of weeks ago. Gallup said, “the latest trial heats show that a Wallace candi dacy would hurt the Republicans far more than the Democrats”. This conclusion is based, so far as a person can tell, on Gallup’s concession that Wallace would sweep the South. Then, he gave a few tables that appeared to bear out his finding. As indeed they did — appear to. Yet, by taking the same fig ures, a person can prove the op posite — given the same latitude Gallup allowed himself. Here: vv dilate ia uauup wiuic. thriving on anti-Johnson senti ment (therefore) ... he wins the support of many who would oth erwise vote for a Republican candidate”. What indigestible pap! Cer tainly anti-Johnson people — or the most of them — would vote for a Republican candidate if there were nobody other than a Republican to vote for. Who else? By the same sort of spe cious reasoning it may be said the Republicans are “thriving on anti-Johnson sentiment” and therefore are winning the sup port of many who otherwise would vote for Wallace. In short, Gallup’s conclusion is pure gobbledegook, seemingly designed to give some sort of Re publican proprietorship to all who oppose Johnson. Gallup said, nationwide, Wal lace has 11 per cent of the na Farm and Home Requirements Products tional vote. He did not say how he expected people to take that finding seriously in the face of the votes Wallace actually gath ered in 1964 Democratic pri maries — to 42 per cent. No mat ter, take it as Gallup gives it: Examine that 11 per cent while bearing in mind his contention Wallace will hurt the Republi cans more than the Democrats. We know who Gallup thinks supports Wallace in the South, disaffected Democrats who oth erwise would vote Republican. But who does the seer think sup ports Wallace in the North? Whatever he thinks — or would have us think — the answer is obvious: Who faced down M. L. King in Cicero, last summer; who takes the brunt wherever there is trouble? Blue collars, that’s who. As Gallup said, “Wal lace’s support is greater . . . among persons with a high school background or less . . .” Do you suppose he thinks these people, the people who took and gave — are taking, are DINE with yout family We Serve Regular Dinners Short Orders — Sandwiches BAR-B-CUE Pig and Chicken Prepared Just As You Like It 1! giving — the brickbats, does he think they are Republicans? It isn’t likely — not 10 per cent of them are Republicans or, un der any normal circumstance, would vote the Republican tic ket. But let’s not quibble. Say one third of these Wallace-support ing, industrial-State voters are Republicans — as they are not. That leaves two-thirds of 11 vot ers, or nearly eight Wallace sup porters in each 100 such yoters who are, nominally, Democrats. Said another way, that means Wallace’s candidacy, as of today nd using Gallup’s figures, would create for the Democrats in the northern, industrial States a net loss of four per cent. (Roughly, eight from the Democrats; four from the Republicans. Differ ence: four). Take four per cent of the vote from the nominal Democratic to tal vote — that of 1960, say — in the industrial area and the Re publicans would win the follow ing States; Illinois; Michigan; New Jersey; probably New York; and certainly Pennsylvania, for 135 electoral-college votes. Those five States, alone, repre sent more than half the 269 elec toral-college votes needed to win the election. Then, couple those 135 votes to the votes of the in dustrial States the Republicans carried on tneir own in 1960 — California; Indiana; and Ohio, for 79 votes — and it becomes apparent just which party the Wallace candidacy will hurt: The Democrats. George Wallace will rout Lyndon Johnson. What’s with Gallup, anyway? What’s he selling; The Great So ciety? S mo key Says: Don’t monkey am with fl—' JARMAN FUNERAL HOME . . . Where Your Trust Is Sacred And Your Wishes Cared For . . . Dial JA 3-5143 Kinston, N. C. No Mess — No Waiting — Our Ready-Mixed Concrete Is on the Job When You Need It. Also Sand, Gravel and Crushed Stone. Barrus Ready Mixed Concrete Company Free Estimates — New Bern Highway, Kinston, N. C. Your Medicine Can Cost Yos Less Have Your Prescriptions Filled at MEDICAL CENTER PHARMACY 905 N. Queen Street Kinston, N. C. WE WELCOME CHARGE ACCOUNTS WE KEEP INCOME TAX AND INSURANCE RECORDS Waltkr P. Johnson. R. Ph.
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