CBS Evening News - 1979-10-18

Name: CBS Evening News - 1979-10-18
Uploaded: 2023-07-04
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[0:03] this is the CBS Evening News with Walter

[0:06] Cronkite

[0:07] good evening President Carter has gained

[0:10] political ground and Senator Kennedy has

[0:12] moved closer to candidacy than their

[0:14] Undeclared race for the Democratic

[0:16] presidential nomination a Kennedy aide

[0:18] said today that a Campaign Committee is

[0:20] being formed and may be announced next

[0:22] week to explore a candidacy and raise

[0:24] funds CBS News New York Times poll

[0:27] completed Saturday shows an improvement

[0:30] for the president Bruce Morton has the

[0:32] tales

[0:35] the poll contains qualified good news

[0:37] for the president 31 percent of our

[0:40] sample approved of the job Mr Carter is

[0:42] doing as president 49 percent

[0:44] disapproved that's down a little from

[0:46] our last poll taken just after the

[0:48] president's crisis of confidence speech

[0:50] but up from his low point in early July

[0:52] among Democrats in our sample Mr Carter

[0:55] loses to Senator Kennedy as their choice

[0:57] for the nomination by not quite two to

[1:00] one that's better than in early July

[1:02] when the president trailed Kennedy by

[1:03] three to one but it's a regional

[1:05] Improvement the president gained in the

[1:07] South where he now runs almost even with

[1:09] Kennedy while Kennedy wins 2-1 in the

[1:12] North Central States

[1:13] three to one in the Northeast

[1:16] and in the west California's governor

[1:19] Brown is a very distant third the

[1:21] president beats Kennedy among older

[1:23] voters those over 65 but he Trails

[1:26] lopsidedly among blacks and among

[1:29] self-identified liberals

[1:31] moderates

[1:33] and conservatives

[1:35] almost two-thirds of the voters in our

[1:37] sample thought a president could be

[1:39] effective in dealing