European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes read this poll and you la really weep by Dick West Washington up political polls apparently Are More important than Ever this year if such a thing is pos  Nelson Rockefeller and Eugene Mccarthy Are said to be relying heavily on the polls to help them win presidential nominations next  is a fairly new function of pub Lic opinion surveys. Where once they Only indicated which candidates were leading they now May have a role i determining the winners. Some of us May live to see the Day when the Constitution will be amended to abolish the electoral College and replace it with the Gallup  any rate it appears that polls can have much the same Impact on politics that audience ratings have on  instance the Lyndon Johnson Prog nun already has been canc Ledfor next season largely because of Low  started me to thinking that per haps the two rating systems could recombined. It would save a lot of time and Money if people who participate in Public opinion samplings could Des Ignate their favorite candidates an favorite video shows simultaneously. With that in mind i have set about forming a new rating service to be known As the West electronic and elec toral poll weep. It will operate on the premise that a person s political preferences can be determined by Tele vision shows he likes Best. What i plan to do is Survey a Cross Section of voters and a Cross Section of Tel viewers. This will give me crisscross Section Survey. No other poll taker can make that statement let us say that 5 per cent of the crisscross Section list their favorite pro Gram As either Mission impossible or dream  i Mark them Downs Harold Stassen supporters. Twenty per cent prefer no time for  they obviously Huin the Mccarthy Camp y belo"8 Twenty five per cent opt f0r re  meaning according in weep analysis that they Tov Nixon even when he does t twice a Day. L i hardly need say who Gois Tilc of he ser cent we watch Hollywood  Ethe weep Survey also will  television correlate on ? 0humphrey, Rockefeller Wallace an the other presidential hopeful the 10 per cent who go for us Pense theater or Twilight zone we be placed in the undecided column Mammoth Melon National Watermelon Queen Christina Lee Brown shares a King sized Melon slice with a Pupil and nun of the Joseph p. Kennedy school in Chicago s pal spark. Christina a Memphis state coed is handing out watermelons during a tour. Up aimed at find boil