Editing Joseph McCarthy (section)

===Public opinion===
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|+ McCarthy's Support in Gallup Polls<ref>{{cite journal|first=Nelson W.|last= Polsby|author-link=Nelson W. Polsby |title=Towards an Explanation of McCarthyism|journal=Political Studies|volume= 8|issue= 3|date=October 1962|page= 252|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9248.1960.tb01144.x |s2cid= 147198989 |issn = 0032-3217}}</ref>
! Date !! Favorable !! No Opinion !! Unfavorable !! Net Favorable
|-
|'''1952 August'''
|15 ||63 ||22 ||−7
|-
|'''1953 April'''
|19 ||59 ||22 ||−3
|-
|'''1953 June'''
|35 ||35 ||30 ||+5
|-
|'''1953 August'''
|34 ||24 ||42 ||−8
|-
|'''1954 January'''
|50 ||21 ||29 ||+21
|-
|'''1954 March'''
|46 ||18 ||36 ||+10
|-
|'''1954 April'''
|38 ||16 ||46 ||−8
|-
|'''1954 May'''
|35 ||16 ||49 ||−14
|-
|'''1954 June'''
|34 ||21 ||45 ||−11
|-
|'''1954 August'''
|36 ||13 ||51 ||−15
|-
|'''1954 November'''
|35 ||19 ||46 ||−11
|}