Word: bandwagoners
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...commonest criticism of Gallup's political polls has been that they start a bandwagon for the candidate who happens to be leading in the poll. Gallup's answer to that is to point to Harold Stassen, who did not reach the top of the poll until after he won in Wisconsin...
...other publishers would like to get in the act. This week, with the Kinsey Report still high (No. 3) on the non-fiction bestseller list, publishers were scrambling to turn out volumes appraising Kinsey's statistics, arguing with Kinsey's conclusions-or just riding the Kinsey bandwagon...
Some of them are also sticking their necks way out in predicting successes for their favorites. "Dowey is a cinch by the fourth ballot," according to John L. Casey 3L, his local campaign manager. Casey predicted that the Dewey bandwagon would get rolling by the second roll-call, and that the Nw York Governor would garner the nomination victory "with little trouble...
...Good Man, But . . ." The Dewey and Taft camps denied that they had any "understanding" that they would work together to sidetrack the Stassen bandwagon. But Stassenites thought they had spotted at least a willingness of the two groups to work together. They pointed to Omaha, where Senator Hugh Butler's machine had been expected to deliver strongly for Taft. Instead, when Stassen strength and Taft weakness became evident, it delivered for Dewey. The final Omaha results: Dewey, 12,500; Stassen, 9,000; Taft...
...last week, he had a rich, satisfying 18 hours. He had begun to get curious-and just a little nervous-about the Democratic bandwagon rolling towards General Ike's door. It was Roberts who had first given that wagon a shove down the Republican road and he who had announced-long in advance of Eisenhower's own statement-that Ike would decline...