Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however disagreeable Johnson's vanity may be, the decision to let Goldwater trumpet the coming of his own defeat should be viewed not as a lack of direction on Johnson's part but as a campaign tactic, and a correct one at that. The outcome of the election is too crucial to risk exposure to attack by setting forth new issues when it isn't necessary. Better to stand on nearly a year's record in office (by no means an insignificant support), let the Senator scare the voters, and wait until January to propose and debate the Johnson program...
President Pusey and ex-President James B. Conant '14 have joined the National Council for Civic Responsibility, an organization formed last month to "expose and correct" the activities of the John Birch Society and "related reactionary groups...
...October 13 whether the student organization being formed for the New York senatorial election is dedicated to the victory of Senator Keating, the defeat of Mr. Kennedy, or both. Your headline would suggest that the second of these possibilities is the group's primary aim. If I am correct in this inference, I find it a sad commentary on U.S. politics...
Whether or not one agrees with the Goldwater theory (and the results of the New Hampshire and Oregon primaries seem to belie it), it is clear that if Goldwater is correct, the polls will fail to reflect this. Goldwater is relying on the support of habitual non-voters; Dr. Gallup discounts the votes of anyone who has not voted in any of the last three elections, and Mr. Harris must have some similar provision. In other words, it is a necessary corollary to the Goldwater thesis that polls will fail to predict accurately the result of a Presidential election...
...poll-takers have undoubtedly tried to correct the errors that made them miscalculate in the primaries. They may change the size or the nature of their samplings; they may speed up the process of taking their final polls., taking their samples closer to election day itself. But polling organizations are in a risky business, where a good Election Day rainstorm in a Democratic area can reverse carefully predicted results. In an election with as many unpredictables as this one, it will be a major accomplishment if the polls are able to foresee the outcome...